The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-06
TWO OF A KIND, EH2.
StrongSympathy Between
Tommy and Teddy.
This Writer Also Hears That Watson
is to be an Editor on One OF
- Hearst's Newspapers.
By FRED Il. WARREN.

(Special to The News and Observer
Philadelphia, Pa. Nov. At is an
interesting coincidence that two OIL
this years Presidential candidates.
Roosevelt and Watson-expresseo
opinions of each other very frankly
in a ma gazine correspondence eight
years ago.
1 believe that this correspondence
suggests one reason why Thomas E.
Watson, in the present campaign has
been so much more cOnSiderate of the
personality of Theodore Roosevelt
than he has that of Alton B. Parker.
In 1896 Theodore Roosevelt then
president or commissioner of the New
York police board, contributed an ar
ticle to the September issue of the
Review or Reviews on THE Vice Pres
idency and the Campaign of 1885,
In this he expressed his views as to
Thomas E. Watson, then candidate
for Vice President on the Popullst
ticket. The article evoked a personal
reply from Mr. Watson, which was
published together with Mr.. Roose-
veIt's rejoinder in the January issue OF
the same magazine the next year.
In his first article Mr.. Roosevelt
mates. MI SeWall,' he remarked,
would nike a 'colorless' Vice Presi-
dent, while Mr.. Watson would be "a
more startling, more attractive ana
more dangerous figure. for. if he got
;he chance he would lash the nation
with a whip of scorpions. Mr.
Roosevelt continued with trenchant
attack upon the party whose represen-
tative Mr.. Watson was.
h.
pained him to be misunderstood by
man whose good opinion he respected.
when YOU take your stand for hon
ester and for juster laws in New
York" he wrote, "aS you nave so
courageouSly done, your motive must
be the same as mine. l can under
stand instinctively what you feel
what your motives are. You merely
obey q law of your nature when puts
YOU i'm mortal combat with what is
wrong" After recounting his eXpe-
rience in getting his start in life as
moor bov and telling how he acquired
his sympathy with the poor, he eX-
pressed belief that 1.-The ruling force
which actuates US both is to challenge
wrong and to fight the battles OF good
government.
In reply Theodore Roosevelt said
that he had been in Washington When
Watson was in Congress and knew
how highly the Georgian was esteem
ed personally by his colleagues. MI
watson himself his critic wrote,
"einbodies not few of the very at
tributes the lack of which we feel so
kqenIy in many of our public men.
He is brave, he is honest, he is earn
est. he is diSinterested." At the same
time Mr.. Roosevelt expressed vigorous
dissent from what he regarded as the
mistaken policies of the Populists.
This summary of the two magazine
articles certainly points to the reason
why Mr.. Watson has handled Candl-
date Roosevelt so leniently.
Watson's New Move.
The certain defeat that will be
melted out to Mr.. Watson at the polls
forecasts very interesting situation
which may arise after election. Ihere
is q weli-foundede report from New
York. which Mr. Watson has neither
seen fit to affirm nor deny, that, after
his defeat. seven days hence, the scin-
tillant, yet rather erratic. Georgian, is
TO be one of the editors of William
Randolph Hearst's New York news
papers at a salary of $4,000 a year.
Such a course is full of possibilities
which. even now, it is interesting to
reckon in the following manner-ln
itself a logical reasoning.
Until recently most of US were
forced to admire certain OF MI
Hearst's oualities-aside from the pol
icies and tone of his newspapers. We
were willing to concede his liability,
his unassisted fights in behalf of the
rights of the great masses IN the
lower walks of life and until two
weeks after the Democratic conven-
ton in st. Louis we asserted with a
slight spirit of boastfulness that,
though defeated for the nomination,
Hearst was consistently Democratic.
After his defeat in the convention the
Hearst chain of papers announced
their advocacy of the Democratic nat
ional ticket.
So much for words. Now for deeds:
the Hearst papers have not assisted
Parker. Rather have they injured his
cause by printing the savage attacks
on Parker and Davis made by I. 70.
Watson, to an extent totally unwar-
ranted by the Importance of the Pop
ulist candidates utterances.
At the present time, during the
heat of the campaign, Mr.. Watson is
finding time to write in Hearst's New
York Evening Journal a series of arti-
ces. which are given great promi-
nenCe advancing his own and Hearst S
theories. Hearst, lukeWarm in his at
titude towards Democracy, and Wat
son, smothered in defeat. are already
forming an alliance-rather meSal-
liance-Which DortendS the birth of a
new political factor-the labor-social-
istic- radical type of voters organiza-
ton, which may in later years, gain
power enough to become a dangerous
menace to the basic principles OF eur
governmental system.