The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-27
NOT AGAINST THE TREATY
Democrats Merely Desire Wa
 terway HonOrably obtained.
President Roosevelt Anxious for the Good VIII of the South and is Glad of clamor for
 Ratification.
Advertiser Bureau. Colorado Building,

Wa6uAUHt0As LUG. 6us Prone to back his words by his deeds. everybody who has contemplated the man will accord to President Roosevelt tho courage as well as the zeal of his c0nvie- tions. Sensitive to impulse. he is equally sensitive to criticism. The almost Whole- sale criticism to which he has been sub- jected from the South has unmista<ably in recent months cut Mr. Roosevelt to the quick. He has wrought with tirsiess | energy in his 'quick forge and working house of thought" for some instrument prejudice and In some fashion captivata. the general Southern mind. It is within the last ten days that words have come straight from the White House. passed through the mouths of Southern visitors there. that Mir. Roose- welt was the fiIend Of the South. true friend of the South. It is unmistalzabls now that he deems that he has found q way to win favor in the South. Southern Appreciation. His fiatterers are at least handing him the honor of Southern approximation. It has come with the birth of the Republic of Panama and Mir. Roosevelt sees reflected from sanguine Southern minds whole arr gosies weighted to the guards with treas- ure for Southern ports and all the South ern interior sounding with awakened in- dustries speaks of prosperity. with an all together doxoigy and amen for Roosevelt in particular.
 But with all the efforts of the admin istration to gain popular Southern appro- val of it's course in the Panama afTaIrs some of its friends in Washington. are growing distinctly superviseahle. The Eyening Star, in to-day's issue, ais in sew eral other attempts to represent the tTue situation. pictures the Southern Demo- cratic senators In q panic becanse ai alr legged wholesale demand pf business mpn and bustness institutions that they vote for the Hayr Narllla treaty.
 ygnahknKson Star Glimfs. Says the Star this evening: Seeing the approaching cyclone of pnhr 1 lie disapproval of opposition to the treaty. they (the senatorsI are making tracks for their cyclone cellars.
 The truth Is there are very few Demo- cratic senators in Washington just now and barring Senator coclxrell. those who are here are not at all reconciled with any showing yet made by the administra- ton in its own Justification. The most conservative of them may be said to oc- cupy the position of Senator Clay that the Hoar resolution is the proper way to get the essential truth as to the conduct of administration.
 If the Star is to be credited. leading ad-
 
 with first hand information from the in side, often typewriter and prepared In the White House the administration, # gentler arts of persuasion prove ineifec- tive, will try it's hand at a bit of terror ism. which winch stated and looked full in the face will be discerned as grand blun.
 "The Republicans say" observes Tha Star, that the Democrats will be forced to stand in the open either as professed advocates of the canal or alleged allies of the transcontinental railroad interests that are still fighting the canal
 Part of the Program.
 Tt is distinctly part of the Roosevelt program to play the railroad opposition racket for all it Is worth. thinking that will be particularly effective in the South.
 Any statement that there has been a change in the sentiment of Democratic senators since the adjournment for the holidays, Is utterly without foundation in fact. There is no excitement, no panic and no disposition to run away from their insistence that the administration give an account of all of it's transactions respecting it's dealings under the spoon- CT act and every other executive per- formance which has had to do with tho so-called Republic of Panama.
 There has been no caucus action on the treaty because 1t has not been a question before any Democratic or other caucuA Those who have hastened to demand a vote for the Panama canal are not .n- formed of the facts, nor Is the treaty making branch of Congress, the Senate, informed of the facts
 The Stand of German.
 The Democratic position. as contended for by Senator German. who has not ops posed the Panama canal as a feasible and practicable enterprise. is that Pres ident Roosevelt has abused his executive powers in a most dangerous degree. and that very fact entirely Justifies the de- mand for more light.
 There is an invariable and unqualified disposition among all Democrats--becausa all Democrats want an fsthmian canal-- to a1EUrd the administration every possi- ble opportunity to void itself of suspt- cion and put the great national enter prise into such shape as that 1t will be embraced with national enthusiasm and pride and not sought to be consummated upon the assumption that, however ques- tionable may be means, the end will be justified. R. H. Watkins.