The age-herald., 1902-03-28
Roosevelt's Eccentricities Likely to Cost Him Republican Nomination

lion dollars more in silver could be easily hoated. for it is greatly neededv
 'so MT. Hiil introduced his bill for the coinage of three hundred million.
 Senator Allison, acting under instruc- tions of the Senate committee on finance is preparing silver coinage biIl. and 1t Is sure to be liberal Allison always has been a free-silver man at heart. and that is the reason he has never been President The money power of the east has been afraid of him on the currency question and so have kept him out of tba White House. But the Republican party has already come around to free silver. The Republican government is coining silver as fast as the law will allow, and they are now seeking new powers of coin age. There is not enough money in circu- lation to meet the business demands of the country. and these demands are in- creasing every day. Therein lies one of the dangers to continued Republican su- premacy. If the supply of currency falls much shorter, the tide of prosperity must begin to recede, and by 1904 the Repub- lican party cannot be in position to re- peat Hanna's cry of 1900 to let we'll enough alone There won't be any well enough to be let alone. and out the Republican party will go.
 The leaders of that party foresee this probable trouble, and now they are eager for new and broader silver coinage law. Not only would such a law relieve that business tension now developing on &C., count 0f lack of n,irropo1y hut x.,o,,IH greatly please the free silver Republ- cans and free silver men generally of the West
 "It Is singular and shrewd political development that the Republican party is now engaged in effectually settling the Democratic issue of free silver and set- ting it as the Democrats sought to do, It is about the most striking case of stealing another party's thunder of which there is any record.''
 
 The belief obtains in Washington that Senator "Bill" Mason is virtually de- feated in his reelection aspirations in Illinois, and that Representative Hopkins is practically assured the Senatorship. This prospect gives great comfort to everybody. Republicans and Democrats, in Washington. It would be poor trib- ute to say that MT. Hopkins is very much preferred to Mason Any probable or pos sible person would be preferable to the notorious howler of the long hair who has been Senator Cullom's colleague for the past five years As for MT. Hopkins, he Is not only one of the most capable men in Congress and is a gentleman two qualifications, one intellectual and the other social. which Mason does not possess. Mir Hopkins is a most engag- ing personality, cultured, capable, and al- ways appearing to advantage. He is a stout and steadfast Republcan-a trifle too intensely so, perhaps-but there Is probably not a real Democrat in the House of Representatives who would not be glad to see MT. Hopkins win his way to the Senate. Politically he is such a clean man and socially so altogether ad- mirable that no one knowing him could have any other feeling than that of glad ness in his political success. The feeling toward Mason is directly the opposite. Nobody has any real respect for Billy Mason. To look at him is to arouse in one a desire .o go out and take some- thing to allay sickness MT Hopkins, on the contrary is the ideal gentleman.
 LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER.