The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-05-27
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the jungles O. South America is of
secondary Importance when thought
of in connection with that other re-
turn so clearly forecasted in his re-
cent utterances.
Speaking in behalf of Mr.. Pinchot,
Progressive candidate for the United
States Senate from New York, Col.
Roosevelt said: II have confidence
in the integrity of the rank and file
of the Republican party, and that
they will support Mr.. Pinchot."
Again, he says: "Crises come. up
when it is the duty of all good citi-
zens to sink ordinary party differ
ences and stand up either against fla
grant wrongdoing in public life or
against policies fatal to the welfare OF
the nation at home and the honor of
the nation abroad, and all good citi-
zens should, on such occasions, stand
together without regard to past par
|ty differences"
Now as matter of fact there have
been no "hagrant wrongdoing" or
"fatal public policies" chargeable to
the Democratic party, and it is noted
that Mr.. Roosevelt, with his usual
political astuteness, deals in general
tiles, because he could not possibly
specify. He knows that his own
party, the Progressive party, has
tstolen tariff reform advocacy from
the Democratic party, and advocated
Isuch reform by a commission only to
cover the theft. The Progressive
party in Congress voted largely with
the Democrats on currency reform
and here again the Colonel's hands
are tied.
AS to the "welfare of the nation
abroad" so broadly limited at by the
Colonel, of course he means t crit"
else President Wilson's poll ! in
Mexico, knowing that had he been
lin President Wilson's stead he would
have long since involved this coun-
try in a useless and unjustiiable war
of aggression. But he dare not un-
dertake to point out President Will
sons errors in dealing with Mexico,
for the reason that the old Republi-
can party to which he is now hold
ling out the olive branch, stood
squarely behind Mr.. Wilson in for
mulating and executing that policy.
The fact is, Colonel Roosevelt is
nothing more nor less than a politi-
fcian, whose principles are cork float
led, to ride the main current. AS
Hong as he was in the Republican
party corporate greed, high tariff and
money trusts looked, good to him,
land it was only after learning that
the Republican party would not per-
tpetuate his power that he leaped to
the conclusion that the Republican
party was all wrong. He dined with
Booker Washington and folded the
NEGRO vote both in convention and
in primary, more closely to his bos-
1om than any other candidate for
president. But when the Southern
negro delegates pledged for Taft, and
he had to fall back on the "lily
whites" of the South he wanted no
more ''nigger'' in his. Now, if he is
taken back into the bosom of the Re
publican party as he is likely to be,
he is sure to become color blind
again.
The Democratic party has made
1t has refuted every evil fore
Feast on the tariff; it has given the
country a banking law that will
lserve the people rather than Wall
gamblers; it has passed more
constructive legislation in a shorter
time than any administration has
lever passed and it needs only time
Ito test the wisdom of its legislation
Ito perpetuate itself. Will it have
that time? Indications are that it
will not.
The old Republican party realizes
that it is dead if it must stand alone.
1t knows its man in Mr.. Roosevelt,
and knowing him will trust him to
profess one thing and do another.
There is nothing that weighs SO
lstrong with your 'sstandpat' type of
Republican as ''pap''; in monopoly,
lin office holding, in class privilege,
land though Mr.. Roosevelt car write
platforms that would indicate scorn
land contempt for these trifes, as
President he was as greedy as the
Igreediest.
The old Republican party has
learned its lesson, and it is now will
ling to surrender everything but the
name and the name sounds good to
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