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IHE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1907*
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; other scheduled orator* are boil
ing over with That they rail :he
‘ Impudence of. Roosevelt. In the lat-
I ter • lass tire the Georgia mayors.
not one of -Them was allowed to
1 speak, and John Temple Grave.-,
! whose specialty Is spefehtnaking.
but wr.o went down before the
Roosevelt cry of "Cut :i out!"
, Wo presume this correspondent
1 bloodshed in most [Georgia should calmly submit to an in- fever from Havana and made the ter-
pro’portion In their I fringement of the most secred right of !rible canal zone habitable,” expressed
free and un-
0. R. PENDLETON, President
GOOD WORDS.
At the annual commencement of
meant to say. not that certain of the Bryn Mawr College the ether day Mr.
Georgians were "boiling over with James Bryce, the British ambassador,
what they call the Impudence of Roose- suggested two fields cf activity which
velt,” but boiling over with wrath at| bc . regarded as peculiarly appropriate
what they consider the Impudence of j women. He first recommended the
the gentleman named. No man can | cultivation of the love of good books
boll over “with" another man's irapu- : and the acquisition of a thorough
deuce. But as a matter of fact the knowledge of and a fine taste in liter-
Presldent and the Governor have de- ; ature. “Reading light and ephemeral
nted the story, and we must accept, novels soon becomes wearisome,” reads
their statements about it. If, however, la summary of his utterance, "and then
there was foundation for the story, we: the woman who knows nothing of good
may re3t assured that there was a good • books nor cares for them must find
crease of crin
of the e-iunlii
uni Dors and the number of arms andja Georgian—tie right
amount of ammunition furnished limited speech."
tnrm.” ' What is the use in kicking? "The
■ King can do no wrong.” or if he does,
VAINGLORIOUS NIPPON.
According to a news article in the
Washington Post, "there is a deeply
imbedded Impression in the minds of
men high in the Administration that
the Japanese people have misinter
preted the kindly sentiments expressed
by President Roosevelt In his message ideal of boiling. When a man has pre- ! SO me other amusement. The faculty of
to Congress last December, while treat- ! pared a speech and utterance is denied j entertaining herself has not been ac-
ing of the Japanese school questi>n, him he feels robbed of an inalienable i quired. and she becomes dependent
and construe his eoncilitatory words as [right and he smarts almost as If with upon others for that diversion which
an evidence of fear of Nippon. For
this reason, it Is thought, the idea may
have been Inculcated In the minds of
certain Japanese that tha United
States is actually afraid of Japan and
should humiliate Itself In order to prs-
vent a rupture of friendly relations.”
There were Americans who feared
something of this sort at the time, be
lieving that the President’s ‘Tclndly
sentiments” were too conciliatory
Where Japan was concerned and too
unmindful of California's rights of lo
cal self-government. The Telegraph
so expressed itself. A misconstruction
In Japan is not surprising, the people
of that country being Intoxicated by
their success In the war with Russia.
Anorher cause of Irritation in Wash
ington is the premature and totally
unexpected offer of mediation on the
part of France, and no wonder. Ban
Francisco hoodlums smash the win
dows of a Japanese restaurant, radicals
at Toklo talk of war, and France ten
ders her good offices for an adjustment
of the difference! The plot of an opera
bouffe Is suggested.
The authorities at Washington are
said ti be taking stock of this nation's
defenses and It would seem to be about
time. A comparison of the two navies
is given as follows: '
physical pain. An orator, for example,
must have spent the worst quarter of
an hour of his life if it Is true that
the President’s cruel "Cut It out”
caused him to crowd back his flowery
periods and let them suffocate unut
tered In his throat. The desire to make
speeches Is a widely prevalent detire
In America, and statistics could proba-
ibly be presented to' show that those
who delight to orate are more numerous
than those who really welcome the op
portunity to listen.
As for the President's alleged dis
she. should be able to afford herself.
This is where gossip and tittie-tattle
and character-shredding have their
origin. Few things conduce more to
happiness and content than the habit
of reading good books.”
Mr. Bryce also urged that women
should give their attention to the min
istrations of charity, reminding the
Bryn Mawr girl graduates, that the
meaning of the word "lady” is bread-
giver, and that she finds her tradi-
j tional field in good works.
