The copper era., 1904-11-24
WATTERS0N'S VAIL.
The Great Southern Editor Takes it
 AwfGIIy Hard.

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 Under the heading. What is it and What Next?" Henry Watter,on, editor of the Louisville Courier pub. fishes the following aa the first chap ter of d three column editorial:
 "Even as the republicans in 1894. under Jefferson established the reason of their being and con firmed their power, do the republicans in 1901. under Theodore, Roosevelt, carry all before them, leaving their beaten political adversary, as an organized body, nothing ], hope for and yet the republication of Jefferson en- bodied the cause of the many as against the claims of the few. while the republication of Theodore Roosevelt embraces the claims of the Few against the cause of the Many.
 "This sounds paradoXical, yet it is strictly true, and it marks the differ cncc which q century of history has wrought in American conditions"
 "Thcodorc Roosevelt, and his i'm mediate political family, are feder- alists of the school of Alexaneer Hamilton: but, at least wiser than old John Adams, and his immediate family, they have contrived to get upon the popular current and to ride it. The democrats, in the main clingine to the Jeffersonian tradition nave allowed themselves on certain collateral matters to be much miSlcd and they have been Singularly untor- tunatc. The result k something very like annihilation.
 ITO have made the money ratio paramount issue was bad enough: but to have had the chance of de stroying the protective system, and to have lost it. was little short of suicide. and seems now q fatality.
 ''Thc Spanish war may have been but an historic interludc; but it was big with opportunities, and made new reading of American ethics. It made, in fact. revolution. for which modern invention had been preparing the way. The democrats prccipitdtcd it. The republicans got it's SurfuctS.
 ''In preferring the Showy and mcri- tricious Roosevelt to the sober, con servativc Parker, the younger gen eration of voters-for it is they who have taken Ina bit m their eeth- and are running away with the vehicle merely give eXpression4o the spirit
 q, . how," and Gain all you can and keep what you have" and You tickle me and I'll tickle you," are some of the characteristic keynotes of this new gospel of grab. which, under the precious guisc of philan- thropy, with flags plaStcred over with hypocrisy and cant, has turned it's back upon the simple preach mcntS of the fathers of democracy and the plain mandates of the writ ten law to set out in quest of ad- ventures without much, if any re- gard to principles, to antcccdents, or to consequences.
 ''Thc election settles the question of the Philippines. They are to re- main American soil. We are to do with them what we will. We won them fairly in battle. We bought them with our own good money. not follow the flag. It might inter- fcrc with the ConCcs>iondircS. The Bible is less obstructive and looks better in the hands of q Filipino. In case of war, the isolation and dis taucc may present some strategic disadvantage: but we may cure this with q great navy, which will fill the pockets of the contractors and in- crease the power of the republican party at home whilst licking the national conceit abroad. Why should any democrat say Nay? Is not Governor General Luke Wright a democrat. and southern democrat at that? Haul down the flag. Never, long as it is the symbol of more and more pickings and stealings though the protective system has driven it from the high seas except over an occasional man of war-wc shall cling to it: the old flag, and the tarin, the old flag. and the pension list. the old flag and an appropria- tion. Thus ran the argument of the campaign just ended. Such is in general terms the lesson of the re- suit,
 Let Us not deceive ourselves as to the facts. Let us not mi>read the signs and portcnt>. \ wave of cheap iingoism. two-thirds mcrcenary and