nd reared
a monument to theft at Hutchinson, Kan., and left his trail of crime all
the way from the Mississippi to the Pacific, is fit, indeed, to be the
cabinet associate and confidential chum of a president who puts him at
the head of the company whose funds were stolen to buy his election.

William H. Taft is another of the elect, and it is easy to understand
why Roosevelt has decided to make this illustrious son his successor as
president of the United States and is now grooming him with the
patronage of the national administration. Taft is a man after
Roosevelt's own heart. Among his early acts as a judge he fined the
bricklayers of Cincinnati two thousand dollars for going on a strike; he
was next whirled to Toledo by special train and ordered by the Toledo,
Ann Arbor and North Michigan railroad to issue an injunction binding and
gagging its striking engineers and firemen and locking their leader up
in jail and he complied with alacrity. From that time on it has been
smooth sailing for the accommodating judge and there is not a bloated
plutocrat in the land who would not hail with joy the election of
William Taft as president; he would be almost as acceptable to these
vultures as Roosevelt himself.

The manner in which President Roosevelt manipulates the supreme court by
bestowing lucrative offices upon the sons and other relatives and
friends of its dignitaries can only be hinted at here, but will receive
due attention later on. The case of ex-Senator Burton is an instance in
point. Other senators had taken thousands in similar cases to Burton's
paltry few hundred dollars, but Burton was marked by Roosevelt for
refusing to crook the knee to the sugar trust and pursued with merciless
ferocity until he was lodged behind prison bars.

The president did not have a call to "go after" his old friends,
Chauncey Depew and Thomas Platt, with the same virtuous passion to see
crime punished and criminals jailed.

When Roosevelt was making his continental campaign in the palatial
special trains furnished free by the railroad trust he stopped at
Abilene, Kan., the home of the then Senator Burton, and opened his
speech there in these words: "I am glad to be at the home of the senior
senator from Kansas and am delighted to meet and greet his neighbors and
friends. I want to say that no man in this world has done more, and I
had almost said, as much, to place me where I am now, than your
distinguished senator."

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