The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-11-09
The ANSWER OF THE PEOPLE

The results of yesterdays general
elections all over the cCarfTy we're
Tot great surprises TO tsose who have
Kept in close touch with the political
rend of the last twelve months or
more. Toe passage of the Payne-..l-
lrich tariff bill. the most Ubiquitous
system OF plumber ever perpetrated
upon the American people, in direct
conflict with the promise OF the re-
jublicans previous TO the last pres,
lential elections, created tee first
real revolt against the present re-
publican administration.
With the tariff alone as an issue
the fate of the republican party would
have been sealed at the elections OF
yesterday Dut with the coming
home of Roosevelt, the mighty hunter,
rom the jungles of Africa, intoxicat-
ed with the attention danced upon
America In foreign lands. mistaken
~ him for personal laudation, greedy
for more power and conniving 10
selfish man wrecked every vistige o.
opportunity for his party and heaped
It's chaotic mass upon bis own
mirhapened shape.
When the deep and careful think
er In the republican party gets out
OF the mist of defeat now surrounding
him and sizes up the situation and
the causes be will find 1t In a SIN
gle word Roosevelt.
No people, however much they
may admire man. could possibly
condone his conduct when it seeks
the yernacular of the deprayed bully
for it's inspirations Mr.. Roosevelt
has stalked up and down tie country
for more than sixty days attempt
Ing to wreck the character of goo1
men and refusing to make amends
wren convincing proof had been ST.
mitted TO show him in error. Ills
disregard for facts, for customs, for
individuals and even for the courts,
has been so pronounced and so boil
rs TO become nauseous and disgust
ing in the minds of sincere and don
est people. His attack alone on
nudge baldwin. elected governor OF
Connecticut yesterday, was enough 70
Dive from him The support OF any
man not welded 10 party and not
blinded by partisanshipt Only a few
months ago this same man denounced
Hearst as the real assassin Of Presi.
dent Mckinley and yet in this fighs
today he worked cheek-hy-lowI with
Hearst and embraced his principles
IN the one hope of gratifying an ali.
normal appetite for honor, power am
glory
He preached the insurgency OF
t}es ll10se IN Indiana and caught the
next train for Boston, where ne ex
pounded the stand-pat gospel to Ca
| bot Lodge! In Wyoming he inNeish-
ed against the supreme court ahd
its rulings while in Baltimore he
preached against the mob. lie has
oraded over the country as tn
sworn enemy OF the trusts and 81
PREDATORY intereaf generally yet i,
l,as been shown that the trusts were
his heaviest campaign contributors
and Attorney Earle of Philadelphia
has shown beyond doubt that he re
fused to prosecute the sugar trust
while ne sanctioned the conduct OF
the United States Setel corporation In
absorbing the Tenneshsee Coal ani
Iron company against the specific
| provisions of the Sherman law.
And so we could go on ad infinitun
with impeachments against Roosevelt
sufficiently strong to damn hin for
ever in the minds of fair people
| The republican party has not beer
beaten so badly, nor have the demo
Gratis won so nobly-but great PEG
! lie III their might and through the
only course left open TO them, hav,
risen and smited TO the sands of tn
earth the most dangerous man of til,
century with policies even mort
dangerous than the sedition ideas
which defeated Federalists years ans
years ago However the democrats
/ have a great opportunity, the creates
/ they have had since the days of Gro
Yer Cleveland and they should move
cautiously, With yesterdays results
| they have new presidential timber
and II they will hue to the line. fol
lowing closely the original democrac
of the fathers, they viii land presi
] dent in the White House in 1912 ant
that too In time to save the countrS
and become Its real redeemer