Though the average American girl
it must be passed over with an ap
proving smile. The "great Georgia
minstrel,” of all people, would appear
to have the least right to complain.
If, as he virtually contends, no Demo
crat Is fit to be President, and our par
ty should therefore nominate Roose
velt, then no Democrat is fit to speak
in Che presence of the Great and Only.
Mr. Graves may contend that the .ban
is removed from him by his leaning
toward the Independence League, but
we shall not venture to let him out in
ihat way until he authoritatively
makes the announcement for himself.
In this connection we might add Chat
the editor of this paper is in receipt of
a private letter from a friend who
says: "If you want the inside of Geor
gia Day get (when you
see him) to toil you about it. It is
funny when you know it. After the
himself as follows:
"I am Inclined to think that the
advances made in recent years in
tropical sanitation will have a
much wider and more far-reaching
effect than freeing Havana from
yellow fever or enabling us to build
the Panama canal. I think that
sanitation can now show that any
population coming into the tropics
can protect itself against disease
by measures that are both simple
and inexpensive: that life in the
tropics for the Anglo-Saxon will be
more healthful than the temperate
zones; and that gradually within
the next two or three centuries
tropica! countries, which offer a
much greater return for man’s
labor than do the temperate zones,
will Se settled by the white faces,
and that again the centers of
wealth, civilization and population
will be in the tropics. a-= they were
in the dawn of man’s history,
rather than in the temperate zones
as at present.”
This is a rather startling suggestion,
but why should not history at last re
peat itself in this particular as in
others, and the cradles of all the an
cient civilizations again become the
abodes of the more vigorous and pro
gressive races of men? Would the
effort to keep cool during the heat of
the tropic day require any greater ex
penditure of energy than the effort to
keep warm during six months of the
year throughout almost the whole of
[ the north temperate zone? Artificially
grand stand speech the President ex
pected; a general reception open .to all
Georgians at the Georgia building—
the Bullocfh Home. But Atlanta snob
bery barred out all except special few
from the-feast. Even the distinguished
Mrs.. Felton, ‘near Cartersville,’ was
barred. It is too funny when you know ^ c00led h0Uies wiU P robabl - v not Present
courteous behavior. It may be said in j in search of a "career” may regard
extenuation that an embarrassment of i these two activities as rather "slow”
riches in the form of too many (and old-fashioned, they are #not only
Typo ot vessel.
u. a.
Japan.
Battleships
21
11
Armored cruisers .
8
10
Protected cruisers .
43
19
Torpedo boats
82
.77
Destroyers
16
54
Submarines
8
7
Coast defense
11
S
The number of vessels to
be built
under existing appropriations
nation la as follows:
by each
Type of vessel.
U. S.
Japan.
Battleships
8
3
Armored cruisers .
4
4
Protected cruisers .
3
1
Destroyers
r.
Submarines
4
Japan la better prepared for
war as
to land forces, but
is only the fifth
naval power while
the United
States
speeches causes a weariness of the
flesh and much vexation of spirit. Nev
ertheless It Is the part of the philoso
pher as well, as the duty of the public
man to "grin and ibear" under such
circumstances. As it was Georgia’s
day, the Georgians selected to speak
should have been heard, and not even
the President's eagerness to hurry
from a few remarks appropriate to the
occasion into a long-winded political
speech was sufficient to justify turning
them down. A man with whom speech
making at all times and on all sub
jects Is a necessity of his nature should
be more considerate of other orators.
Is the third. As, in case of war, It
would be largely a struggle at sea,
and as the United States has never
yet been defeated, the victory-drunk
men of Nippon would do well to think
twice before they allow the smashed
windows of a Japanese joint In San
Francisco to upset their reason com
pletely.
SOME DIFFERENCE.
The Boston Herald, an Independent
newspaper which pins its political
faith to the Democracy of the Jeffer-
son-T!lden-C!eve!and brand, finds It
difficult to distinguish between Roose
velt Republicanism and the dominant
Democracy of the hour. It says:
"Some of the old-time Democrats
utter a feeble squeak against 'cen
tralization and in favor of
State's rights. But there are no
more pronounced Federalists In the
country than the dominant men of
their party, with Mr. Bryan at
their head. Thomas Jefferson and*
Samuel J. Tllden would not recog
nise the Democratic party of today
If they were to revisit the glimpses
of the moon. The trouble with the
Democratic keynote# Is that they
are all pitched for a different tune,
or so nearly resemble the tone
given to Republicanism by that
versatile and maaterly political an
gler, Theodore Roosevelt, that few
people can distinguish the differ
ence.”
