Every man who voted for the mileage grab, or who dodged the vote, should be marked for political punishment by the constituency which he betrayed.
Introductory to a Letter from a Boy
As a rule, I do not help schoolboys in writing their speeches or in preparing for debates. In fact, I make it a rule not to do so.
It is best for the boy to dig his own bait. The sooner he learns to rely upon himself, the better. In that way only will he become strong.
But sometimes I break my own rules—for the sake of variety, perhaps—and I did it not long ago when a certain college in Georgia took as a subject for debate the proposition:
“Resolved, That the South should have supported Watson in the last Presidential election.”
Of course, there were but two names to be considered in the discussion—Watson and Parker.
Teddy wasn’t in it at all. And that is a queer thing, too, for about one-third of the white people of Georgia believe just as Teddy does about the money question, the Tariff system, the Panama business, the Philippine policy, the big navy project, the Railroad rate reduction, and so forth and so on.
But they wouldn’t vote for Teddy to save his life.