The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-10-17

Grant to Mckinley.
A man who can so hate the kind
red of his mother can not by any
chance be a worthy man.
Theodore Roosevelt stands today
the one menace not merely to the
hopes OF the Southern people. but 10
the interests of the 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
wal 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 in
woke it for themselves? Is not the
race question, unvexed by a man like
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demagogue-not difficult enough even
when left to normal conditions? Do
the conservative people of the North
blanche to open Pandora's box in the
South and let forth all the furies of
racial passion-ignorance, barbar-
ism and brutality-merely to glut his
unnatural hatred of the white men
and women of the South. and to feed
his Unsuitable ambition?
Read his books; read his state pa
pers; read his letter of acceptance:
read the man as he is; never a CLEAN
of omagnanimity, 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 eager seeker for power,
everywhere the wal lord, ~implacable.
Does the North, with its varied and
| complicated interests, both national
and international, want such a Presi-
dent? Even if the war spirit be dom
inant at the North, why should sucn
a calamity 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 whole? Must we bait breath be-
cause this man is President? Must
we hold our tongues when we see ru-
in staring US in the face?
The people of the South are like
the people of the North-a Christian
people. They desire nothing that does
not become a patriotic people. They
left to its own devices-least of all
from a destructive like Theodore
Roosevelt h has raised the black
flag over them, and if continued IN
power will p~recipitate upon them hor-
rors rivaling those of the period of
reconstruction, beginning with renew
ed sectional agitation and disturb
ance. to end in the conflagratiOn OF a
war of races.
We do not believe, when the bet
ter sense and judgment of the voters
of the North come to zeal upon all
the facts, that they will do it. Under
Parker, the jurist, we shall nave four
years of repose to Iook about us and
take account of our assets. Under
Roosevelt, the promoter of strife, the
assailant of old men, the sectional
bigot, the unsparing fanatic, we may
| hope for nothing but corruptions at
home, complications abroad, with no
thing at the end of them, and at the
very best but mammoth debts and
unequal taxes, the debts incurred for
the glorification 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 impor-
tance-in the campaign before us,
we fail to see it.
And here we rest our case.
Many Mothers of a Like Opinion
Mrs. Pilmer, of Cordova, Iowa,
says: "One of my children was sub