Roosevelt Republicanism and Bryan
Democracy are Indeed as one on what
are supposed to be the "burning” issues
of the hour. Roosevelt and Bryan are
also as one in their indifference to the
tariff question, ulthough the first
named Is on record as a tariff reformer
THE RECORD OF THE TWENTY-
FIFTH INFANTRY.
In the defense of the negro battalion
dismissed by President Roosevelt much
has been made of the long service and
personal record of Mingo Sanders, one
of its members. Too little has been
heard of the. unsavory record of the
Twenty-fifth Infantry, of which the
dismissed battalion was a part. That
record Is now set forth by Stephen
Bousal In the North American Review.
We learn from this account that the
’’shooting up” of Brownsville was alto
gether characteristic and of a piece
with much that had gone before. Ac
cording to Mr. Bousal, in 1885 the men
of the Twenty-fifth “shot up” the town
of Sturgis, Dakota, killing several men.
In 1898, on the eve of the departure of
Shafter’s army for Cuba, a corporal
and several soldiers of the Twenty-
fifth, having been on a murderous fo
ray In Key West, and being charged
with-assault with attempt to kill, were
arrested and committed to jail. At mid
night forty of the negroeeg of this reg-
emlnently respectable and worthy but
may be productive of much quiet sat
isfaction and happiness as well as of
use to others. The objection that many
young American women mignt justly
raise is that these two pursuits are not
sufficient, because they are not remu
nerative in a pecuniary way. The
breadwinner could follow them only in
the hours of leisure.
But Mr. Bryce was not addressing
breadwinners. Speaking as an Eng
lishman of the upper class and at a j
college attracting the daughters of the 1
wealthy, he naturally discussed pur
suits supposed to be appropriate
young ladies belonging to. families
means. With this in view his sugges
tions are seen to be as practical as
they are excellent. How much better
to occupy much time In these two ways
than to live for the mere social round
and for expensive pleasures of a sensu
ous sort. The needless and ostenta
tious display of wealth,” the summary
goes on, "is not only vulgar, but harm
ful. and perhaps has contributed Us
part to the growth of anarchy and so
clallsm. When a man who has a wife
and a family of children who may be
crying for bread reads of a dinner
given by one of the new rich which
oost enough to feed several families
for a whole year it sets him to specu
lattng upon the inequalities of fortune
and opportunity and fosters unrest and
discontent. Of course, it is to the pub
lie advantage that people who have
large incomes should spend freely. But
there are various methods of spending
—there is a decent method and an in
decent one; there is a respectable way
and a vulgar way. And among the
most vulgar of all the practices of the
American smart set is the habit of as
everything in dollars and
how it all was.”
It rs also stated that these gentlemen
who were running things until Roose
velt kicked it to pieces disdained to
wear the "Georgia” badge, but sported
long streamers with “Atlanta” printed
in box car letters on them.
But why vex the "Atlanta spirit?’
imenL carrying regular army rifles,
surrounded the Jail,' overpowered the' sesslng
jailer, released their comrades, and al- j cents. .If a house Is decorated with
most demolished the flimsy structure j flowers It Is announced that so many
In which they had been confined. Then [ dollars’ worth of flowers are used
the outlaws sailed away with Shafter’s j a dinner party Is given, the cost is an
army, and were never brought to trial, j nounced at so much a plate: if . one of
much less visited with the punishment j the set is married It Is necessary to
they deserved. i announce the cost of the bride's dress
When this same negro regiment was [ and often of the wedding presents.”
on its way to the Philippines in 1899, i The British ambassador's words are
a trainload of Its men stopped at Win- [wise, and, coming from a distinguished
nemucca, Nevada, for supper. What [English gentleman, they may not be
happened? Mr. Bousal states that the j altogether wasted. It is well for wo-
negro soldiers raided the restaurants,! men of wealth to learn that real cul-
took possession of the saloons, shot a
•barkeeper and terrorized the town.
