The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-03-12
TWO BILLS AND A WILLIE.
Looks Like a william VIII be
President Next Time. No Matter
What Party Wins.

Looks Like q william VIII De
President Next Time. No Matter
What Party Wins.
Baltimore Sun
Snmrhow, this country likes a
Bill" The given name of Viii
liam is almost as good for a polit
ician as that of James or Abra.
ham. Amy one Of them can be
abbreviated in a way that enables
the people to get friendly and ia
miliar, to feel that he is one Of
them. 1t is as good as ii hearty
handshake. sunny smile Or
slap on the bach. You cannot i'm
agine a man named Algernon or
ChaIncey or Reginald being
elected President. Not much.
The men we elect President are
our Jims, and Andys, and Georges,
and Toms, and Bills.
This year it looks as if the Bills
will hold the field. The Honorable
Bill Bryan has been so long the
peerless leader" of the Demo
cratic voters that lots of them
would rather follow him to defeat
than any other man to victory.
The Democratic donkey responds
to his silver tones quicker than it
would to the call to corn and fOd-
der from any other candidate. He
writes it's platforms, bestows it's
favors and takes the nomination
whenever he wants it.
The form of a great big Bill
looms up in the Republican party,
so big that the G. 0 P. elephant
will find it has a load when it tries
to trot with him. His wave is
spreading over the country and
threatens to sweep over the Phil
anders, Leslies, the Charles WIS
and the Charl S E. S, and the Tn,
Gle Joes, who are standing in the
Republican corn rows. From one
end of the country to the other,
wherever a Federal officeholdel
| holds on to a blessed Government
job, there rises the cry, I'VE
want Bill Taft" This spontane
Gus uprising of the patriotic of
| ticeholders shows that many
minds can run in the same chan
mel; and that while..the Roosevelt
administration would ruthlessly
cut of any one of them who man
ifests pernic;ous partisan activi-
ty, each postmaster is entitled t.
his personal preference, and h
sees plainly who is the man h
should personally prefer. So thu
big Bill takes his smile on tou
and scatters seeds of kindness il
| political soil that is expected t.
bring forth votes a hundredfold
The Republican elephant is al
ready roped aud appears to b.
ready for the branding.
Even the third little party
which is a personally conducte'
affair."" is showing adecided pref
erence for the name of William
Though the Honorable William
r. Hearst has spent thousands O
dollars and millions of yellov
newspapers for the good of tn
Wofkingmen, and is not only tb
Workiugman's friend, but his ad
wiser, advocate, exponent and f
> nancial uncle, none of them eve
: called him Bill. This new Indt
pendence party is too young an
T too tender to stand a Bill, ind S
it contents itself with having
= Willie" of it's own. He has jus
: announced that the party wi
: not nominate Bill Bryan nor Bi
. Taft nor Teddy Roosevelt. c
course it viii not. If you owne
q party and paid for it's bah
food and it's clothes and go-ca1
= and nursing, and it didn't low
you and come to you, you woul
think it was an ungrateful chile
And If it was big enough, 70
would discharge it without hone
and without pay. If the Ind
pendence party doesn It nominal
its own willie, it is likely
end itself out of a job, with r
noney in it's pocket, right in Il
midst of the hard times.
So it looks as if the America
voters are going to have a Villa
for President next time, no ma
ter what party wins. They ca
vote anyway they please, but the
must choose between one NV:
lie and two Bills"