The news & observer., 1904-08-05
United, Flushed with Con-
fidcnCe.
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| cans: L. Pracucally every gold Dem
ocrat, some 10000, has gone back to
! Democracy; 2. The number of ultra
silver Democrats who mean to vote
with the Populists or not vote at all
| is infinitesimal; 3. While the larger
number of recent importations of per-
sons engaged in mines and manufac-
lures may have been Republicans in
politics, most of these were employed
III the natural gas business, and as
that industry is closed out largely and
the men gone back whence they came,
there is no appreciable advantage to
the Republicans from that item. Again,
the trend of the labor interest is to-
ward the Democratic camp, not only
in Indiana, but everywhere.
The Rocky Mountain States.
The little States known as Rocky
Mountain States, which voted for Bry-
an some of which have been partly
won back in State elections by the Re
publicans are believed by the Demo-
Gratis here to be as secure for the De-
mocracy now as they were in 1896. |
myself feel that Colorado, Nevada and
Montana, probably Idaho, will cast
their electoral votes for Parker and
Davis. They have IA votes. Besides,
there are good chances III Utah and
Wyoming and a fighting chance in Ne
y
lutely upon it.
Voting for Men.
In this campaign the individuality of
the two leading candidates is going
to play a very important part. 1t is
not likely that there will be any
gross personalities. The high moral
character of Roosevelt and Parker
precludes such a thing. The burden
of the contest over individuality will
be that while one man is too strenu-
Gus to use his favorite word, the other
is not strenuous enough. Now the
American public is a curious COM
pound. 1t believes in athleticism, IN
| livelineSS, in "huStling, in busting, III
| iostling, in hurrying, in a world OF
words and ideas implying activity,
nevertheless it properly believes in the
| dignity of that high office which more
than any other single place represents
| the choice of the people. Mr.. Roose-
welt has never been quite the man TO
| fill that exalted position with true dig
nifty and aplomb. Did he not lift an
| umbrella or a cover to strike a man
who stood as he thought menacingiy
| III the way? And a political friend of
! his once said to me: HE has no cool
ness in public and tries to exercise on
| public occasions the duties of an Or
| dinary policeman. He cried out to q
| throng of people, You men there,
stand back rising to give emphasis
| to his words" On the other hand,
his rival is never flurried in manner,
| never monopoliZes other mems roles,
/ is always self-possessed, self-restrain-
| ed and yet free from ostentatiouS dig
Unity. Read what Roosevelt writes
| Last week l was perusing his interest
| ing but characteristic Life of Thomas
/ II. Benton, and come upon his wanton
| and absurd assault upon the people
| known as Quakers and other church
societies opposed to war II he had
SIMPLY stated that in his opinion they
were not justified as citizens of a coun-
TRY that might at any time be at war
with a foreign power for its own pres
crvation in their attitude in this mat
ter, he would have merited no rebuke.
but when he goes out OF his way to
say that ''in the long run" they are
undesirable citizens" he at once in
vckes their opposition and the remark
from other people not Quakers or
Dunkards that in the "Iong run" they
are desirable because of their honesty,
their sobriety, their their industry and
their upright character all around,
whatever they may be in the short
run of war when soldiers are required
rather than inoffenSiye, tOO-literally
God-fearing citizens. In the same
paragraph, which begins on page 81
Of the book, Mr.. Roosevelt character
ICES General Robert Il. Lee as the very
greatest soldier of the English-speak-
ing people, although the general op-
posed to him at the close of the war
was the full equal of both Marl-
borough and Wellington. The trouble
with Mr.. Roosevelt is that his judg-
ments of men and causes is lament
lbly deficient Jefferson Davis is lik-
ened to Burr and Booth the assassin
of Lincoln, and the Shareholders re-
bellion" is 81 pet phrase in some of his
numerous books. Like his friend,
Lodge. he writes too frequently or on
too many subjects. but he is not even
rs judcious in his pronouncements
upon men and events as the Massa-
chusetts Senator. Fancy Judge Park
er writing such stuff as Mr.. Roosevelt
writes! But we can not, any more
imagine him in that role than in that
Of ''lion-k -killin'" in the wild and
woolly West.
CICERO w. HARRIS.