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Pr sident Roosevelt’s Poor Opin¬
ion of Our Former
Presidents.
From M ■«. Felton in Atlanta Journal.
Ho . » laude Kitchen, of North
Carolina, has given the country
a rev; w of President Roosevelt’s
opinion of some of his predecessors
in office and the story he told be¬
fore he house of representatives
must be called remarkable, to
Bay tii s least we can of it, in its
a-don.shing disclosures.
H affirm d that Mr Roose¬
velt ‘ defamed Thomas Jefferson
in every imaginable way in his
"Winning of the West,” his "Na¬
val War of 1812” and in Jus "Life
of Benton.” He denounces Jef¬
ferson as "vaceillating and tim¬
id.” He calls him a "thrifty
doctr nnaire.” He says Jeffer¬
son was "incompetent and un
gra eful.” He affirms that he
“intrigued against Wasnington.”
He save he "secretly aided the
French,’.’ (intimating his infidel¬
ity to his own country.) He
says Jefferson’s “influence was
constitutionally unable to put the
proper value on truthfulness,”
calling him a born liar by indi¬
rection. He believes Jefferson to
have been "the most incapable
executive that ever filled the
presidential chair.”
Let us be thankful that he did
not say Jefferson was a horse
thief and a common swindler;
for he has exhausted expletives
On all other lines of wrong doing
and incapacity.
Shade of Jefferson! Defend
Us from the two-by four politi¬
cians of the present age!
Jefferson was born in Virginia
— a southern state. Hence these
tears.
What did he think of Madison?
He denounces Madison as
"timid,” "incapable” a ridicu¬
lously incompetent leader for a
war with Great Britian.” "His
administration was feeble,” He
accuses him of "imbecile inca
pvciiy.” Heavers he "brought
s lame and disgrace on Amer¬
ica. ”
Da you believe it. dear reader?
If you do (or do not) remember
that James Madison was born in
Virginia on southern soil, and
that was quite enough to make
him distasteful to Hon. Theodore
Roosevelt, who was born in New
Yark state, and who is doubtless
beslobbering the G. O. P. for a
selfish purpose and a partisan ef
feot.
Virginia gave birth also to
Jamba Monroe. Let us see l ow
Jhe fares at the hands of our
Dufcnh-Yankee president on his
paternal side of the Roosevelt pa
rentage.
He denounces Monroe as a
"mere figure-head” president
with no especial ability, and as
Madison s secretary of war, "a
triumph of imbecility to the last.”
Nothing good could come out
of Nazareth. Virginia people
and Virginia presidents are per¬
sons who are inimical to our pres¬
ent executive. All were south¬
ern born—southern bred—and
therefore distasteful to the last
degree.
His opinion of Andrew Jack
son we may surmise, was bad, of
course. He was a southern man
and the south is a red rag to our
prancing executive in the arena
of politics
Jackson was a “figure head.”
he was “ignorant.” He was
"managed by (politicians,” "low
politicians moulded him to their
will,” "his administration corrupt¬
ed the public service in every
way.”
Jaokao i was also a Democrat.
That is the sum-total/d his errors
with Mr. Roosevelt.
VanBuren was a New Yorker,
but there was something the mat¬
ter with him. He writes up Van¬
Buren as a "sordid.” "odious,”
"corrupt” politician, "who faith-i
fully served the mammon of un¬
righteousness,” and who succeed
ed because Of hit moral surround¬
ings.”
A daring writer is President
Roosevelt!
VanBuren was a New York
Democrat, and his Democracy
was a damning sin in the eyes of
Rooseveltian Republicanism.
Don’t yon see?
William Henry Harrison was a
"small president.”
Zachary Taylor boin in the
south was another.
Fillmore’s politics d—d him, al¬
though he was a native of New
York state and universally res¬
pected at home and ahroad for
prudent, conservative and gen¬
tlemanly conduct. He wasn’t a
"pizen repuliean,” therefore he
is put down as a pigmy and a
failure.
John Tyler, he calls a "politic¬
ian of monumental littleness,”
which is accounted for by his
southern {parents and Virginia
raising. If John Tyler had b^en
the Angel Gabriel, his birthplace
would have been enough to make
him "peevish and puzzte headed.”
He continues: "to call Tyler a
mediocre man would be unwar¬
ranted flattery.”
John Tyler was no pattern to
follow in my own opinion, but f
he had been the wisest of mar
kind, he was born in the wrong
place to get a certificate of good
character from president Roose
velt. To be perfect he ought to
be born north ol Mason and Dix¬
on’s line, ride like a cowboy, dine
with Bcoker Washington and
whack at everybody like a Rough
R der with a Santiago hat on his
head 1
Janes C. Polk was born below
the accepted meridian of latitude,
therefore he is the* ‘very smallest
specimen, except Tyler, of the
very smallest presidents between
Jackson and Lincoln.” The ver¬
dict of this jury did not also say
that Polk was a Democrat., but
it was understood and implied
and intended.
Pierce was a Democrat.
Therefore, Pierce was a "truck¬
ling-time-serving politidian,” al¬
so a "small politician of low ca¬
pacity and mean surroundings.”
Nortn or south, being a Demo*
orat was crime enough to last a
common lifetime. President
Roosevelt "tars” all Democrats
"with the same stick.”
Of course Buchanan fares the
same way. He is another small
"truckling-time-serving north¬
ern politician.” He is also called
a "fit representative of the odious
and sordid political organization
of Pennsylvania.”
Is he treading on Matt Quay’s
toes? How can such a thing be
when Quay is a bead-light in the
G. O. P. and Buchanan was dis¬
tasteful as a Democrat? Quay
was in Pennsylvania politics.
Did President Roosevelt slip up
in his facts and his figures, be¬
cause Quay confessedly holds
Pennsylvania in his vest pocket,
between his thumb ard forefin¬
ger?
Fifty years from today some
other president may sit in judge¬
ment on our Rough Rider, who
now prances over the bones of his
betters with his Santiago a'rs
and graces and then we shall
have the chapter concluded and
the volume printed in full. But
our President Roosevelt denounc¬
es Quakers as unworthy of citi¬
zenship. He says "cowboys were
morally,” although in their de¬
pravity they were “ much better fel¬
lows and pleasanter farmers companions and
than the small agri¬
cultural laborers, nor are our
mechanics and workmen of a
great city to be mentioned in the
breath” with cowboys. In
a public speech made in New
York and reported in the New
York Journal of October 28, 1896,
President Roosevelt denounced
the followers of Bryan, “as the
basest set in the land—the farm¬
ers.”
The labor union leader he de¬
nounces as "sleek oily little fel¬
low who had never done a stroke
of work in his life.”
Once upon a time while the
Rough Rider was governor of
New York, he denounced Con¬
gress as "cattle,” said it was
soul harrowing to have to deal
with such cattle.”
This half Dutch Yankee pres¬
ident is apparently at enmity
with everybody who was born on
southern soil, with all Democrats
with all Quakers, with all labor
unionists, and he rounds up con¬
gress, as the cowboys round up
cows and bulls, and calls the
same "soul-harrowing cattle.”
What does he approve? Who
does he respect except Booker
Washingtonj That he does not
call Grant, Lincoln, Hayes, Gar¬
field and Arthur “kw politician*”
is because he now wants the of¬
fice that they filled with more
ability and less irritation of pub¬
lic opinion than Theodore Roose¬
velt.
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Congressman Griggs Spoke at
Closing Exercises.
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The Pelham people have enjoy¬
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Mark Bolding, Principal; T. H.
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of proficiency.
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commencement exercises and
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