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Show WANTS BOA CONSTRICTOR TO GET ROOSEVELT C; C. Goodwin Is back on Goodwin's Good-win's Weekly, writing entertaingly, but with his usual deep prejudice on subjects political. The issue of that weekly of today contains an article In which the hope is expressed that Roosevelt will be crushed in the colls of a boa constrictor down in South America. Goodwin, in his younger days, must have had a stormy experience, his mind is so overcharged w.ith hatreds. Quoting from the Oregonian, the Weekly says: The Oregonian calls attention to the very well-known fact that "the south Is in the saddle." The president presi-dent is a southern man with a southern south-ern wife; all of the chief committeemen committee-men in congress with two or three exceptions are southern; Mr. Underwood Under-wood runs the house, his party is in the majority, he and two or three men shape all the legislation, and the caucus old-fashioned democratic legislationvotes leg-islationvotes solidly as the caucus is directed. Whjle up to date the legislation leg-islation has been generally broad there are exceptions. A heavy duty was left on mohair which is chiefly produced in tho south, while it was taken entirely from wool which is mostly from the west. That is a very narrow view. It is an attempt to revive sectionalism and unworthy of any public writer. Woodrow Wilson, If he must lean one way more ttian the other, should turn to the north. Any man who has been so signally honored by a whole country coun-try cannot feel any of the old animosities ani-mosities of fifty years ago. But the projudice expressed against Woodrow Wilson is mild compared with the flings at Roosevelt, contained In this same issue of the Weekly, as follows: fol-lows: "We notice in the dispatches that some prominent Progressive has received re-ceived a note from Mr. Roosevelt that he will be present in the campaign. cam-paign. As though anyone ever doubted doubt-ed that he would, and his voice will bq for no compromise at all. Our private belief is that he contracted with the democracy in 1912 to make so big a diversion from the Republican Repub-lican party that a Democrat would be elected and It is possible 'that con-, tract Is a hangover, that the terms of It Implied that If necessary ho would repeat the performance in 1916. All the time it wasj whispered to him that his magnetism, his winsome win-some ways to the unthinking would possibly elect hlra president. If not In 1916, then certainly in 1920 In that we get tho koy to his present position. He Is in for Roosevelt What he really wants more than anything any-thing else is office and spoils. If he had to surrender the office for six years yet he will bo sure of the spoils and will have a good time calling call-ing people liars in the meantime Of course, without him, were some 'boa constrictor to take a couple of twists on him down In the chaparral of South America, that would end the Progressive party. But he plays in luck. He will come home all right. Without him there is nothing that is not either anarchistic or crazy in the Progressive platform that the Republicans Re-publicans would not accept. With him they will not want to accept. "We judge men sometimes by the company they keep4 In 1912 he would have been helpless from the start except for Mr. Perkins. Mr. Perkins went out of the firm of J. P. Morgan Mor-gan and company very rich and for sometime aspired to be president. He wrote fool essays and delivered fool speeches, and when his own prospects did not look good for nomination he joined in to support Roosevelt. He provided the sinews of war to herd' the rabble for the primaries and to carry on the campaign. Then the Colonel and other supporters. He had Governor Johnson of California who had fixed the state so that the will of the people could not be expressed ex-pressed In the nominations. He had Mr. Heney, who is now aspiring, to the senate, whose chief qualifications for any office are his blackguard gab and his measureless gall. He had Mr. Garfield who cannot see vhy, in as much as his father was one of the brightest intellects in the world, he has not a right to aspire to any place. He had Mr. Pinchot whose statesmanship states-manship makes every man of the west cry when they think of it. He had two or three New York and Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania bosses and he went into the campaign as Napoleon used to go Into In-to his fights, always to protect the liberties of France when in his soul his highest ambition was to use France for his own ends, and in doing do-ing that in twenty years he had killed so many Frenchmen that the race has not reached its normal height phyiscally since." We sometimes, after reading articles arti-cles as the above, feel that the worst anarchists in this country are not the wielders of stilettos or throwers of bombs, but men who commit to pa-pcr( pa-pcr( thoughts such as the foregoing on Wilson. Roosevelt, Perkins and others, all high-minded men, laboring to their utmost to advance the welfare wel-fare of their countrymen. Charging Roosevelt with double-dealing double-dealing and a, .desire to graft on the spoils of office is outragepus and in direct conflict with all the public acts of the man. Few deny that to Roosevelt is due the great awakening awaken-ing of the civic conscience of this country. Had the man been a spoilsman, spoils-man, he could have remained a regular reg-ular Republican and have enjoyed the plundering of his country without with-out fear of molestation. Only four months ago, the regular Republican leaders, in convention assembled, as-sembled, freely admitted they had wronged their party, offended the electorate and mistreated Roosevelt and his followers. They passed resolutions, reso-lutions, promising reform, yet, in the face of that, there are Goodwins to go back to their vomit oo - - |
