The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1904-01-29
~ THE PRESIDENCY
Democrats Will ElOaently
Proclaim Their FayOrite
ISSue-0bject.
Presidents Popular Method of
Doing Things Don't Suit
Them.

We are just about to enter into
National campaign that promises to
be interesting, indeed
We are fully assured by the Demo
Gratis that they ere ready to meet the
issues, Giving as they arise" which
means. being interpreted, by the
light of Democratic history, that they
will do the same DIRECTORS stint with
the same blind indiscriminhtion that
has characterized them Tor the last
icrty years.
And, so, all the Republicans will
have need to do will be to furnish the
tissues" and attend to the little de-
tails of conducting Uncle Sans bus
mess. The Democrats will do the
t,obiecting.
The Democrats are maniiesting a
great deal of concern about the Re-
publican nominee for the Presidency.
They seem fully to realize the fact
that the only way they can possibly
have any voice In the election Of the
next Presinent, Is by Influencing the
Republicans in their selection OF a
candidate.
OF course, we suppose they will
nominate somebody and go through
the form OF running" him on some
kind of platform-the one used By
the last Kentucky Democracy Is
probably the only one they will ever
be able to agree on. Or, II they
' wanted one little different from the
"hyeroglyphic State machine" used
by the Doughty IN the last Demo
cratic election In Kentucky, might in
seIs a "graudpa's suffrage" clause
just to Jar somebody" you know.
And it might not be amiss to insert
their Endorsement of Marx Hanna Tor
the Presidency, not because they like
Mr. Hanna. but because the people
want and will have Mr. Roosevelt for
their nominee.
Mr.. German aud the whole outlay
are sorely tempted to go on record
opposing the Isthmian canal, II they
feel that they dare disregard the man.
date Of the people. What they will
!. do remains to be seen. Mr.. German
OF the "Wilson Bill" fame and Mr.
German opposed to the canal treaty,
will be an ideal candidate for the De-
mocracy.
Political history will record one
ludicrous incident relative to the
Isthmian canal. A certain doughty
Kentucky Colonel, the editor Of
Democratic organ, published In the
metropolis of Kentucky, was urging,
DANGEROUSLY ,vociierously, perslstently,
the President to act, that the reasona-
BILE time of the Spooner act had ex-
pired and with It the patience of the
great Republic. Day after day, col.
umn after column.did this vslorous
editor spread before the public, never
man wrote as he wrote and sought as
this Colonel sought to find an issue
IA real, live, Presidential campaign
Issue for the Democrats In their pres
emit state, you know, boon much
to be coveted.
But alasl and slack! My pen al
most refuses to indite the record. The
President acted The Panama Repub-
lie was fact In EssE and the canal
fact In POSSE and the Colonel-well,
the Colonel took the count"
And now the Colonel says II Is not
the things the President does that he
objects to, but the way the President
does them.
The same Colonel urged the cleo.
tlon OF Mr.. Bryan four years ago as
against the immortal Mckinley on
the ground that a Republican Con-
gress would save the country from
Mr.. Brysn's iallacious theories of f.
nance, etc. ~