The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-22
Might Makes Right.

Might Makes Right.
President ROOSEVELT holds that hi
nomination by the National Republican
Convention in 1904 is an assured thing
He makes no conoealment Of his convio
ton and IL il unreservedly shared by hi
friends. We think President ROOSEVELT
b right.
From the day that the President tool
up his quarters in the White House he
has never hesitated frankly to avow hi
burning desire to be elected TO the Chief
Magistracy. He has proclaimed it on al
occasions with engaging candor. and hai
unreservedly avowed his intention Of
gratifying his honorable ambition by
every rightful means within his reach.
There are strong and convincing rea-
sons Why the President should feel that
success Is within his grasp. He has used
the opportunities that he found or created,
and be has used them with consummate
skiD and undeniable success.
When at Buffalo, over the remains OF
the murdered President, Mr.. ROOSEVELT
pledged his honor to the American people
that he would carry on to their fruition
and conclusion the policies framed by
WILLIAM MCKINLEY, the whole country
rose up at him in reclamation and APP
prevail. Never was an utteranoe OF q
public man more thankfully or gladly
received. No one thought for moment
OF questioning Mr.. RoosEvELT's sin
certify, and up to the present time no ono
has questioned it. There has been nat
urally some difference Of opinion as to
his ideas and methods Of carrying out
Mr.. McKINLEY's policies, but no one has
thought Of impugning the Presidents
honesty in the matter.
Mr.. ROOSEVELT is a self-reliant, self
contained man. He works out his con-
illusions unaided, shapes his lines Of pro-
cedure on his own initiative and depends
for his action solely upon his own innate
convictions Of what is good and expe-
dent. Approbative and corroborative
counsels he gratefully and eagerly &C.
cepts. Dissuasive and deprecatory ad-
vice he does not understand.
Keenly sensitive to the drift Of public
fool.ng and profoundly impressed by
current discussion, the President saw his
WY to the sympathies of the people and
never hesitated for a moment. Since
the day that he penned his FIRST message
to Congress there has been no public act
OF Mr.. RoosEvELTs which has not been
undertaken and executed with an eye
single to it's effect upon his candidacy.
He has done nothing perfunctorily or as
a man might who was only conscious that
he was President of the United States and
that he was doing his duty. Mr.. RoosE-
WELT, with that fateful intensity OF pur-
pose which SO singularly distinguishes
his character, has permitted nothing to
obscure his vision. The Presidency by
election, as we'll as by the decree of Fate,
has never passed from before his waking
vision for a moment. Now, however,
that he sees himself intrenched in the
confidence and in the affections Of the
American people he permits himself a
little relaxation.
The President has disarmed all bis
enemies Every weapon they had, new
or old, has been taken from them and
added to the now unassailable Roose-
welt arsenal. Every popular idol, every
favorite son, stands forth to-day incapa-
bic Of offence. Why should people won
der that Mr.. BRYAN clings to Silver?
What else has he left to cling to? Has
not Mr.. ROOSEVELT absorbed and Sc
questered every vestiee of the Kansas
City platform that had shred of practi-
cal value2 Suppose that Mr.. BRYAN had
been elected President! What could he
have accomplished compared with what
Mr.. ROOSEVELT has accomplished? viii
his most passionate followers pretend
for one moment that MIR. BRYAN could
have conceived, much less enforced. any
such pursuit Of the Trusts as that which
Mr.. ROOSEVELT has just wrought TO a tri-
umphant issue? Will Mr.. BRYAN him.
self intimate that the Federal courts
would have turned to his projects the
friendly countenanoe which they have
lent TO those of Mr. ROOSEVELT?
Where is government by injunction
gone to- The very emptiness Of that
once potent phrase is beyond description
A regiment Of BgYxNs could not compete
With Mr.. ROOSEVELT in marrying the
Trusts, in bringing wealth to its knees
and In converting into the palpable
sotualities Of action the widest dreams
Of BRYAN's campaign orators. He has
outdone them all.
And how utterly the President has
routed the pretensions Of BRYAN and Of