The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-11-30

kind of independence which throws
down the nominees OF the party eaIcp
lated to do what he advocates. Mr.
Hearst has placed himself outside the
pale of regularity in the Democratic
party, and he must take the conse-
quences of his defeat. While Mr..
Hearst has done as much as any other
human being to call the Trusts to ac-
count, show UP their iniquities, and do
IL unselfishly, yet he has allowed the
minions of his so-called Independent
party to injure the Democratic party
that could have accomplished things,
and he refused to call off his dogs of
war, and allowed defeat to come to
men who would have been loyal to
the people, who would have been with
the majority in the next House of
Representatives, and would have told
the truth from the standpoint of in
vestigation about the miserable, rotten
Republican administration now in Of
fee.
There is nothing Mr. Roosevelt fears
more than investigation.
He is seemingly courageous man,
but really he is not. He is four-flush-
er and fakir. He fights like the
Chinese. He makes hell of a noise,
and when the enemy does not run, he
runs. A Democratic House would
have made more trouble for him and
his, more trouble for the Republi-
cans, than anything else in the wide
world. He knew It; that is why he
went to Panama with such glee and
gladness in his heart, that a Demo-
cratic Congress would have no chance
to investigate Panama.
l am a Democrat; | believe In the
rule of the people. but do not believe
in tearing down the traditions OF the
party which always has conserved the
peoples interests, by throwing bou,
quets at President who makes bluff
at reform, stolen from Democratic
! platforms, or an alleged Democrat like
Hearst, who promises all sorts of
things, at the same time knitting the
interests of his own people and his
own kind. | do not understand that
kind of politics. | believe in a straight
| fight, straight vote, and an honest
election. When the people believe we
are not right, and they defeat us, |
take my hat off and bow to the will of
the majority. When we are defeated
in the manner in which we have been
this time object to it, and say that a
combination made up of crooks, scoun-
! claim to possess all of the virtues of
the earth, it will not stand, and the
Democracy must repudiate it and fight
| it TO a finish | do not set myself up
as a prophet, | do not attempt to die
tate to the people of this country what
they shall believe, but from my limi
ted experience as politician, fighting
for what | believe to be the peoples
interests, noting all the changes of the
political Kaleidoscope in the National
Capital. do say that if the people of
this country, regardless of politics. re.
CARELESS of section, want absolute hon
esty in government affairs, an execu-
tive who will be absolutely honest
with every section, who will tell the
truth, who will scourge the scoundrels
| they must go to the South for such a
man, and the sooner the Democrats of
the country come to that conclusion
the sooner will they have solved the
problem of success and honest govern
ment. There are many men in that
section who are types, of the Anglo
Saxon, honest as Paul, and so straight
they lean backwards They believe in
honest government, they believe in the
people, they believe that If the people
ever rule again it must be through a
man who loves the principles he would
die for, and you cannot find that kind
of man outside the South Or the
Southwest, because the North Is
money-eyed, and the almighty dollar
is the ruler.
The spirit of Democracy is implanted
in the hearts of the people of this ma
ton, and it never will die. The Demo
cratic party, so-called. Is immortal.
When you and |, and all of US. are re-
turned to dust, our children still will
be battling for the rights of the peo-
pie, and the rights nf the people will
yet prevail on the face of the earth.
CHAS. A. EDWARDS.