The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-17
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER I7. 1ooS.
ABUSE OF WASHINGTON.


 Globe asserts that If Washington had been alive, he would have seconded the nomination of Hearst The Globe sthinks the statement would be nearer baccurate if it read:
 If Washington were alive today he would be abused by Hearst-would be daily cartooned as the Head, Centre Hub, King Pin and Mainspring of the Plunderbund
 That is doubtless true, but we need not infer that Washington escaped abuse, much as we of this age are ac- customed to think that no one would publicly vilify or criticize him. As an example, The Globe refers to paper called The Aurora, of which one Ben 6amin Franklin Bache. was editor. On Dec. 23, l7sS, he was delivered of this paragraph:
 If ever a nation was debauched by a man. the American nation mas Deeh debauched by Washington. If ever a nation was deceived Dy man. the Washington. Let his conduct. then, be an example to future ages; let the his Mury or tne Fedora government .in- struct mankind that the mask Of pa :. .triotism may be worn to conceal the doulest designs against the liberties Of lthe people. -..-
 Two days after Washington retired from the Presidency. The Aurora had ahis fling: A When a retrospect is taken of the Washington administration for eight years 1t is a subject of the greatest as 1onishment that single indlylauai !Republicanism in an enlightened people hust emerged from the gulf or despot- 3sns, and should have carried hts de tl,a as to put in jeopardy its very existence. Such, however, are the facts and, with these staring us in the face, the day ought to be d jubilee Tn tue oh''eu States.
 5 If must be evident to all that this uaache lived about one hundred years 100 soon. Just think what good po- uition he could get on one of the vel low journals today, with all the added Advantages for abusive writings that he would have at present That class of nppers would be falling over each other to get him. and would bid like cranks at a bricabrac auction sale for the privilege of getting him on the editor Sal stan.
 We are not apprised of the reasons 13ache had for being SO bitterly abus- i've. POSSlDly washington TeluSeu lO dine with him, or to be interviewed by him; or maybe the young man felt himself fitted, qualified and set apart flor some good office that the President refused to give him. Then. again, he may have been one of those swell heads of which all ages and countries have had specimens, who think it is Aheir province to give advice, but in Hhis case the great man refused to be !. guided by the self-elected mentor.
 But whatever may have been the cause of all this aCerbity, and what aver may have given rise to such abuse, it will doubtless be d surprise to d great many that Washington was the subject of such criticism as many are accustomed to look on as belonging ex- clusively to a later age. The great man was something of an aristocrat, and very much a Federdlist in politics Besides, his long service in the army, possibly made him less tolerant of up- position than he would have been had his life been devoted entirely to civil affairs. However that may b". it is rertain that he was abused and de nounced as roundly as some of his sue kessors have been.