The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-20
NO LINCOLN REMUNERATION

Roosevelt's fate is still in the womb of DOUBT,
Its paternity posthumons discovery as to
which suffer of the nomination had the lighter
purse
Political writer's who change with tbs vel
from att occasional sktrrnEh, mar no dtsre<
garded.
These gentry send up balloons of hot air
that burn brilliantly for a day with lurid
phrases Outside the firing line, we have even
. better chance at prognostication than have
those on the convention floor.
Exercise Of that chance Is nothing What
Ia here written ia valuclees as prophecy 1t
will make no attempt at soothsaying The cit
nation lie OF purchase and sale The pur-
chaseable votes from the South. While
thanking our own civilization for The fact that
the votes which 20 represent tho purchase
of n National Convention do not remotely rep
resent this section, let us look 10 the pretext
under which the bargain has been and is be-
Ing, made. Saws the Philadelphia North
American the abIest Of all Roosevelt journals.
and that responsible publication which most
nearly approaches anarchy without declaring
for its principle OF destruction;
We DO not underestimate tna freTr nnr6,is
power Of the forces If privilege arraysd against
the urholders of the two great principles Of
Observation-Disclosures the right Of the p4o~
pie TO rule, and therefore In the exercise II
r1aeir deliberate Judgment 10 control their gov
-rnment and their governmental agents: and
second, their dntY 80 20 rule as to bring about
not only political but social and Industrial tus-
rice
But at this parting of the ways we stand
firm In the faith that the who went
tsut TO death OF prison for those same princi-
Pies while Lincoln lived did breed from
xhsir lodns and grandsons ready TO grovel
~ tbs bidding Of an immeasurabiy more shame
III oiisarohy.
The INV Of morsmain shall be the ruling
pvno4D4e OF ths Republican party. The weight
q the dad hand of privileged greed in conflict
- that patriotic idealism. which az in the
1tx1ss. moves ever and unalterably forward. /
4AouGh h new forms. TO face new needs.
Thsfs VIII be yielding TO those forces /
~A3ch have sought TO make the naming OF a
Rssidmt = matter of fraud and theft There
Win be terminated not alone the influence OF
beasism and the control of special privilege in
Ne Kspublioan party. but tho whole system Of
corrupt politics which repudlated rascals have
established.
II IN the will of the American people that the /
Republican party shall not be dstroyed TO please
4 selfish group Of moneyed fawbreakers and
their political servants and soothe the vanity /
af incompetent president, whose service etVet
NO title 10 the denomination that he seeks
with the Lincoln comparison we have moth |
Ing to do The success OF the first President
OF the Republican party his fame and his
vogue probably are sired in great part by HIS
death at the hands OF fanatic Lincoln never j
theless succeeded in doing what he declared
could not ba done in that his reputation makes
1; certain that il is possible 10 FOOL all the
people all the time. II Roosevelt shall be
nominated and elected he will have right 10
the comparison which he has appropriated
against the protest OF Lincolns son. but with
the approval OF the North Aracricon.
Notwithstanding money and the Money
Trust. come Of ms IN the South still believe IN
blood and the man TO the manor born" We
cling 70 this possible deluaion against all
showings 10 the contrary. against all backslid- /
ings from the rule. against all impertinent sue
cesses We do not think that il Is bad thing
that We should cling TO it, because it may make
something good. through the spur of pride to
some otherwise worthless bit of blood nut
to set up Lincoln as a Sire to talk about the
effect on the politics OF the twentieth century
OF a breeding from the lons Of Lincoln and his
followers, is the merest baiderdash
We have never yet yielded TO the modern
koactoc 70 success with which certain south
ern people proclaim Lincoln something beside
tne ideal politician with a neEFe 10 meet the
crisis which he had invited
We nevertheless think that FL Is a apecles
OF sacrilege against National hero 10 persjst.
10 comparing him TO whose every public
act OF late months has been denial Of his
public declaration whose sueeess IL bought At
the discontinue Of those whom formerly he
cAlIedeto his aid whose appeal ~ to everyone
who thinks that in the progress Of victory not
-s-pu street cleaning foree il needed for The
debris
Roosevelt may he nominated IIe may b.
eieeted Blu, he viii never he Lincoln Even
the best OF modern Inventions somehow miss
the ssror Of the old sine Hryihces upon which
they we're patterned.
LAW AND JIfSrffE