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ROOSEVELT AND THE TARIFF.
IB **-“N discussing, a week ago. Mr. Roosevelt's futile
bid for Southern votes, The Journal said that
ou essential matters of government his pol
icies and the South's convictions, his purposes and
the South's interests are radically opposite: "His
ideas oa those issues that peculiarly concern our
people are not only at variance with Southern
thought and sentiment. but they are repellant and
dangerous. ’ Thia is true of bis position on the
rights of the States, on the third-term precedent,
on the political status of the negro and especially
is ft true of bis position on the tariff.
The South is the cradle land of the doctrine that
the one rightful object of tariff duties should be to
provide a revenue necessary to the maintenance of
the federal government That is a principle for
which its statesmen have most earnestly striven, and
for which its citisens have voted generation after
generation. Free trade is not to be secured in a
year or a decade nor can protective duties be utter
ly abolished at a single stroke. But the South in
sists, as it always has. that there should be a sane
end effective revision of the tariff downward, with
thnmugh freedom of trade as its ultimate goal.
This is Inevitably the view of a people whose in
terests are so largely agricultural as ours; the
Southern farmer naturally resents being forced to
pay a tariff tax, not for the support of the govern
ment’s legitimate needs, but for the fostering of
special interests and the protection of giant monop
olies. What the people of this section have always
recognised, the people of the nation as a whole have
at length perceived—that the tariff as administered
by the Republican party is merely a system of gov
ernment patronage to the few at the expense of the
many.
That system. Mr. Roosevelt has always advocated
and he advocates it no less insistently today. As
president, he stood for a high protective tariff and
as a third-term candidate he holds to the same gen
eral purpose.
During the nearly eight years of bis administra
tion he did nothing whatever to revise the tariff in
the interest of the consumer; he entertained no
purpose and made no effort to that end. On the
contrary, he protected the monopolies that go hand
in hand with the extortionate tariff and he added
to the people’s tax burdens by the most extravagant
administration the country has ever known. “The
cost of living and the cost of Rooseveltlsm,” it has
been truly said, “went side by side.*’ During his
last term of office, the government spent three bil
lion. five hundred and fifty-two million,
nine hundred and eighty-two thousand, eight hun
dred and sixteen dollar? —an amount twice the ex
penditures of the government from Washington to
Lincoln. Here, then, are at least three factors in
the oppressive cost of living for which Mr. Roose
velt cannot escape a measure of responsibility—the
tariff, the trusts and a prodigal waste of public
money; and all three of these factors, it should be
noted, are intertwined with the tariff as their cen
tral branch.
This is Mr. Roosevelt’s record. What is his posi
tion today on this dominant issue of the campaign?
It is precisely that of the Standpat Republicans. He
recently told a Rhode Island audience that he be
lieved in protecting industries, but also in making
the owners of these industries divide their profits
with their employees. That means that he would
permit the special interests to go on receiving the
gains they enjoy under government patronage, but
force them —by what means he does not Indicate —
to divide their spoils with the men in their employ.
What would such a scheme, even were it realizable,
profit the maos of the people who are not in the em
ploy of the particular interests? Would it benefit
the farmer whose Implements and supplies would
continue to bear a high tariff tax? Would it help
the average family that can scarcely make ends
meet because of the exorbitant duties on food and
clothing? Os all the devices for class legislation
ever proposed, that of Roosevelt concerning the tar
iff is the most vicious and absurd. He doesn't pro
pose to stop the robbery but simply to make the
pirates divide their booty according to a more
fanciful plan. He offers no remedy or reform
for the tariff evil itaelf, the evil that corrupts pol
itics, that chokes competition, that intrenches monop
olies and burdens the households ot all the nation.
Mr. Roosevelt, following in the steps of President
Taft and the Republican Standpatters, adopts the
foolish scheme of making the tariff duties equal the
difference between American and foreign cost ot
production. This was one of the avowed principles
in his “Confession of Faith” at Chicago. It is ob
vious in the very outset that such a difference can
not be determined. It varies between factory and
factory and In the same factory from month to
month. Under such a device, the beneficiaries of the
tariff would be Incited to costly rather than economic
methods of production. They would demand, and
would get, protective duties to cover all possible dif
ferences in cost; and so in the end the people would
be no better off than they are today. The truth is,
Mr. Roosevelt’s policies in this particular, which
are precisely those of the regular Republicans, are
too absurd even to be considered and are put forward
merely to deceive the voters and to divert their at
tention from the real evil to be dealt with.
