The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-27
IS NOT sECTIoNALIsM.

Not to do 1t injustice, we copy entire recent editorial from The Chatta- nooga Times relative to a matter of which The Advertiser spoke some days ago. The Times says:
 The Montgomery Advertiser has been Investigating Mir. Roosevelt's writings, and has discovered that he said some- thing in some of his youthful essays that Jefferson Davis was not only trator, but that he was repudiator. Whereat the Montgomery editor grows Wroth To what purpose should this Question be brought into service during the campaign? MT. Roosevelts vealy utterances do not make the present is- sues. MT. Davis Is not on trial before the American people nor is the cause he promoted a question of present dis traitor nor a repudiator. so whats the use of talking about it. There are other things MT. Roosevelt has done and said appertaining to the present ample grounds for opposition without digging into the dead past for issues that might stir our animosities and in- flame our passions. It Is Roosevelt the antagonisms. the impulsive and there. fore dangerous overrider of law and precedent, the rank partisan in the White House. the man President of party dHu d SeCtiOn dBd1nSC whom we fight, and in these we have ample field for our disputatious talents. Let's not encourage campaign of sectional ism. but of broad Americanism.
 We deny that there was any section- alism in the defence of Jefferson Davis. He was a man of national importance and of the highest character before the Confederacy was born, and his con- nection with that glorious movement added to. instead of diminishing, his fame. Thereais no more of sectionalism in defending him agaifIst malicious islanders of small minds than there is in defending Thomas Jefferson. James Madison, or any of the other Southern statesmen who have been maligned by the same slanderer of great and good men.
 Nor can a reference to "the vealy ut terances" of Roosevelt be set up as @
 bar against any criticisms of him now. When he wrote the Life of Ben ton, and other books which deal su freely in unjust aspersions on the characters and public services of the great Hnen OI the past, ne was no calr and would have been the first to resent any such reference to him. He then spoke and wrote his genuine senti- ments. without thought that his ut terances would one day rise to plague him. We have no evidence that 1e has changed at heart so much as the ninth part of a hair. He has learned pru- dence and policy, and that 1t is not safe for a politician to express his true sentiments, but the Rooseselt of d dozen or a score of years ago Is the Roosevelt of today. plus the lesson of hiding his thoughts.
 Nor can we agree with The Times that there should be no sectionalism in this campaign. While we honestly and sincerely believe that Roosevelt Is | a dangerous man to the entire country, we know that he is infinitely more dangerous to our section than to any other. Indeed, our contemporary fairly admits 1t when it refers to him as "tne promoter of race antagonisms." and otherwise speaks of him al he deserves. | The President who promotes race an | tagonisms Is one of the most dangerous | enemies the South can have, and that | is what Roosevelt Is. He Is man for
 the South to fear and defeat if that Is | possible.