They preserved their conspiracy of si
lence, as usual, and the authorities
were unable to Identify and punish the
guilty men. Four months later ne
groes of the same regiment assaulted
peaceable Indians In Arizona, and Gen.
Merriam ws.s compelled to ask that
they be supplanted by white troops.
The regiment was sent to El Paso.
Texas. Two of the soldiers were ar-
ture. fine taste, and good works are
more queenly than indulgence in the
pleasures of the senses and the grati
fication of every caprice.
and the latter has ibeen frequently re- rested for violating some State law
minded of thl» cardinal doctrine of his
adopted party. But there is this dif
ference: Roosevelt has not yet come
out for fhe Government ownership of
public utilities and seems to bo con
tented to see Bryan the sole advocate
of the Initiative and referendum. The
difference may be regarded by some as
slight, but we venture to say that It Is
sufficient to Influence a large number
of vote*.
THOSE 6TILLBORN SPEECHES.
The following is an Interesting and
typical specimen of the “specials” that
flew over the wires to many distant
points after "Georgia day” last week
Special to the Washington Post.
ATLANTA, Ga., June IS.—Be
cause of the strenuoslty of Presi
dent Roosevelt on Georgia day at
Jamestown. Governor Terrell and
the other Georgians who were
•cheduled to make speeches re
turned home with the orations on
which they spent weeks of work
undelivered. According to Gover
nor Terrell, Roosevelt was opposed
to any one speaking bbt himself,
and whenever a speaker was an
nounced, the President would cry:
“Cut It out!” or “Cut It ■hort!”
The result was that the sched
uled orators were silent under the
gatling gun fired from Roosevelt
and their orations were not un
loaded. Even when Governer Ter
rell was Introduced Roosevelt
cried: ("Cut the speeches short;
cut them out” and the Governor
obediently cut his address down to
a coupls of paragraphs.
Govsmor Terrell takes the mat
ter good-naturedly, but soma of tha
and were placed In jail there. The ne
gro infantrymen took their rifles from
the racks, attacked the Jail and killed
a policeman who was on duty. They
were repulsed, but returned later in the
night, and with guns and axes at
tempted to rescue their comrades.
Missing rifles gave a clue to the iden
tity of several of these rioters, and
they were punished.
At Nibrara, Neb., before tbe end of
the same year of 1899 negro soldiers [
of the Twenty-fifth engaged in still
another murderous raid. Even so faith
ful a Republican as the chairman of
the district congressional committee
described this outrage as a “wanton
and cold-blooded murder.”
NOT THE FIRST "CUT IT OUT.”
It appears that John Temple Graves
and the other Georgians were not the
first orators to ‘be mowed down and
laid aside by the President’s Imperial
and terrifying "Cut it out!” Discuss
ing the tragic affair, the Washington
Post says:
"It is now asserted that a similar
incident occurred at the recent un
veiling of the McClellan statue In
this Capital. Gen. O. O. Howard
had begun a speech which, judg
ing from the mass of manuscript
in his hand, was to-be longer than
the moral law. If the tale of the
witnesses is to be believed the
President was extremely fidgety
while Gen. Howard was getting
under way. When the speaker
stopped to pour out a glass of
water Mr. Roosevelt turned and
whispered a word to the presiding
officer, who nodded and instantly
gave a mysterious signal. As Gen.
Howard replaced the glass and
cleared 'nis throat the brass band
struck up one of those stirring,
fine old battle hymns of the re
public. which so entranced Gen.
Howard that he stood spellbound,
and finally took his seat with his
speech undelivered."
The Post pointedly adds: "If the
AS TO PROH.stITION.
Discussing the prohibition campaign
now on in Lowndes County, the Moul
trie Observer, printed in a neighboring
county, says:
We have seen a few writers who
strongly presented the side of the
open saloon. One of these is the
present editor of The Macon Tele
graph. Col. Pendleton has opposed
prohibition for many years and for
many other reasons than business
advantages gained by saloons.
Years ago he championed the open
saloon In the columns of the Val
dosta Times and held his own
against all comers. Since he went
to Macon he has parsed through
a memorable campaign and .he
wrote a series of articles signed
"Charles Rittenhouse” tha't at
tracted attention throughout the
State.