Such are the past record and the present attitude
of the third-term candidate toward the one great
issue of the day, an issue in which the South is es
pecially concerned. With what grace or logic, then,
can he appeal for support In this section? Even if
he did not champion the centralization of power in
the federal government at the expense of the rights
of the States, even if he were not seeking to over
ride the third-term precedent and establish himself
virtually as a dictator, even if he had not insulted
Southern sentiment on the negro question—he would
still be barred from any political consideration on
the part of our people by his anti-Southern and re
actionary stand on the great question of tariff re
form. No matter what else Mr. Roosevelt might or
might not represent, he is not eligible to the suf
frage of this section ao long as be stands for a con
tinuance of the abuses and injustices of the present
tariff system.
It is to the Democratic party and the Democratic
party alone that we may look for relief from this
one underlying source of public ills. The South
stands today where it always stood on this cardinal
principle of good government and in the present cam
paign its Democratic loyalty sweeps forth with un
usual vigor to Woodrow Wilson who declares:
"It is obvious that the tariff changes toe make
should be made only at such a rate and in such
away as will least interefere with the normal
and healthful course of commerce and manufac
ture. But we shall not on that account act with
timidity as if we did not know our own minds,
for we are certain of our ground and of our ob
ject. There should be an immediate revision,
and it should be downward, unhesitatingly and
steadily downward.”
The old guard apparently doesn’t feel called on
to explain its contributions.
THE RAILROAD COMMISSION'S
PLAIN DUTY TO THE PEOPLE
The traveling public and the business Interests
of Georgia look to the State Railroad Commission
for relief from that unjust mileage rule, which
the railroads, with the aid of Governor Brown, have
fastened upon them. As a body established to see
that the people are given a fair deal at the hands of
public service corporations, the Commission’s duty
is clear: It should repudiate the arbitrary action
of the Governor in vetoing the mileage bill, which
the Legislature had overwhelmingly passed, and
grant this demand to which the patrons of the roads
are legally and justly entitled.
Within the past few months, the Commission has
had unusual opportunities for studying the merits of
this cause. It has been directly petitioned by a great
body of commercial travelers to annul the foolish
rule under which the roads now require an exchange
of mileage for special trip tickets before it can be
used. There was submitted an abundance of testi
mony, showing how this exaction entails a loss of
time, and frequently a loss of money, upon the travel
ing men and the important interests they represent.
It was shown, furthermore, that the great railway
systems of the east voluntarily accept mileage aboard
trains and find it thoroughly in accord with their
interests to do so.
While this matter was pending before the Com
mission, a bill, seeking the same end as the petition,
was introduced in the General Assembly; whereupon
the Commission naturally suspended its own pro
cedure. After thorough consideration, and with the
advice of able lawyers in both houses, the Legisla
ture passed the mileage bill. That measure would
be a law today, had it not been for the arbitrary and
indefensible action of Governor Brown. Regardless
of the wishes and the rights of the public, regardless
of the carefully considered stand of the people’s rep
resentatives, he vetoed the bill and offered, as his
sole excuse, an empty quibble.
In so doing, he not only denied the public a com
mon right but he also denied the courts an oppor
tunity to pass upon the law. He assumed the pow
ers of the judiciary as well as the executive. If the
bill had been unconstitutonal, that would have been
for the courts to have said. The truth is Governor
Brown and the railroads were both afraid to let the
law reach the courts because they Knew well enough
it would be sustained.
In these circumstances, the petition to abolish the
tyrannical mileage rule la again before the Railroad
Commission. The course for that body to pursue,
we repeat, is unmistakably defined. In favor of
abolishing this rule, it has heard directly from the
merchants, the shippers, the manufacturers, the com
mercial travelers and the traveling public at large;
while to the contrary, it has heard but two
voices, that of Governor Brown and that of the
railroads.
Let the Commission choose without hesitancy be
tween the Governor’s quibble and the people’s rights,
between the selfish and unreasonable plea of the
railroads and the common interests of the State.
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1912.
THE FARM AND THE MAItfCET.
