The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-09-08
Sins OF TEDDY
Overlooked by the Great Mass Of the
People Of this Country.
uses BRYAN'S IDEAS

USES BkYANS IDEAS
People of the West Seem to Ignore
Roosevelt Using the Platform of
the Great Commoner.-Truth is
Mighty, bnt the Public is Very
Blind to it.
They say, the philosophers do,
that for all things great and small
in this world there is Just coEpen-
sation. They have told us that truth
is mighty and will prevail, that truth
crushed to earth will rise again, the I
as delicately and as accurately bel
anced as old mother earth is on its
axis, and as accurate, is there like
balance in all human affairs. real
ly wonder if it is so." Thus SOLO
quizes Zach McGhee in letter to the
State after hearing Roosevelt speak
at Kansas City, Mo-, to thousands
Of people.
After mentioning the great ova-
tions to Roosevelt wherever he
went in the West, and for particular
ly at Kansas City, where he heard
him speak, McGhee says that great
ovation to Roosevelt witnessed was
last night. Early this morning
went down to the union station in
Kansas City to take the train ] am
on. On the way down I read the
paper describing the throng of peo-
pie who last night followed him to
the station, and I recalled the
crowds of enthusiastic people I had
watched lining the streets yesterday
as he passed along. Edging my way
through the seething, jamming, ell
bowing, almost suffocating time of
the day or the night at this throng
one always encounters at any Kan
sas City station, came to a place
a little less crowded than elsewhere
and there In corner alone and un-
noticed by any one Of the watt crowd
s1ve one young man, came sudden
iy upon William Jennings Bryan.
He had lectured somewhat in Mis-
sourri last night and was going to
lecture in another town near Kansas
City tomorrow. / watched his grip
for him. while be went into tele-
phone booth Then he. shook hands,
remarked that he was interested in
watching the way the Republican
conventions were adopting the Dem
ocratic doctrines, smiled pleasantly,
picked up his grip and edged his
way through the throng to catch his
train. 49,,
And he left ME with some mighty
thoughts surging through my brain,
which my typewriter is wholly un-
equal to, so they will not be inscrib-
ed. Not all Of them will; but, do
you know that I have been sitting
all this day looking out of the car
window and wondering If it is real:
ly true that Truth is c4ighty and
will prevail, at least wondering If 1t
will during our generation. Here
saw the man who would have been
president of the United States in
stead of Roosevelt If 1t had not been
for wholesale and criminal corrup-
tion Of the electorate in 1896, the
man who first gave national voice
to the great policies which Roosevelt
took up after his election had twice
been bought for him, the man whose
championship for such measures as
the initiative and referendum, rail-
road regulation and others since
come to be almost universally recog-
nized as inevitable as well as right
was taken as an excuse for denunci-
alton by the very men who bought
the presidency for Roosevelt-here
was this man in one of the great
cities of the country alone and un'
noticed, while the one who had prof.
tied by the corruption, himself
caught in one of the most scandal
GUS political intrigues in the history
of our country, and who now has ia
ken up the Bryan policies because
he sees them inevitable, is hailed as
almost a god.
Had the great monied interest o1
the country not put up their many
millions into the hands of Mark
Hanna to purchase votes, directly
and indirectly, in 1896. which mon
ey was used to corrupt the electorate
in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, in several
far Western States, Mckinley would
not have been elected and Roosevelt
would never have been president
The great impetus of his picturesque
and vigorous personality, the dissat
isfaction of the people, especially d
the Middle West, with the methods
employed in the nomination of Judge
Parker, and the sentiment about the
assassination of Mckinley which
kept men in the Republican party
might have elected Roosevelt in 190t
anyway. But to make his election
sure he called upon Hartman, the
railroad king, to help him to ra'st