Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-07
DEWEY AND THE PRESIDENCY.

San Francisco Call (rep) Viewed from
the politicians standpoint, the admirers im-
mediate future offers the most alluring pos
sibillties for promoting his candidacy. The
unequaled effusion OF feeling in New York
is net to be- the last OF patriotic demonstra-
tion. A little later he is TO 60 to Philadel-
phia and Chicago, and the furore will be pro-
longed. At present the question is the most
interesting one in our politics.
Indianapolis News Gnd)' There is just
one other contingency; The democratic
mass, or mob or whatever Mr.. Watterson
may choose to call it. might take the bit in
its teeth and nominate Dewey as the whigs
nominated Taylor. who was no whig at all
and who represented the policy Of territorial
expansion, which the wings opposed, All
these things are possible, barring one thing.
that is, decisive word from the admiral
himself, word, be it noted he has taken
care not to speak since he has been in this
country, denying even that his son knew his
politics in answer to statement that his
son said he was a republican Dewey in
America is a different quantity from Dewey
in the Philippines.
Boston Transcript (lnd.): Just now the
country is inclined to be hysterical in its
will forget a month hence Everybody
realizes that Admiral Dewey is a great war
rior OF the ocean and that in critical sit
uation at Manila he exhibited the talent and
tact of a trained diplomatist of the first or
der; but beyond courage and tact does any
body really know whether Dewey possess
any qualifications for the presidency? Nine
people out of ten in the United States
never heard of Dewey before May /, 1898. He
had lived the life of scores of able officers
OF the navy, discharging every duty confided
to him so quietly, and efficiently, that
outside Of the navy he was as little known
as Farragut in 1861. We all know him now
as tho hero of Manila Bay and while we
may draw legitimate differences from the
dongs Of the admiral that shed some light
on the character of the man, our knowledge
of him rests on nothing more substantial.
Minneapolis Tribune trep): The proba-
bilities at this writing are that Dewey will
not be presidential candidate, but he is
not an impossibiity in that relation. The
best brains and character in the democratic
party would like to nominate him, but we do
not think he could be induced to train
under the auspices of that party. He would
not make as strong a democratic candidate
as he would republican candidate. Horace
Greeley found that the old-time democrats
would not vote for a man who had been a
republican, no matter what promises he
made them. Dewey comes of a republican
family All his antecedents are republican,
and so far as known, his principles also. If
he should become the democratic candidate
he could not command the unanimous vote
of that party-and especially not in the
south. On the other hand If, through an
uncomfortable sequence of events he should
become the republican nominee, he would
command the unanimous vote Of the repub-
licans and would draw thousands and thou
sands OF votes from the opposition. He
would be elected by the biggest majority of
the people of all states that any president
ever received