All sections of the country, particularly Geor
gla and the South, have cause for hearty satisfaction
over the Senate's passage of Senator Hoke Smith’s
bill providing for what is termed “a division of mar
kets” in the Department of Agriculture. It will be
the object of this new division to gather and dissemi
nate information as to systems of marketing farm
products both in the United States and in foreign
countries; to investigate the demand for farm
products in various trade centers and also
the current movement of such products; and,
after having thus secured specific data con
cerning suply, normal demand and prices, to
distrbute this information among the farmers them
selves through dally bulletins. In this connection,
the language of the bill itself is interesting:
"It shall be the duty of the chief of the bu
reau of statistics to collect through the said di
vision of markets, by any expeditious method,
as by telegraph, telephone, mail or otherwise,
compile and report to farmers, farmers’ organ
isations and societies of consumers daily bulle
tins or telegraphic reports of such information
and statistics as will enable them to adopt plans
of marketing that may facilitate the handling of
farm products at a minmum cost; provided that
when such reports or statistics are requested to
be furnished by telegraph or telephone, or by
methods other than the United (States mail, the
person or associaton making such request shall
advnace she fee for the cost of transmission,
which shall be deposited to the appropriation for
the maintenance of said division of markets.”
Such a service as this will be of specific and far
reaching value to farmers and, indirectly, to con
sumers as well. It will keep the producers of the
country closely and continuously in touch with trade
movements, and will thereby reduce the chances of
congestion of products at seme points and shortage
at others; it will place at the farmers’ disposal a
sorely needed knowledge of market conditions and
'will thus do much to establish our syfctem of agricul
ture on a businesslike basis
The past ten years have witnessed a truly won
drous awakening to the importance of scientific
methods of cultivation. The gospel of intelligent, as
contrasted with haphazard, farming has fallen upon
fertile ground and is bringng forth abundant results.
As a consequence, the soil is yielding larger and
better crops, a fact which means that the people as
a whole are better off. But we shall never attain
our due measure of progress in agricultural affairs
until, to the methods of science, there have also been
added the methods of business.
When a crop has been raised and harvested, only
half its story has been told. There remains the all
important chapter of its marketing and it is just at
this point that sound business methods become in
dispensable. It is the purpose of the division .of
markets to supply every farmer in the land with the
accurate and ready knowledge necessary to apply
such methods.
Senator Smith’s bill is,a practical stride toward
establishing and maintaining an adequate system
of agriculture; and surely this country has no need
that is more vital. France and Germany and other
world powers have spent billions of dollars toward
developing the business and the science of farming.
That is why European land that has been sown and
harvested for a thousand years produces today from
two to three times as much per acre as the average
American farm. This is a very disturbing fact. It
is due not to any natural condition, but simply to
our government’s failure to assume its full respon
sibility In rural problems. <
These problems touch not only the farmer but
the public as a whole; they ramify through every
field of our economic and social interests. It is a
disquieting circumstance that the population of the
United States is fast outstripping its supply of food.
Each year there are hundreds of thousands of new
mouths to feed; but there is no proportionate in
crease in the production of bread and meat. To this
condition, is due, in part at least, the steady and
burdensome increase in the cost of living.
It might logcally be expected that a comparative
scarcity of food would result in better prices to the
producer. Such, however, is not the case; for, while
the farmer’s expenses have been steadily growing,
his net income has not appreciably advanced.
Here, then, are two problems existing side by
side: The need of more food products and the need
of fairer profits on those produced. The solution of
the fanner lies in scientific methods of agriculture
and that of the latter in businesslike methods of ag
riculture. Both these ends will be attained when the
state and federal governments duly apply their
means and energy to the task of making farming in
this country a science and also a business.
This can be done through agricultural schools
and colleges, through farm demonstration work,
through bulletins and expert agents and, particularly,
through such a system of regular market advices as
that for which Senator Smith’s bill provides. This
measure is especially important for the reason that
it supplements the general educational work in which
the government is now engaged and goes directly
to the farmer’s business needs.
Present indications are that the intervals be
tween drinks in Georgia will continue to be com
paratively brief.
In the fall of the year the thoughts of the work
ing men turn to another year’s work.
There are some peopletwho are howling for rain,
forgetful of how much we had earlier in the year.
O, yes, and there’s the mayoralty race coming on,
too. .
NEW YORK TIMES SHOWS THE FOLLY
OF ROOSEVELT'S CLAIMS IN THE SOUTH
(From the New York Times.)
