The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-09-24
Why Noted Rabbi Supports
Wilson and Marshall

OF other days it would be necessary
ior ohe'tlme Republicans. such as tho
writer to oppose him as vigorously as
'"ey are now moved to support him
The nomination of Woodrow VIII.
son Tor President offers to the Pro.
/ sreSSiVes of all parties a guarantee
huihahIy speaking, that the Democrat.
&c party has been reborn, that if 10
once again to become. under the in.
splration of Woodrow Wilson's lead.
eiShip IA party of genuine and sub.
stantial progress.
When all is said in favor Of Presi.
ueht Taft, of his honest and earnest
battle against the swollen Trusts Of
the admirable arbitration treaties
winch he vainly sought to negotiate
with England and France, of his ex.
celient non-partisan judicial appoint.
ments, there remains the acceptance
ana deience of the triff, dictated. if
not written, by its benefciaries. and.
above all, the outstanding fact that
president Taft has drifted, or suffered
himself to be driven, into the ranks of
II, as it is claimed and | believe
rightly so-for President Taft, that he
sought to vanquish the reactionarv
elements in the Republican party,
then Is it true that he has sadly
rallied, as is proved by the conspicuous
and conspicuously unworthy leader
ship in the party of such men as vii.
liam Barnes, Jr, President Taft has
tailed to withstand the pressure of re.
dictionary influences because within
the Republican party these influences
are dominant, commanding, irresis.
tible.
What of the candidacy of Theodore
Roosevelt, the nominee of the Third
party? Apart from the inevitable re-
Iuctnce OF accept any man as Presi.
dent Of the nation for a longer term
than that occupied by the founder of
the republic, | believe that, while he
once was needed in the life of the ma.
ton he is needed no more. He was
needed to cry aloud and spare not, tc
life up his voice like trumpet. 1t is
no little service to the republic tc
have broadened the concept of lega
right and to have ended the security
of legal wrong.
When all is said and done, Roose
welt did most to bring about a whole
some sense of insecurity among thos,
whose privilege had been the ABSORB
ton of privileges, whose chief RICH
had long been the unchecked doing 0
wrong. have therefore no patienc,
with the vituperation which is Law
ished upon Colonel Roosevelt and il
which he, too, is tabled to indulge oc
casionally.
| shall support Woodrow Wilson fol
the Presidency because | believe that
with the aid of a Democratic Con
gress, he will carry into effect the
party pledges of tariff reform, and
-hus abate, if not abolish, the legal
zed expressions, the State-sanctioned
of the protective order
The Democratic party under Wood
'ow Wilson may reasonably be ex-
)ected to put an end to those tariff
avs which have led to imperialist adj
,enture abroad and to criminally cor
upt extravaganza at home.
The Democratic party, spurning to-
lay the leadership which led to
,uilty completely in the negotiations
# the Republican tariff adjusters, is
become the valiant and uncompromis
ng foe of a protective tariff, which
chiefly the parties in the
rocked alliance between big business
md little politics, which protected and
lggrandized the masters of industry
md entrenched them in the almost