The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-21
LOVEFOR OLD REBEL s"
FhEs1DENT'S PARTIALITY TO THE
 Ex.CONFEDERATE
Ine Old Guard of Pie Hunters of The South Net Pleased With Mir. H0O~eve1tss Esteem For
 Southern SO1dfers.

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 Washington. Oct 2o.--(special.)-
 be sure to tell to be good to
 Teddy; and tell him that he was one
 or my men. in the army, and Teddy will
 De good to, him."
 That was what prominent South l efn Republican and an ex-Confeder- ate soldier said to a friend who was
 about to write a letter to a corre- spondent in q Southern city President Roosevelt was to visit during his tour in Dixie. The speaker. who enjoys the particular and partial esteem of Pres- friend to whom he sent the message that he was "one of those pro forma Democrats who voted the Democratic ticket in 1s9s and in 1900 and both times
 prayed all night for McKinley's cleo l tion.
 These remarks heard by another Southern Republican elicited the com | ment that there were lots of such pro lorna Democrats in the South"
 l Old-time Republicans from the South. especially those who, having I served as soldiers in the cause of the | union. went down into Dixie after the war to promote the restoration of unity and good feeling by using as mediums all the available federal offices, are indulging much conversation at this Oh tnG SubJeCL UI HTeSluent Roosevelts manifest partiality for old l rebels and sons of old rebels.
 One of these valient old Yankees and faithful old Republicans, who served in Alabama in both civic and military capacities, and who has giv- en himself unreservedly to preserv- ing the Republican party in the South for Republicans only; who has been grfeving on the outside of the breast works ever since the tragic close of the Mckinley regime, which at least afforded comfort and kept hope alive in the bosoms of union veterans; who
 has mourned for the departed days of undivided and unmixed fellowship or all Republicans, white and black now despairs of the future of the Re- publican party in the South.
 Rebel Democrats have been their undoing with Mir. Roosevelt And the old union veteran proceeds to give abundant reasons for the melancholy that possess him. He cites the kind of appointments to ofiice the President first place, President Roosevelt is hais Southern in blood, his mother being from Georgia, and his uncle was in the Confederate navy and fought the United States months after the sur render at Appomattox. No wonder appointing former Confederate soldiers to office. And thus the old union vet eran and old-time Alabama Republi- can runs on:
 Didn't he appoint Tom Jones to a federal Judgeship? It was not Booker a Democrat and best of all for him and most persuasive to Roosevelt. as old rebel soldier. Hasn't he just given an office to General R. D. John ston. of Birmingham. an old rebel brigadier and Democrat, an ofice that was held by an old union soldier and Republican? Didn't he make another rebel, Tom Roulhac. a Uni ted States District Attorney, a man
 who has never been anything but a Democrat? Look at what he has done Tor the sons of Confederates. A grand son of Stonewall Jackson appointed to West Point. son of eb Stuart made internal revenue collector in Virginia, | and son of Fitzhugh Lee taken into
 the White House as his aid. Why. the postmaster at Birmingham, Rivers Carter, Is the son of a rebel and a Democrat and a kuklux. haven't the slightest doubt that Mr. Roosevelt, see ing that meager appropriations have been made by the Southern States for pensions and soldiers homes for the lConfederates, will increase his zeal to take care of the old rebels and give | them offices whenever he can Just let one of them old fellows that "wore the gray" and lived on parched corn ana shot at us get hungry for a job l or for job for his son to help his
 family out. and what chance has an old union soldier? No, sir; we've got at much show as a nigger has to suc- ceed Vardaman as governor of Missis- sippi."
 The old veteran union-soIdier Ra- publicans from the South are certainly sore over the way MT Roosevelt has been carrying on with the old rebe,s. or course the old soldier here quot ed was very much wrought up," but he quite understood that he was in- dulging the license of a sarcastic vein Nevertheless the bitter taste he show ed he had in his political mouth was typical of that from which the old union veteran soldiers from the South are plainly suffering.
 They are talking not only of what President Roosevelt has done for rebels and Democrats already. but what he may do in the near future. It Is known that there is to be a live iy shake-up" in federal circles in appointments made by the President were some that were chosen in the early days of the administration be- fore MT. Roosevelt had time fairly to learn and judge the characters of the man appointed They-the old soldiers-refer with awe to inc font oit that President Roosevelt is a church man, attending service regularly and
 participating heartily in the ser vices." as the newspapers report. They are sure he has determined to make his administration in all its ramifi- cations as clean as possible, if not "rigidly righteous" They see doom written over the heads of every office holder whose public and private con duct Is not in the executive eve cir cumspectly correct, chaste and nlnmb upright. Certain loose methods and reprehensible irregularities, which are the subject of charges against cer~ tain Mississippi offfceholders, have been brought to the attention of tit, President, and it not doubted that be will act ere long and cut out any fen dency to create an Augean stable in Mississippi. 4A
 In Alabama the terms of a number of officers of the government will ex. pire in January next. Some of these were not appointed by President Roosevelt. It is believed that each nf them will have to give way for a new man. The old soldiers of the union who are Republicans from the Soutb say that every one of them will he succeeded by an ex-rebel and a Dem. ocrat.
 R. H. Watkins.