The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-11-16
AFTER ELECTION IN WASHINGTON.
Some Of the Things That the Poli.
ticians Find to Talk Ab0ut--.Re-
publican and Democratic EX-
PLANTATION of the Landslide.

EIS0GllGy. 4sN%SS III LIE kiS14O1S -. obS
National Congressional Committee OF
She Democtatlc party ia the Riggs
House when tia Tres hrst began 70
buzz. CONGRESSMAN Cowher5, chair
man Of the committee. held the aoor
his usual bnoyane temper, and
Ealked pand down reading alnGd the
sispatches handed Go him. 81 8 had
inst raSne6ed from. tie West where he
had found own Kansas City dis
svics ali right and secure" and had
discovered shae Missouri ought TO
rive 10000 fog Parker. Even before
the returns began 90 come IN he, was
Seeling Ferg sore because the party
had not backed up his Committee and
when q dispatch said that Pennsylva-
MA would send 20 Congress one Demo
crae and thlrsy-oEe Republicans he
cane as near profanity rs he ever
does, and told the hundreds OF friends
Sssenbled round him that bis com
aitsee had not received single dollar
from the atienal committee during the
Ssmpaign and that the members bad ia
kec $500 out ofstheir own pockets to
pay for the only printing they had
been able to get. The declaration eaus-
Sd grave faces. sharp comment, and
Haany expressions Of sympathy, es-
socially when is vas announced that
Cogherd had been overthroWn in his
own. district because he had been COM
pslIed to be present in Washington.
lie is very popular IN the House,
ane Of the shreWdest, readiest, mcst
active and enterprising members,
chosen ont OF the entire body because
scf his political sagacity.
The causes of the landslide to Rocse-
Tels?-for there are many. Yuu can
iadge as well as your correspondent
can There seem to be in the United
states about eighty million opinions
% this subject. ] asked prominent
Republican yesterday for his diagnos-
IS. ssWeli," he said, 'sby his saga
cious action. Roosevels made himself
solid with the Catholics, she Hebrews,
tie negroes, and the union labor vote.
He rushed the Panama business
through, and, Wbether right or wrong,
the people like q man who does things.
The normal Republican vote on Tues
day Wss reinforced by million men
who want the President always TO
carry chip on his shoulder and who
WilIEback him upto any extent.
g And all the people cried ssCnlpe,
brother! !! Your one good term deserves
another.'
Senator jones seen at his residence
here says it was the alleged prosperity
that carried the dsy,-the people that
have money and the people who hope to
get money. To this was added the
6sIaigerapt feeling which has prevail
ed in the United States for the last
SIX years, filing the streets with boys
In uniform and sending to the poles
an army of perverted Democrats will
ing 20 follow to any conquest Theo-
dore the king of the Northern Goths.
a Republican friend of mine insists
that every lynchiDg anywhere IN the
United States cost the Democrats at
the polls on Tuesday ten thousand
votes. But thipk be is. dreaming.
The Presidents formal declaration
Shst underlno circumstances would he
be candidate for reelection is receiv-
ed here at par as sincere aVowal. It
seems little hasty and premature.
but it is justike the impulsive Roose-
Eels. The fact, however remains that
President of the United States is no
longer che arbiter of his owu destiny,
and he is liable so be seized by eulo-
gists auo hunkeys and dragged. into
the White House again even against
Els own protest. What be will do our
inc these next four YEATS nobody can
tell. He can 50 cenaset himself as to
promote upive rsaI ,eharrnony. amity
and peace: or be can adont a policy
which will make his name synon-
ym cf aggression and conquest, and
bysug the republic to the verge OF
ruin. He should be kept straight by
the copsci ousne>s that TIT ey, s of the
wesld are upon hin.
-aTbe numerous trcnze gentleman on
horseback that lresiue over the
SQUARES sud circles in this CITY are te
receive an illnstsious reinforcement
in che person of solitary pedestrian
IN military uoilorm of foreign and
ansiouased aspect. whose metallic
counterpart wilt be unveiled in the
grounds Of the new War College uezt
Saturday. Toese ara hetter know as
4hs Arsnael Grounds, but duling the
last two or three years long row Of
limestone villas has been erected here
fer the use of officers and fronting
them or the other side of the park are
being built very cou prehensive and
substantial barracks, adequate to all
emergencies. The parsonage TO mount
the pedestal is Frederick the great,
oaa hand rests en- his SWORD. .hilt. aud
the other carries cane-perhsps the
very cane that bis father belabored
him with when the youth was caught
IN mis- boyisb pranks; perhaps the
very sword that he flung away at the
battle of Moliwitz when he found re-
fuge in a barn ten miles from the
saselefeld: perhaps the very cooked
hat which he wore when he sold
Heslians to George III to conquer the
american colonies withal. Our fore
fathers tore down. the statute of
George III to conquer th, American
colonies withal Our forefathers tore
down the statue of George III in New
York City and moulded it into bullets
On shat occasion; bat this statute of
frederick, presented by the Emperor
b. ono norNoro ~ q