Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1914-07-09

Tho csIsaSi culmIaatss.
News and Observer.
Colonel Roosevelt is never out
of:politics. That is his very life
and existence. He may appear to
be engaged in other things at
times, but this is only in the SEEM
ing, for back OF it all is the polit-
ical game which engages the at
tention OF this Crusader Of t h e
T. Armegaddon.
Colonel Roosevelt broke forth
at Pittsburg in an address at a
Progressive conference, and as
was to be expected he announced
that he did not approve OF the
Wilson administration and the
way it is carrying outthep policies
of the Democratic party. The
Colonel also whacked mostvigor-
ously athis one time colleagues of
the Republican party, giving es-
pecial attention to the case OF Mr..
Penrose; and prescribed as the
remedy for all the ills he could
think Of, the Progressive party.
None Of these matters are such
as to occasion any surprise, for
they are in line with the Roose-
velt program OF finding in him
self and his ideas the only correct
solution OF all difficulties and all
problems. In all affairs OF life the
opinion Of the Colonel is that he
is the last word as to what is the
right course to pursue, and his
present position is that in the po
litical life OF this country the on
ly party which can keep things in
shape is theparty of his screation,
the Progressive party. And ifhe
should get in any way displeased
at that party he would form a
new one on the morrow and hold
it up as the best ever.
In his remarks last night the
Colonel had various and sundry
things to say of the, tariff, He in
weighed against the Democratic
policy as to this and declared
that the Progressives had the on
ly plans which would be Of service
to the people. He said nothing
of the many years he had been in
Office without limiting that there
was such a thing as the tariffand
without doing anything to put
an end to conditions by which
the rich were growing richer and
the poor were becoming poorer.
He fourished away in his talk
with diction which would solve
these by Democratic bow-wows
under Democratic plans and roar
ed away. in his calamity howl,
while there is no calamity.
With all seriousness, the Colo
mel declared that the Democratic
party is the "Party-afraid-of.
Power" a declaration which
shows that he has not been keep.
ing up with the things which have
been done by the Democracy since
Woodrow Wilson was made Pres
ident. The fact is that the Dem.
ocracy has shown that it is not
afraid ofthe power which has been
placed in it's hands and taking
full responsibility has gone for.
ward in constructive legislation
which is giving the average man
the possibilities which under
Roosevelt and Republican rule
were held in fee simple by the ia.
vored few. In the face of the won.
derful record Of the Wilson ad-
ministration the statement Colo.
mel Roosevelt is a most remarka,
bic one, a Roosevelt Illumination
which has no prop upon which to
rest.
The Wilson administration has
been in control of the affairs o.
this governmentnotqu quite sixteen
months and the recoed shows that
in those few months there has
been more accomplished than has
been done by any other admins
tration in all the years these have