Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-05-13

class OF our citizenship, but of all.
His Americanism is as broad as the
eXpanse Of our vast territory, as deep
as Lake Superior, as high as Mount
Mckinley; in him will our next
President be the incarnation Of the
spirit OF a reunited country. in whose
breast burns no hatred, in whose soul
lives only the interests of every
American citizen from the snowy
peaks Of Alaska to the balmy shores
Of Panama.
1t is peculiarly appropriate that the
Democrats Of the Canal Zone should
unite to declare their choice of this
man for the Presidency. We know
how the notion that the constitution
does not follow the flag works II in
practice; we know how our neigh
bors in Central America have grown
to hate us under the regime Of ex-
ploitation set up under the aegis of
the Republican party; we see how
government by special interests cor
rupts and ~vitiates, for in these coun-
tries the idea has been carried to it's
logical limit in alternate despotisms
and revolutions; and we also on the
Zone have been made to see how
happy communities can be created
and maintained where the boumdless
powers OF IL great government are
eXerted 10 that specific end; and we
are therefore particularly fitted to
see how the man whose actions since
he entered public life have identified
him with every movement for order,
liberty and purer politics is the man
for whom u country now calls.
There is n fact about this man
which l wish to emphasize here.
There has grown up a sort of i'm
preston that he is too good for the
practical exigencies Of political and
gov, .nmental activity. | deny the
inference from this notion. A man
cannot be too good for the Presi-
dency Of the United States. 1t is
pure goodness that we need more
than anything else at this time
goodness of heart, which ambition
cannot divert nor insidious influences
corrupt; goodness of brain, which,
like the purity Of the diamond, makes
it SO hard that it will cut through
every device of the enemies of the
common good, and so clear that in
X all the prismatic colors of truth
radiate to every point Of the COM
pass, and goodness Of spirit from
which willy, scheming, selfish men
will shrink back appalled,, even as
the fog rolls back from the morning
sun. 1t was no poetic fiction, but
sober truth, which underlay the say
ing OF Sir Galahad-
".... My good lance thrusteth sure,
My strength is as the strength Of ten,
Because my heart is pure"
One way Of testing a man is to
note the enemies he has made. Now,
who are the desperate men now
leaguing themselves together against
this man? Note them we'll the We
nal hirelings Of a section Of the
press which is so VIGOROUSLY vicious
that no decent man allows a copy of
their papers in his home; the great
body Of those financial powers who
have grown rich by governmental
favor and special legislation; the
host of those so-called ~''practical pol
iticians" who fear a wholly honest
man in the White House as the devil
is said to fear holy water; and a
small body of sincere but deluded
mn who affect to fear that a school
mister would be an unsafe political
gun le. Note also how some of them
first 'ried to use him as a red herring
across the trail of the feared and
hated Nebraskan. AS long as he
was an unknown Quantity--a cul-
tured college man who had been long
tied in the leading strings of trus-
tees-they hailed his advent. They
seemed to think that they had a
harmless amphibian in their net. one
who might swim in the waters of
popular favor, but who could be
trusted to emerge duly on the dry
/ land c. safe and sane financial
policy; and they walked up to find
that they had caught in their nets of
straw a raging lion. They knew
only too we'll what to expect Of Will
liam Jennings Bryan, and they we're
willing to risk something on the
chance Of the reputed conservatism
Bryan is the thunder of progressive