New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1907-04-27
THE 0RAT0RlCAL JACKASS.

When Mr.. John Temple Graves il
his Chattanooga speech suggested
| that Theodore Roosevelt sh0nId be
nominated by the Democratic party
next year as its candidate for Pres.
ldent and the nomination should
be made by William J Bryan, the
only serious thought he had in
mind was to attract attention to
himself Ia this he has succeeded
but the character of the attention
Mr.. Graves has invited is not the
kind that most men would eniov.
There have been places reserve d in
the parlance for the Wise Guy, the
Cheerful Idiot and the Learned
lmbecile, and now the Atlanta
editor has broken into this group
and firmly established his status as
the Oratorical Jackass.
He has earned this sobriquet at
Que stroke and it measures fairly
the kind and amount Of attention
he has attracted by his absurd va
porlngs in favor of the Democracy
throwing itself into the arms of
Roosevelt. The speech of Mr..
Graves did not impress the country
as anything more than an ill-ad-
vlSed advertisement of a shallow
vapOrar seeking n0torlety that he
might be able to turn into dollars
and cents on the lecture platform.
However, he has been the means
of exploding the idea that the
whole country "is solid for Roose-
velt."
1t was clearly pointed out the
other day by Representative Hay,
of Virginia, that there is nothing
Democratic in President Roose-
velt's policies except few things
he has pgrloined from the Demo
cratic platforms. He has made a
noisy war on the trusts, but no one
is able to show that any Of his
spectacular attacks have benefited
the people, or will help. them. He.
stands as an advocate of ship sub
sides, another form Of special pri-
vilege, and an opponent of tariff
revision. His party have enacted
the laws that support and maintain
the trusts and monopolies he pre-
tends to attack, but out Of which
the Republican national committee
regularly fries a goodly quantity
OF campaign fat. Aside from this
there are number of things in the
record of Mr. Roosevelt which the
Democrats have not forgotten, and
Representative Hay touches on
some of them when he says;
II would recall to them that
negro Observation-Disclosures
Westinghouse recognized by
President Roosevelt has superior
claims Of consideration as an ad-
wiser to the United States Senators.
acting in their constitutional ad-
visory capacity as is shown con-
spicuonsly in the cases OF Alabama.
and Ohio. would recall the re-
cord of the Crum appointment, the
post0ffice suspension,
aud | would remind Southern peo-
pie that President Roosevelt at Ar
Ilngton Cemetery, with Confede-
rate soldiers graves in sight of |
him, had condemned Southern sol
dlers to execration by describing |
them as no better than anarchists.
Of all Democrats to suggest the !
of Roosevelt in the |
Democratic National Convention
4 southern Democrat ought to be
he last"
There is no man in the country
who knows better than President
himself that be has 0
,hauce whatever OF getting the
Democratic nomination, because he
S well aware that it would split
he Solid South and also the Solid
North and result in new align
nent of political forces throughout
he country. While a large num-
Der of Southern Democrats would
,ote for Mr.. Roosevelt if he were
o be nominated by a Democratic
convention, the majority of them
would refuse to give their support
o such an alliance. This is a sit
lation that has already been clear
y defined as a resell of the abulli-
ions of Mr.. Graves at Chattanooga.
Y. 0. States.
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