The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-09-14
Sins OF TEDDY
Overlooked by the Great Mass Of the
People Of this Country.
uses BRYAN'S IDEAS

People of the Wcs, Seem TO Ignore
Roosevelt Using the Platform Of
the Great Comnoner.-Truth is
Mighty. but 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 coc:per-
sation. They have told US that truth
is mighty and will prevail. that truta
crushed 70 earth Will rise again. thu,
as delicately and as accurately bfl-
anced as old mother earth is on its
axis. and as accurate. is there like
balance in all human affairs real
" wonder II il is so. Thus soi'-
quizes Zach McGhee in letter 10 the
State after hearing Roosevelt speak
at Kansas City. Mo-. to thousands
OF people.
After mentioning the great ova-
tons to Roosevel: wherever he
went in the West. and for particular.
ly at Kansas City. where he heard
him speak. McGhee says that great
ovation 20 Roosevelt witnessed was
last night. Early this morning /
went down to the union station u
Kansas City 70 take the train I am
on. On the way down l read the
paper describing the throns OF peo-
pie who last night followed him to
the station. and I recalled the
crowds Of enthusiastic people haG
watched lining the streets yesterday
as he passed along. Edging my way
through the seeth!ng. jammins. ell
howing. almost sufocating time OF
the day or the night at this throns
one always encounters at any Kan
sas City station. came to a place
| little less crowded than elsewhe
and there in corner alone and un-
noticed by any one Of the watt crowd
save one young man. came sudden
! IL upon William Jennings Bryan.
! He had lectured somewhat in Mis-
sourri las, night and was going 20
lecture in another town near Kansas
City tomorrow. I watched his grip
for him while he wen: into tele-
phone booth. Then he shook hands,
remarked that he was interested IL
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.
And he left me with some mighty
thoughts surging through my brain
which my typewriter IS wholly un-
equal 70. so they TilfsEot be inscrib'
ed. Not All Of them will: but. &c
you know that I have been sitting
all this day looking out Of the car
window and wondering il il is real
l. true tha. Truth is mighty and
will prevail. at least wondering X /,
will during our generation. Here
saw the man who would have been
president o; the United States in.
stead OF Roosevelt, IL it had not been
for wholesale and criminal corrup-
ton OF the electorate in 1895. 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 a:
the initiative and referendum, rail-
road regulation and others since
come 70 be almost universally recog-
niZed as inevitable as we'll as right
was taken as an excuse for denuuc!-
alton by the very men who bought
the presidency for Roosevelt-here
was this man in one CT 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 intvigues 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 4 god.
Had the great monied interest OF
the country not put up their many
millions into the hands OF Mark
Hanna 20 purchase votes. directly
and indirectly. in 1895. which mon
ey was used 10 corrupt the electorate
in Ohio. Indiana. Illinois. in sereTa!
far Western States. Mckinley would
not have been elected and Roosevelt
would never have been preSiden".
The Srca: impetus Of his picturesque
and vigorous personality. the disS4i-
isfaction OF the people. especially Of
the Middle West. with ;he 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 1900
anywav But 20 make his election
sure he called upon Hartman. th..
railroad king. TO help him 10 raise
n corruption fund. and he entered
in;o a Scandaious bargain with ;he
Mormon church. which agreed 20
turn over 20 him the electoral vo,.s
o! several States in return for his
guarantee hat Reed Sn..o: w.n:I
hold his seat in the United SAFES
cenat.
When See the continued adula-
tior OF Roosevelt printed in The
newspapers Throughout, the country.
in many Of whose Offices ! know TIE
editors and reporters 10 know th..
many such facts as have named
above concerning Mr. Roosevelt. 10