Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-06-21

enjoyed the Beacon's editorial
Wilson of May 31st, so much
! | must congratulate you.
Beacon's views are mine ex.
". | couldn't have expressed
IN more to the point had
en called on to do so.
cannot conceive of the depths
folly our party leaders are az
tently bent upon in combining
einst the man that has by fan
best show of defeating
osevelt. Even if T. R. is moi
minated it seems a foregone
nclusion that some progressive
publican will be. Roosevelt's 's
ting into the game has already
suited in rejuvenating and
king up the Indifferent mem.
RS Of his party-and even if he
es not get the nomination the
nciples for which he stands
We forged to the front and
We got to be met-not by op-
sition, but by fighting him with
hilar weapons
If the issue could be confined
the tariff the democrats could
n with ease over any body
' d in this Wilson, to my mind,
s represented in his speeches
E ideal to be followed. But the
eat thinkers in the progress
5e wing of the republican par
clearly realize that there is
e other question over which
e people at large are just as
Eeply interested, and they were
st as quick to see that Roose-
it was the one man to focus
e issue on this question, and
has succeeded.
This one question | conceive to
the one expressed broadly in
= phrase, THE People versus
Q Bosses. The fight that
bosevelt is making against the
sses has placed him before the
Iople as the champion of the
|ople and nobody can defeat
m on this issue unless it be a
mocrat who has become
ually prominent in the very
lfsame rolein his fights against
[e bosses. Wilson is ABSOLUTE
the only democrat that is
tominent in this issue.
The democratic party has al
lays posed as the liberal party,
lie champions Of the people, but
bu know as we'll as every other
man knows that the
hrty is now and always has
Zen cursed and hampered by
eheming combinations Of pro-
essional politicians.
Since Cleveland's time Wilson
! the ONLY man of national
Prominence who has openly and
|uccessfully fought this element
h the party. and by the same
oxen Cleveland is the only man
hat has ever succeeded in win
ling.
The whole question of progress
i've principles versus conserva-
ism, in my mind. narrows down
Q this one thing, down the
,oss," and I am perfectly sure
hat this is at the seat of all the
lnrest now agitating the coun-
ry-in fact the unrest that
las been growing and growing
or the last ten or fifteen years.
The popularity of the recall and
referendum had its very concep-
ion in the revolt of the people
.gainst these condition.
It is idle to declaim against the
ecall and referendum. Boss gov
.rned states and cities have run
he limit and certain progressive
tates have found this feature a
cal weapon for use by the peo-
lie to rid them of these evils
the only known successful
method yet devised. So it is
die to ignore it. I mean the
entimel.t for the recall and re-
erendum. Its just as sure to
pread and develop as the day
) to follow night.
Whatever one might think OF
he wisdom of the recall the
Underlying principle that it is
losely allied to the fight against
he machine rule of parties is
yident to all thinking men,
his is the natural outcome of
he abuses, long suffered heaped
pom the people by the machine
,oyernments. Roosevelt under
tands this and has seized the
pportunity. Furthermore the
eople believe in him. They
annot be frightened against