The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1904-10-07

undOing much of the good wrought Dy
! the more temperate, man-loving re-
publican leaders from Grant to Nc
Kinley.
A man who can so hate the kindred
of his mother cannot by any chance
be a worthy man.
Theodore Roosevelt stands to-day
the one menace not merely to the
hopes of the southern people, but to
the interests of those northern people
who have invested money in the
south.
If he is elected president the act
will be a certain, though in many
cases the unconscious, signal for a
war of races, ruinous alike to the
north and the south. Why should the
good people of the north put this
scourge upon US? What have we
done to deserve it? Why should they
invoke it for themselves? Have not
all of us had trouble enough? Is not
the race question, unvexed by a man
like Theodore Observation-Disclosures he
be zealot, or demagogue-nOt difficult
enough even when left to normal con-
ditions? Do the conservative people
of the north want to give this belig-
erance carte-blanche to open Pando
ro's box in the south and let forth all
the furies of racial passiOn-ignO-
rance, barbarism and brutality
merely to glut his unnatural hatred Of
the white men and women of the
south, and to feed his Unsuitable am
bition?
Read his books; read his state pa
pers; read his letter of acceptance;
read the man as he is;never a CLEAN Of
magnanimity, never a thought of self
effacement; never a gentle word for
tottering age, never a helping hand
to the lOwly and the poor; every
where the. aggressive egotist, every
where the War-lord, fmplacable. Does
the north, with its varied, compli-
Gated interests, both national and in
ternational, want such a president?
Even if the war-spirit be dominant
at the north, why should such ca
lamity be put upon the south?
The politicians say we must not
talk thus. Why not? Have we not
given proof of loyal devotion? Are
we not a part of the sum total of-the
Must we bait breath because
this man is president? Must we hold
our tongue when we see ruin staring
us in the face?
The people of the south are like the
people of the north, Christian pee
pie They desire nothing that does
not become a patriotic people. They
ask nothing but justice. They can
not get it of the republican party, left
to it's own devices-least of all from
a destructive like Theodore RoOse-
welt, who has raised the black flag
over them, and if continued in power
will precipitate upon them horrors ri
vafing those of the period of recon-
beginning with renewed
section agitation and disturbance, to
end in the confagration of war of
races.
We do not believe, when the better
sense and Judgment of the voters of
the north come to bear upon all the
acts, tn at they will do it.
Under Parker, the iurist, we shall
have four years of repOse to look
about us and take account of our as
sets. Under Roosevelt, the promoter
of strife, the assailant Of old men, the
sectional bigot, the unsparing fanatic,
we may hope for nothing but corrup-
tions at home, complications abroad,
with nothing at tho end of them, and,
at the very best, but mammoth debts
and unequal taxes, the debts incurred
for the glorifcation of the president,
the taxes levied for the benefit of the
Trusts that keep him in power.
If there be any other issue of pith
and moment-of far-reaching i'm
portance-in the campaign before US,