The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-07-01
CURRENT

Can the president nominate him
self, conduct his own campaign, and
win? There is nothing in the way
Of precedent to guide in answering
thu question. The American people
win have to furnish the answer. Ger
tainly the campaign now near at hand
Will. more than the campaign OF 1854.
even, be a contest concentered on a
personality The debate will proceed
on other and far different lines, IL is
true. in the use of materials. but IL
will be, nevertheless, on the republi-
can side, a personal campaign. 1t is
easy to d that this is just what the
candidate himself has Il has
striven for. and relies upon.-Wash-
ington Post.
Will Mr.. Roosevelt be elected?
Look out If he is, If he has been a
strange man in the environment of the
last three yeara what will he be
when he is chief executive on his own
account, and by direct commistson
from the people? He has paid his
debts. When the last ballot is in the
first Tuesday after the first Monday
In November his embarrassments will
be over. If he is defeated he must
take his remarkable personality to pri-
vate life, and he will bitterly learn
how speedily a nan may be forgotten.
If he is elected it is believed there
Will be the most spectacular admins
tration in the history of the country.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
If battle-scarred republican politi-
clans were angered by the presidents
making a raw recruit like Mr.. Cortel-
you chairman of the national COM
mittee, what will they say to his
placing Mr.. Paul Morton in the cabi-
net? Here is a man whose republic
can wedding-garment is yet confess
eddy crease with newness. OF dem
ocratic ancestry, himself a gold demo-
crat until very recently, his sudden
promotion over republicans who have
borne the hea and burden of the
day is certain to provoke bitter ON
plaints in the vineyard. But the
laborers therein must know that they
have a master who proposes to do
what he will with his own-his own
being the party and the government.
New York Post.
The Louisville Courier-Journal says:
There is Olney, there is Mcclellan,
there is Gray, there Is Folk. ANY
n of these would be a good nominee
and would make an available candi-
date. and if elected would give the
country all the needful assurance
sought by every enlightened and con-
sentative element" There is C1eve<
land, also. We hope that in making
UP it's calculations about the national
democratic convention at st. Louis
our esteemed Kentucky friend will
not forget Mr.. Cleveland. If Olney
or Mcclellan or Gray Or Folk Or Par
ker or German could be elected, he
would doubtless give the country a
good administration, but so would
MT Cleveland, and Mn Cleveland,
moreover. could be elected, n when
he is elected. as he will be if he shall
be nominated at st. Louis, We SHAH
do our best to bring the great Ken
lucky editor and the great American
statesman together for the good OF
the country and the welfare of the
party.-News and Courier.
- Former United states Senator Allen
of Nebraska, who, it is thought, will
be the populist nominee for president.
predicts that Mr.. Cleveland will be
He not only predicts his nomination.
but also his election. Mr.. Allen may
be a prophet who has the confidence
of the populists, but just at present
there are no good reasons why demo-
Gratis should " confidence in him.
1t is true that in various parts of the
country there is a. good deal of talk
of Mr.. Cleveland for the democratic
| presidential nomination. but there Is
no organized movement in his behalf
Just now considerable Cleveland SEN
timent is cropping out among the
democratic leaders of Virginia, if the
dispatches are to be credited, but.
as far as known. none of the delegates
to the ST. Loui convention favors
him. Of course, it is impossible to
say with any degree of certainty what
the st. Louis convention will do. but
it looks very much as if it would NOM
mate Judge Parker. He would come
n q q rhT- r.. hrInO nj Or fln ~
party together than any other canGi-
date.-Savannah News.
But the nomination of Theodore
Roosevelt. the completion of the tick
ct and the adoption by the party Of
MI. Roosevelt's chosen form of party
dellverance do not make up the issue
for the voters. The alternative is yet
to be presented. 1t remains to be
seen whether the other great party,
in the presence Of such an opportuni-
ty as has come to it but twice at most
in half a century. will ENTER neutral
colors against the blood-red OF
~Rooseveltism, or will try to match
his vividness with an even more gIar-
ing yellow; or, again, will put for
ward a man and a declaration OF prin-
ciples which shall inspire confidence
where mistrust and apprehension ex-
list concerning the preservation intact
Ior tne next our year ana thereaf
teS, of accepted principles, accom-
plished results and c~onstitutionally es-
tablished methods, for the sake OF the
welfare or our organized tmilh Qns
|. Yes, he will be triumphantly
elected, and perhaps to work further
changes in the direction of absolutisn
suggested by the speaker of the house
of representatives, il st. Louis offer
to the country a more uncertain fu-
ture than can be discerned in the
known dangers and probable vicisSi.
tudes of four years more Of Mr.. Roosa
lvelt's rule.-New York Sun.