The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-09-30

ROOSEVELT'S DEARLY BOUGHT
VICTORY.

He beat them TO a FRAGILE, he did,
says the colonel. and so il is so. Aft
err all it is a pretty poor sort of a
triumph for the great and mighty eX-
president. to whom his party through
out the nation was supposed to bow
the knee, that he should be able aft
er weeks of most strenuous endeavor
and only after he had appealed 10
and obtained from the president Of
the United States countenance and
support against crowd of discreiit-
ed politicians in his own state, 10
wiring by a ten per cent majority an
election as temporary chairman OF a
partisan convention, which will nomi-
nate a candidate to be beaten to 8.
frazzle at the general election six
weeks hence The colonel was ever
one to take satisfaction in his achieve
ments, however small in reality they
might he. Because they are his they
are in his eyes exalted. And so rs
thinks that he has scored a world
resounding triumph in winning the
right to preside for a day over the
republican state convention and make
the keynote speech, in which for
| the first time, by the way. he laid
some adequate tribute to the ma 10 al
administration of President Taft,
whom he had despitefully entreate
until he got into a close corner and
needed the presidents c0untenanro
Probably this tribute to Taft vas ile
price the colonel paid for the pres-
dents giving over to him the use o.
the federal officeholders in New Ymk
as delegates in the convent On tho
bulk of whom, being appontscs tf
the colonel himself while liz VAS
president, were corralled Nv him f)r
this occasion. and set upon re hoes
of Sunny Jim sherman. TO bring MN
down for the coloneTs plelsu,s.
Anyway the great bajlc is over
and Roosevelt has had his little eX-
citement. He has had to sit and lis
ten to an eXcoriation of himself and
a denunciatiCn of his record by a
hack politician in open forum; he
has had to bear the arraignment of
the little bosses he formerly drove
to his harness; he has had to stand
out and take punishment and he has
had the glamor pretty thoroughly rub
he'd off his legendary character That
he has lost infinitely more than he
has gained is beyond question. That he
has lost so much that he can never
again mount to the great heights he
formerly sat upon may, we think, be
confidently accepted. For the first
time since he reached the presiden-
cy has he had men stand up and
make a finish fight against him, give
him taunt 70 taunt and read his rec
ord clear. He has brought his party
organization in New York state, al
ready in deplorable condition, TO
complete wreck, without setting M
any new standards to which the peo-
pie will rally. He has. substituted
one set of losses for another and he
which he has made no effort to COM
pose and which is not TO be compos-
ed Indeed the old guard, going down
to defeat before his Onslaught. have
dragged the pillars of the temple
with them. and the colonel will be as
deep ins the ruins as any of them.
lie has captured the organization and
written the platform and will nomi-
nate the candidates and he win be
responsible for the defeat instead OF
the old guard. The defeat of the re.
publican party in New York this fall
is certain II the democrats govern
themselves with any sort of wisdom
at Rochester and it looks as If they
will do that. And Theodore Roose.
welt must account for the disaster in
very large measure. When he looks