The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-03
1T WILL BE DIFFERENT
AT SEAGIRT NEXT WEEK
When Wilson Is Notified of his Nom
ination-pemoeratie Party Has
Come clean by the Virtue That Has
Never Been Driven Out Of II.
(By Walter Cain.)

Washington, D. c. Aug, 3-The oc-
casion of the notification by commit
tee to Mr.. Taft that he has been NOM
mated at Chicago for second term
as president was not mirthful ar
fair. It is likely that there was not
one person present who believed that
the unctious one had the remotest
show for reelection. There was
about as much gayety as there is at
one of the funeral festivities which
the Senate pulls off after one OF its
members dies and a lot of sombre
statesmen get up and read from manu-
script their culogies of the late lam
ented However, the function had to
be gone through with and all present
made the best of the very trying or
deal Next TO Mr.. Taft himself the /.
! most CONSPICUOUS performer was Sem
ator Elihu Root, who permanently
: presided over the Chicago riot and
made the speech of notification, Elihu
? was preeminently the man for the de-
+ licate task. His career in politics and
+ in the law made him the fittest mouth
piece for the moribundities Of the day,
and he handed over the tainted nom-
nation of a convention that halted
at nothing in morals or methods to
the creature of all the worst elements
d : of his party with the easy grace OF
IS a lawyer for criminal interests which
disregard law and the rights OF
l. others. Mr.. Root has long been re-
o. garded a great lawyer. He has as
n long been one of the worst citizens
of the republic and despite his en-
inence anything but an honor to his
profession. He first came into pub
l lie notice as the attorney for the no
torious Tweed ring which nearly hall
a century ago debauched the politics
of New York city and state and fattened
off the loot of the metropolis. H'
failed to save his client, in that In
stance, from the penitentiary but th'
experience was valuable to him an'
he has nexer since permitted one
his clients to don prison garb. 1t wa
IT. not until about the time of the dowr
fall of the Tweed gang that corpors
tions began to invade politics an
privilege took on large proportions
There were then few big fortune
Men who wanted great wealth wer
only then beginning to note the o
:. portunities all around them and
~ band together for purposes Of gene
- al spoilation. Licentiousness al
.ru graft only then began to appear
municipal life. Franchise grabbin
-, and tax lodging entered into the CT
- culations of piratical spirits for Il
-. first time. Greed put conscience u
der the influence of anaesthetics al
went into the game with few restrai
non ing influences or limitations. The
% were a few laws in the way and tn
~. had to be evaded. Right there
'nu where Root punched in. He W
''ee found to be unequaled as legal
s. IL wiser who could show how laws mis-
be evaded and how penitentiar
'iiio might be avoided. As soon as t
app, became known he began to mount
anu ladder of financial and profession
success His services were soug
everywhere and his retainefs -
to- the greatest the legal professi~l
t on ever seen. When VIM. C. WhpNF
Only his Philadelphia associates soSsls
vot- gobble up the Third avenue Str
Re- car franchise in New York City
Gratis take 1t away from its legitimate o
asure ers, because they wanted 1t
themselves, they employed Root
show them how 1t could be done "
Sc. in the law. Root showed them
they got It and Whitney lived am
st. his millions thereafter, high up
,ecial social life and died outside the p
ether tentiary. So also his associates
Car In the meantime, the old man
1t for was the principal rightfuI ownei
mem the franchise before Whitney's
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