Col. Pendleton has a worthy suc
cessor in Valdosta in the person of
"Old Timer,” who has recently
contributed many articles to the
Times of that city. He doesn't
waste space abusing prohibition
ists but writes In splendid humor,
asks pertinent [ questions. handies
prohibition speakers with ridicule,
and occasionally presents some
verv sound thought.
The Observer is a prohibition pa
per, first, last and all the time, but
it has respect for the man who
can control his temper, confine
himself to reason and contends for
what 5ie honestly Relieves to be
right.
The editor of The Telegraph has
never defended the abuses connected
with the open saloon, and never will.
He never apologized for the low dog
gery or dive, and never will. But he
has for a number of years contended
that the open saloon, wit'h God’s sun
shine falling upon the doorstep, is bet
ter than the blind tiger and the speak
easy which crawls around In the dark,
Experience has shown that this posi
tion is correct; at least experience ‘lias
shown it to those who are willing to
open their eyes and look the question
squarely in the face, which some other
wise brave men will not do.
Another thing which has governed
tils course. On the occasion, referred
to above—in fact on several occasions—
he put the question squarely: -Do the
Scriptures teach prohibition? No one
has yet pointed out the text. But the
Scriptures are full of admonitions
against the abuse of liquors, and warn
ings to those "that giveth his neighbor
drink—that putteth thy bottle to him
and make him drunken also—that thou
mayest look on their nakedness." The
excess is forbidden. The act of giv
ing it to him to make him drunk, so
that one may see his nakedness, is for
bidden. It is so from Genesis to Rev
elations. But there is no prohibition
of the manufacture and sale, and mod
erate use there. On the contrary the
moderate use. even on social occasions,
as at the -wedding feast of Cana, Is
commended by the example of the Lord
Himself. Blot out the record made in
the Book and then the editor of this
paper may or may not become a pro
hibitionist in the absolute sense.
This much would not have been said
here now. If the matter had not been
brought up by another. We have read
some of "Old Timer’s” articles, and so
far as we have read them we are con-
inced that he takes the proper view
of the question. The prohibitionists
make the mistake of not directing their
plendid energies in behalf of the reg
ulation of the saloons, a thing more
easy to be done than to trap the blind
tiger, or run down tbe speak-easy.
This previous record, which has so,
tried the patience of the public, ought President had procured the playing of
to -be taken into consideration by the.'Dixie' at the moment before John
Senate Committee on Military Affairs'Temple Graves was to speak the great
which Is still hearing testimony in the [Georgia minstrel might have ibeen con-
Brownsviile cise. The Senate commit-j tent to 'bottle up his impassioned
tee would al»> do well to consider the j strains, or to do his best in that direc-
atrocitles perpetrated by negroes with tlon. But to be corked and stoppered
army guns 5n their hands thirty-two j by a rude 'Cut it out!’ is more than
years ago. It would be profitable to human nature can stand
any greater difficulties in the future
than artificially heated houses by mod
ern methods in the past.
However this may be, and whether
the tropics ever again become popular
pUices of residence or not, it is safe
to predict that the time is to come
when the milder and more equable cli
mate of the Southern States will be
generally preferred to that of the
States of the North and the provinces
of Canada. During the past backward
spring very many of the people of
those sections have doubtless asked
themselves more often than usual why
they should face the struggle to keep
warm during so many months of the
year when a more Inviting climate full
of industrial opportunities Is within
reach.
THE LANDS OF SUN AND BLOOM.
A former generation contended that
only people imported from tropical
Africa and their descendants could
with Impunity labor in the fields under
the sun of our Southern States, all of
which are in the north temperate zone.
But that absurd notion—originally
manufactured as an argument in favor
of the slavery institution—has long
Something 1 been exploded, and now it is even
look Into South Carolina’s records, for [serious will come of this—see if It [stoutly maintained that white men can
example, in which State the white i doesn't. John Temple Graves will I surmount the climatic difficulties of
military companies were disbanded, | either withdraw his suggestion that
96,000 negroes being then enrolled and J Bryan nominate Roosevelt, or his next
kept under arms at a great cost, and,' speech will be twice as long as It
as la shown Oy Republican testimony! would have been, or some other dire
la ex-Secretary Herbert’s "Why the j consequence will mark his resentment.
Solid South," p. 94, “an In- [It la Impossible that the bobolink ot
the tropics themselves.
