Evening star., 1900-07-20
Roles to Be Taken by the Vice Presi-
Dental Candidates.
ROOSEVELT TO FIRE TEE YOUNG
Stevenson to Consult With Old
Fashioned Democrats.
BRYAN TO BE QUIET

The roles to be taken by the two vice
presidential candidates are diametrically
opposite. The tail s 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 a lot of quiet
personal work, while Roosevelt is occuoicd
in appealing to the imagination a-d excit-
ing the energetic blood of adventurous
youth. A great many young men have be-
come voters since '96. In that year the
imagination of youth was excited by the
1lasEing meteoric cGndidGte of new political
dispcnsation. Since ti,cn Bryan has grown
older and stirring e"cEts 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.
stcvcnson's operations are Intended to lie
along other lines. 1t is expected that he
will visit and confer personally with n
great many leading old-fashioned demo-
Gratis, who have been dissatisfied with the
course of the party since '96. and try TO
convince them that their present duty is 10
come out and work for the party and to
exert all their great influence to restore
confidence IN the conservatism of dcmoc-
racy. He will undoubtedly make some
speeches during the campaign but t,-ev
will be of the old-fashioned democratic sor:.
ard II is calculated that his greatest con-
t!ihution to tne strength of the ticket will
he through his personal influence upon in
dividuals, who themselves might exercise
great influence for the benefit of the ticket
and through his appeals to that party
spirit which Bryan in sc offended 1t is
suggested that before the campaign opena
re VIII spend some time in the east visit
ing with some of lis old party friends and
that he will do great deal of campaigning
IN semi-special way before the stumping
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 it is regarded as possible
that he will cur;ail his campaigning to
some extent. In the '96 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
leafs OF oratory as to compel attention he
could hardly have kept his name before the
public But for his personal campaipn:ng
he would have sunk into Obscurity through
newspaper neglect. His course during the
canvass made it Impossible to ignore him.
The necessity that then existed no longer
exists. Now he is widely advertised as
any man in the country. and it would be
impossible to obscure his candidacy by
economy of printers ink. There is no dan
ger of any one having to ask who the cam
didate Is. and he can afford to keep as
quiet as he wants to. In this campaign he
VIII nave active newspaper support of sub
stantial character in the great political CEN
ters OF the east, the west, the middle west
and the south, and where he is not SUM-
ported he will not be ignored No one en-
tertains the idea that he will enter upon
campaign of silence. but II is regarded as
probable that he will not again undertake
the sort of swing around the circle which
ne MADE IN vi. 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 96. and to keep up the en-
thuslasm of the party workers and that
he will not take the whole burden Of the
campaign again upon his own shoulders
1t Is not expected that he will undertake to
follow up the campaign of Roosevelt who
VIII be the central figure the stump on
the republican side.
TOwne to Follow Roosevelt.
To Towne of Minnesota, who did not ge.
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 on the stump, and this plan will
probably be adhered to, though the first
feature of 1t failed. Towne is going to be
completely at the disposal of the party for
service in the campaign, and, though not
a candidate, he wi | probably perform the
services on the stump of which Stevenson
would hardly be capable.
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