The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-12
CAUST|C WORDS
Of A MOOSER
Reviewing Action OF For
mer Leader.
ROOSEVELT IS HELD IN SCORN
By Former Follower Who Shows
Up Teddy In His True
Light.
FIRE STILL BURNS ON ALTAR

Under the caption Thirty Pieces
of Silver" the Evansville Courier
publishes i'm it's editorial columns a
communication from a Progressive,
discussing Roosevelt's action in en-
dorsing Hughes. The communities
ton reads:
Theodore Roosevelt, plumed
knight of Americanism, is stripped
of his last ragged plume. The ST.
mon pure patriot to whom the SAVIOR
OF kaiserism was anathema has cast
his lot with the kaiser hyphenates.
He will help them in their effort to
punish Woodrow Wilson by eiecting
Hughes. He has Joined forces with
the very man he so lately spurned
with abysmal loathing and contempt
THUS does the lion lie down with
the lamb, the oil mix in sweet har-
mony with the water, and the wood
en- handle lend itself willingly to be
"NiuSu lhlO pew tt1 mug.
Sooner or later every idol re-
veals its chilly clay feet. Sooner or
later does the sharp spear of circum-
stance pierce the speciously shining
armor. There is something infinite
ly Illuminating, if not flattering, in
this, the latest announcement of
Theodore Roosevelt, apostle of I'M
wavering righteousness.
1T is a fine thing in a man to
stick to his tenets to the end The
captain who goes down with his
ship, the soldier who dies at the
head of his men in a vain charge,
the martyr who goes to the stake
all place their names
where time cannot tarnish.
Robert f. Lee, though he
fought for a doomed cause, battled |
clear through to Appomattox. Ma
poleon, at Waterloo, was as I'M
daunted. Roosevelt, at Arranged
don, turns tail and climbs upon a
rickety bandwagon.
hopes for Theodore. Lee and the
leaders of all the legendary lost
were actuated by principles
they held dearer than life. That is
the difference.
There is something which
touches the deepest heart strings in
he spectacle of betrayed crusaders.
In 1912 a mighty host, aflame with
he zeal of high beliefs, followed u
eader who waved the sword of the
Lord and of Gideon and battled for
he right. To the tune of Onward.
Christian Soldier" they marched I'M
upon the intrenched forces
If reactionary privilege. Now. four
years later, the fire still burns upon
he altar. The motives of their ac-
ion, the principles for which they
ought, are still immutably right.
The legions of darkness are just as
numerous and powerful. Only their
eader. the plumed knight. has
hanged.
Now, pitilessly revealed, they
ind that the flaming sword was only
he tinfoiled lath of the moving pic
ure hummer. The marching hymn,
Onward, Christian Soldier was not ,
clarion trumpet call. only sum-
mons back to the mire from which
hey fought to emerge.
who now has nailed Old Glory
n the heights where no alien faint
an soil it? who has struck from ,
he limbs of the American people the :
hackles of moneyed control? Who ,
as offered to the weary and heavy ,
aden the relief of social justice? ,
Who has proved his right to carry Il,
n the banner of progress raised by ,
ROOSEVELT In 1912 and by him
In the mud in 1916?
zone man. and one man only !.
Woodrow Wilson.
There is one epitaph which will
ever be craven upon the mauso- /,
'um of the Colonel:
"I have fought good fight. ]
ave kept the faith"
"a PPOCRFSSJyE