For example, In his address at the
graduation exercises of the Cornell
University Medical College last week,
Col. William C. Gorgas. of the United
FORAKER’S GOLD BRICK.
Senator Foraker must surely begin
to suspect that a gold brick was
palmed off on him wften he was per
suaded to take up the cause of tha
■Brownsville rioters as a means of se
curing the nomination for President.
During the three months of official in
vestigation between thirty and forty
reputable citizens of Brownsville, some
of them people of high standing, have
testified that they saw the negro sol
diers firing their rifles, some from the
gallery of B Company’s barracks,
others over the fort wall and others In
the 'streets of Brownsville, some of the
witnesses having even counted the ne
groes as they passed through the
streets. Moreover, expert testimony
has established beyond doubt that the
bullets fired could Slave come from no
other weapons than the new rifles in
the sole possession of the soldiers.
The voluminous testimony as
summed u seems conclusively to
establish the following facts:
Certain' members of the Twenty-fifth |
Infantry, identity unknown, were seen
on the night of August 13 to fire their
rifles from the gallery of B. Company’s
barracks and from the wall of Fort
Brown toward the town of Brownsville.
Certain of the negroes then jumped
over the low wall surrounding the fort
and ran up the alley, shooting at va
rious houses and citizens.
They went up an alley a distance of
little less than 950 feet, their ob
jective point being Tillman’s saloon,
where the negroes had not been per
mitted to drink at the same bar with
white men and a separate bar had
been established. Here they shot and
killed the bartender as he was attempt
ing to close the gate from the alley to
"summer garden.” They also shot at
man standing in the door of the •sa
loon, the shot going through his coat,
but not injuring him. This man tes
tified that he saw the negro troops
shoot at him and kill the bartender.
The entire fort was practically in
charge of negroes, the officer of the
guard being a negro non-commissioned
officer. The sentry at the gate gave
the alarm by discharging his rifle three
time's. The officer of the day, a com
missioned officer, was sleeping so
soundly that he was the last man In
the fort to be awakened.
A negro soldier gave the order for
the call to arms immediately, after the
sounding of the alarm by the soldier,
and this threw everything within the
fort into confusion, released the guns
from the gunracks, led to an order to
put out all lights, and made it possible
for the soldiers who had run out into
the town to return under cover of
darkness and fall into line in their re
spective companies before they could
•be identified by their white officers,
who were, moreover, unsuspicious, be
cause they believed that citizens had
fired on the fort
Against all 'this direct testimony
stands only the denial of the accused
men and their comrades’ "conspiracy
of silence.’’ Foraker is likely to find
this issue a poor investment. "What
he gains by it is apt to be more than
offset by what he loses.
POOR TEACHERS OF DEMOCRACY, taristlcs of the majority of the Sena-
After emitting the summer throne tors from the Northern States,
room at Oyster Bay Mr. John T. Times have changed, the almighty
Graves declares that "it is doubtful if • dollar rules, and the strongest men in
the country ever had In fifty years a i our time are found in business life,
better Democratic President than The- j That is why only a minority of men
odoro Roosevelt” ! of the first rank are n-ow found repre-
This leads the Chattanooga News tojsenting any section of this country in
remark that “Democrats all over the the political field.
country will search in vain to see! ”
where President Roosevelt ever de- ; HIS OWN BOSS,
dared fer a revenue tariff, the cardinal Chancellor Day, of Syracuse Unlver-
tenet of the Democratic faith. They ) sity, attempts to trace a connection be-
can find no place where he ever signi- • tween the death of John Hay and the
fled any sympathy for a number of ‘progressive” politics of Mr. Roose-
other old Democratic doctrines, such i velt. ''Before the death of John Hay,
as State right's, individual freedom and ! he says, "President Roosevelt was corn-
equality before the law. President j paratively safe and sane because he
Roosevelt is the archangel of war and allowed himself to be guided In a large
the devotee of power. The mailed fist j measure by that truly great statesman.
