Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-09-08
The Presidents Campaign Speeches.

%RBSIDENT ROOSEVELT is touring
IL the New England states at the
present time. 1t VIII require many
u trips TO complete the circuit and
he must take a running start, IL
seems. years ahead Of time. Perhaps he
knows his mountain stands strong and
he is not afraid OF anything the future
may produce TO upset the plans or mice
and men,.
II puts me in mind OF what Hon. A II.
Stephens used TO say Of an indefatigable
office seeker IN Georgia. whom I will not
name in this connection. Said the COM
moner: II see - has announced
again. He does beat all the world in his
attempts that subside in beginnings. He
can take more and longer running starts,
never TO be heard OF, after a nomination
than any man 1 ever knew in my life"
The president has the idea that trusts
are now unpopular That is one string on
his harp that he twangs with vehemence.
Maybe the big fellows have given him
liberty to sing this new song in a strange
land. for New England is as full of trusts
as it is full Of people.
Like an indulgent father. the boy can
play with toy pistols and harmless little
swapping waters. but they will see to IL
that the real weapons are kept out Of
''Teddyfs'' reach ard harms way. Teddy
is talking to the gallery gods" at the
present time To see the trustees Chave
I spelled il rightO smiling at Teddy on
the prancing horse, would seem as If they
liked a circus in politics as well as in
recreation; but they are not the originat-
Ors Of a novel fun scheme, where the
clown phys his whip and cracks 1t loudly,
when it is reasonably sure to hit nobody
and hurt nothing. The presidents cutlery
against trusts is a make-helieve.
Beelzebub a saint might be.
II judged by cowl or surplice-
but when Pennsylvania is convulsed from
stem to stern with her coal barons and re-
| bellious miners, which difficulty Hon.
Mark Hanna pronounces irreeoncilable
and beyond settlement; II should be sug-
gasted that Pennsylvania is a fine opening
| for the president in which to discuss the
/ trusts and what they amount TO in the
commercial world IL he can give them
some sound. sensible advice.
1t is tommyrot TO talk about curbing
| trusts that own all the political bonds
and stocks in the presidents political bus
] mess. and notice the president cautioned
/ the audience at concord. New Hampshire,
against acting Unexpectedly in denounc-
| ing trust evils. Said he. "let US set our
selves. but temporarily and with sanity,
to strive TO find out what the evils are
/ and TO remedy them. If any man tells
/ you that he can advance a specific for all
the evils Of the body polite. viii be made
to disappear. distrust him, for If he is
honest he knows not what he says"
Exactly so, Mr.. President We distrust
such trust doctors. We can give you
name that fits them. il you want IT, but
II might be held as a personal application,
/ 50 we will wait until you ask for it,
don't call that mild prescription an at
tack on trusts. I should call II a poultice
to keep the hurting place warm and COM
Portable. 1t brings to mind the careful
mothers direction 10 her daughter who
| was ambitious to become a swimmer.
when you go out to learn to swim.
Be careful. darling daughter;
Hang your clothes on a swinging limb,
And don't go near the water"
Teddy talks fairly well on the most Of
/ subjects but his temperate attack on
/ trusts might smell like fish and taste like
| fowl, so far as I can decide on the kind
| OF meat he dished up for the people at
! Corcord. and which he calls a trust at
| tack.
But when the president praises the
/ grand army he rises to the heighth of the
/ argument. He is not then temperate and
/ hardly sane in his conclusions. But to
/ you alone (soldiers) IL was given to face
/ with victorious valor the one crisis in
4 which not merely the nations well being.
/ but the nations life was at stake. To
Il you IL was given to solve the one problem,
/ which II not solved Alright, meant death
for our people"
Pray tell me what sort OF death does
his excellency Gllude to In this connec-
/. ton? We had superfiuity OF real death
| during the civil war Nobody was protec-
ted from death by the Yankee army that
| / knew anything about, even by exchange
| of prisoners. With all Difference to the Of
fee Mr.. Roosevelt occupies, that sort Of
stun is simple balderdash and poppycock
| When 1 think Of the Hessians-that raw
| aged my poor refugeed home and turned
my one barrel OF -four into the filth and
wet dirt of the backyard-when they had
/ all they wanted TO eat I'm camp and sup
! plemented that want by shooting my
chickens in the same yard and even car
! rying of the eggs that the hens were
| sitting on TO hatch; fail to see the halo
| OF glory that the president talks about.
or the aroma of patriotism that he dis
covers in some of his grand army folk.
| The president was consistent when he
| turned his face away from the Boer dele
cation that came TO the city of Washing
| ton last summer. The English government
simply battered nearly all the liberty
seekers in South Africa TO death by force
OF numbers. The British might as well
boast that they preserved the Beers from
death" when the battering process end
ed in exhaustion and well-nigh extermina-
ton.
The president thinks Sherman and
/ Grant and Lincoln made permanent the
work OF Washington. Of Marshall and
| their compeers."
What stuff and nonsense! Washington
and Marshall were southern folk
| TO the marrow OF their bones. Both
were slave holders and had no more
to do with the results OF the civil war
/ than his grandpappy Bullock in making a
| rearing cantankerous abolitionist out of
| Teddy. whose mother was Miss Bullock,
| OF Georgia.