The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-10-15

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We often wonder if it is not the
7 fear of the dire calamity they see in
/ store for them that forces the repuD-
! lican party to embrace the very fool
/ ish idea that this is the time 10 build
/ mp great republican party in Tie
south and that 1912 is the accepted
time to carry one or more of the
/ southern states for the republican
candidate for president. Roosevelt,
ON bis visit to the south a few days
ago declared that he would make the
race for president again in 1912 if
he was real sure that he could carry
even single southern state. Presi-
dent Taft, under the erroneous adj
vice of John Hays Hammond has been
lead TO relieve that the democracy of
the south is anxious and waiting to
take headlong dive into the ranks
Of the republican party
AS a matter Of fact there is less
tenuencv in tnat direction in this sec
ton than has been the case in many
years. The tariff bill, the antics of
Roosevelt, the wrangles in the ranks
OF the republican party, the scandals
and wrong doings of the party in
power and the many other things,
makes it necessary for that party Il
fight for its very life in it's former
strong holds, much less broadening
out into such rock-ribE ed democratic
sections as the south. AS the esteem
ed Savannah Press says, in discuss
ing this very ubject:
1t is astonishing how clever man
like Judge Taft should cling to the
fetch of breaking up the democratic
party in the south. Ever since Col
John Hayes Hammond organized his
chain of republican clubs the delusion
has deepened that the time is ripe
FOR the establishment Of a zig repuj-
lican party in the south.
Two years ago the work commenc-
ed in Augusta, but did not thrive.
With all the social and personal pres
tieo which President Taft could com
mand, the work Of reDgblicanizing the
south did not develop. Col John
Hayes Hammond went back to his
mines and President Taft devoted
himself 10 the details OF his admins
tration.
Still the specter OF broken south
will not down. We hear that there
viii be a newspaper started in Viz
ginia that is to Re heavily subsidized
and that a prominent southerner is
to no or,plOva6 IN o1;t ~ rT-h;c CDb
sidized paper is presumably 10 be the
entering wedge of the new party. A
newspaper started in an uncongenial
soil with nothing back of it but a po-
lijcal subsidy would be poor kind
of organ and the republican party
which rests upon such support would
not be much of a party after all.
In fact this year the republican
party will do well if it can hold what
il has bought up in the north. The
signs of the times are that it is about
to give up several important states
in the north and northwest. 1t will
| probably lose the house of congress
and forfeit seve"ai Governors. This
is hardly an suspicious time to carry
the war into the enemy's camp. Tie
old delusion that the solid south can
be broken this year will he a barren
one. The republicans may get Ten
nessee because of a local division. but
they won't hold it long We will adj
wise Col. John Hayes Hammond to
help the administration in he disin-
tegrating north before he comes down
and turns his arteries upon the "all
too solid" south.