Is his emblem and mightiness in battle Since then he has been a wild engine—
his daily song. That is not Demo- you know what a wild engine is!"
cratlc. It is not American. President! "But,” pointedly objects the Fhila-
Roosevelt is not a Democrat: he could [delphia Record, “one of the most start-
not be and continue to hold the policies I ling and characteristic of all Mr.
for which his administration has be- , Roosevelt's acts, and one of the most
come famous. If Alexander Hamilton j difficult to Justify by any processes
was a Democrat, then Theodore Roose- except those expounded by Machia-
velt is one. If Thomas Jefferson was a j velli, was the partition of Colombia
Republican, Mr. Roosevelt is a Demo-'and the creation of tho republic of
crat. On the great fundamental prin- i Panama out of a dozen conspirators,
ciple of the party. President Roosevelt I mostly foreigners and several of them
Is against us.” j Americans. That was done either 'by
A man who was nominated for i or through John Hay himself, and he
United States Senator last year in a not only engineered the transaction, or
primary In a Southern State on one j executed the President’s purposes
occasion thereafter volunteered ad- ' therein, but he went on the stump in
vice to another Senator who expects to } the Presidential campaign •following
stand for re-election, something like ! and defended it as a particularly bril- ,
this: "Don't bother about constitu- ; llant piece of statecraft.”
tional question? in your canvass, or : The Record is right. Mr. Roosevelt
'tho greit fundamental principles of J has been his own boss from the outset,
the party.’ Get on to some practical and the member? of his Cabinet have
issue. What do the people care about; never influenced'him against his own
the Constitution or ‘fundamental -prln- i wishes unless It was In the matter of
cip!es?’ In my State I worked up the i stopping the tariff agitation to pacify
farmers on a proposition to make the ! the growling standpatters. Particu-
United States Government work the ; lariy after the election of 1904, Mr.
roads, and relieve them of the burden.” j Roosevelt has seemed to act on the
That is the spirit that animates the j theory that the people have given him
politicians of that cia'ss. To the dogs | carte blanche to do whatever he
with "fundamental -principles.” Get ■ wishes. Cabinets, Constitutions and
on the (blind side of the farmers and j even statutes to the contrary notwlth-
pander to their natural desires and i standing.
whip up their prejudices: but teach j r
them "fundamental principles,” doc- j A PRECEDENT,
trines of Democracy and the science of Tf tho Roosevelt Democrats should
Government—no.vrr! The truth Is j decide that the nominee of their party,
those fellows do not know themselves, I if not Roosevelt himself, must be like
and therefore cannot teach: but they ; Roosevelt in every particular, including
know how to get hold of the public [ even the most complete knowledge of
teat and swing to it like a young ’pos- 1 animals and the ability to knock out
■urn to its mammy’s mammals until it j the “nature faker?,’’ they can at least
away.
HUGHES AND HIS VETO.
As the Washington Post views it,
Governor Hughes’ veto of the 2-cent
faro (bill has -prut him distinctly in the
running for the Presidency. Says the
Post:
Here Is what the G. O. P. Is now
meditating: The Republicans can
win without New York: the Dem
ocrats must have New York to
make any show at all. Nominate
the Republican who has New York
nailed down, and the November
election will be a cake walk.
Hughes has made good; he has
delivered the goods. ' He Is a re
former and he is that marvelous
combination, a reformer who is
also safe. The veto of the 2-cent
fare bill was a brave thing to do,
and the Governor’s argument ap
peals to every conservative man
in every State. Grover C'eveland
never did a braver thing. His veto
of the bill to reduce the fare on Jay
Gould’s elevated roads front 10
cents to 5 cents made him Presi
dent. The measure wa? extorted
from the Legislature by public
clamor and was the fruit of polit
ical cowardice.
Governor Hughes certainly could
‘11
terested in ornithology. A letter to
Alexander Wilson, an American pio
neer in this science, written .by Jeffer
son in 1805, thus reads:
As you are curious in birds there
is one well worthy your attention
to be found or rather heard iu
every part of America & yet
scarcely ever to be seen. It in
all the forests from spring to fall,
and never but on the toy3 of the
tallest trees from which it perpet
ually serenades us with some of
the sweetest notes. & an clear as
those of the nightingale. I have
followed it miles without ever (but
once getting a view of it. It 13 the 4
size and make of the Mocking bird,
I'ghtly thrush colored on the back,
& a grayish .white on the breast &
belly.
It is said that this tree-top bird has
—strange to nay—been identified with
our “ground robin.”
Jefferson is also quoted as saying of
Daines Barrington, who denied tho
American origin of the turkey, that
“the arguments -he produces are such
as none but a head, entangled and
kinked as his is, would ever have
urged.”
