The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-03-27
THE MASTER HYPoCRITE.
Ex-senator Burton, just Out Of Jail,
Bitterly Assails the President
Talks ON Third Term.

st. Louis, March 22.-Joseph Ralph
Burton, the first United States senator
to ever serve q prison sentence, this
morning was released from the iron
county Jail at Ironton, Mo-, after
serving five of six months SEN
tence which had been imposed upon
him by the United States district
court in st. Louis on the charge OF
Improperly representing the Rlaito
Grain and Securities Company Of this
city in government matters.
Burton IS bitter against the presi-
dent, and tomorrow he will tell the
people of Abilene about Roosevelt,
who Burton calls ''the most mon
umental hypocrite in history
as Roosevelt a, candidate?" said
Burton. "He is always a candidate,
and has been since he was>old enough
to vote.
"a master hypocrite, he can sue
-cessfully mislead the public into the
idea that he is for some one else for
the nomination, but when the time
comes he viii be the candidate. He
has already succeeded in making the
party declare. that the Rooseyelt poll
scy must be pursued. The next thlng
we will hear is that if the Roosevel1
policy is tc continue, Roosevelt is the
proper man for the nomination.
ssThat is precisely what Roosevelt
is hoping to see happen, and from the
outlook it does not appear that ne
viii be disappointed He killed on
Ia Toilette by being friendly to
Spooner. Shaw was sidetracked when
Roosevelt took up the cause OF Cum
minis. Shaw saw the handwriting on
the wall and left the cabinet to ac-
cept a position in New York. Foraker
has been attended by the Presidents S
apparent friendliness to TAFT, anc
who is left in the race? None but
Roosevelt.
sHe is using Taft like a flirting
wife would impose on a foolish nus
band. When the time comes he Will
cast poor old Taft aside and accept
the nomination for a third term,
which he hopes will be thrust upoa
him.
.Taft isn't big enough for the pres
idency. He is simply the tool OF
Roosevelt, who may throw Root into
the race to make the waters MUDDY
almost any time Cortelyou may also
be shifted into the race, but none OF
them can be taken seriously save
Roosevelt, who, though not openly
candidate, is playing his cards 10
bring about nomination for a third
term, and he will get it.
roosevelt is too shrewd to declare
himself candidate If he did he
would be out Of the race the moment
he announced his candidacy. He
wants the Nomination to be forced
upon him, as it were, and he Will ac-
.cep it with open terms.
1--WE read in Scripture about the
Saviour healing the leper, curing the
sick, making the blind to see, and the
lame to walk, but nowhere in Bloilcal
history do we read Of Christ either
forgiying or curing the hypocrite.
.sTAe disease is one which grows IN
person as the years roll oy, ard Is
incaaab.e.
..Fnere are two kinds OF hynoerites-
One is the smooth. oily scaeIaii1g.,
:31l,rabse. individ0al. Of which Dickens
character, Ur;ah Heep, is the lmmor-
tai example LIE oli1Oi 10 @AAS
buudozing, bold type, OF which no
better example can be found thaH
Theodore Roosevelt.
81 will devote my time to puohsh-
ing my magazine and speaking, ana
will do what can to blot out hypoc-
risy wherever j. may exist.
81 viii advocate the election OF the
federal Judges; they should De
brought closer to the people. The
idea of placing so much power IN
man for his natural life is wrong.
.My body mas been jailed at iron
ton for the last five months, out roy
mind was as free as it ever was. l
will not discuss my trouble furtner
now. I have been wronged, but l
bear no resentment against any one.
7 have learned to pity the hypocrltes,
but,I do want to- call their attention
to one thing have only two cheehs.
4T differ from the author, also d
Ransan. who said that opportunity
visited a man only once IN hfetlme.
That is buncome. L am determlneo
TO succeed, and with the aid OF
friends viii again have the respect
of all. Only the ignorant who are moi
conyersant with the facts in my case
believe me guilty.
Burton had rose pinned on MS
coat which his wife placed there the
.7ax ne entered Ironton jail. but rear
~ fhat it would fall to pieces ne
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