The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-30

| The1r Just HOnOrG-DOing His Best
to Awaken Sectional Differences.
The Deluded GIObe-DemOcrat-SOl
Delegation from Texas So c. A.
TOwne's Mental Observation-Disclosures
licans ON the Run - Repeaters
Flocking to West Virginia.
Especial Washington Letter.
Palsied be the hand that draws the
bloody shirt from it's dishonored grave
and waves it in the face Of the Ameri-
can people to stir up strife! That's
my sentiment, and it comes warm from
my heart. And that is precisely the
ghoulish caper that Governor Roose-
welt is now cutting before high heaven.
For this culpable and inexcusable per-
Torrance he deserves and will receive
the execration of all honest and patri-
otto men. No human being has had
such an astounding case Of big head
since Napoleon the Great died on his
sullen isle amid storm which rocked
the world to its foundations, murmur-
Ing. 'Tete darmeew The immortal
Corsican had q right to be an egotist.
He had accomplished marvellous things,
but Teddy's achievements, both in
peace and in war, are mere bagatelles.
Thackeray says that George Nv had
kniGhted so many people for heroism
on the field and had presented so many
banners to returning regiments during
the Napoleonic wars that he finally be-
came "luny" on the subject and con-
cluded that he, under the name and
style Of Colonel Brock, had led a ire
mendous charge of the Scotch high
landers at Waterloo. Teddy seems to
! labor under the same sort of hallucina-
ton. He appears to think that he was
the whole thing during the Spanish
war. He not only, single handed and
alone, conquered the dons by land. but
he is responsible for Dewey's amazing
victory at Manila. Teddy was the Car
not Of that immortal deed and organ
lied that victory, to hear him tell the
tale. If he keeps on, he will finally
conclude that he captured Vicksburg,
conquered at Gettysburg and compelled
Lee at AppomattoX.
The Man Who Blows HIS Horn.
Mark Twain said, Blessed Is the
man who bloweth his own horn, lest
| 1t be not blown. Teddy must have
read that bit of sarcastic philosophy
written by the great Missouri humor-
list. and not only has he taken it to
heart. but adopted it as the rule and
guide of his faith and practice, for as
| suredly no man of this generation has
| SO exalted his own horn. lie blows it
long, loud and on all occasions. But that
is veniaI sin, if sin it be, and Injuries
no one except his fellow soldiers Of
honors justly due them. But dragging
the bloody shirt out of it's tomb for per-
sonal political reasons is the sin nnpor-
donable against the American people.
BY SO doing Colonel Roosevelt not only
writes himself down as q Cheap John
demagogue, but as a pestilent disturb
er of the public peace.
Two Kinds OF Republicans.
There are Republicans and Republic
ans. Seventeen times this summer I
had joint discussions with Hon. Jona-
than Prentiss Dolliver, the new sena-
tor from Iowa. Always in enumerat-
| ing the benefits Of the Spanish war
| he placed among them "a reunited
country" and that item always provok-
ed applause Now comes the vaporing
egotist from Oyster Bay and knocks
that prop out from under Brother Dol
liver. If Teddy is right, Jonathan is
wrong, and there is no reunited coun-
| try" If Jonathan is correct, Teddy
is malignant enemy Of his country
| who for personal gain seeks to re-em-
broil the various sections of the coun-
try against each other. OF course it
was none Of my business, except in
the most general way, but from the
bottom Of my heart wish that Dolli-
yer had received that vice presidential
nomination instead of Roosevelt.
Should Mckinley be elected by any
chance - though it looks like to
l shot against him - and should he
die and Roosevelt succeed, he will
bend all his energies to reintroducing
the era of hate, which would be the
greatest calamity that could befall the
country, which God forbid!
There IS one day that have always
loved to think about, and that is the
Sth Of March. 1893 when the house of
representatives. without a man miss
ing-Democrats. Republicans, Populists
anG free silverites-performe the most
stuperdous aCt Of confidence witnessed
among men since the morning stars
first sang together for joy by giving in
to the hands of the president without
condition and without reserve $50,0OO,-
600 to be used for the public defense.
"FrOm morn to noon, from noon to
dewy eve," eloquence - patriotic elo-
quence-was on tap in the house Of
representatives that day. 1t gushed
like geyser; it overflowed the audi
ence: it enthused the American people.
We thought for sure that we had re-
united country that day. but now comes
Roosevelt to labor necessarily to en-
gender bad blood. He ought to be COM
PEELED to commit to memory all the
patriotic speeches delivered in the