The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-10-07
ANCIENT HISTORY UNDER CUR.
RENT DATE.

Periodicals that issue in advance
of their dating are seriously handi-
capped in stirring times like these.
This is especially true OF magazines
that give any extended space to poll
teal movements, and most of them
do this: for is not this a government
shaped and conducted by magazine
articles?
Public men are even tried and
convicted on magazine contributions,
or editorials, before the courts can
get to them. q
In the October American Review
of Reviews very liberal space is CIV
en- to the salient features Of the re-
publican and democratic national
campaigns. Hon. Josephus Daniels
contributes An able and rather state
ly article on Mr.. Bryan, his meth
DDS, his wonderful speech-making
capacity, and his various field mar
shals in the great fight. illustrations
add to the interest in Mr.. Daniels
dissertation. 1t looks good, reads
good, and seems in intimate touch
with the great political ground
swells that are forming and bursting
until the picture of Governor Has
kell looms large and clear-cut before
me TedueT eye. Hell luC iOouCA
smiles, for Haskell is down and out
volcanic days. Figuratively the sex
ton of the democratic political bone
yard holds up a grinning skull and
says, Alas. poor Haskell What a
fellow he was to set the antitrust
house aroar, but-paugh! the grave
yard must is on his remainders and
he is not"
For the republicans Walter Well
man contributes a stirring and strik-
| ing analysis Of men, party history
and conditions, showing that destf-
| ny has already taken care of Taft's
campaign, and Smell Smith writes a
biographical, historical and political
apotheosis OF Chairman Frank Har-
ris Hitchcock, beginning when that
great parsonage was a year old and
coming up to know, with illustra-
tons to suit the text. OF Mr.. Hitch
cock Mr. Smith feelingly says: His
distinctive keenness in the choice of
| helpers is no less marked than his
capacity for organization" Then
comes picture of T. Coleman Du
Pont, one of the helpers for whose
selection Mr.. Hitchcock has assumed
| fun responsibility. Mr.. Du Pont as
| head of the speakers bureau is pic
tured in action. Seated at long Ia
! BILE laden with papers and docu-
ments, Mr.. Du Pont faces telephone
muzzle, and his marble brow seems
| to be heavy with big thoughts on the
| imperiled welfare of S5,000,000
people.
/ The reader smiles again, for where
| is Du Pont now?
| Ask of the winds that far around
! with fragments of presidential ukas-
es strew the land.
/ His powder horns gone from the
nail, his rifle from the rack; no hui
man aid can now avail to call T..
Coleman back.
Again in the same number of the
Review is a cartoon showing Fora
| ker, reconciled and happy, helping
Taft to abduct the colored vote for
/ the good of his cause; but Foraker S
departure before the flaming sword
of presidential righteousness is al
ready ancient history.
Nothing but the daily or double
daily press can keep in hailing dis
lance of the great political twisters
that are curling across the country,
emitting ominous roars and drop
. / pms ali Minus VI utDilS. Anu even
the dailies have to sleep with both
eyes open, for with red-hot accusa-
tons and reiterations, and recrimin-
ations and fulminations flying
hither and yon projected in streams
from the White House, fired from the
tail ends of moving trains, bursting
from every stump and platform, the
process of saving the nation is such
an explosive and pyrotechnic confus-
ion of loud sounds and dazzling
sights that only the swiftest of foot
and the alertness of intellect can tell
whether the procession is coming OF
has just gone by.
America forever! No sputterine
lights are those that guide us tc
glory, but lurid. lambent flames thai
shoot athwart the sky and make the
aurora borealis look like a tallow
candle illumination, three candles
strong Worth Star.
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