Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-06-21

Piles of government that he is advo-
eating now. Twelve years ago Roose-
welt was the Republican candidate for
the Vice Presidency. He was the
spokesman of the Republican party
in that campaign. He cross-fred at
Bryan up and down and across the
continent. He denounced him as a
demagogue and dreamer and took the
opposite side of every question at is
sue. The speeches of both are in print
as a part of the record of that time.
Dates are toll-gates at which poll
teal pretenders and plagiarists must
stop and deliver" and however
vehemently the Roosevelt boosters
may refute the charge that he cap
tured the Bryan propaganda, the facts
in the case cannot be altered. His
tory is mercilcss in its exactions,
AMI the seal of the past cannot be
broken by assertion. "My policies,
such of them as have met with popu-
lar approval, may insist and assert
until the neck veins swell and the
eyes bulge out; they may be self
EMBODIED and self exploited; they may
silver through their captor's lips as
honey from the horn of Minerva and
overspread and smear the brain pans
of gaping ignoramuses, but the dates
of their authorship are as fixed as
fate and they bear the unmistakable
brand of Bryan. The branding marks
are deep-cut and the dates are indel-
ible.
The mental metamorphosis of
Roosevelt and the dismantlement of
Bryan began about 1902. Timidly at
first but on the same principle that
leads thief with increasing temer-
ity from the theft of coin to the
looting of a bank, at each succeeding
of ideas he grew bolder
and more grasping, until ut last we
find Bryan cloutless and naked
stripped as bare as a sycamore limb
in December-and Roosevelt parading
the country rs conspicuously over
dressed as poor white Southern
Republican on election day, sweating
under two coats and hats. a Fair of
boots slung across his shoulder, and
bolt of calico under his arm. The old
line stand-pat Republican of ter
years ago now ilaunts Il coat of many
borrowed colors: Election of Senators
by the people; income tax publicity
of campaign contributions before
elections; regulation of railroad rate
and possible government ownership Of
II llllcS III anu
referendum presidential primaries !;
let the people rule; and a half-hun-
dred other brain-chi ldren showing the
familiar Bryan ear mark have been
woven into this wonderful Joseph s
coat under which beats the patriotic
heart and over which throbs the con-
stuctive brain of Theodore Roosevelt
This is an example of assimilation,
benevolent or otherwise, that should
encourage and stimulate the Fill
pinos. The Bryan thought factory is
a busy and prolific one and the Roose-
welt mind is miracle of receptive
capacity-it reflects "even as a bro
ken mirror which the glass in every
fragment multiplies.
The record is written. Whether
they be good or bad. ephemeral or
enduring, "My policies" were fiched
/ from the oratorio of Bryan and set to
ragtime music; "My policies" are
Organism rehashed and served with
chill sauce. The Rough-rider is a
mere genius of plagiarism, an inspir-
ed copyist and imitator. Even his
New Nationaism" is waste bas-
ket discovery: a discarded dream
fabric of Hamilton's youth "Beaten
to frazzle"is colloquialsm of the
plantation negro, and "square deal''
was trapped in the mouth of a Ken
lucky Colonel. In his appeals to the
hoodlum element of society, he has
borrowed freely from the gutter-clut-
tered vernacular of the prize ring,
the kennel and the cock pit. "Swol-