Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-07-06
MONDAY EVENING. JULY 6. 1908.
YAE YICTIS.

President Roosevelt mora has been done
in depriving the states of the union OF
their constitutional rights and sovereign
powers then Was accomplished by the
civil war. Every patriot feels that
those who desire to extend the powers
of the federal government beyond its
cor slitutional limits should be denied
Office and deprived of power. Ex-Sec'
rotary Taft said ia his speech at 5tsun-
ton, Va, on July 3ri, that he hoped to
break the solid south, "and ID do 80,
would be a blessing to the country" He
is bold in thus stating The war to ne
waged by the republican party against
the civilization of the south. 1t is the
same character of warfare that gas car
ried on 10 1876; then il was with
bullet and bayOuet, accompanied bS
carnage, pillsge, burning houses, anguish
and destruction of property; POW 1t Is 10
be by the ballot, by union OF part
of the whites with all OF the blacks, to
be followed inevitably by a distribution Of
Offices amongst the victors, among whom
we may see negro policemen, council
men, schoolteachers, magistrates and
iudgos, and so on through every depart
msnt of state and municipal government.
Those who remember the time when the
re-sdiuster party was in control OF Nir-
Vinis, and the excuses it was inclined to
peIpetrate, turn with disgust and losth-
ing from return 10 such condition OF
affairs. The republican psrty is essen
TALLY one of fraud and corruption, and
its policies and practices subversive OF
the rights and destructive of the interests
of the people. Its ptrpetuatlOn in power
means the destruction and death OF free
government. No greater or more cruel
dictator ever lived than the pres
ent speaker of the House of Representa-
tlyes. With hide as thick as the armor
of modern battleshiP, dead to all sense
of shame, insensible to criticism, he
originates and pilots parliamentary
tactics in such a way that members OF
the minority party sre robbed OF the
right to participate in Legislation or to
protect theinterests of their constituents.
Ia the coming presidential election an
opportunity is offered to correct these
abuses, and to ward Oft threatened ills.
With Mr. TAFT as president and re-
publican Congress no one can see the
limit of federal aggression. He is
pledged to RoOsevelfs policies, and they
mean injury perhaps destruction, to every
substantial and conservative interest.
Mr.. Roosevelt attacks railroads and
other and allied capitalized companies.
They continue to work and operate, but
as a result Of his crusade against them
for political purposes, hundreds and
thousands of innocent holders of corpo-
rate securities have sustained losses, in
some cases irretrievsble, and hundreds Of
thousand of wfge earners are idle, and
see loved ones hungry and hOllOw-eyed,
without ability to supply their wants OF
relieve their necessities. Can anyone
say that conditions would be any better
under Mr.. Taft as president? He ia
pledged to go on as Roosevelt started,
and although there is a lull in the pro-
ceedings now, yet if he is elected, he
will gather up the reins and drive at as
fast and furious r gait as Roosevelt did,
perhaps more effectively in destroying
values and causing misery and want,
for he is 8 man of much greater ability
than the present president. Those
democrats who regard Mr.. Bryan IS 6
patriot and state:man will, if he is nomi
mated, chetrfully vote for and support
him.
Those other democrats, who do mol
approve of all of Mr.. Bryan's policies,
should never forget that we are charged
with the duty Of driving from The coc-
troll of the gOvernmett plr.y intoxi'
Gated with fraud and corrupt on, and thi'
accomplished, We will have done much
for our country, race and civilization
And again that, with a democratic presi-
dent and republican senate, there would
be little likelihood of vicious, economic
legislation. Many would regard this
"bslauce of power IS blessing in thu
present critical period of our national sf
fairs. Evidences accumulate on 81
hands of Mr.. Brysn's nomination anC
election.
OF one thing we feel sure, that Vii
ginis, always loyal, always true' the veT,
rampant of constitutional and individns
freedom, will not desert or abandon th'
principles for which she has struggled
90 hard and suffered 90 much and s.
long.
TIE bureau of navigation announce
Oh Wednesday that the fiscal year ende'
June 30, was the record year in Amer