The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-02-28
WORDS HURT NO ONE.
of Wealth not Disturbed
by White House Denunciation.
Bryan Tells Bankers How to Sc
cure, an Elastic currency-Long
Session Indicated for Republican
National Convention.
National Convention.

Former Representative and Senator
Charles A. Towne vas in Washington
recently and in the course OF an inter
view expressed some views not wholly
in accordance with those Of ether shin
ing lights of the Democratic party Mr..
Towne does not sympathlze with the
tendency Of many Democrats, notably
Mr.. Bryan and Bourke Cochran, to ap-
plaud the president. He is more in ac-
cord with Representative Champ Clark,
who not long ago delivered a very
forceful speech attacking the presiden-
tial policies and commenting very bit
ingly upon the presidential manners.
Mr.. Towne said: "The Democratic par
ty does not owe to Theodore Roosevelt
its doctrine Of the greatest good to the
greatest number, and it can go on
championing the welfare of the many
as against the interests OF the few
without relinqulshlng its great prlnci-
Piles of home rule, local self govern
ment, the preservation Of the autonomy
of the states and the restoration and
maintenance Of the balance among the
coordinate branches Of the national
government I believe that the country,
while determined to take no backward
step in maintaining the rights Of citi-
Zens agalns.: the encrOachments OF cor
porations, IS inclined to pause awhile
and take stock, so to speak, of recent
achievement. I believe the people are
ready to welcome president who
would be content to enforce the laws
without seeking also to enact and In
terpret them. I believe, in short, that
it would be both patriotic and polite
for the Democratic party to promise
the nation lucid interval Of constitu-
tinnal government"
1t must be admitted that there Is
some foundation for the recent gibe of
Mr.. Payne. the Republican leader in
the congress, that half the Democrats
were applauding the president and
half condemning him. But the con-
trast, after all, is more apparent than
real. For example, when Mr. Bryan
speaks, nDplaudng certain Of the ac-
tions of the president. the newspapers
which are hypnotiZed by the Roosevelt
personality print with much elabora-
tion that part Of his address, but re-
frain from publishing his criticisms Of
the president. The erect is to make 1t
appear that he gives unreserved ap-
proval to all that the president has
said and to all that he has done, a
difficult thing for any public man to
accomplish, because most OF the things
Mr.. Roosevelt has sail are exactly the
things that he has failed to do.
The Case of the Mustrat.
Somebody who must live along the
banks of Il canal where muslirats are
not merely nuisance. but a positive
menace. wrote = plaintive inquiry to
New York paper the other day COM
pairing the presidential outcry with the
repeated threats Of farmer in his
ncigh5orhoOd to so out and kill
muskrat-threats that were never full
filed. And he asked why everybody
should turn in and applaud the man
who was always promising to do this-
but had not as yet slaughtered one SOL
ltary rat. The editor Sagaciously re-
sponded that the correspondent might
know something about muskrats, but
he knew nothing about politics. BY
prrs~ II. tie policy which he repre-
hem AZ violent foe Of the muskr;t
". IL the .,nI.anse nld the votes