This !■» comparatively m!!d, but It
have had no thought of .promoting his ,, , ... . . _ ,
_ .. . i could be pointed out as a precedent for
the Olympian wrath that has thun
dered forth from the White Houso
against our* modern “nature faker.”
j and it gives the enthusiasts a great
It would be interesting to know what
the wild waves were saying at Oyster
Bay.
William Johnson was the Harry Or
chard of Atlanta. You can't lose that
town.
political fortunes by this particular act.
but If it has tbe effect to inform the!
public mind of the fact that there is a ;
right way and a wrong way of re
forming things it will prove valuable!^, more opportunity to flnd somo _
whether it makes him a Presidential thing .*j effersonian .. in Roosevelt than
candidate or not. i has ever before been within their
TIMES HAVEi CHANGED. [reach.
Discussing the choice of John Hollis: The Sava nnah Press is converted to
Bankhead to succeed Senator Morgan [ tbe ben eflt of eating a light breakfast,
the New York Sun rather acidly re- : In fact H says .., t is bet ter to begin
marks: "To the gentleman and the [ the day wIth an empty -stomach.” It
scholar, to the sta tesman of great at- i appears about lbe onIy p]an of evci
tatnments and patriotic spirit and pur- | beat i n g the meat trust.
pese, succeeds the politician whose!
only recommendation is that he can I ‘T am not only opposed to a third
make robustious stump speeches and [term but a second.” says Mr. Bryan,
as a member of Congress obtained fori Yes. but how mans’ runs is your limit?
his constituents a fair share of appro- . That is the question the country is
priation pork—a contemptible succes- [ worried about.
sion, indeed! Intelligent and patriotic}
New Yorkers may deplore it all the ; " Back t0 the Constitution.” says Col."-
more because for the time being New 1 Wotterson, but some folks think John
York's Senate seats are occupied by Temple Graves’ slogan. Back to the -pie
such wretched effigies.” counter, is more inspiring.
The Baltimore Sun finds in this "an !
Implied recognition of the honorable |
part which tbe Southern States have j
played in making tbe Senate a power
ful and distinguished factor in our |
Government.” Indeed, It says: "The I
resentment which some of our North- I a woman’s organization in Sweden is
ern contemporaries display because the j called the "Dammklub.” The women
gentleman who may succeed Mr. Mor- [ [ n this country mentally apply th!s
gan in the Senate is not of -Mr. Mor- ! name to the organizations their hus-
gan’s type is a gratifying tribute to the; bands belong to.
South. It seems to suggest that the!
country expects the South to keep up. A member of the Japanese embassy
the standard of excellence in the Sen- , in Washington remarked, "There la a
ate, even If other parts of the country I yellow journalism In Japan as well as
show signs of decadence. ‘New York’s America." Some of the people over
Senate seats,’ says our contemporary, j there actually appear to .he yellow.
‘are occupied by wretched effigies for,
the time being.’ Why, it asks, should •
the South make the grievous mistake i
Henry James has written a novel en
titled "The Prevaricator.’’ It is well
for Henry that he writes in a language
that President Roosevelt nor anybody
else can get a hold on.
Win President Roosevelt please
I classify the faker who started the cam-
. . ... .. „ . “ „ . , - ; paign rumor that somebodv wanted to
of substituting Davis, of Arkansas, for
„ . . , c. assassinate Fairbanks and Foraker?
Senator Berry, or Bankhead for Sen- ,
ator Morgan, when it might send to the
Senate men who would reflect credit I
la the b’g stick mightier than the
snickersnee Is a question looming up
States army, "who banished yellow [tor the future to decide.
"Col. (Eryan Is one of the greatest
lecturers in the world." says the Dal-
upon the South, and add to its Power L News Another ]ec turing President
as a political factor in the nation?” | wouId certainly ,- oe t00 mucb for th?
Perhaps the (best way to answer this j coun t ry
question Is to ask why the North has i
long since made the 'same "mistake?” in the piping times of peace some of
As the Baltimore paper Incidentally ! the naval officers. It appears, turn their
observes, "mediocrity, political sagac-I talents to smuggling and swindling
ity and wealth" are the ohief charac-^the Government that feeds them.