Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-11

people do not want and reject the men
that the people do want.
If you Republican leaders are con-
WINGED that majority rule is mob rule,
you naturally oppose the unhampered
operation of that principle in politics.
Therefore you have depended in
elections upon the power of money, the
pull Of political machines and the sinis-
ter secret influence of the privileged in
terests
Therefore you have been guided by
the selfish shrewdness of the favored
few and not by the wisdom and the
judgment and the patriotic spirit Of the
majority of the people.
Therefore you have been disastrously
and deservedly defeated.
Mr. Moss and gentlemanly leaders Of
the Republican party in general, the
reason there are no popular legs in the
Republican pair of pants" IS because
the people have no confidence in the pa
triotism and capacity of the Republi-
can party.
And the reason the people have no
confidence in the Republican party is
because the leaders Of the Republican
party have no confidence in the pa
triotisn and capacity of the people.
1t was not Mr.. Roosevelt who defeat
ed the Republican party at the late
election
1t was not Mr.. Wilson who defeated
the Republican party at the late cleo
ton.
1t was the well considered determine
ton of the competent and conscientious
voters of this nation to repudiate a
party which had repudiated the people,
to rebuke party which had ceased to
serve the people, to depose party
which had lost faith in the people.
The first great leader of the Republi-
can party led his party to a splendid
and supreme success because he had an
abiding and impelling and inspiring
faith in the worth and wisdom of the
people, in a government Of the people,
by the people and for the people
You Young Republicans have heard
that final phrase fall so often from the
lips of shallow and insincere politicians
less commonplace.
Imagine what those words meant to
Abraham Lincoln, and what they should
and would mean to you If you heard
them for the first time, uttered with all
the fervor of conviction and inspiration
by the man who not only gave freedom
to the slaves, but restored popular lib
uI1r ~.
and established the eternal right of the
majority to rule-by the man who not
only retained our territory undivided,
but preserved the principles ana spur-
poses of our enepabIie indebted.
1t is impossible to conceive Abraham
Lincoln referring to majority rule as
"nob rule" and the difference between
the Republican party of Lincolns day
and the Republican party of today is
exactly as great as the difference be-
tween the ideas and utterances of Lin
coin and the ideas and utterances of
the Republican leaders of today.
There will never be any popular legs
in the Republican pair of political
pants until there is change in the
pattern Of the pants" until there is a
change In the character of Republican
principles, until there are Republican
leaders who do not believe that a gov
eminent of the people, by the people
and for the people is mob rule"
The Republican party and the nation
need leaders who, like Lincoln, have
confidence in the capacity of the peo-
pie to regulate all functions of gov
eminent to control all public officials
and to direct the destinies of this great
nation for the best interests of all.
When the Republican party can fur
nish such leaders, ii may hope to re-
gain its place in the public confidence
and esteem
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST.