Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-06-22


what they needed in their businesses:
and as long as they got that. Ii did
not interest them what YVES done with
the rest Of the power their campaign
contributions gave.
With such resources any man Of
good intelligence and discretion could
have got the same results as Good.
richs He was simply a lackey.
strutting and cutting a figure in his
masters clothes and under his mas
ter's name. He was pitully vain OF
his reputation as Machiavelli and
90. between Vanity is sometimes
source OF great strength: but vanity
OF that sort and about position In
which secrecy is the prime requisite,
could mean only weakness.
Throughout his eight years Of con
troll of our party Il had had posses.
sion OF all departments OF the nation.
al administration except OF the
house OF representatives during the
past two years This meant the un.
interrupted and unchecked reign OF
the interests, To treat with consid.
Grafton the interests. the strong men
of the country, they who must have
| free hand for developing Its re-
sources. TO give them privileges and
| immunities beyond what can be per-
mitted the ordinary citizen or corpo-
| ration-that is a course which. how
ever offensive TO abstract justice, still
| has, as Ii seems to me- practical jus
tice in 1t. and at any rate, must be
| pursued SO long as the masses of the
voters are short-sighted. unreasoning
and in nose-rings to political ma
| chimes A mans rights, whatever they
may be in theory, are In practice only
what he has the intelligence and the
| power to compel. But for the sake OF
| the nation, for the upholding OF civil
| fzation itself, these over.powerful In
| terests should never be given their
| heads, should be restrained as closely
| as may be to their rights-their prac-
| teal rights. Goodrich had neither the
| sagacity nor the patriotism--no the
| force OF will, for that matter--to keep
| them within the limits OF decency and
| discretion Hence the riot of plumber
and privilege which revolted and
alarmed me when came to Washing
ton and saw politics In the country
wide. yes. history wide, horizon of that
| view point
| Probably ] should have been more
leisurely in bringing my presidential
| plans to focus had | not seen how
great and how near was the peril TO
| my party. II seemed 70 me not In
| deed a perfect or even a satisfactory,
but the best available, instrument for
holding the balances OF order as even
as might be between our country's two
| opposing elements Of disorder--the
greedy plunderers and the rapidly in.
furiating plundered And ! saw that
no time was TO be lost, II the party
| was not to be blown TO fragments
| The first mutterings of the storm were
in our summary election from con
troll OF the house in the midway cleo
ton II the party were not to be
| dismembered, must GUST Goodrich
must defeat his plans for nominating
Cromwell. must nominate Burbank in
| stead If ! should succeed in elect
ing him, ] reasoned that ] could
through him carry out my policy OF
| moderation and practical patriotism
| to yield to the powerful few a mini
mum of what they could compel. 10
| give TO the PROSTATE but potentially
| powerful many AZ least enough to
keep them quiet-a stomaehful The
| world may be advanced; but patriot
ism still remains the art OF restrain
| ing the arrogance OF fun stomachs and
| the anger OF empty ones
| In Cromwell. Goodrich believed he
had a candidate with sufficient hold
upon the rank and file OF the party to
| enable him to carry the election by
the usual means--a big campaign
fund properly distributed in the
doubtful states said to Senator
| Scarborough OF Indiana soon after
Cromwell's candidacy was announced:
What do you think OF Goodrichs
man?'
| Scarborough. though new to the
senate then, had shown himself far
and away the ablest OF the oppositisn
senator's He had as much intellect as
| any OF them; and he had what theor-
lists, such as he, usually lack. skin at
grand tactics"--the management OF
! men in the mass His one weakness
land that. from my standpoint,
great one-was literal belief In dem
ocratic institutions and in the inspir-
ing but in practice pernicious pFinc-
pie of exact equality before the law
"Cromwells political sponsors" was
his reply, are two as shrewd bankers
as there are In New York ! have
heard II said that a fitting sign for
a bank would be- Here we do nothing
for nothing for nobody"
An admirable summing up Of Crom-
wells candidacy. And | knew that
II would so appear to the country. that
no matter how great "a corruption
fund Goodrich might throw into the
campaign, we should in that time OF
public evaporation. be routed II Crom-