The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-13

mcnt, il cannot be pronounced that
he has been endorsed by the tremen-
dous majority he received at the polls
except in a certain way with certain
understanding or appraisement of the
man Roosevelt as a leader of the Re-
publican party For instance, it is not
to be supposed the people thought
he was wholly reckless or lacking in
necessary moderation. Admitting
something on this score, the voters
voted for Roosevelt believing that he
had dash and popularity, shows quail
tiles overcoming any positive disquali-
fications. In other words, the Amer
lean people like man the type of
Roosevelt. just as they liked man
Of the somewhat different type of
Jackson. They admire the assertive,
the strenuous rather than the prosive,
the judicial Andrew Jackson over
John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roose-
welt in preference to Alton Parker. But
it must be admitted that Adams had
some of Jackson's nervous infirmity.
And Parker exhibited in the last
round a shade Of the strenuousness
of his opponent.
The two leading features Of the
result of Tuesday really though not
apparently. are Cd the materialistic
tendency of the times: CD the cor
ruptions of our politics by the large
contributions of trusts and other mon
ey interests in the great centres. These
interblend. The trusts are merely a
symptom, severe symptom. of the
decay of personal and political recti-
tude i'm our country The commercial
ism, or stark materialism of the day
is the most notable sign of the age.
1t stamps it all over with the brand
Of Beelzebub, or rather Mammon. Sell
fishness has always existed among in
divduals and among nations, but the
selfishness Of our generation, ! believe,
is sui generis. 1t Is sordid, despotic,
outrageous, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Of
all psychic elements, divesting bust
ness of soul and the individual man,
race or nation possessed by it of hope.
Selfishness will always exist until
Shiloh come" Nothing but Christ's
personal reign in the hearts Of men
can make them altruistic. We need
not wait for ideals to be realized, but
also we need not despise ideals that
serve to lift up the human soul and
arouse to loftier action the human in
strumentalities Of good in the world,
both i'm private and in public life. The
Republican party being the incarna-
ton in politics Of all that is pluto
cratic In practice and timocratic in
theory and form, received at the late
election the votes of thousands who
have not heretofore called themselves
Republicans. Except here and there
the Bryan element did not vote either
for Roosevelt or Watson but the
well-satisfied Democrat who believes
in the LASER faire doctrine, the man
who dislikes the plain. common peo-
pie. voted for the Republican electors
II was due to Parker's fierce and JUS
titled assaults on the trusts. Then the
trusts used q large fund collected for
the purpose in corrupting voters
These, conspiring with other causes
produced the astonishing result of
last Tuesday No one thing could have
produced it, IT was combination
Of causes that effected such a result
i'm such a way. Thousands of old
Democrats, other thousands Of young
Democrats-these were found should
er to shoulder in the ranks of pluto
cratic Republicanism, the youth
caring more for RooseVelt'S athletic
ism.
the oldsters for the Republican party s
sordid policies. SO we go. The age is
out of joint We are on the eve of
a great socialistic upheaval. The
American Gracious lis at the tribunate
serving the people in warnings. The
time is past for compromises with
the trust magnates. The President
and his party are friends of the
trusts. They will not be seriously
prosecuted. The people are bound
to appeal, not to Caesar, but from
him, if there be a power in this land,
as there was not in Rome, higher than
Caesar. One election may not decide
every thing. There viii be other cleo
tons, further opportunities for the peo-
pie to Assert themselves against their
oppressors, the trusts-the beef trust,
the bread trust, the steel trust and
all the others. VIII they stand up
for their rights? That is the supreme
question of moment today.
Mr.. w. w. Long, of Warren, said
today that the Bryan Democrats were
not the cause of Parker's defeat, be-
cause in New York city where there
were few Of them, there was as big
a slump almost as anywhere else.
Mr.. Long is a Cleveland or conserva-
tive Democrat, as is wen known.