The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1903-12-09
AGAINST ROOSEVELT.
The Leading Republican Paper in
Ohio Creates Sensation.
Cincinnati COMMEMORATIVE

OeASAAAh6N 1IAuuuNs
I'm the words Of the immortal Lincoln,
With malice toward none, with charity
for all, with frmness in the right simp-
~ and solely to advance the interests of
the party and to keep 1t upon the broad
road OF success; for the sake of the mill
liohs OF voters who seek no reward but
the establishment of their principles in
the Republic and who have Loyalty sup
ported the nominee Of the party; we call
upon our leaders throughout the Union to
awake. to arouse themselves and to pre-
pare Tor the closely contested conflict
tnat Will be waged next year. They owe
They owe It to themselves to, see that no
mistake is. made, no chances taken that
Will Invite defeat. .,
Political tides are not measured in
washington until waves of public senti-
ment have submerged other parts of the
country. The desire and wishes Of the
people have little effect upon the atmos-
phere of Senate or House until cod
wave or a hot blast has destroyed leg
OF Congressional districts. The soothing,
soporifc treatment Of continued re-elec.
ton and the pleasureable occupation OF
voting appropriations and distributing
tai anaesthetic and result too frequently
in sleeping DEATH even to eminent men.
The heroes of the Republican Party knew
no such howery beds of ease"
The editorial recites briefly the independ-
ent sentiments which Charles Sumner,
Thaddeus Stevens, Ben Wade, Oliver T.
Morton, and others rendered to the party
by their outspoken loyalty to the people,
continuing in this vein:
Surely. there are men in the Republic
can Party today as faithful and sincere
as those who have gone. before.
Why are they silent in this time of
dangerY
DO they not hear the murmurs of par
~ discomfort in New York, in Rhode Is
land, in Massachusetts, in Indiana, in
Kentucky, in the South, and in the West?
growing Republican anxiety as to the re-
suit of the Presidential election and the
fear for New York and other States?
Can they not perceive the massing of
the Democratic forces for the battle and
the approaching union of their discordant
factions? Why this sluggish supineness,
this lethargic slumber? Why this falter
ing speech, these hesitating tongues, these
cess when New York State Is mentioned?
Why this paralysis Of independence when
some plain, blunt man wishes to discuss
Presidential nominee?
"If the leaders forget, the voters will
remember, the relief In the New York
delegation when Mr.. Roosevelt was trans
ferred from the theater Of State politics
to the broader and stronger structure Of
the National stage.
1.-The anxiety then displayed to relieve
their State by beStotwtng Mr.. Roosevelt
on the nation Is not forgotten by hun
dreds of the delegates and thousands OF
Republicans who attended the Philadel-
phia convention. Is the Republican Party
in New York in better condition today
than it was in 1900? No! a thousand
times, no! and every thinking man is
aware of IT.
THE Republican Party cannot count
upon the New York Democrats in 1904
who supported Mckinley in 1900.
Have the New York antagonisms to
Mr.. Roosevelt which were so openly dis