Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-11-01
MAKING FUN OF TEDDY
IN NEW YORK POLITICS
Called Ills Majesty and
"GOd'S AnOinted.


the current in this campaign is unmis-
taxable.
He splashes granily around without
apparently making any real headway
and the most powerful of all politica-
weapons-ridicule- being used ell
fectively against him.
The growing habit of the democrats
and large Numbers of republicans ct
referring ito him as His Majesty" "
The King and Gods Amounted" IS
making people laugh and renders it
impossible for them to take with much
seriousness his portentious' utterances
on the new nationalism" and his
fierce personal attack on Mr.. Dix.
Denounced as Humbug.
Add to this the fact that every day
E'e is bein gdenounced by the big New
York newspapers as "humbug' and
is subjected to the fiercest fire of his
whole political career, and it can be
realized the colonel Is experiencing
some pretty heavy weather. Every
time I've says upstate that one of his
policies is Thou shalt not steal" he
is asked next day why he does not in
clude the ninth commandment, Thou
should not bear false witness against
thy neighbor," and Lis charges against
Mr.. Dix are compared with the facts.
Every Inconsistency in his public
record is being brought out, and the
record is such as to place both him
and his party on the defensive, divert,
ing it from tie lines upon which 1t
had hoped to conduct the fight. The
main trouble with the republican cam
paign is a lack of concentration upon
single issue and inabality to find the
vulnerable point in the democratic ar
NOR.
No Solid Ground to Stand On.
The mud flung at Mr.. Dix has not
stuck, ana the bewilderink dashes Of
the colonel from one appeal to the
other, the multitudinous nature of his
pleas and the ferocity with which he
has seized upon comparatively I'M
Important things has befuddled the
fight on his side, and left his follow
ers without any real solid ground to
stand upon.
On the other hand, the democrats
from the start have had paramount
issue in Roosevelt himself. They are
agreed and united on it, and they pe--
nit no minor matter to interfere with
the task of hammering it home. The
democratic view of this situation was
lucidly expressed today by Mr.. Her
man Ridder, the distinguished editor
of the Stats Zeitung and president
OF the Independent Business Mems
League.
This league is playing no small par.
in the campaign. In it are many re-
publican business men who are op-
posed to the Roosevelt doctrines AMI
hope to express their disapproval by
the defeat of Mr.. Stimson.
"The Republican Bryan.
MFR. Rider in an interview WITH The
Sun correspondent said:
1T seems to me the situation here
now is similar to that when Bryan
ran for the presidency in 1896. Then
the gold democrats left their party
and supported Mckinley. Roosevelt is
he republican Bryan,
Il believe the election here will
astonisb the people of the country by
the extent of the democratic victory.
think very large percentage of re-
publicans who are in business fear
Roosevelt's wild talk, especially about
the Supreme court, and those who
favor law and order will vote against
the republican ticket as a reblke to his
greatness.
The fact that in one section of the
country he takes one position and in
another section exactly the opposite
position; that he will support high
tariff republican in one locality and an
insurgent in another has proved he
Is absolutely without any principle
and that he is a danger to the pros
perity of the country. l intend to vote
against the republican state ticket in
New York. in the hope that its defeat
will eliminate Roosevelt as a factor
two years from now.
''Of course, the high cost of living,
which is charged against the tariff IS
another cause of discomfort and has
driven many republicans into support
of the democratic candidates for con-
gress."