The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 07, 1910, Page THREE, Image 3
I THEODORE ROOSEVELT. J
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It is firm in the minds of many
Americans that Theodore Roosevelt
is greater than Caesar and wiser than
Solomon, that to more than the geni^
us of Napoleon he adds more than
; I the character of Washington.
Hear him but reason in divinity.
And all-admiring in an inward wish
You would desire the k.ng were made
a prelare;
Hear him debate of commonwealth af
L iair?'
^fou would say it hath been all in all
his study;
List his discourse of war. and you shall
hear
A fearful hattle render'd you in music:
Tnrn him to any cause or polit'y,
The G^rdi&n knot of it he will unloose.
Familiar as his garter; that when he
speaks
The air.achartered libertine, is still.
And niuta wonder lurkeih in men's
ears
To steal bis sweet nd honey'd sentences.
I am sorry that I cannot agree
with this estimate of Col Roosevelt,
though I am ready to admit that he
is the most popular American that
ever lived, and that he has received
mnm flntti-rv and adulation than any
other human being that ever lived.
Go out on the highway, in town or
country, and accost the first damphool
you meet, and the chances are
seven out of a possible ten that he
will tell you that Teddy has a
stronger hand than Csesar and a
finer brain than Bacon, more patriotism
thar. Tell, and more honesty
than the law allows anybody else to
have.
I don't believe any such stuff. I
think Mr Roosevelt is fashioned of
clay.and very common clay, at that.
I am sure that he is more mud than
i marble. I am convinced that the
1/ only true picture of the man yet is
1 that limned by Annie Riley Hale of
Tennessee, the most intellectual woHian
I ever saw, or ever expect to
^^e. And the inexorable historian
^|iat will come from a remote gen
SRfition will not omit to take a Ion?
at the picture Mrs Hale draws
^^^Teddy.
^Wrhere is much vicious hostility to
Hrce Taft administration, that, in my
^mmble opinion, is the very best Republican
administration we ever had.
Certainly it is the only one that ever
recognized in the South a full sister,
and not a step-daughter of the national
household. Did Roosevelt so
look upon the South? I'll tell you.
I was somewhat amused and not a
little angered to read a paper on
Roosevelt a few days ago. It was
separated into 12 chapters,and headed:
"What Has Roosevelt Done?" It
went on to enumerate some scores of
things he did as member of the Leg
islature, Governor and President,for
the "uplift." And a youth reading it
is sure to conclude, if he has a plastic
and receptive mind, that there is
little or nothing fit for anything in
this life, at home or abroad, that
Teddy did not invent, forge and put
kon the market, free as air for alb to
3enjoy.
^ But there was a painful hiatus, so
?o call it. There were things unmen^ Boned.
For instance.no account was
gRaken of the fact that Theodore
Roosevelt has an utter and absolute
contempt for the binding force of
low whpn it comes in conflict with
one of his pragmatic snd damphool
ideas of what is expedient. That he
is a consummate politician I admit;
as a grandstand player he is unequaled.
He can pray with Sir Priest
and he can curse with Sir Knight.
Theoretically he is a civil service reformer
with Carl Schurz; practically
he is a spoilsman with Tom Piatt.
Heiis Janus-faced and fronts every
ivay.
When the people of Indianola,
Miss,expressed dissatisfaction with a
negro postmaster, Theodore Roosevelt,in
contemptuous defiance of the
plain law of the land, abolished the
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office. Had Anav jonnson aone me
like of that, the impeachment proceedings
would have resulted in a
conviction. Sooner than treat Zanesville,
Ohio, as he treated Indianola,
Miss.,Teddy would have taken a raging
Bengal tiger by the throat. He
was as sectional a President as Hayes
; or Harrison. He did not believe the
j South was entitled to the same treatment
he meted out to the North. j
He forced the negro Crum on
Charleston because it was Charleston.
He would no more have acted ?
that way toward either Portland?1'
4-V,o+ A flontii* cirlo r>r that on the 1
' | mac \jii ui\. nuauviv ?iuv v. ? ^
J Pacific?one in the Republican State
I of Maine and the other in the Re- i
publican State of Oregon?than he 1
' would have taken to bed with him i
a venomous cobra of the Indian jun- 1
; gle. j i
Hence he writ himself down a <
bully to punish Charleston simply J i
j because it is Charleston. Noa * I want. i
I to see the Southern Democrat who i
j will toss his cap in air in honor of
this Gessler. 1
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But how about Tennessee Coal
and Iron? I'll tell you. Col Roose- ,
velt, President, posed as the only ]
great, original and genuine octopus i
chaser. He kept the country in hot l
water for seven years. He never ]
) touched an octopus. Show me one ^
trust he ever harmed. He thundered
in the index. He marched up
the hill with 40,000 men and then j
marched down again. As a carpet >
knight he was simply superb, and i
could look and talk the reformer as ?
never man did before. As Presi (
dent he was the very essence and \
incarnation of the Turveydrop of 1
reform. *
Well, there was a panic in 1907,
notwithstanding the blessed and divine
tariff. Some folks were ill- 1
mannered enough to call it a "Roose- c
velt panic." It brought unnumbered
disasters to the financial and (
commercial world. Millions crum- *
bled into thousands, and thousands ^
into nothing. The very devil was to
pay. I
There was the Sherman anti-trust .
law that was very embarrassing to
monopoly. The steel trust had one J
competitor, and that was the Ten- j
nessee Coal & Iron Co, that the panic
had hit hard. Here was the opportunity
of the steel trust, and it came
down to this town at the hour of I
midnight, and after a ldng conference
with President Roosevelt, he j
granted the steel-trust men immunity
and licensed them to violate the <
anti-trust law and buy and absorb i
their rival, the Tennessee Coal & *
Iron Co.
