The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-11-05
AS MARsE HENRY SEES HIM.

The following is from the gifted
pen of Editor Henry Watters0n, OF
the Louisville Courier Journal, and it
is a splendid portrayal of the incon-
sisteRcy of Theodore Roosevelt,
whom the American people, unless
all political signs fail, will retuke
and repudiate at the polls on next
| Tuesday:
beginning at the headwaters of
The Nile and working around through
europe and America to the mouth of
the Hudson. Col Roosevelt has as
\ sumed the role Of one eminent for
! sincerity and loftiness of purpose, If
not isolated by superiority of virtue
Has he proved himself as single
minded as he has proclaimed him
self to be?
! He declares himself the champion
of liberty, and proposed new nation
| alism which would make Washington
toe seat of depotism compared with
which European seats Of government
| would seem to be strOn5holds Of
democratic rule and which would
make an American president the
r"9t"St autOcrat OF the Twentieth
century. lila y (
lie declares himself the enemy OF
mob rule and the upnolder of law and
order which can exist only under the
law enforced through the constituted
channels, yet he calls the United
states supreme court a fossilized in
stitution, passing upon the decisions
Of specialists in law with the inssou-
Glance of specialist in agitation
who does not know the law and
whose method is habitually one of as
sault rather than of argument.
He declares himself the enemy Of
tossism in New York and constitutes
himself the boss of els political par
ty. His personally conducted conven-
ton adopts planks contradictory of
the principles he has enunciated in
other parts of the country. When
called to account for the utterances
Of his convention re attempts TO
dodge the issue by declaring that he
will be bound only by his own per
stnai statements.
lie advocates the elecfl0p of an
in3urgent senator in Indiana ana Il
standpat senator in NeH York, Inc
two being equally respecta' lie persons
but Numerically opposeq in their
theories of good governm Els.
He poses as an enemy of 'Canaon.
! ism, but when forced TO make a
statement with regard to the tariff
| he reveals himself an advoc.,ta OF lie
| tariff system for which his silence
| and the output of the White House
press agents-held Mr.. Cannon re-
sponsible during the term of Office.
He denounces Murpny and Wall
street in unmeasured TENS in 1910,
although money from Wall street f.
nanced the Roosevelt campa' ~ IN
/ 1904.
lie charges Mr. Dix with bai4e il
/ the wall paper trust and when proof
/ OF the untruthtulness OF the asser.
ton is submitted, and is sufficiently
convincing to make the leaders in
New York City drop the issue, he
proceeds upstate and reiterates the
charge
He declares himself the enemy of
all special privileges and upholds the
principle of special privilege upon
which the Payne-Aldrich law is
based
Yet in all this there is IN no found
the jewel of Roosevelt consistency.
throughout n strenuous career in o.
4 ice Col Roosevelt kept up drum
! ana trumpet reform movement in the
front yard while maintaining the en-.
tente cordial with the tariff makers
+ and other benefciaries of special in.
/ toHest le- islation at ne side door His
/ consistency les now. as ii Law then
/ in his pursuit OF what is Nulgarly
/ called the main chance. lis present
/ battle is not fought for principles and
/ the regeneration of New YORK hui
/ Tor personal power If he should lose
and his defeat now seems more prob
able han victory, his failure as di-
rector of affairs in New York would
/ reduce the pro ability of his sue
/ cess in 1912 to a minimum. But
/ If he should win there would re.
main two years in which the sober.
minded voters of the United States
could consider tie ..,v,Slou o4 E..
] reelection in 1872.