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THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.
(The Nashville American.)
Old Hickory named his successor,
but the Big Stick is not Old Hickory”
Martin Van Buren was vice president
during Jackson’s second term, and
Jackson made him his successor. Per
haps if Roosevelt would assist Vice
President Fairbanks, the latter might
succeed. Hayes tried to name Sher
man as his successor, but failed, Ar
thur tried to nominate himself for a
second term, but failed. The attempt
to nominate Grant for a third term,
after he had been out of office for a
term, failed. Roosevelt feels that he
is popular enough and powerful
enough to name his own successor. If
he does not recede from his position,
it is going to be a beautiful fight in
the Republican party. Foraker has
already stripped for the fight. Taft is
in training, with Roosevelt as his man
ager, while Fairbanks has been lay
ing mines for many moons. Then
there are Cannon, Beveridge, Shaw,
LaFollette, Spooner, Root, Hughes,
Guild and Knox, who are more than
mere spectators of the game, and all
of whom must feel more or less re
sentful over the president’s attempt
to dictate the nomination, while de
claring that he does not want it him
self The next fifteen months is go
ing to be a mighty busy time for
Theodore Roosevelt —and this means
that the Republican party will not
have any more harmony among its
leaders than is needed for home con
sumption or family use,.
TARIFF TRUCE WITH GERMANY.
(The New York Tribune.)
The agreement will remove sources
of friction which have been more an
noying to German commerce than the
Dingley duties themselves and will
do no injury to American producers.
Away will be opened for the enlarge
ment of our trade with Germany
on terms of amity and natural advant
age.
THE NIGGER IN THE WOODPILE.
(The New York Press.)
In New York, New Jersey, Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois the loss of the
colored vote by the Republican party
would give all of those states to the
Democratic candidate. Any Democrat
who carries New York, New Jersey.
Illinois, Ohio and Indiana will be the
next president of the United States
as surely as the election is held.
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TAFT WAS A REPORTER.
(The New Orleans Picayune.)
Like Chief Justice Fuller, Secretry
Wilson and other men high in the
public service and confidence, Secre
tary Taft began his career as a news
paper man. The first money earned
by him after being graduated from
Yale was as court reporter on a Cin
cinnati paper, the old Commercial Ga
zette, then edited by Murat Halsted.
Mr. Taft started at $6 a week, and
when he quit had worked up to twenty
per. All the time he was thus en
gaged he was studying law at night
under his father’s direction. Necessi
ty did not drive him to work, as his
father was a man of ample fortune,
but the secretary chose it because it
was the readiest entrance to active
employment that brought him daily
in contact with lawyers and court
proceedings. The secretary likes to
discuss newspaper work with report
ers. He uses the shop terms with a
familiarity denoting his former expe
rience in the business.
WHERE DOES MR. ROOSEVELT
STAND?
(The New York World.)
In the course of his Monday lecture
at Yale Secretary Root said:
“Doubtless there may have been
abuses in raising and applying cam
paign funds, but in the main there
is no more useful expenditure of mon
ey from the public point of view than
this, which in the last presidential
election, according to official state
ments, amounted to only about three
and one-half cents per capita for the
people of the United States on one
side and probably somewhat less on
the other, for the great bulk of It is
applied to the political education of
voters.”
On notable occasions Secretary Root
has appeared as spokesman for the
president. Do his remarks at Yale
reflect Mr. Roosevelt’s views?
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matter of campaign contributions rest
as it is? He hesitated a long time af
ter the 1904 election before urging con
gress to prohibit corporations from
contributing to campaign funds. Does
he favor secrecy in collecting and dis
bursing them?
Do Secretary Root’s remarks mean
that in President Roosevelt’s mind no
more safeguards are needed against
political corruption? Is this all the
administration has to say? Is there to
be only praise of the “useful expendi
ture” of campaign money and no fur
ther practical steps to secure publicity
of receipts and expenditures? Does
Mr. Root, and does Mr. Roosevelt,
think that “turning at least 50,000
votes,” in E. H. Harriman’s phrase.
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could be called a “useful expenditure”
of the money Harriman raised in 1904?
Did Mr. Harriman mean by that
phrase the “political education” of
those 50,000 voters?
Where does Mr. Roosevelt stand?
TILLMAN AND BAILEY.
(The New York Tribune.)
Senator Tillman is a critic whose
lance knows no brother. He is re
ported as saying of Senator Bailey:
“‘Bailey got into bad company and was
found out.” Yet only a year ago he
and Mr. Bailey were posing as the
innocent twin victims of a misunder
standing with President Roosevelt on
the question of railroad rate regula
tion.
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