To obtain at first hand information as to how
the south regards Theodore Roosevelts third party
candidacy for president and what foundation there
Is for the claims put forth by his supporters here
that he will receive a large share of the Democratic
as well as the Republican vote in the southern states,
the Times telegraphed recently to some 40 southern
leaders and editors, asking them what foundation
there was in their respective sections for the colonel's
claims, and what the chances were for the realixatlas
of hla hope of a large southern vote.
The 32 replies received are printed below, some of
the Inquiries having failed owing to the recipients'
absence from home. The answers, It will be ob
served, show a Well-nigh unanimous belief, among
those whose experience should make their forecasts
worth while that there will be no vast rising In be
half of the Progressive ticket south of Mason and
Dixon’s line.
Views of Gov. O’neal.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Aug. 17.—There is no dis
affection in the Democratic party In the south. It
is united, aggressive and confident. In my recent
visit to the east I discovered no evidence to support
the claim that Mr. Roosevelt would draw any con
siderable following from the Democratic party there.
Jn my judgment the platform, the character of
our candidate and Governor Wilson’s admirable
speech of acceptance not only guarantee a united
Democracy but justifies the belief that our ticket
will have support of a decided majority of American
people. EMMETT O’NEAL.
D-mocratic Governor of Alabama, United States Dis
trict Attorney in Alabama under Cleveland.
No Chance in North Carolina.
ASHEVILLE. N. C-, Aug. 17.—Colonel Roosevelt
can have no reasonable hope of carrying North Caro
lina or any southern state. In the support of Gov
ernor Wilson the Democratic party of this state and
of the whole south is united, determined and enthu
siastic. Factions have disappeared. There is no dis
affection anywhere. Every Democrat in this state
will support him, stimulated by a hope that we hate
not known since 1892. Some who have heretofore
voted the Republican ticket will support him.
It is freely admitted by intelligent men of all
parties that the Democratic majority In North Caro
lina this year will reach high-water mark. There is
no pretense of any claim to the contrary. Demo
cratic conditions and prospects could not be bettor.
Taft and Roosevelt conditions and prospects could not
be worse.
The Republican party, or what was once the Re
publican party, is hopelessly divided. President Taft
hag a following, but the great majority of the old
Republicans are now for Colonel Roosevelt. The war
between these two factions Is fierce and relentless.
Each will cerainly put out an electoral ticket. They
will fight each other to the finish.
The claim by Colonel Roosevelt’s managers that
he will get support from the Democrats of the south
Is ridiculous. No such claim Is made by any «.f
his supporters in this section. The nomination of
Governor Wilson eliminated him. In the present po
litical situation there is no place for him, certainly
not in the south.
Governor Wilson, with the platform of the Balti
more convention, is the logical representative and ex
ponent of the real, earnest, progressive thought of
the age.
The nominee of the Democratic party meets the
demand that, we must have genuine reform without
revolution. We believe that he is safe, wise and
courageous; that he will without fear or favor per
form his trust. We know that he is under obligation
to no particular interest and to no faction, and we
have the faith that to hirp the ideals of Democracy
should be the real controlling force of this govern
ment. He will certainly carry North Carolina by a
very large majority and I believe that he will be
elected by the greatest majority that any president
has received since 1872. LOCKE CRAIG.
Lawyer, and unanimous choice of the Democratic
Party for Governor of North Carolina.
Kentucky Sure for Wilson.
LOUISVILLE. Ky., Aug. 17.—There are no Demo
crats in Kentucky so far as I know who are Intend
ing to vote for Roosevelt. Among the hundreds of
people with whom I have discussed the results of the
coming election 1 have never heard any Democrat
say he would vote for Roosevelt.
On the other hand, many Republicans nave declar
ed that they propose to vote for Wilson and Marshall.
In this city and state the majorities of Wilson and
Marshall will, in my judgment, be unprecedented.
BENNETT H. YOUNG.
Lawyer and Commander-In-Chief United Confederate
Veterans.
Can’t Get White Support.
SAVANNAH. Ga, Aug. 17.—Roosevelt han no fol
lowing in the south so far as I can see. His third
term stand and his one tithe partiality for Booker
Washington snd Dr. Crum have deprived him for all
time of all a chance of white support.
