The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-20
MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1904.
ROOSEVELT AND RA1sULI.

This is not a presidential ticket, we are putting out in the interest of the Republican party. It is alliterative in sound and there is something of the brigand in the character of both men. we admit. Raisun would be the logi- cal candidate instead of the milk and water Senator from Indiana. Mir. Fair banks, if we had annexed Morocco and RaisuIi was in fact one of our citizens. unhappily. Raisuli has annexed a we'll favored foreigner who is a naturalized citizen of the United States and we have a fleet frowning before Tangier demanding the release of Perdicarls and his restoration to his elegant home wherein he and his friends have been accustomed to disport themselves in the suburbs of Morocco's capital.
 What is to be the upshot of this North African brigand boarding the American brigand? We are frank to say, we do not know. We had thought that France would seize the opportun- ity to interfere and advance her own interests long step further toward an avowed and complete control of a country she covets much. In the nat uraI order of things, this is what would have happened. Europe would have smiled at our clustering, school boy methods and would have quietly urged France to go forward and make ready. defnitively to annex Morocco. But Raisuli is not only obstinate, he is grasping and daily increases his de- mands upon foreign nations before he will release his prisoners. It would seem it has been reported to him the American Emperor is something of a iawbreaker himself, and the Morocco bandit would take fall out of him. Raisuli has compelled the Emperor of Morocco to jail a lot of people right under his nose in Tangier and has con strained him to surrender dominion over many hundreds of square miles of his mountain territory. This is not sufficient. He now insists the United States shall formally guarantee the payment of the ransom he requires. Failing this he will knock Perdica ris on the head. The fool little knows with whom he is trifiing. A man who charged up the hill of San Juan, when he was not at San Juan, on a horse. when there was not a horse in ten miles, is not to be jollied, laughed at and shipped at by a Mussulman brig and. There is an election coming of Under the powerful impulse of his de- sire for votes Roosevelt will do some such miracle as he performed at San Juan. convert his ships into armed bat talions, bis great guns into mountain howitzers and track the internal scoun- dreI into his very lair. Certainly he will be compelled to kick up some sort of a rumpus to justify his great show ing in ships at Tangier. If an inva- sion is determined on, how he will re- pine that he is not somewhere in the neighboFhood, so as to make an imag- mary charge on an imaginary horse.
 
 The Republicans are evidently de- termined to capture the negro vote in the doubtful States of the North and West. The National Committee is giv- ing them everything in sight and tell ing them If there is anything else they want to ask for it. The lily whites" of Alabama, Louisiana and all oyher States have been turned down and} the ''bIaek and tan crowd given all the recognition
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