The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-12-12
PUTTING ON THE SCREWS AGAIN


A recent dispatch from Washington
to a Tennessee paper says: Dele
gates from Tennessee and other
Southern states to the next repub-
lican national convention, if they de
sire to 90 there to vote for w. H.
Taft for the nomination for president,
must make it plainly known that they
intend to do this first, last and all
the time. In other words, the Taft
campaign managers have decided that
delegates shall be bound by an iron
clad agreement to contemplate and
act to no other purpose. Orders to
that effect will 90 forth Immediately
after the meeting of the national COM
mittee in Washington next month. 1t
is intended that no risks shall be
yentured." Which leads Mark Suili-
van, of Golfers Weekly, to remark:
1T is only one more of a long Sc
ries Of disappointments and incon-
sigtencies. From two speeches that
were made by Taft in the South dur
ing the earliest days Of his admins
tratlon, the Southern people extract
ed the hope that the perennial scan
daI of the Southern federal machine
and the Southern republican delegate
would be ended by him."
That is putting it rather strong
Mr.. Tafts promises to the South were
to respect community sentiment in
the appointment Of federal officials in
this section, to the point, at least,
of making the Southern people feel
that the government was their gov
eminent. There We're to be no more
Crum cases. 1t must be said that
the president has lived up to his many
promises, and has put into federal of
flee in the South men of character
and acceptability in the several COM
munities they have been appointed TO
serve. Nobody thought seriously, we
suppose, that the old practice of bag
ging delegates in the South would be
abandoned, except insofar as the pos
sibilities of the custom were restrict
cd by the political limitations Of the
oificeholders These are doubtless
rather severe in the general run Of
cases, or, at any rate, in many Of
them. The men whom President Taft
has appointed to Office in the South
are not generally speaking, adopts
at the art of rounding up delegates
for the republican national conven-
ton. They have not been working
cogs in the republican machine, nor
have they shown a disposition to get
down to the business that used to be
engaged in exclusively by the old
time republican officeholder in this
section. Mr.. Taft's appointees, as a
rule, have neither the stomach nor
the understanding for such employ
ment Nevertheless and notwith-
standing they will doubtless have to
get good deal closer to the political
situation than they are disposed to
do by nature, in the months that
still stretch between now and the
holding of the republican national
convention-and there are not many
OF those months.
They win not find the job easy,
and they will have no heart in their
task, and Mr.. Taft's managers are go
ing to find the dulling effects on the
political trade in the South of the
presidents elevated standard of APP
pointments to office Incidentally. it
is going to be amusing or pathtslc.
according 10 the temper of the OBJ
server, to note the unwonted and
unwelcome engagement Of Mr.. Taft's
high class officeholders in delegate
rounding up from this time forward.
TIE driver of the steam roller viii find
that the parts of the machine are not
in The best of working order.