The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-24
DURBIN FOR WcE.PRESIDENT.

DURBIN FOR WcE.PRESlDENT.
VIZ are told that President Roose-
welt has given it out that be wishes
TO have Governor Durbin, Of Indiana,
as his running mate next year, and the
Kansas City Journal says editorially;
"What President Roosevelt wants
Of the republican party he can have.
If he has any preference as to his
running mate for the next campaign,
that preference will be respected. "
Suppose n Of the candidates for
governor 10 Missouri we're to announce
that he wanted a certain mar to be
chosen by the democrats for lieuten-
ant governor, what would be most
likely to happen to them both?
Suppose Cockrell, German, Hearst,
Cleveland or Olney we're to let it be
known that they would expect a
certain man to be the nominee for the
vlce-presidency on a ticket with one
Of them, what would the newspapers
say about it and what would the peo-
pie think about it? Yet nobody thinks
anything about IL In the case of the
republican party and Mr.. Roosevelt.
The republican papers, which devote
three-fourths of their politics columns
TO warning the democrats Of the
horrors of "rings, " "machine rule, "
"b%osses," "dictation," "wire pull
ing, perpetual succession, " "ruts, "
"rings in the nose, :" 'the party LASH"
and oil such dreadful things are meek
as lambs about allowing Mr.. Roose-
welt to appoint a vice-president even
before it is known, or at least sup
posed to be,known, that be will be the
party nominee for the first place on
the ticket.
1t is true that Governor Durbin is
very dear to the republican heart and
conscience and 40 special objection
could be made by them to his nomi-
nation. Perhaps the republicans
might make some sort of feeble
re%monstrance for not being permitted
to exercise any choice in the matter
except for the fitting character of the
selection. First Of all, Governor
Durbin, like Mr.. Roosevelt, is a
veteran and hero of the great Spanish
war. Like Roosevelt be has sheltered
assassin Taylor against the ordinary
processes of the law-Roosevelt turn
ed him over to Durbin when he left
Albany for Washington-and like
Roosevelt he has emitted shrieks of
horror over the untimely taking off
of poor rapists in the South. because
they too are loyal to the same con.
fession of political faith. The Asso-
ciated Press dispatch which brings
this news says that Governor Durbin
has never been trained 10 any learned
profession but is just an ordinary man;
this completes his title of fitness, for
Mr.. Roosevelt is a very ordinary man.
10 the glory Of military prestige and
in ordinariness Durbin and Roose-
velt match each other like two black
eyed peas.
There has been a lingering hope
that MI. Roosevelt might select
Charles NJ. Schwab as his running
mate. There are certain spectacular
qualities about him that at one time
pointed him out as a man after Mr..
Roosevelt's own heart. There was
something about him that made
people notice him and kept the news
papers talking about him. He seem
ed so intoxicated with himself and
startled people so. But then in the
line Of qualifications these things
could not outweigh Durbin's ordinari-
ness; for Mr.. Roosevelt is a very
ordinary man.