Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-04-28
BISHOP SCORES ROOSEVELT.

The Rt. Rev. Benjamin J. Kelley,
Catholic Bishop OF Savannah, was the
Decoration Day orator OF the Confed'
crate veterans of Savannah this year.
He spoke Saturday night to the veter.
ans and their friends st the guards
hall. His address was upon conven-
tionsl lines until near the end, when be
said. after paying a tribute to the mem
OF Jefferson Davis:
ut is true that the gentleman who
now happens to sit in the Presidential
chair at Washington has written oil
President Davis: Before Jefferson
Davis took his place among arch trail
tors, etc., it was not unnatural that 10
dishonesty he should add treachery to
the public. The moral difference be-
tween Benedict Arnold, on the one
baud, and Aaron Burr and Jefferson
Davis on the other. Ia the difference
between q politician who sells his vote
for money and one who supports a
bad measure to get a high politicai
position
"When Mr.. Davis was living, and q
prisoner, fellow named Miles placed
shackles on him ip prison, though
there was no necessity for 1t, and nc
one but a brute would have done 1t.
But 1 have never heard that Miles
after Mr.. Dayis's death, brutally malign'
ed his character-that species of en-
venomed malice was reserved for the
recreant son of o southern woman
the Rough Rider Of republican politics
ct the accideucy of 1902-tne lightning
change artist OF the White House, who
can hobnob with the Kaiser's brother
and sit cheek by jowl with an Alsbams
negro; who can indulge In meaningless
plstitudes while in the South on the
bravery and common heritage o.
southern heroes, and deDouDce them
before the Grand Army es anarchists
who can profess a broad American
spirit which brands sectionalism as
crime, and lsuds the loyalty to the
constitution and reunited country oil
the veterans OF 1S61-'65, while the
damnipg evidence of his own written
word shows that he compared the
mobiles! Roman OF them slP-Jetierson
Dsvis-to q Benedict Arnold.
Jefferson Davis was statesman, q
soldier, and q man OF high character, Q
Senator, Cabinet offlcer,a President
not put in Office by q bullet, but by o
ballot. Theodore Roosevelt's title to
immortal fame will rest on shooting
beasts and prohtiDg by the murderous
act OF q reprobate who shot man.
THE revolutionary, uuconstitutionsl
and subversive tendencies OF the aboli
ton or republican patty are as evident
today as they were forty-odd years ago
Their sniYeling and Pecksniffian hypoc'
risy with regard to Cuba-whioh they
il tend to annex-is only surpassed BY
their atrocous treatment Of the Fill
pinos, upon whom they are forcing q
system which the people do not desire
They have sought TO degrade US by
placing our former slaves on q pollti'
cal level with us, and foistng such on
us as Federal officeholdeIs. The pres
ent occupant OF the the chair OF Wash
iugton, Jefferson, Madison, Jackson
aye, and Cleveland-is Familiarity and
properly known by the sobriquet the
Rough Rider His only claim to fu'
ture fame or notoritty will be, l sim
cerely trust. that he broke up the re-
publican party.
"But on the war and its issues
we do not wish to be misuuder'
stood. We have nothing to retrsoli
nothing to apologize for. We are
bearing onT shaTs q the h bpTdent
We have not profted much, fear me, BY
the lessons taught us-by the yearly incIess-
ing legions of patriots in blue, who thirty
seven years after the war yet manage to drag
their weary bodies to the Pension office and
draw $40, 100000 from the Treasury. Oui
ideas OF patriotism do not seem to be OF the
came order.
"But we have set spsrt day to recall the
memories Of the past and drop tear over the
graves Of our heroes. From our poverty we
have raised modest shafts in village and city
ell over the South, which tell in Language
better than e'er fell from human lips how VIC
treasure the memory and honor the brave
deeds of our own"