The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-12-10

they see In this document the Ill
evitable SOLDERING effect of grea
responsibility, and they beliey'
the entire absence of undue en-
thusiasm on any subject will ten(
to strengthen the president will
the conservative element in the
country and will dissipate still
further the original idea that hi
had to combat when he took the
oath of Office, that he was errati(
and untrustworthy.
HIS message deals with the
marvellous events affecting CAPT
tai and labor, and winds up with
a cogent discussion of affairs OF
the isthmus which is particu arly
admired by diplomats here be
cause it. is confined to we'll estab
lished principles of internationa
law and because the position OF
the United States is asserted
without the slightest reference to
the famous doctrine of President
Monroe, with which the Europe.
an nations have become more or
less surfeited during the present
generation.
Republican leadres in congress
are particularly delighted with
the presidents review of the
Panama incident. They say he
has disposed of all possibility of
partisan attack on his admins
tration on account OF the Panama
revolution. They were, In fact.
fearful of a democratic advant-
age resulting from the effort of
the United States 10 maintain the
neutrality of the isthmus. and
quite a number of senators and
representative have been busily
engaged digging up material for
speeches on this subject, SO there
might be plenty of campaign lit
erature in defense of the admin
istration. The Panama portion
of the presidents message. it is
said today, is quite as good a
campaign document as the re
publicans can hope to circulate.
If the democrats attempt TO
make an issue of the Panama
matter the presidents forcible
demonstration of the actual neu-
trality of the United States
throughout the whole affair will
be printed by the million and
circulated throughout the coun-
try by the next Republican ma
tional committee.
/, Coupled with the discussion of
the message there has been an
extraordinary amount of talk
regarding an editorial in the
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
in which an effort was made to
turn down Roosevelt as the re-
publican candidate for the presi-
dency on the score of innate po-
litical weakness. Almost every
man is inclined to believe the
editorial was inspired by friends
of Perry s. Heath, former assist
ant postmaster general, who was
handled without gloves in the
Bristow report and who was not
treated any too tenderly ir the
presidents own memorandum.
Technically, of course. Mr..
Heath has no interest in the pa
per, but he was once its editor
chief and the influence of his
family in that vicinity is well
understood. There are some
other influences out in Ohio
which are antagonistio to the
president, but which long ago
have been discounted. Rath-
bore, the convicted Cnban bood-
Ter, was once a power in repub-
lican politics in Ohio, and Ma
chen, now under Indictment for
participation in Cuban frauds,
comes from the same state. The
general opinion, therefore, is
that the editorial discussion was
merely an attempt to get even
with the president, and there is
no possibility of such q thing as
the loss of the Ohio delegation
to President Roosevelt next
June.
Il is understood the republican