Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-01-24
THE. PRESIDENTS NEW POLICY.

He has been told that the present he
publican political heads in the South
do not favor the acquisition OF goot
men as members of that party, lest th,
new infusion of blood loses them con-
troll. For this reason they seek ne
converts, desire none, in fact repel al
such, leaving them and the negro to
constitute the whole Republican or
g2nization in that quarter. AS an evi.
dence of this Gen. Rosser Is cited. He
is thought. on this account. to have
met with very cold and dreary re-
ception when he recently laid aside
his mantel Of Populism and put on
that of Republicanism. 1t Is likely
that the Republicans may regard Gen.
Rosser as masQuerading in false colOrs,
or as wolf in sleeps clothing. But
as Gen. Rosser has masquerade in all
the colors of the rainbow, this accusa-
tion may or may not be well support
ed, unless, perhaps, any color as to
him IL false. Gen. Rosser's coat, like
Joseph 3, has been of many colors, be
has sat by all f1resides, he has been
member SO far as we Can learn of all
known political parties, and as many
Others have done the same thing, the
81 ad hand on this account should not,
we think, be entirely denied him.
During his brief and checquered career,
he has not occupied two positions at
one and the same time, so far as we
have been able to learn, but he has
summersauIted so fast at times, that
his exact garb could not be well dis
tinguished. He was not a Rebel and
a Yankee at one and the same period,
but he came very near being. When
Gems. Fitz Lee and Joe Wheeler for
the first time put aside their suits of
grey to put on those Of blue, in our
Spanish war, the news threw him into
caniption fits. When he beheld these
two old Confeds logged in U. S. mill
tarY regalia, he went into spasms Of
the worst possible character, and only
became calm and lucid when he him
self, in less than thirty days after these
paroxisms, allowed his own manly
form to be encased in garments Of the
same hue and fashion. After all he
had said of President Mckinley about
that time, or little previous, it seem |
ed strange to many that he should |
have accepted a commission at such
hands, and stranger still that blue
coat could have been forced on him. |
B ut those who thought these things
strange, seem not to have known or
I ully appreciated the versatility Of bis
character. When little after that be
was seen plunging headlong into the
Republican fold, as stray sheep when
pursued by wolves, and when shortly
thereafter he humbIed himself in a
round robin" to the now President
Roosevelt, the public was not so much
surprised, in fact not at all startled at
the very sudden change Of heart, or
p rofessed change Of heart, because
they then began to see In Gen. Rosser
many capabilities they had hitherto
denied him. But that his cold recep-
ton by his new political brethren in
Virginia should have inspired the
president with new policy, and given
e. ound for an entire change in the
m anagement Of Southern politics. is
almost Incredible. We doubt whether
any set OF politicians anywhere would
have acted differently toward Gen.
Rosser. We dol know that when the
Congressional bee buzzed few years
ago in Gen. Rosser's bonnet, and he
rushed headlong into the Democratic
psrty there was, according to his own
no loud acclaims nor uni
Tersal rejoicing. We hope. however,
hat he may be more successful In re-
salning his present friends than be has l.
been in the past. He fell out with
lis old Confederate comrades In arms
n this town, when the Confederate re-
lnion took place here. He has shaken u
learly all those who were once his
blowers and devoted companions, u
nd in taking on new ones be has not .
'een particularly happy. In holding .
n to friends generally he has been :. "
lat failure. II, therefore, tho presi- " "
emit is guided by so versatile genius, u
this very versatile person. there will LII
e great Democratic rejoicing here
bouts. 1t is the "old Republicans
he Democrats are apprehensive tt
T. not the new, recruits whom the tC
resident Is showering favors upon. 81
nd whom he thinks may become lead T
70, and about whom the better Gle. n,
lent Of white people in the South a.,
ill he thinks, cluster az the Ivy to lie
40 oak. One thing, however, is Ger er
lin, should the president turn the hi
mcial spoils entirely over to those tr
HON Gen. Rosser and his associates be
Virginia dictate, he will create a ia
enc similar to that witnessed when di
lere are waggle tails In rain barrel is
here will be summersaulting in, and ella
lmmersa ulting out, by lot of the &C
easiest otlce seekers possible to i'm. we
Inc. The effect will be absolutely flu,
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