Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-03-16
Dreaming OF Prosperity To Come

A dfsrusted old Democrat writes con-
earning the great gush and rush 10 get
Iook al President Taft, and thinks that
the people who paid twenty-five aohaIs
each to be able to eat at the same taoie
doun in New Orleans viii wake up one
~ these days to discover that we have
rot about the usual style Of Republican
president. and that biscuits and honey VIII
he as scarce as ever after the Ath OF
1f.rrh unless the wOol-hat boys get
down 10 the same old lick OF hard work
and cultivate nine cents cotton 10 ouy
-four.
4 believe there ought to be limit TO
such man-worship as well as 10 dreamlhg
Of prosperity under such conditions, out
a was the same old thing when the seer
samuel told the Israelites what they
would certainly get Ito their share) az
Ter thew cIamored so strenuOusly for a
king 10 rule over them and Saul was
picked out to be their king
but. what do you expect from the IN
coming PRESIDENT" may be a question
uropounded to me at this time l can
ar~zrer II very truthfully when l say, l
expect to see Mr.. Taft do what the Re
publican party leaders want him TO do
and exactly what they have been doing
ever since the war. namely, 10 take good
care TO keep all the Offices in their own
grip and keep on good terms with the
great syndicates who contribute money 10
elect their candidates. and then please
and placate the darkies, while they frown
and scowi at the Chinese and japanese
out on the Pacific slope. II gives them
no embarrassment to blow hot and cold
from the same mouth!
THAT il exactly what I expect. and
while there may be an occasional so-called
Democrat selected here and there, 10 MI
an once in the southern states, We VIII
find such an officehOlder TO be very good
Republican TO all intents and purposes as
soon as he gets the seat warm and finds
Il possible TO draw a good salary BY posing
as a quasi Democrat, and yet hold the
place under bona hde Republican man.
agement and control
This is modern politics. This is the way
II has been worked ever since Lincoln
time. and Mr.. Taft himself Is part OF a
great big machine. and he can't do any
other way ard keep his place. All the
rest is fuss and feathers
Maybe the dinner guests down in New
orleans got their moneys worth (but
doubt iu when they paid IS plate TO put
their knees under the same dinner table
and look at the president-elect while he
ate. but II they supposed that would make
the new president do anything more for
the southern states than his political
bosses expect. or viii allow TO have done
then they were only dreaming OF politlcal
prosperity and have their trouble for their
pains
There we're ninety thousand negroes liv-
ing in Pennsylvania several years ago
There are a large number in many north
srn states. These colored voters can have
a s.say-so" whenever they hold the bal
ance Of power. and IL there is anybody
40 green. ana gosling-y as 10 think negro
. ruIe in the south is over and done with,
why then he Is not smart enough TO md
his way 10 the spring to get drink OF
water on a moonlight night.
II is the same old thing and will pro-
xress in the same old style, and so long
as the Republican party Is IN the saddle
n Will 20 the same old way. Put that In
your pipe and smoke e..