The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-17
stNo Radical for President,o

Washington Post,
 No radical will be elected President We are a bushes people. We must have business platform and business candi- date. and then mind our own business Next year will see more Democratic gans-1904 means Democratic success if We are really Democratic No utopian dreams go. All we need to do to be saved is. to deserve salvation. Toledo Bee (Deni.3
 The rnilsd States has never had and probably never will have radical Presi- dent. It is scarcely conceivable that the American people would elect to that office an advocate of principles or policies deem- ed dangerous by the conservative eie- ments of the electorate. Whatever dreams of Presidential preferment David B. Hill may have had-and we do not think they were either numerous or brilliant-were annihilated by the preposterous bid for Socialistic support that he put into his platform, Tom l.. Johnson is as likely to ride to the moon on his red automobile he is to get into the Presidency on his record. And whatever of justification may have existed in the past for Bryan. ism, 1t is rampant radicalism today, and will be no better in 1aO4
 Our Toledo contemporary shows a clear appreciation of the situation in the re- mark that all it's party needs in order to be saved Is ito deserve salvation" It is not Bryan, but the Democratic Party that is responsible for the paRtys low es- tate. Five successive Democratic defeats in national elections. the Republican soi- idity of the North such a shrinkage of Dennasra tG- IaoWsr in, the Senate that the party can have no hope of restoration to control of that body unless 1t scores a vic- tory in 1904 and follows that up with an- other triumph in 19eS-that situation is not chargeable to any one man. The party can only recover lost ground by ge ting together. not as hybrid. Its history shows a great recuperattve. capacity. One of the most sweeping of all it's victories was won in the election next succeeding its most crushing defeat. It is possible to repeat. that story. Bryanism has not sunk the partyAso low as Greeleyism did. The first step toward restoration, IS 10 deserve success.
 But our Toledo contemporary need not imagine that the Republicans will go into the field in 1904 with a radical candidate. Whether, as now seems assured, Its can- dldate is Mir. Roosevelt or any one of the other statesman in the list of availables, he will not be man whose name will frghten the business interests. One might search through the messages of all of President RooseN It's predecessors without finding one more free from rad icalism than either his first or second an- nuai message The document that he sent to Congress last week contained no men ace to any legitimate business interest.
 The possession of responsibility always conduces to conservatism. Even if rad ical could be elected to the Presidency, the chances are that his partisans would soon be complaining of his moss-hacked conservatism. But assuming that both of the great parties steer clear of radical ism in 1904. remembering that we are a business people and that only bus mess platform and candidate accept able to business men can have any chance to win, that will not prevent radicaliSm from, making show.