Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-10-19
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SAYS EX-PFesideRi, If Successful in
Work, VIII Make Aaron Burr Re-
spectacle and CIOthe Jefferson
Davis in Robes Of Living Light.


ne came 10 t.1e head OF affairs, has
burst upon the country sooner than
those who foresaw il hal been ex-
pecting
The people OF the Empire State a-e
actually face TO face with ii If the ex-
Presl Dent WIG stands clearly revealed
+. as a conspiraJor against the laws and
liberties of his country can hoodwiak
the voters OF New York and elect =
ticket put forth solely to try bis
scheme OF treason and 10 test Is
strength.
The call VIII be assumed and the
case made up for 1912 Ten it may
be too late for the people 70 say:
we could not believe it
@Taft Talks Like a SfmpletOn."
Mr.. Taft talks like a simpIeton. or
makes himself party 10 the conspiracy
when ne authorizes Mr.. Roosevelt's
very nominee. his man Of all work AMI
cats-paw, Mr.. stimson. to say othe,-
wise It Is a tendency Of the time, e
fected BY the Eabits Of its newspapers,
TO magnify the little ana belittle tae
great.
The press mas dealt so long in pick
wickian politics that it seems incap-
able Of addressing itself earnestly to
questions Of real pith and moment. 1t
cheats itself and encourages its read
ers 10 believe that we are exceptional
as a nation and a people, that the gov
ernmentaI crises which have over TAX
en- other lands and races can never
reach US; that we are. as it were, an
nointed and chosen OF God
Yet within the experience of living
men We have rad a gigantic sectional
war and have seen three chief magis-
trates shot down before our eyes.
On the Brink of Disasters.
by the narrow margin Of a single
vote we were spared the Mexicaniza-
ton Of the republic through TIE par
tisan Impeachment Of , President who
had done no legal wrong. in order that
kis place might be taken by the leader
Of a chance majority in TIE Senate.
"The menace OF civil war through a
disputed count Of tie electoral vote
made possible by deadlock in Con-
gress was only ayerted by an extra
judicial tribunal unknown to our cleo
toraI system.
no modern nation-neither France,
nor England-neither Germany, Aug
tria, nor Italy-has passed through
greater or bloodier yicissitudes dlJ-
ing modern times or made sucJ hail.
breadth escapes as We have within
half a century
New SatiOnalism Called Treason.
IF secession was treason in Jeff4r-
son Davis, the New Nationalism is
treason. in Theodore Roosevelt, but.
while the doctrine Of secession
grounded itself in tie organic law AMI
was put forth as a constitutional right,
the theories OF the New Nationalism
are in open defiance Of the organic Law
and are proclaimed as a plan to sub
vert the Constitution.
Under the plea of peaceful seces-
sion majority Of the people of thu
South were lured into a disastrous
war. If they could have foreseen Il,
there would have been no war.
Under the plea and transparent
sugar coating of righteousness Theo-
dore Roosevelt seeks to lure the pe3-
pie Of the North into tie lifting Of tas
time limit set upon the Presidency by
the thlrd+erm tradition and, under the
promise Of millennium he has no
means Of fulfilling nor any thought q
essaying, to return him to power
A Napoleon III Or a Diaz Impends.
THAT could only mean life tenure
and precisely the same kind Of pers-
onal government the French had under
Louis Napoleon and the Mexfcans have
lunder Diaz.
"As surely as the cry of peaceful
secession carried out in overt act led
to sectional war will the cry of the
New Nationalism, if it can be achieved
by overt act, lead to civil war.
"If the campaign in New York has
no relation to 1912, as Mr.. Taft weak y
declares, let Mr.. Roosevelt at once de-
clare himself to that effect and give
adequate bond that he will not change
his mind.
Unless he does this. he gives the
lie direct not alone to Taft but to all
who support the Saratoga ticket.
Snakes Aaron Burr Respectable"
'He viii do nothing of the kind. He
viii go blindly forward promulgatilg
his weH-concocted plan of revolution.
arraying the people against the courts.
the classes against one another, SOW
ing broadcast in the land disease, de-
struction and death to our system Of
representative government, with It's
tried, true and all-sufficient constitu-
tional checks and balances, until Le
makes Aaron Burr respectable and
clothes Jefferson Davis in robes
OF living light"
failure at Harper's Ferry. Clearly
Mr.. Willard believes that it was in the
way he met deatiJ rather than in the