Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-04-10
AN EDITORS OPINION OF DEWEY.

Utility, tIc CuiIOi VI tliO iCoS-i pSti A'it'
Webster p. Huntington, resigned for
the reason that he could not consclen-
tiously support the hero candidate in
preference to Mr.. Bryan. Among
some of the editorial opinions Of the
Dewey candidacy, published by the
Press-Post Sunday, was that of For
mer Editor Huntington 1t makes
such. interesting reading that we pub
lisn 1t in full, below:
To the Editor of The Press Post:
In reply to your request for my opin-
ion of Admiral Dewey's candidacy for
President, | submit that it is absurd
First, because the people do not want
him;
Second, because they do want some
body else
And, third, because Admiral Dewey
Is not fit to be President.
There are more than $4,000 newspa-
pers in the United States, and of this
number only one, and that one publish
ed In Columbus, Is supporting Dewey
openly This may be good thing to
advertise Columbus In the same way
that wart on n mans nose makes him
peculiar and marked among his fel-
lows; but doubt that it Is any more
beneficial to the paper in question or
to the city in which it is published
than the wart Is to the man. The
fact that Dewey's candidacy finds alb
solutely no approving echo in the press
of the country is sufficient evidence to
my mind that the people do not want
him.
Both political parties demand and
will have other candidates. No sane
man can question the attitude of the
Republican party toward Dewey and
any intelligent person who has mingled
10 minutes among Democrats should
know that they are unit for William
j. Bryan. Any person who believes
otherwise may be respected for his
sincerity, but 1t should not he forgot
ten that the most sincere people In the
world are those who butt their heads
against padded cells and are too sim
cere to be permitted to remain at large.
Dewey Is not fit to be president, be-
cause his inclinatlons and experience
have nothing In common with states
manshlp. TO all intents and purposes
he is not even a resident Of the United
States. He is reported to have said
that he hns never voted for president,
and to this the report adds that he
declared the only President he ever
wanted TO vote for was Grover Clevc-
land. Then he did not want to vote for
Lincoln, or Grant, or Hayes, or Tilden
or Hancock or Garfield, or Harrison
or Mckinley, or Bryan. II he did not
want to vote for any OF these, what
kind of q man rs he? Is he citizen oil
Bryan, he was not a Democrat in lS0l
and s not one now. II he did not want
to vote for Bryan, how can he expect q
nomination from the party that nomi
mated Bryan?
1t Is said that Dewey is n hero, ant
admit that he was hero on tn,
bridge of the olympia. But the stoS
ers In the hold were heroes, too, ant
there was not IN officer of the fee
who would not have won Deweys vie
tory against the odds which Cervera'i
antiquated vessels presented TO tn,
Americans. will wager that some o
the stokers and officers have votet
for president in the past 40 years an,
that they have wanted TO vote 70
more than one president. l am sur
they know as much of American his
tory, Institutions and the public ques
tons OF the present day as Dewe
, knows. If the stoker has voted whe
he could and desired to vote when h
could not, he is better man for Pres
ldent that Dewey, according to the la
ter's own admission remember Dew
ey's heroism; but also remember hi
r acceptance Of the gift house; his givn
= II away, his taking every little toy an
Q bauble that grateful people showeIe
upon him; his declaration that i
could not he II candidate for presiden
= his Reputation of that solemn pledg
r his present purpose to turn the patrlo
le ic admiration of the people to poliuc