The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-17
SPELLS REFORM RI: u:
That Is the Meaning Of The Landslide and
Not a Mere Slap at Teddy.
ROOSEVELT A HUMBUG

OF the First Water Is; the General
Opinion Of Republicans and DEM
ocrats, But Many Democratic
Ideas Which He Stole and Pre-
tended to Stand for Are Good.
Zach lMcGhee, the accomplished
Washington correspondent af The
State, who made an extensive. tour
of the country just before the cleo
tton and gave his impression OF
things political in letters to The
State, is back on his job at Wash
ington, and is now writing once
more his interesting letters from the
capital of the nation to The State.
He says of course the one topic
of discussion in Washington is the
Democratic programme, But, cou-
pied with this equally, Iof course, is
a consideration of the the meaning
of the Democratic landslide. AS al
ready noted in this correspondence,
certain influences are being brought
to bear to persuade or to scare the
Democratic house into making a fool
of itself.
This Influence will be exerted with
unremitting endeavor from now on,
and it will require no little nerve
and strength of character on the part
OF theDemocrats who have been elect
ed to the Slxty-second congress to
resist 1t.
No effort will be spared by the
New York press to dominate the sit
uation. And the New York yapers
are particularly influential in the
South, where, unfortunately, many
people, including not few news
paper editors, take their cues from
what these New York papers say.
These New York papers, it should
be bourne in mind, really know less
about the real sentiment in the coun-
try as we'll as about the conditions
west Of the Hudson river than per-
haps any other newspapers In the
whole United States. But just be-
cause New York is big and the news
papers there are big, the people, eS-
pecially, I say, in the South, and
more especiallythose in newspaper
offices, read them and ere iafluenc-
ed by them.
Furthermore, most OF these New
York newspapers get their own pre-
vailing sentiment, honestly in most
cases, l believe, but surely, from the
financial districts of the great me-
tropilis, rather than from the rank
and file, the ordinary, everyday cit.
izen.
These papers have set out now,
and honestly again I ain willing to
concede, but mistakenly, to make
the whole country believe that the
recent Democratic landslide is tri-
umph for what they term "conserya-
tism," for the safe and sane Democ-
racy," which ought to be termed the
.'inane Democracy" This means
nothing, while the trusts, the finan-
cial sharks and other marauders loot
the people. This is the meaning Of
the continued harping en- squelching
Of Roosevelt.
Now there are those hereabouts
and they are among the keenest OBJ
servers Of politics in the country,
who think that this Democratic vic
tory means nothing Of the sort,
means not a repudiation Of Roosevelt
at all, but yepudiatiorl of the DOM
nance OF the Republican party by
those who are supposed to be the
enemies CT Roosevelt. Note, please,
the word supposed" Roosevelt is
:. humbug of the first water, and that
fact is practically admitted by ev-
cryboiy hereabouts, Democrats and
Republicans Of all shades.
1t has been so recognized herea-
bouts for long time. But at the
same time the things which Roose.
welt has been saying he is in favo-
CT are generally all right. The coun-
try wants them. The leaders of the
Democratic party wants them, so far
as they can be brought about with
in the constitution. Roosevelt has
failed to get them. He only keeps
on clustering about them. Thus he
IS a humbug.
The one towering leader, to whom
The Democrats in these parts are
turning now is Woodrow Wilson, just
elected governor Of New Jersey by
4 tremendous majority after conduct
ing a campaign of leadership which
I,really led somewhere. Prominent
Democrats here who are trying to
Influence the Democratic programme
with respect to the III easures which
have bee. hocoro II country the past
year, especially the tariff, are consid-
ering the desirability Of calling into
their conferences the. New Jersey
governor-elect.
Now I can say Of my own knowl-
edge that DR.. Wilson is not In any
sense what has been termed q re
octionary Ec dcos not fIrc- .-I
does not have any tolerance for the
methods of Roosevelt, having more