Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-07-01
THE CRY, ION no DENVER !,
Col. Henry Watterson's Call to Arms
for the Democracy,
Henry watterson, in the Louisville

Unon platform OF tmposture,
largely constructed of timebrs stolen
from Mr. Bryan's backyard, the Re-
publican party has set up a man of
straw--a very portly and pleasing
man of straw--and has said to the
voters: 'Rehold In William ffiioward
Taft, the counterfeit presentment of
Theodore Roosevelt., X
The answer which the voters are,
likely to make in November may be-
found in the first chapter Of the hand
book of common sense, which, trans
lated from the original vulgate into
modern English, reads: The voice is
Roosevelt's voice, but the hands are
the hands of Rockefeller
THUS, after many centuries, we
have the recurrence Of famous pas
sage of Holy Writ made political and
brought to date, in the last instance,
as In the first, great fraud and a
mess of pottage, playing the leading
parts.
"At length the Republican party
had to disguise itself as Populist
and join in the cry: Stop, theft in
order to escape the consequences of
It's own acts.
I'VE mean no disrespect to tho
Secretary Of War. He is a gentleman
of noble character, an official of sig
nal service and merit, citizen of un-
blemished reputation. He. was typi-
cal Republican of the school of Sher-
man, Garfield and Mckinley until he
began to temporize with Roosevelt
and got the Presidential bee in his
bonnet.
James Schoolcraft Sherman, chosen,
as his running mate, is like unto him,
gentleman of character, of high
connections and a man of straw. He
isEa New York Congressman and
President Of a New York trust COM
pany. There Is plenty of ruffle in his
shirt, just as considering Mr.. Taft
rufiie, there Is too much ruff1e in the
whole ticket. Mr.. Sherman will be
depended upon to see that every cor
poration in and about Wall street
does its duty.
THE after thought, however will
cut little figure In the campaign.
Everything will center in an eddy
about Mr.. Roosevelt's designated sue
cessor and heir-apparent, the Secre-
tary Of War
"The platform on which they have
placed Judge Taft contradicts his rul-
ings as judge on the bench. His
party In Congress has falsified his at
titude toward our insular dependen-'
cies. He is put forward as the star
performer Of an enterprising and
spectacular manager, who has sue
ceeded In adapting rag-time music to
the serious business OF the State and
turning the government of the coun-
try into comic opera. The White
House is his theater, and Federal off,
cials his scene shifters. Civil service
reform, though sadly torn and tar
nished, is the fantastic drop curtain
relied upon to conceal, but not con-
cealing, the mechanism of the stage
and the meaning Of the stage setting.
They promise us tariff reform.
They actually promise us tariff re-
form! Tariff reform-good Lord!
'Tho devil was SICK the devil a,
Monk would be; the devil got we'll,
and he said: Amt | the slickest?'
THE Republicans go to their doom.
The. blood Of the victims of the Big
Stick and the steam roller sticks in
their throats as they cheer; their
cheering has the death rattle.
"Grand old Republican party! 1t
was hoss in its day, but it's living
sins have found it out; the ghosts 6f
half-forgotten sins, come back to
haunt 1t. Majestic fabric Of depart
ed glory. even as the turgid Burrows
and the frigid Lodge reviewed its
history, its stand for freedom, its
fight for union; the tramp, tramp,
etramp Of the boys in blue; the sac
rifice, OF the mothers In Israel, the
descent from the heights of ,Pisgah
down, down, down into the plains of
Moab, the shade OF Lincoln at the
elbow Of each might have been heard
to whisper: 7 don't want to inter-
rupt you, friend Burrows, but don't
forget to put in something about the
complete abandonment Of my plan of
reconstruction and the scheme to
Mexicanize by the impeachment of
Andrew Johnson for trying in good
faith to carry 1t out and Just mo-
are about 1t, you ought to say