The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-27
Bailey Contrasts Roose-
Welt With Parker.
AMILITARY DICTATOR?
What Use Have We of Him in the
Presidents Seat? Are Not the Quail
tiles of a Statesman Those
to Be Desir-
nI ,
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated PreSS.)
New York, Aug. 25.-The campaign
in Brooklyn was opened tonight by a
meeting held under the auspices of the
Kings County Democratic Club, at
which Senator Joseph w. Bailey, of
Texas. was the principal speaker. Res
Olutions endorsing the nomination of
Parker and Davis were read and af-
ter an Introductory address in which
he reviewed the political situation, Ed
ward M. Shepard, chairman of the
meeting introduced Senator Bailey
who was greeted with prolonged ap-
plause. He said in part:
mot content with having nominal
ted a candidate who had taught by his
personal example the pernicious doc
trine of social equality between the
Anglo-SaXon and the African races,
the Republican party has gone still
further and as if bent upon the mis-
chievouS design of aggravatng racial
antagoniSm. it has deliberately pro-
claimed it's intention to reduce the
representation of certain States in Con-
gresS and in the Electoral College be-
cause the people of those States will
not consent to be represented by ig-
norant and inferior men. Do the
men who made and who adopted that
platform know that if their threat
should be carried into execution, the
South would not be the only sufferer?
DO those men not know that this coun-
try is SO closely and so firmly knit to-
gether that the whole must suffer from
every injury inflicted on any part? The
millions invested in Southern railroads
are practically all. except the foreign
holding, the property of Northern ana
Eastern men.
But, there is another and a higher
standpoint. This attempt to resurrect
sectional differences is in painful con-
traSt with the teachings of that great
and kindly man who was elevated to
the presidency by an election and not
by a tragic accident AS this nation
stood with uncovered head around the
martyred Mckinley's grave, men of
every section blessed his name AMI
memory because he had restored good
will between the brothers who had been
estranged by civil war. The sorrow
over his untimely death was as univer-
sal and as genuine in Mississippi as it
was in Massachusetts. and yet his sue
ceSSor, who promised to follow in Nc
Kiniey's footsteps. has reversed Me-
Kinleys policy, and is now fomenting
discord where Mckinley had brought
us peace.
ROosevelt's Excuse for Lynchings.
THE race problem which now con-
fronts the Southern people will tax
their highest wisdom and their most
unSelfiSh patriotism in its solution. EX-
cept for a single and nameleSs crime
against the women of our land, there
is no thoughtful man in all the South
who does not deprecate lynch law or
who doubts that it must and will be
suppressed.
IF, however. there are amongst us
men who justify the lawlesS spirit
which sometimes expresses itself in a
public lynching, they could not find in
all the range of English literature, a
more pointed and complete defense of
such conduct than has been furnished
by the Republican candidate for the
Presidency in his work Ranch Life
and Hunting Trail in which there is
the following:
During the last two or three years
the stock men have united to put down
all these dangerous characters, often
by the most summary exercise of.
lynch law. Bands of horse
and cattle thieves have been regularly
hunted down and destroyed in pitched
fights by parties of armed cowboys,
and as a consequence most of our
territory is perfectly law-abiding.'
1.-The President. as if relating COM
monplace incident. adds this mili
statement:
"A little over two years ago one
committee of vigiIantes in Montana
shot or hanged nearly sixty-not, how
ever with the best Judgment in all
cases
81 rejoice to know that whatever
may have been done and said in the
Southern States which thoughtful men
cannot endorse, it has never happened
among us that any man with intelli-
gence enough to write book or with
character enough to command an eiec-
ton to an important office has ever
justified lynching as punishment for
theft
They tell US that the President is
honest. Let us grant it, but let us re-
member that he is as erratic as he is
honest. They tell us that the Presi-
dent is brave, and so he is as rash as
he is brave. If we were seeking a sol
der, | would prefer the President over
almost any other man now in public
life, but as we are seeking a states
man, 1 would prefer almost any man
now in public life over the President.
He would be one of the best men to
lead a desperate charge in time of
war; but he is one of the worst men
to administer a great government IN
time of peace. / do not undervalue
the soldier whose courage or ambition
carries him to glory or to death. While
SuCn men are more uSeIui under Otner
forms of government they are useful
under ours. They are not so useful
however. as these other men who have
the firmness and the self-restraint
when clothed with the power to obey
the laws; to obey them as they have
been written, resolutely refusing to
violate their letter under the old and
dangerous pretense of preserving their
spirit
At the conclusion of Senator Bailey's
address a reception was held in the
parlorS of the club.
HILL SAYS TEDDY'S A FRAUD.
The Seuator SpeakS mt n Fair Held at