Roosevelt's family came from Savannah, and yet
he has never had any following here, and he never
•visited the city, even while he was president. Taft
Is stronger here, and will get more votes than Roose
velt. Woodrow Wilson’s nomination has cemented
Georgia Democracy. The same is true of the Caro
linas, Florida and Alabama and Mississippi. Texas,
of course, has always been strong for Wilson. Nev
er was the south more united or confident. Savan
nah business men returning from buying trips north
and west report Wilson a long favorite. Taft has
friends in Augusta, because his winter home was
there, but Augusta was also the boyhood home of
Woodrow Wilson, and will go to him overwhelmingly
in November.
The only Republican who will get any considera
ble number of votes in Georgia is Taft, and Georgia
will give Woodrow Wilson the biggest Democratic
majority in ten years. The state is ablase with in
terest. Everybody is subscribing to his campaign
fund, and Colonel Roosevelt will limp along a poor
third in the race in this section.
PLEASANT A. STOVALL.
Editor the Savannah Press.
Lack of Enthusiasm in Florida.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.. Aug. 17.—The Roosevelt
third party movement in Florida is devoid of enthu
siasm, and the indications are that It will have a very
slim following—not enough to make It a factor In the
campaign.
The negroes were ready to join the movement, but
they consider their treatment in Chicago as an insult,
and will do all in their power to oppose the thirl
party nominees. C. H. Alston, one of the negro dele
gates who was barred from the Chicago convention, is
holding public meetings and advising the negroes
to vote for Woodrow Wilson.
A few disgruntled Democrats have joined the Moose
movement, but they are not men of prominence *nd
cannot draw votes from the Democratic party. The
inauguration of the third party movement will make
no change In the usual result In Florida.’ In fact,
many believe the Democratic majority will be even
larger than ever before.
WILLIS M. BALL,
Editor of The Forida Times Union.
Solid South for Democrats.
NEW ORLEANS. La., Aug. 17.—1 tis perfectly
safe to put the solid south in the Democratic col
umn. Roosevelt will probably take sufficient votes
away from Taft in the north to insure Wilson's elec
tion by a large majority in the electoral college.
THOMAS G. RAPIER.
Editor New Orleans Picayune.
Hopes Will Be Dispelled.
NASHVILLE. Tenn., Aug. 17.—The hope of Mr.
Roosevelt's managers that he will receive a large
Democratic vote in this section of the country, will
be dispelled when the votes are cast in November.
There are some men in Tennessee who have hereto
fore voted for the ex-president, but they are few and
far between.
In Tennessee Roosevelt will get a good vote, but
it will not be polled by Democrats. His vote will be
almcst entirely Republican, nor will he have more
v«>i In Tennessee than Taft. The Democrats in Ten
nessee, despite factional conditions, are almost to a
man for Wilson. The Jersey man will carry the state
by 26,000 or 30,000. Taft will be second because many
of the most prominent Republicans in the state who
supported Roosevelt before the June convention in
Chicago which nominated Mr. Taft have since that
convention declared for Mr. Taft, and will support him
even as against their favorite, because they want to
be regular.
The Democracy will unquestionably win all
through in Tennessee this year. A Democrat will be
elected governor, the legislature will be Democratic, .
and a Democratic United States senator will be re- '
turned In place of Senator Sanders, who is a stand
pat Republican. The last Legislature was controlled
by the Fusionists, that is to say, a combination of
Prohibition Democrats and Republicans.
W. J. EWING,
Managing Editor Democrat.
Claims to Georgia Absurd.
AUGUSTA. Ga., Aug. 17—As for Roosevelt get
ting any Democratic votes in Georgia worth spaik
ing of, the claim is absurd. His race is scarcely be
ing noticed here. I know of but two white men in
this county who will confess to a leaning toward
Bull Moosery. One of these was a Taft disap
pointee, while the other is just “queer.”
A great many old-time Georgia Democrats, (con
servatives,) however, will vote for Mr. Taft, partic
ularly here in Augusta, where he is so well known .
and genuinely liked. The fact, however, that Wood
row Wilson is also claimed as an Augustan, he hav!
Ing spent his boyhood here, may keep Mr. Taft from
carrying this county. The state, of course, will go
for Wilson by a safe majority.
I don’t, know how it Is In other states, but if any
considerable number of Democrats are Inclined to
swap the Donkey for the Bull Moose. It must be be
cause they have cause to feel that • there is some*
thing in their old party emblem that is entirely toe
personal to themselves.
IMy observation, however, has been that most
Democrats seem to regard the colonel merely in the
light of a particularly peevish person, who simply
kicked a hole in the Republican boat because they
would not let him do the steering. For which hs
may have the thanks of very many Democrats, but
not their votes. THOMAS W. LOYLESS.
