The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-08-22
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a spirit of self abnegation never wit
messed since the charge of the Light
Brigade at Balaklava-a Theirs not
to reason why, theirs but to do and
die sort of exaltation,-led by the
Grand Young Man from Indiana. de-
vout but tuneful, the assembled vas
sails proclaimed their joyous intellec-
tual surr(nder to the feudal lord in
the following hymn of driveling
responsibility:
Follow, follow
We will follow Roosevelt,
Anywhere, everywhere
We will follow him.
Follow, follow,
We will follow Roosevelt,
Anywhere he leads US,
We will follow on.
All of which being chanted to the
ravishing air Of that stirring ditty,
entitled We don't know where we're
going, but we're on the way brought
the multitude into such a state of
blind and benighted ldolatry that au-
thentic information to the effect that
the colonel had just waylaid per-
fectly respectable minister of the gos-
pei and robbed him of his last months
donations would have brought forth
enthusiastic cheers for the colonel
and vote of stern condemnation for
the man of God as the representative
of dangerous and Ubiquitous pluto
cracy.
"In form two thousand delegates,
more or less, gathered in the Col
iseum; in reality Mr.. Roosevelt met
in convention at Chicago, made a
confession of faith, gave his hand to
the colored brother from the North
and his foot to the colored brother
from the South, adopted a platform,
nominated himself and Brother john
son, and adjourned with the ease Of
a thoroughly trained thimblerigger
plying his vocation among the rural
visitors to the midway plaisance.
THE campaign upon which we are
about, to enter presents issues OF
more serious moment to the Ameri-
can people than any they have con-
fronted since the grave questions
which Immediately preceded and ac-
companicd the Civil War. The over
shadowing question then was whether
the Union, under the Constitution,
could be perpetu]ted; that which
confronts us today is whether the
Constitution itself, and the govern
ment which the Constitution estab-
lished, shall be preserved-a ques-
ton of equal if not greater gravity,
since it would be of little avail to
have preserved the Union from the
chaos of disintegration if the govern
ment Of the Union is to be given over
to the chaos of disorganation.
1.-The party to which we belong, Mr..
Vice President, stands in the supreme
contest for the independence aud in
tegrity of the judicial tribunals of the
land, without which the guaranty of
life, liberty, and property would be a
meaningless platitude. 1t stands for
the settled rule of impersonal gov
eminent, as opposed to the shifty OPP
portunism of personal manipulation;
for the liberty and order of general
law, as against the tyranny of spec
ial edicts of changing men. 1t plants
itself upon the impregnable ramparts
of the Constitution, and, solemnly
protesting against any subverslon of
the terms of that great compact by
the arrogant and revolutionary pro-
ces of amendment by misconstructlon.
appeals from the midsummer madness
of that portion of the people which
can be fooled all the time to the sober
second thought of the great body of
the American electorate who will
render judgment in November