(
Take down your history of the T
16th century and read how popes of
Rome granted indulgences to commit
sin, and for largess Leo X would j
allow one to commit every crime denounced
in the decalogue. That
was the precedent for Roosevelt's
indulgence to the steel trust, to t
which every hill of corn, or plant of *
g
tobacco, or row of cotton, or field
of wheat, oats, rye, barley, every
blade of grass of the meadow, has
paid tribute every year the past s
third of a century. Nay, every inhabitant,
man, woman and child, of
all races and conditions, has been c
laid under tribute by this grasping ^
monopoly, that bestowed on Came- gie
half a billion,and filled Pittsburg
fuller of millionaires than Tophet is
nf fidHlprs J
That is what Rooseveltism means,
and all it means?that whatever
such a matchless character as he
shall order shall be the policy of the
Federal establishment. There is
nothing new in it. Take down your
Gibbon and read of 100 Roosevelts
and more?only he called them Caesars?who
had changed the commonwealth
of Rome, that had some respect
for law, into despotism, that
knew no law except the will of a Tiberius,
or a Domitian.or a Caligula,
or a Trajan, or a Nero or a Probus.
And why should not Theodore
Roosevelt come to think himself in- .
fallible? If he would put out his
toe 10,000,000 American voters
would kiss it. If his mantle were <
in their reach, all of them would j
touch it, implicit in the faith that ?
virtue would issue out of it to them, 1
and the worst of it is that the Dem- s
ocratic party is full of voters who *
religiously believe such rot. That
is the misery of the whole business. *
If there wTere no Roosevelt Demo- j
cratsin the land, I would have some (
hope of my country. 1
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But let me get back. These Roose- j <
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velt eulogists have little to say of
Col Roosevelt's exploit of the "My
Dear Harriman" letter. What was
that letter? Harriman was the most
brilliant, the most adroit, the most
successful monopolist since Midas.
Judge Parker got'the information in
confidence that the trust would buy
the election for Roosevelt, as they
had for McKinley. Roosevelt made a
speech in which he denounced Parker
as a liar. When he made that
speech the ink was yet not dry on a
letter he had written Harriman,asking
for $250,000 boodle to buy the
electoral vote of New York, for that j
is what the letter meant, and all it
meant. Harriman raised the boodle,
all right and gave it.
And this is the man the American
peopi? to tail down ana
e .11 be the next Presiants
the job. He is thor3u0
vaded of his own infalli-1
bility a..- ..is utter incapacity to do i
wrong. Before he dies, he will be
firm in the opinion of his divine
right to rule this country, and then
ve will have the empire, unless?
1 would swim in the river to vote
:or Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 if I
vere assured that early in his third
idministration he would be confronted
with the difficulties that beset
Cleveland in 1893-97. Then we
vould see the yaller streak in him
onger than the comet's tail.? the
State.
"Sic Transit."
old subscriber ("may his tribe increase")
laid to his better half: "Wife, I'll take
a piece
)f this nice beef <h>wn to the editor,
5or more than a year he's been our
creditor?
^nd though they say his ilk livesonthe
air,
Jpon inv word. I solemnly declare
Tis a mistake! I'll also take a ham
\nd you niuy send some pickle> ami
some jam."
?o went the dream-but (alack and
alas!)
jike all my other dreams, it never
came to tass!
? The Jeffersonian.
state of Ohio,City of Toledo, 1
Lucas Counts I
Frank J Cheney makes oath that
le is senior partner of the firm of F
1 Cheney & Co,doing business in the
:ity of Toledo, county and State
iforesaid.ann that said firm will pav
he sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
for each and every case of
tatarrh that cannot be cured by the
lse of Hall's Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscrib'd
in my presence, this 6th day of
December, A D 1886.
A W GLEASON,
(Seal.) Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in-1
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>lood and mucous surfaces of the
ystem. Send for testimonials free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0.
Sold by all druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for contipation.
5 or 6 doses "666" will cure any
ase of Chills and Fever. Price 25c.
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Notice.
Candidates for the General Assembly
ind for county offices shall file with the
:hairman of the county executive comnittee
a pledge in writing to abide by
;he results of the primarv and to supx>rt
the nominee5 thereof. No vote for
iny candidate who has not filed this
jledge and paid his assessment shall be
ounted. This pledge must be filed and
die assessment paid to the t reasurer
lot later than Monday, Angust 15, at j
12 o'clock noon.
In addition to the alove pledge the
pledge required by act of the General
A.s*embly as to spending money or
using whiskey to influence his election
nust be filed^by each candidate with
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:wo pledges and for expense accounts
nav be obtained by applying to the
secretary personally, or by mail. If by
nail enclose two cent stamp.
P H Stoll, Chairman.
L: '.v Wolfe,
Sec'ty & Treas. G-30-4t
Notice to Candidates.
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:ommittee notice is hereby given that
the following assessments have been i
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M'veraloffices in the ensuing primary
.'lection, to wit:
State Senate $20; House of Reprelentatives
$15; Auditor $20; Road Engineer
$25; Treasurer $20; Superintendent
of Education $15.
It was agreed upon to request each
:andidate for Congress in the Sixth 3isrict
for a contribution of $10 for cam-1
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