Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1904-11-03
BILL DOOLY'S LETTER
Bill Douley Treats the Subjects He
Discusses According 10 His Own
Views, and May or May Not
Reflect the Opinion Of the
News Which Are Express
ell in It's Editorial
Columns Only.

This Is election year and the cam
paign Is now on In earnest | have al
ways refrained from writing anything
Of political nature knowing as do
that there are good many that would
like.to give my correspondence a few
jolts in the short ribs. and another reas-
on is the best friends have on earth
are democrats, and what am going to
say will not do harm TO the Democra is
that are of the true blue stripe.
Democracy in its pure and undeflled
stage 10 the stuff that we would all be
willing to be governed by.
Some say there are two yings to the
Democratic party. and this what am
going to talk about. There is but one
sort of democrat that is the sort that
advocates the true principles Of demo-
crazy as it was Intended it should be.
The sort that Thomas Jefferson advoca-
ted, the sort that all the old patriots
advocated, the sort that can be relied
on as being honest and will keep the
promises made to voters after they are
elected, the sort that would not have
an Office obtained by fraud, the sort that
opposes ballot box stuffing the sort that
is in favor of the man that is elected
being allowed to serve the term of
such Office as the law Directs
Any one claiming to be a democrat
and don't come up to this standard Is not
democrat at all, and If he ever was he
has apostacized and strayed after
strange gods.
There are some newspapers edited by
weak minded Weary Willies whose edi-
torial columns look more like the work
of some school boy of twelve than
man of sense. ALI they can say is some
thing disrespectful about the republi-
cans.
Such men are not democrats or any
4. thing else except stock.
/ There is hardly any republican that
don't vote for democrats when they
know they are good men and then to
hear themselves called d-n niger low
ers and black republicans, and say
through the columns of their papers
what they would no more say on the
street than they would jump in the fire.
Men of this class do the good demo
Gratis more harm than good. If such
men as these would have less to say
about niger equality it would help de-
mocraoy great deal more than it does
to be always singing equality to men
who have forgotten more than they ev-
er knew.
see in dirty little sheet called the
Hornet printed in North Caroline the ex-
preston of anarchy, and still it has the
gall to claim peace and cuss mob vIo-
lence.
The political parties have held their
conventions and nominated their candi-
dates, dohued their platforms and made
their several appeals to the voters for
their pport the Sth of November Elk
eept on such questions as those of the
tariff and finance the parties differ buJ
little, and we may assume perhaps that
Judge Parkar's codicil to the 81. Louis
platform commits democracy to the
principles Of sound money.
But the real issue is a personal one.
Shall President Roosevelt be continued
in office for four years more is the wat
cry. Anything to beat Teddy is sound
ed not only by extremists in the south
but also by all the defenders of monop-
DIV, plutocracy throughout the country.
| l., 20 DNt n 90 p m. u fnr no huOxn the
power Of the coal barons two years ago.
He aid sacriligious hands on the trusos
he is an enemy Of society because he IN
vitcd man whose skin was not white
to lunch al tho house belonging TO I'm
Gle Sam. lie is q mil tari5t and usurp
err because he sanctioned for the goJc
of al the world and especially the uni
ted States Central American revolu'
zion without burning an ounce OF pow
der or shedding drop of Blood by ma
, king possible the construction Of u Pan
anna canal he did in one day what The
civilized world had failed to do in 4Ot
years. By it also he eliminated forever
the last vpstige of England's preten
Jlons N shat dire elton.
q The democratic platform demands tht
complete separate of church. and STATE
in political affairs, This, we presume,
is intended as cenSure of the president,
action in the PHILIPPINES, What wa
that action? ItWas his acceptance 0
the cooperation Of tho Catholics in
settling the long-veXed question Of the
friers and the Filipino people. NJ
difficult more problem ever confronted
president of the United States and non,
was ever solved SO promptly or 50 WISE
ly,
The democratic platform accuses tht
republican platform Of being spasmodt C
! sensational, erraLic. spectacular and ar
bitrarg. OF all th Sc terrible adjrc
tivcs there is only one fortified by al
| Illustration, viz, the arbitrary exrcu
I i've order by which the president ad
! drd few veterans Of 81 years and ovel
/ to the disability list OF pensionpr.
/ thereby burdenng every taxpayer witt
| a charge of 30 cents per annum o
1 there a60uts.
/ Why should the common people be a
/ fraid 10 trust their liberties to such mel
/ as Roosevelt who is deemed unsafe b,
/ every nide-bound upholder of class ant
other distinction.
1t may be some generations to com
4 before tue the American people will b
Il ashamed of the hideOus color prejudic
OF today as We are ashamed Of the vito
Z burners Of colonial days ami the churc
& burners Of kuownothing days but W
] can az least refrain from endorsing To