The Washington herald., 1907-08-02
Woe Is Us.

While we do not believe In making a
regular practice of advertising our trou-
bles and dlsappointments, we cannot re-
frain from letting it be known that the
last blow which a cruel fate has dealt
US is almost more than We can bear. Al
our readers know how we devoted our
self to the H0ke Smith Presidential boom.
We started that boom, and We dedicated
to it the undivided electoral vote of the
District Of Columbia. We kept it 10 the
front in season and out We even lost
friends because Of it. for when the
Charleston News and Courier sprung that
weird Graves-Smith hand primary, and
nominated us as teller. we refused TO
serve because we believed that there was
a possibility Of a misunderstanding as
to the lengths to which We might 90 b.
way of showing our love for the Hon.
Hoke. And we haven't been spoken 90
by the News and Courier since. After
all this, as we have miserably acInowl-
edged. our Georgia idol has proved TO be
the possessor of feet Of clay, and with
Spartan fortitude we have been com
PEELED TO repudiate him, utterly. abso-
lutely, and for all time
Coincidontal with this painful expert
ence, and as if TO offer a salve for our
poignant sorrow, the Hon. Robert Broad
max Glenn, governor. octopus defer. and
defender of the faith OF State rights. ap-
peared on our horizon. For a time We
thought il might be a case of Broadnax
gained and Hoke well lost. We saw, in
our minds eye. another candidate to
take the place of our beloved confdant Of
the Gal in The Fountain. We seemed TO
see q possible way out of the humiliating.
not 10 say Notifying. situation in which
the apostasy of our once beloved Hoke
had placed us We dreamed Of marching
men, and glad acclaim. and great crowds
and the Hon. Robert BroadnaX Glenn in
a pavilion in front of the White House
a acknowledging the plaudits of uncounted
thousands and admitting to all that it
was we who placed him there.
But now, alas. that dream has become
nightmare; ebon despair has put pink
young hope to flight, and sits, melancholy
and morose. upon our standards. Read
this from the Hon. Josephus Daniels
Raleigh News and Observer, ye sym
pathetic ones, and weep with us:
Gov. Glenn, being interviewed yesterday concern
Ing the many eulogistc notices printed of him. and
. the opinion expressed in so many papers that he
would prove a most available man for the Democrats
to nominate as their Presidential candidate, ex-
pressed a different view and said he had no such
idea. his remarks being
" 4 am very much fattered by the kind things
that being said Of ne but speaking in the inter
ests Of the Democratic party, do not think that
the time Is ripe for Southern man 10 be its PTesi-
Dental candidate. II it was there are great many
men IN The south better known and better prepared
to III the position than am; and 50 I am content
to work for the States interest and the good inside
Of my own State
/ Can aUght more be said? We think
not. Scalding tears well 70. our eyes as
we write and make our task all tbs
harder. Dull misery. carklng care, black
pessimism assail US What balm can
there be in Gnead now? What does life
hold for US? With Hoke and Robert
Broadnax both lost 10 US, where can we
| find surcease from sorrow?
/ Echo answers "Where?" and the IN
| scrutable future stretches away in front
/ Of us like a bleak ana endless road be
/ fore a weary pilgrim.
| So many miScTies have craz'd our voice.
| That our woe-wearied tongue is mute.