The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-11-05
WILSON'S CHIEF speLLaINDga.
The Self Degradation of Former Re-
publican President.

publican President.
If at the time of the defeat of Bur
goyne any one had foretold that Bene-
dict Arnold four years later would lead
force of British and Tories to the
massacre of his countrymen at For.
Grjswold, the prediction would have
been met with the greatest resentment
and Indignation
II four years ago any one had pre-
dicted that a man twice honored by
the Republican party with the highest
Office on carth-the presidency Of the
United States-would turn on that
party and seek to rend it because not
given third term, and would do his
beat Indirectly to elect the choice and
the representative of the southern
bourbon democracy, that prediction
would have seemed fully as incredible
as the former
The third term candidate is the prill-
cipal spellbinder for Woodrow Wilson
He knows in his heart and sodl that
the only success possible for him
should he succeed would be to defeat
Taft and elect Wilson. Every vote fer
Roosevelt is indirectly vote for the
Democratic nominee, whose support
ers at Baltimore made an open appeal
for his nomination on the gcound that
he was a native of Virginia. an ax-Con-
federhte state, and not like his rival,
Champ Clark, a native Of Idnooln's
state Ct Kentucky.
Filled with anger against President
Taft, who has merited by able. faith
full and distinguished service the usu-
al need Of Republican presidents, an
other term in the White House, Roose-
welt parades up and down. here and
there and everywhere. processing .auy
priaciple or lack of principle, from an
archy to oligarchy, that he thinks may
win votes and throwing to the winds
alike consistency, decency End that
reverence which every American
should feel and express for the insti.
| buttons Of our country.
That the aspirant for third term
will sink into richly merited oblivion
there can be no doubt whatever. He
| might have maintained in private life
the honor, the dignity and the influ-
ence belonging TO his position as an
ex-presdent. He has sacrificed them
all to Catilinian ambition. and the
calm and deliberate judgment OF the
american people will put the stamp OF
condemnation alike ON his Unsuitable
appetite for power and his unscrupu-
lous demagogy.
Even the bourbons who are egging
him on and rejoicing in the hope of
| profit from his treachery have only
contempt for his motives and his
| course. They are delighted to see him
attempt to destroy the party which
| abolished slavery, overthrow secession,
built up American industry and main
taiued the financial integrity of the
! nation. But they have no stomach for
| the malice and the treachery that are
behind his desperate adventure. When
| Aaron Burr was self exiled to Europe
after the killing of Hamilton and the
semitreason of his Mexican expedi-
ton an Englishman desiring to visit
the United States asked him for let.
tiers Of Introduction. Il have no
| friends in America" answered the
former idol and once popular vice pres
ident, with an expression of abjeci
loneliness that his visitor could never
forget. And so it win be with the per.
petual candidate when his followers
recover from the brief madness thai
now possesses them and realize aliks
his monstrous egotism and their own
alteration.