Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-13
ALFRED HENRY LEWIS
TELLS WHY HE is FOR
COLONEL ROOSEVELT

own you. A healthful uncertainty a
hope full ability to abandon a party
going wrong or decline a candidate who
lacks fitness. should work for good
good for the public-good for the indi-
vidual. In politics, as in commerce, no
one buys his own, but sells it. Where
fore. if you would be listened to and
not ignored, enriched and not stripped.
become uncertain. Cease to think that
progress consists in standing still or
your politics is better for being petri-
fed.
Because l feel that Mr. Wilson and
Mr.. Taft are too small for the white
house, I am opposed to them. They
aren't, in my opinion. white house size.
Mr.. Taft has been weighed and found
wanting. Mr.. Wilson has not been
weighed; but. judging by what he has
written and what he has said. by his
shifts Of principle and corkscreW twists
of feeling I should say that. considered
from the standpoint of a white house,
mankind would find him only inches
where he should be feet, ounces where
he should be pounds.
Not that ! impute to Mr.. Wilson and
Mir Taft their innate smallness as a
moral fault Rather, it should be
| charged to the thronged conditions into
which they were born. Big populations
bear fruit in small men. In a crowd
the infnitesimal finds its opportunity,
TO herd men stunts men. Big trees re-
quire room and what plant subsists
! itself upon a foot of earth will never
kiss the clouds. 1t may do for fish
ing rod; it will never furnish timber
for A bridge Not that Mr.. Taft and
Mr. Wil.on should find fault with their
own Httoness. 1t was their littleness.
their lack Of height and weight and
strength which gave them their nomi-
nations
Roosevelt Defies Environment.
AS mere man producer an elder
day vas a better day than this. As
lately even as 30 years ago, there were
bears and panthers in the political hills.
Those bears and panthers OF politics
have passed away. Commercialism
and the press and crowd of population
provided for their disappearance.
Commercialism fears the bears
avoids the panthers; population refuses
them room. They go, and in their stead
come rabbits and Wilson's. red squirrels
and Tafts, offending no one, threaten
ing nothing Mr.. Roosevelt is big il
defiance of an environment After
fashion he is a throwback Of politics
and would have better matched a lack.
| son day than this.
Mr., Roosevelt would fit into the
white house day like a picture into
frame. The demand is for laws and
| scheme of courts to bring about al
equality of right. We make laws t.
prevent the physically strong from
beating the physically weak Shall We
not make laws to prevent the finan
cialy strong from beating the finan.
cially weak? The law should be as ?
quart pot in the hand of every man 81
that when one dips up more than tn,
justice of nature intended the unfai
| excess will instantly overflow and re
| turn to the common store.
or the three named. Mr.. Roosevelt
! Is the only one whose force and eour.
age are equal to the white house
work ahead. Also. he knows the peo-
pie. knows where they and their inter.
est belong in the procession Of govern.
ment' And he is equal to saying Mo-
whenever negative would make fo1
popular right.
7. r. Strong and Bold.
Moreover, Mr., Roosevelt is not toe
neVously me. The white house i,
Ike unto stone quarry. 1t is a place
Tor drills and giant powder. Nothins
Is honestly done there save by heavy
numbering work-Work for the crowbar
not for the lancet. All is as ruoel,
coarse as any canebrake bear. It /,
no place for wool-foot weaklings or ar,
fists of the back stairs.
Your great president will be on,
whose nature is not too sensitivel,
drawn. He win possess qualities of thu
buffalo bull kind. In the white hons,
quantity is often greater than quality
ana momentum counts for more thar
being quick.
For myself, give me men Of tn,
Roosevelt type. They always fight ant
never skulk. They are firm in friend
snip, fierce in war. To come within
eyesnot is to know the worst and tn.
best Of them. And to know it once is f.
' 81 a. ~ - - - IHeil DodSI ina
they would sooner do good than d.
right, that they prefer white purpos
to white principle
II was While he was on the civil serv
ice commission that made the ac
quaintance Of Mr.. Roosevelt Common
Iy. ] much dislike your officeholder
since commonly he is overbloWn. pomp
Gus, self-glorious and stands stiffly OF
the toes of what he cOnceives to be hi
dignity-like dog proud of its bras
collar.
Taking oficeholders as they run. tn,
caste shows strong per cent both
fool and hypocrite. Especially the lat
ter when one compares what they d.
with what they say. Wherefore, | keel
aloof from them, it being part ant
parcel of my religion to avoid a foo
and hate hypOcrite.