The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-04-14

WASHINGTON, D. Cit does not
behoove any one in the southern
states to get excited over the widely
promulgated new order of things
with respect to federal offices, popu-
larry known as pie"
At the beginning of each admin
,istration the new order of things, ="
square deal" for the south, under
standing the SOUTH" and that sort
of thing is heard. Nor can any one
possessed of any memory who has
kept acquainted with such matters
for the brief space of seven years
have any delusions about the real
status of things, or be unable to con-
template with a fair degree Of prOph-
ecy in his soul what is going to be.
For never before or since in the his
tory of post bellum times was so
much heard about the wiping out of
party lines, the new order of
things" as to the south, as at the
beginning of Mr.. Roosevelt's career
as president.
Mr.. Roosevelt was going to walk
''pie dispensers" in the south tech
nically known as the republican
party" clean out of business. He
was "half-southerner," you may re-
member, his mother having been
born in Georgia. If you haven't a
good memory, or if you have been |
led into deIusiOns referred to, just
go to the newspaper files of 1902 !
and read what you see on the front |
and the editorial pages Of southern |
papers about at last having a re-
publican president who was lin SYM !
pathy with the south. Read espe- |
cially the accounts Of President |
Roosevelt, half SOutherner's visit to !
the Charleston Exposition and the |
comments on him and what he was |
"going to do Nor is Mr.. ROOSe- |
welt, in spite of the impression you |
may get from reading the papers of |
that time, the only republican presi- !
dent that was going to give the south |
a Square deal" Ever since the adj !
vent of Gen. Grant, who the story /
books say returned the sword to Gen. |
Lee under the famous apple tree"
which never Was-this sort of rot |
has been heard. 1t may be that be-
cause of Mr.. ROOsevelt's southern
mother and because he was an adept |
at inventing such phrases as the !
square deal" which were never in !
tended to be anything but phrases, !
and for the additional reason that |
he had managed to advertise himself ,
pretty widely as civil service re- |
former the southern people, who !
always prefer to take man at his !
word, the new order of things" was /
more generally believed in than at
any previous time.
Roosevelt, Now Taft.
And now Mr.. Taft is with US, a
man who for years before he become
president made for himself an inter
national reputation for Josh p" Just
as usual at the beginning of a new
administration southern democratic
senators and representatives, decid
ing that the election being over and
a republican president was in the
white house for the next four years,
they had just as we'll lay aside all par
tisanship, go in unto the president, /
and get a few slices of the pie
There is spread out before them the
land of Opportunity, made the more
oppOrtune by reason of the fact that
Mr. Taft desires to break the solid
south" very particular POliti-
clans are famous for the possession
of good ''fOrgitteries." Forgetting
those things that are behind, in
Guiding how they went to the white
house seven years ago, beaming with
the delusions of hope, they are 60
ing again. And they come back
with the same old tales about the
'tnew order of things"
The referee system" is going to
be broken up; the chosen repre-
sentatives of the people are going to
be recognized; the southern people
are to be treated no longer as prov
inces, but as an integral part of the
union; no negroes need apply; all
undesirable citizens are to be elimi-
mated; there is to be mo north, no
south, no east, no west" and all the
other periodically recurring rot
The Taft Regime.
Mr.. Taft is a pretty good fellow
there is no denying that, and it has
not been denied, but he was elected
president of the United States by the
astute manipulations of the republic
can machine. More than that, he
was first nominated at the national
convention by the exceedingly as
tute and energetic manipulations of
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