Editor the Chronicle.
South. Solid for Wilson.
ATLANTA, Ga, Aug. 17.—Mr. Roosevelt enjoys
considerable personal popularity in the south. Hla
half-Georgia origin, his undoubted ability, his fre
quent visits to this section, and his rather pleasing
manners have won for him the friendship, and to an
extent the admiration, of tae southern peopfa He
will get some votes in Georgia and every other south
ern state- Any other Republican candidate would get
the same, but Roosevelt will get few if any more
than any other well known and well liked Republican. |
He will make no .Inroads whatever upon the Demo
cratic strength, and the idea that he may be able
to carry a single southern state is preposterous. .
The south is Democratic and conservative. It
will not indorse the things for which Roosevelt
stands. The Democratic platform and the Democratic
candidate well represent the views of the southern
people. Their votes will be cast solidly for the Dem
ocratic ticket. Wilson will carry every southern
state overwhelmingly and Georgia will lead them oil
in the sise of her Democratic majority, at least east
of the Mississippi.
No ticket in many years has been so acceptable
to the south as Wilson and Marshall. And if Mr.
Roosevelt and his party depend upon the south to
contribute tb his election, they will find themselves
greatly mistaken. JAMES R. GRAY.
Editor Atlanta Journal.
Republican Break Kelps Democrats.
ATLANTA. Ga, Aug. 17.—50 far as the south IS
concerned, nothing has happened to indicate that
there will be the slightest break in the Democratic
solidarity of this section. On the other hand, all in
dications point to the fact that the break in the Re
publican party has strengthened Democratic hope and
insured Democratic co-operation and activity to an
unprecedented degree.
Whatever defection there may be on account of
the personal admiration In which Mr. Roosevelt »•
held will be more than compensated by the recruits
obtained from among those who for the past few
years have been affiliating with the Republicans in
national elections. Wickersbamism and Hitchcocktam
will drive more votes to Wilson than Roosevelt win
get from the Democrats.
This condition seems to prevail throughout ths
south, which Is more solidly Democratic this year
than at any time during the last quarter of a century.
CLARK HOWELL.
Editor the C«»uiftitution. r
/
Kot Even Interest in South Carolina.
CHARLESTON. S. C- Aug. 17.—There Is no evi.
dence in South Carolina of any practical interest tn
Colonel Roosevelt's candidacy and not the remotest
prospect of his obtaining any number of votes. It
is not even certain that his party will have an elec
toral ticket in this state, but if one is put out it
will not attract the support of Democrats.
There is practically only one party in South Caro
lina. and the naming of Democratic electors is a fore
gone conclusion. The regular Republican organisa
tion will put up an electoral ticket, but It win have
no formal significance. In the preliminary contest
o* the Republican nomination there was considerable
Roosevelt sentiment among South Carolina Republic
ans, and Colonel Roosevelt had at Chicago seven of
the delegation on the early votes, though sixteen of
the eighteen delegates finally voted for Taft.
Colonel Roosevelt will get comparatively few
votes of Democrats in any part of the south. His
proscription of the negro Is read in the light of his
action in the Crum appointment and the Indianola
case and of his repudiation of the Lily White Repub
licans movement which had a promising start in ths
early days of his administration.
T. R. WARING.
Editor Charleston Evening Post
D’sgustcd by Attitude to Negroes.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. 17.—There is not the
slightest evidence that the third termer’s candidacy *
is making any serious impression on tne Democrats
of Alabama. Here, and there may be found a few
erratic, visionary persons wno have Colonel Roose- r .
velt at his own valuation, but the great mass ol
southern people are distinctly conservative and take
no stock In his platform of socialistic appeals ts the
discontented.
His attitude on the negro question disgusts south
ern people, who see no practical difference between
northern and southern negroes, save the power of the
northern negro to vote. When the West Virginia ne
gro delegates to his convention were the equal of thsir
northern colleagues, he virtually said they were the
equal of southern white men. The leopard hw not
changed his spots. Alabama Democrats are delighted
that a typical southerner In ability, culture, and char
acter Is the Democratic nominee and they are going to
support Woodrow Wilson enthusiastically. This is
unquestionably true of Alabama, and it is bellsvsfi te
be true of all other southern states.
FRANK P. GLASS,
Editor The News
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