The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-10-19
ROOSEVELT JANUs-FACED.
I'M the Savannah Press.

From the Savannah Press.
The other day in Atlanta during a
confidential moment Colonel Paxon
of that city, who is a genial and
magnetic citizen, is quoted as hav-
ing said to Colonel Roosevelt, in an
swer to his exclamation that the
latter would like to carry one or
two southern states, Give US
chance, and we will show you what
we can do for you"
Now, the strong point of the south
ern gentleman is courtesy. When
you enter the house of Spaniards and
admire anything they inform you
that it is your house" SO when
Colonel Roosevelt wished that this
all too solid south should melt"
Colonel Paxon graciously informed
him that he might have Atlanta for
this asking. OF course, no one
takes this kind of promise seriously.
Colonel Paxon hardly intended it to
be such. Colonel Roosevelt may
have believed it, because he is pre-
pared to believe that anything is
possible for himself.
Two weeks ago the ex-president
announced his remarkable doctrine
of the new nationalism" at Ossa-
watomie, the Kansas town identified
with John Brown. Then the colonel
burst into this eulogy of John Brown,
the horse thief and agitator.
John Brown stands to us
now as representing the men
and the generation who render
ed the greatest service ever rem
dered this country He stood for
heroic valor, grim energy,
fierce fidelity to high ideals.
A great debt is owed to John
| Brown because he is one of the
most striking figures in the
mighty struggle which was to
keep us forever a free and unit
ed nation, which was to secure
the continuance of the most
tremendous democratic expert
| ment ever tried. He did much
in his life, and more in his
death; he embodied the inspira-
| ton of the men of his genera
ton John Browns work
was brought to completion
by the men who bore aloft the
banner of the union during the
four terrible years which inter
vened between Sumter and Ap-
pOmattOx.
NO wonder Virginia paper asked
Colonel Roosevelt to repeat that
stuff to his southern audiences" Of
course he did not Without belit-
thing the many honest and sincere
men and wOmen-even the fanatics
who worked in and out of season
against slavery it is a fact that the
man John Brown was an anarchist.
He was probably insane His anti
slavery raid was the fOray of an I'M
balanced mind. His reputation was
not the best, and he went about the
country with all sorts OF wild
schemes in his head. Compared
with the craftsmanship and breadth
of Lincoln the crazy agitation of
John Brown is not worthy of men
ton. After all, as the Norfolk
Landmark says, it may have been
natural for Colonel Roosevelt to
! have admired John Brown and to
commend his lawless raids. All the
same, the colonel is too shrewd a
politician to talk about John Brown
| in the states which suffered the most
from the result Of John Browns an
archy.
But when Colonel Roosevelt be-
gins to talk about breaking the solid
south and then utters such yawps
! about John Brown he is dealing in
! irreconcilable language. One speech
was made for Kansas and the other
| sigh was framed for Atlanta. In the
east Colonel Roosevelt alluded to the
Payne-Aldrich tariff bill as an i'm
provement over the last tariff bill.
Then out west and south he repu-
dated it. When the colonel was
wishing for the loyalty of the south
/ ern people he might have forgotten
temporarily his eulogy of the fanat-
ic Of Ossawatomie.