The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-03
ARIsToCRACy"-REAL AND
FALSE.


A watch pot never boils, bat one that is
ssss On the fire hoils over La Toilette is
s1sIllag himself over the range.
We have been expecting some such cstas-
ssepAe Like Bimi. the ape. Insurgency as
ags To have too much ego in its cosmos"
80 TIE professional iii ANY line tie spur TO
performance is the pitfal into which trips
extravagznee.
NJ La Follette did fairly well so long
be insurged against those in power in his
PARTY Such a revolt is understandable COM
ing from ambition in leading strings directed
against success III the saddle. 1t is thus that
reforms are born, leaders made. thrones raised
and torn down. But effective agitation is i'm
possible so soon as IL loses sight OF its mark
No better augury OF The passing OF La Fol
tetre could have been afforded than the
ner in which he scatters his shot after having
failed of Endorsement by the Ohio progress
siyes. In barking back to the sixties for
text based upon Southern "aristocracy." and
in pulling forward the old stage characters
of the poor white and the negro the apostle
E
himself to the plane of delighted to
make a noise
In Michigan La Toilette took occasion to
say: A true American Believes in Democracy,
He believes men and women are equal and
titled to an equal chance. But the Democratic
party of the South is not by inheritance that
sort OF organization. All the strength Of the
Southern Democrat despises. alike. the poor
white and the negro and that is not the senti.
ment that makes for popular government"
Perhaps La Toilette knows something OF the
arstocraey of the North and of the West. No
doubt he understands fully the operation OF
I measured as they tip the beam in weights OF
land and stock and money Likewise, he Is
probably sincere in picturing and visualizing
- Southern type which found it's creation in
emancipation literature as still fourishing
where 1t never had root In the La Toilette
sense. tie aristocracy of the South never
existed. SO far the poor whites and the
negroes" are concerned the only effective
aristocracy is that OF the Administration Re-
publicans who furnish them both mind and
action. II he should himself become the ad-
ministration, La Toilette would Individually
become the arstocrat of the poor whites
and the negroes whose imaginary woes he
NOW celebrates Just as this rapidly diminish
ing quantity of purchaseable electors Ia now
scupies the box seat OF office.
For all OF which there remains Il Southern
s7aristocracy. little as La Toilette knows of,
or suspects. t-H-is an aristeeraey- OF men
who love their land more than they love the
dollar. 1t is pride OF birth merged with the
on yirile and progressive present, II the
searicature OF the South to which La Toilette
has reference hold anything of truth 1t con-
sists in the courtesy and kindlness and de-
cency with which the South treats the man
worthy OF the name, matter from where
he halls; In the consideration and tolerance
which the South bears to all who in anywise
help II in the task of realizing destiny which
fate had apparently denied it: In the gentle
moss which survives in the descendants of men
who found the will TO leave ease which
they. had graced 70 perform an unfamiliar
labor with historic success
La Toilette In his blindness. ran his head
against truth when he commenced to talk
about Southern aristocracy' But the
soundness and purity Of the fact deny the
chance that his conception OF the thing itself
should be otherwise than abortive
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