Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-11-06
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK
BY GEORGE DARIEN

BY ddOh0h OAhlbN
But in our hatred OF plutocracy W.
must not forget that Heavens bount,
sends generous hearts into every gener
ation," and such are otter found among
those who have been reared il. homes
Of wealth and refinement. II the
cause of the people is just it is certain
sooner or later, to find able advocates
among the noblest sristocracy Of thu
land. Indeed, from the days when tn,
patricial Gracchi espoused the carst
of the plebeians in ancient Rome dow
to the present time, the pages that re-
cord the struggles of the oppressed il
every age and country bear testiir ony
to the fact that popular revolt newell
becomes a successful revolution unless
it is led by a man belonging to the
arlstocraeY Of birth, the aristocracy oil
wealth, or the aristocracy Of genius.
No matter how just the cause Of the
people may be. if 1t is chaInpiCned only
! by Jack Cades and Wat Tylers it is
toredoomed to failure, Every states
man, in England, in America, in France,
who has impressed democratic stamp
| upon the period in which he lived. has
baen intellectually aristocratic and fire.
queutly aristocratic IN fortune and lin
cage In his sympathies President
Roosevelt is democratic TO his heart .
core, but his blood is aristocretic. His
father was of good old Knickerbocker
stock, and his mother belonged to all
aristocratic Southern family. (Let ire
mention. parentheticaJly, that when
was boy in the village of Roswell,
Ga, went to school with the girl who
afterwards became the iuother of GU
President. My father Was principal Of
the SCHOOL,
II is noteworthy TINT President
Roosevelt has pever expressed any
opinion Oh the subject of government
by Injunction" But the position CT
the Republican party in this question:
is we'll known. On this point Senator
Foraker and Secretary Taft are agreed,
however much they may differ other
wise.
In his sp ech at Oklahoma City,
August Gath, criticising the Oklahoma
Constitution. "Mr. Taft commented
at length On the ecessity of maintain
ing the power of the courts and con-
denned the requirement that jury trial
should Intervene between an order for
injunction and punishment for its vic
latiOn."
Mr.. Taft's position ON this subject
may not prevent his receiving the Re
publican nomination for the pres den
cy; but it will most assuredly prevent
his election provided the Democratic
party will only concentrate its fire
upon this weak place in the Republi-
can Notifications, and not waste am
munition in attacking strong points.
The Democratic platform adopted
by the National Convention in 1901
said: 1--WE approve the measure which
passed the United STATES Senate in
1886, but which a Republican Congress
has ever since refused to enact, relating
to contempts In Federal Courts and
providing for trial by jury in cases of
indirect contempt
This is the feature of Organism,
which, combined with a discreetly
modified form Of Rooseveltism, will be
accepted by large majority Of the
votes in nearly every state OF tn
Union. The feature was contained, 1t
is true, in the platform In which Judge
Parker was overwhelmingly defeated,
but it did not enter into the discu ssion
Of the campaign. Very few of the
voters knew that such plank was in
the platform. Let the Democrats avoid
the mistakes of that disastrous cam
paign, and victory Is within their
grasp.
predict that the next national adj
will have a. It's head |
Theodore Roosevelt, with John w.
Daniel OF Virginia, as Vice. President,
and VIM. J. Bryan will be Secretary of
State, and perhaps Samuel Gompers
will be Secretary Of Commerce and
Labor. l believe that the develop
ment of the next few months will show
that it Is Lot only possible, but impera-
lively necessary, to formulate a general
scheme of governmental policies In
which these four men can cordially |
unite. Unless some such combination
eau be effected the history OF this
country during the next four years will
be Confusion worse COMPOUNDED" with
a perilously near approach to violent
revolutionary upheaval in 1919. Let
Virginia come forward with a pro-
oosal for a New Dominion Alliance.
The reason why such step should be
taken, and why 1t Is bound to be sue
,essful, may give In subsequent arti-
Ties.
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