The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-09-08

develop, or become factor beyond a
machine to turn out delegates to their
order every four years. And no one
man has done so much, in my judg
ment, to thoroughly debase this situa-
ton morally, physically and politically
as that great noise" the self-right-
eous hypocrite and egotist, Theodore
Roosevelt, whom I would designate as
the head of the Czologsz Dynasty"
Roosevelt and the Steam Roller.
And whatever justice there may be
in Mr.. Roosevelt's charges against Mr.
Taft that he failed to carry out my
policies" his greatest complaint seems
to lie in the fact that Mr.. Taft carried
out his policy in rounding up the ne
groes and officeholders in the South
for delegate producing purposes only
too well.
1t must be allowed, in all fairness,
that when the same political prosti-
tutes and parasites that Mr.. Roosevelt
had used from the South in 1904 to
nominate himself, and in 1908 to nomi-
nate Mr.. Taft, re-appeared in Chicago
in 1912, in solid and cheerful unan-
unity against the champion who was
battling for the Lord" and were for
the man who had given them their
Jobs last. it was almost too much to
expect that his righteous indignation
should not be aroused.
Really, for him he controlled himself
as well as could be expected. But any
man with any right feelings at all will
admit 1t was tough
Let us, however, leave these proto-
types of Damon and Pythias at Chi
cago, and revert to the era just pre-
ceding the date when Theodore, as the
result OF the act Of the degenerate
Czolgosz, first assembled the throne.
This is hardly drawing the long bow,
as it is conceded that no monarch in
Christendom controls and exerts as
much power as does the president of
the United States, and Roosevelt
exerted all there was in q regal way.
Bribery by Office.
Very few people appreciate the great
power given to a president through our
form of government in the opportunity
he possesses to distribute federal
patronage. All men" cannot be bought
with money. But there are very few
men who cannot be Influenced with
either an Office or railroad pass and it
ought to bezvery comforting to all true
reformers that railroad passes have
been practically abolished, and that
the presidential primary and constitu-
tional provision for but one presiden-
tial term will to all appearances soon
remove our presidents from the neces-
sity and custom of bribery by office
But more of this later.
After Providence had dealt the
South two double body blows through
the death of Lincoln and the passage
of the fifteenth amendment, it seems
to have left the South largely to its
own struggles, and reconstruction and
the Ku Klux days went by.
Andrew johnson and Rutherford B.
Hayes were inclined to treat the South
politically with some show of fairness
and intelligence, and history, at least,
should give them credit for some of
their acts, tending to show that they
believed the people of the South should
be treated as if they were human
beings. But the rank and file of the
Republican party disapproved Of them
and their humane inclinations in this
respect.
Mckinley and the South.
And finally William Mckinley came
on the scene, filed with gentlemanli
ness and kindness and broad Chris
tan charity, but some politician with
it all.
He liked the southern people and
they liked him.
After the jingoes and the yellow
press had forced the war with Spain,
he seized the opportunity to show the
Co,+t, that he eorSidared ir 2 mart of
these United States.
Fitzhuga Lee and Joe Wheeler and