Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-20
Roles to Be Taken by the Vice Presi-
Dental Candidates.
ROOSEVELT TO FIRE TIE YOUNG
Stevenson to Consult With Old
Fashioned Democrats.
BRYAN TO BE QUIET

The roles to be taken by the two vice
presidential candidates are Numerically
opposite. The tail is to be the talking end
of the republican ticket; on the democratic
ticket it Is to be the repository of silence.
The tail of the republican ticket is de-
signed to give energy and action; that of
the democratic ticket to give steadiness
and modify erratic flights.
Stevenson is expected to do lot of quiet
personal work, while Roosevelt is occupied
in appealing to the imagination and excit-
ing the energetic blood of adventurous
youth. A great many young men have be-
come voters since 90. In that year the
imagination of youth was excited by the
flashing meteoric candidate of new political
dispensaion. Since then Bryan has grown
older and stirring events have transpired
to thrill the youth militant. An army of
young men, with their heads full of heroic
Ideas have become voters this year, and
Roosevelt is expected to appeal to these
with his San Juan memories and his rough
rider ways.
StevensOn's Task.
Stevenson's operations are intended to lie
along other lines. 1t Is expected that he
will visit and confer personally with
great many leading old-fashioned demo-
Gratis. who have been dissatisfied with the
course of the party since 90, and try to
convince them that their present duty Is TO
come out and work for the party and to
exert all their great influence to restore
confidence in the conservatism of democ-
racy. He will undoubtedly make some
speeches during the campaign but they
will be of the old-tashioned democratic sort
ana II is calculated that his greatest con-
trlnutlon TO the strength of the ticket will
be through his personal influence upon in
dividuals. who themselves might exercise
great influence for the benefit of the ticket
ana through his appeals to that party
spirit which Bryan in so offended. 1t is
suggested that before the campaign opens
lie will spend some time in the east visit
ing with some of his old party friends, and
that ne Will do great deal of campaigning
In sem-special way before the stamping
begins
bryan to BE More Quiet.
"A good deal of doubt is expressed as to
the course which Bryan will follow in this
campaign. and 1t is regarded as possible
that he will curtail his campaigning to
some extent. In the 90 campaign he had to
make himself known to the country and
talked about He had practically no news
papers, and had 1t not been for the extraor-
binary effort he made. performing such
feats OF oratOry as to compel attention he
could hardly have kept his name before the
public. But for his personal campaigning
he would have sunk into obscurity through
canvass made it impossible to ignore him.
The necessity that then existed no longer
exists. Now he is widely advertised a
any man in the country. and it would be
Impossible to obscure his candidacy by
economy of printers ink. There is no dam
ger of any one having to ask who the can
didate Is. and he afford to keep as
quiet as he wants to. In this campaign he
Will nave active newspaper support of sub
stantial character in the great political CEN
tiers of the east, the west, the middle west
and the south, and where he is not sup
ported he will not be ignored. No one en-
tertains the idea that he will enter upon
campaign of silence, but it is regarded as
probable that he will not again undertake
the sort of swing around the circle which
he made in SO. 1t is expected that he will
be no more active on the stump than shall
appear to him to be necessary to attract
attention to and emphasize the issues that
are new since SO. and to keep I'D the en-
thusiasm of the party workers and that
he will not take the whole burden of the
campaign again upon his own shoulders
II is not expected that he will undertake to
follow up the campaign Of Roosevelt who
will be the central figure on the stump on
the republican side.
Towne to Follow Roosevelt.
To Towne of Minnesota, who did not get
the vice presidential nomination at Kansas
City, will probably be assigned the task of
taking care Of Roosevelt. The idea of
those who wanted Towne nominated was
that he should be pitted against the rough
rider the stump, and this plan will
probably be adhered to- though the first
feature of it failed. Towne is going to be
completely at the disposal of the party for
service in the campaign, and, though not
a candidate, he will probably perform the
services on the stump of which Stevenson
would hardly be capable.
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