The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-04-18
OUR TEDDY BOY
PONTIUS PLATE
Senator Jones of Washington
Denounces Roosevelt
Doctrines.

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: the Senate today as the counterpart
Of Pontius plate.
The picture was drawn by Senator
Jones, of Washington, who sketched
as the groundwork the recent De
trOit speech Of the former president
eondemning the votes of the major
ity of the Lorimer committee, favor
able 10 the Illinois senator, as not
being responsive to the sentiment
of their constituencies.
This is the latest rule for judicial
action suggested by this self-pro-
Ielaimed leader of progress" said
Senator Jones. Because We have
not followed it We are not progress
lsive, but reactionary. This was the
rule of action followed by plate
! rearly ninteen hundred years ago.
This is the first time, j venture to
say, in our history or in the history
of any civilized people, that Pilates
rule Of judicial action has met the
approval of any man save those who
would cruelty Jesus, and only de-
spise him for following it.
'Tf former President Roosevelt
had been standing on one side when
jPilate delivered Jesus to the Jews.
after having examined into the
charges and found no fault in him
but, at the demand of the people,
turned him over to them for cruel
fxion, he would have clapped his
hands and exclaimed most right
eous, most honorable, most jus.
Judge At least he would have don<
this IL he had been as progressive
then as he is now. 1 am charitable
enough to believe, however. that he
would have been a reactionary."
| Senator Jones prefaced his speech
by saying that those who expected
to hear the sensational would be
disappointed and that those ex-
pecting discussion of the. presi-
Dental campaign need not listen.
He said he would not discuss poll
tics. He recited rapidly conditions
which made the present time pros
tperous, but said that with every
thing to make US happy I'VE are en-
gagged in saturnalia of political
lvituperation."
| Justice and fair dealing are
thrown to the winds ,''he added.
Appeals to passion and prejudice
displace reason and logic. vileness
and corruption are sought for eager.
lily and we rejoice If we are sue
cessfui in our search. Sinister mo-
tiyes prompt those who disagree with
Us and none is good save ourselves.
Under the banner of progression,
anarchy is preached in honeyed
phrase and fulsome fattery. Our
sense of justice and fairness is
deadened by loud defamation and
insldtous suggestion. Until a short
time ago supposedly new ideas, as
old as governments among men,
were advocated with some show Of
reason and prudence.
~ new Richmond, however, has
rushed upon the political field. The
real, consistent, faithful leader Of
radical political thought, whose
courage, consistency and faithful.
ness We all admired, even if we did
not accept the doctrines advocated
until he became i'll and exhausted.
The banner he was faithfully and
bravely carrying was dropping.
This new Richmond rushed
upon the political scene, threw his
hat into the ring, and shouted to the
waverlng hosts to follow him in the
highways of progress and victory.
Hoping to reap where others had
sown, he sought to pluck the fruit
of victory to his own bosom. Hav-
Ing worked and won with the de-
spised stand-patters, and not being
practiced in the principles of mod
ern politncal progress. he. with the,
irecklessness of ignorance and the
rashness of the new convert, is ap-
pealing to all what is base, selfish
and unjust in the apparent hope Of
Gratifying an Unsuitable ambition.
'dn his campaign for place and
power he seems to have forgotten
the honors bestowed upon him By
his party and by the people of the
country. He seems to be unmiadful.
of the dignity and department of.
one who filled the most exalted po-
sitiou in the gift of man. We re-
spect and tolerate the actions and
utterances of the ordinary politician
hut 1t is a shock to our people to see
their idol seeking place and power
by appealing to passions, prejudices