The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-05
xn. ROOSEVELT AND THE SOUTH

affair is very much to be regretted.
 HR. ROOSEVELT AND THE SOUTH The following is part of the Washing ton special to The Chicago Tribune of Thursday:
 This system of graveyard insurance as applied to practical politics has been ex- tensively tried in the South. Every one of the Southern Republicans now in of- flee has asserted either personally or by proxy that he had been guaranteed re- tention' in his place either by President Mckinley in person or else by Senator Hanna as his political and personal rep resentative.> The game has been played to the limit. and President Roosevelt has
 decided to take matters into his own hands.
 He will not recognize vague promises made long ago, nor, indeed. will he con-
 slider anything except a positive promise made by President Mckinley, either to & cabinet officer or a Senator and of recent date. Furthermore, President Roosevelt is contemplating a plan of campaign in the South which will shake up the old barnacles. He is considering the advisa- bility of appointing reputable Democrats to federal offices here and there in the South and giving the cold shoulder to the mossback Southern Republicans. who have never been of the slightest good to the party and have remained faithful the patronage.
 President Roosevelt Is turning toward the sound money protectionists in the South. and he has asked Clark Howell to come here to discuss the situation with him. It is believed the President also intends to ask the advice of two or three conservative Democratic Senators in the Gnrfh Hka Mnr0an and MnE.narv and then submit the whole scheme to three or four Northern Senators like Allison, Spooner. Proctor and Cullom4
 The good people of the South of all classes will rejoice that President Roose- welt is thinking of ignoring the so-called Republican organization of this section, and of making the best appointments he
 possibly can in the interest of the public service. He has always been an ardent champion of civil service reform, and as a member of the Civil Service Commis- sion some years ago. he must have had his eyes opened very fully to the situa- | ton of his party in the South.
 Great things are to be expected of Mir. Roosevelt on general principles. For some years it has been clear that there
 was no man in the Republican national
 leadership who was his superior in the combination of brains and character. He
 has clear perceptions. strong sagacity,
 great self-reliance and an admirable
 sense of duty. He Is going to be a posi-
 tive quantity in the Chief Executive office very much on the order of Mir. Cleve-
 land He will have convictions of his
 own as to policies. methods and men, and
 he will have abundant courage to carry them out. We would not, in the light | of this conception of the man. be sur
 prised to see him appoint to the vacant
 federal judgeship in this State some lead ing Democrat, admirably fitted in mind.
 attainments and character for its im-
 portant duties. The President Is likely to
 pay little heed to the oligarcley of Re-
 publican office holders in this State no
 one of whom has the breadth and bottom
 really required.
 There is one thing, however, in The
 Tribune's special that Is amusing. The
 idea of Mr. Roosevelt's turning to MT.
 Howell as one of the sound money pro-
 tectionists of the South" is absurd. The
 editor of The Constitution has been one
 of the rankest free-silverites in all this
 section. He worshipped as devoutly at
 the shrine of Mir. Bryan as any man in | all this country, both personally and
 editorially. Nor has MP. Howell been 1 much more of a protectionist than a
 sound-money man. His paper has for
 years been squarely on the regular Party
 platforms, no matter what they were. and
 when has there been any Protection plank in a national Democratic plat Samuel J. Randall and his faction in the
 Party, but that was before MT. Howell became its managing editor.
 The Tribune's article has simply gotten | a wrong idea of the Editor of The Con- stitution. It does him a great injustice.
 Nevertheless we hope he has visited the | President and has told him all the truth
 about Southern Republicanism which he so well knows. It is bound to be of
 benefit to the President and to the South |
 | We are always learning something, and one of the latest pointers comes from
 sleepy old Philadelphia. A man was shot
 at by an assassin. but escaped injury and on examination it was found that the
 bullet was stopped by package of
 bank bills, amounting to $31 ,OOO, which the
 man carried in his breast pocket. The
 moral is this Is that you should never
 go out without thick package of bank
 bills protecting your vital regions. l -S--S--
 A contemporary wants to know what