The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-08-06
THE rrRsr BLuNpER.
II Made in Mr.. roots speech ON Mr.
Davis.

Brooklyn Eagle. ..
The Eagle today prints the speech
/ @ Ehhu Root apprising Mr.. E pan.3San,
OF his nomination for Vice presiaen.
In reply, The significant part o. M,
Roofs address comprises delioerately
roughened references to the age Ui
Mr.. Davis the competitor with Mr.
With Infections on the imbecility o.
death of Mr.. Davis on account OF ms
age. should the Presidency, by the
| death Of Judge Parker. deyolve upon
tuition and the laws. This is the nrst
| time in the history of the united
states that remarks so entirely ana 80
grewsomely personal have ever oeeh
nee for the vice-Presidency. Remarks
OF that sort are matter OF taste.
l Taste Of that sort Is not a matter TOT
imitation or for envy.
| The measure of years Is strength.
I The measure of strength Is capacity
for labor and pleasure, or the reverse,
Lin labor. The Democratic candidate
for Vice. President is physically
stronger than Elihu Root or Charles
hours a day and is less fatieued at
night than either OF them. Since Mr.
! Root has raised the question of NOR
| tally and OF trassdy. It is Nm order
ever died in once. The two Presidents
who died, while, in Office. Of disease
were the 1rst Harrison and Zachary
Taylor They were wings. The
were Abraham Lincoln, James A. Gar
field and William Mckinley. They
were Republicans. Every Democrat
| chosen to the Presidency long survived
his incumbency OF the office. whether
living ex-President today Is Grover
| Cleveland, a Democrat. And he has
| noted the deaths OF r. B. Hayes. James
A. Garfield. Chester A. Arthur and VIII
OF every Republican Incumbent Of the
Vice presidency, since he became
voter Mr. Root calls the roll Of no
more apprehensive of Judge Parker's
| election than of Judge Parker's death,
though he has to assume Judge Par
kers election, in order to rub into
Mr.. Davis the honorable fact of his
| honorable years.
The American people are at once so
| lust and so gallant that we feel sure
| they viii condemn Mr.. Roots very de-
liberate and very iamentabie departure
from propriety ana humanity. The de-
| fects Of men are on the side of their
qualities. But then. their qualities
must be on the side Of their defects.
We earnestly trust that Mr.. Roots de-
liberate defects today are not on the
side OF any Of his permanent qualities.
| He shot hts bolt at Chicago He there
| said for Republicanism all that he
could say. and some things he had bet
| ter not said. Today, 1t would seem,
but those he should have repealed. Mr..
Fairbanks may rest assured that. If
| under the operation of votes the ticket
which be represents should be elected,
and IL, under the operation of morta1i-
| ty he, as vice President should accede
to the Presidency in the term of Mr..
Roosevelt. he will find Mr.. Root him
self his rival for the nomination in
1908. Mr.. Root today addressed Mr..
Fairbanks In the only character in
which he would ever willingly address
him, not that Of a candidate for. Presi-
dent, but In that OF a candidate for
Vice President
We violate no confidence when we
| say that Mr.. Root today makes his own
Willingness. to accept nomination
for Governor OF this State, dependent
managers, in this commonwealth, to
him that, in 1908. he shall. If elected
Governor this year, have their promise
to support him for President against
all aspirants-Mr. Fairbanks of India
ma, especially and expressly included.
A oynic once said that every man was
| three men: The first. was the man
as he saw himself; the second, was the
the man as God saw him. Elihu Root.
as God saw him today. was the man
who hopes to distance Mr. Fairbanks
In the Presidential sweepstakes of 1908.
This fact makes his notification of Mr..
Fairbanks as grating an insincerity as
types have ever recorded.
We do not need much further to no.
tice what MIR. Root said or what Mr..
Fairbanks said in reply. Mr.. Fair
| dent by the proscriptive and prescrip-
tive policy OF the cabal which con-
| trolled the Chicago convention. MIR.
Root treats his nomination as the re-
suit of long and earnest consideration
and discussion by the members of the
convention" Mark; he does not say
OF the convention" were manipulated.
massaged, rounded up and brought into
! line. when the convention" was not
in session. The nomination itself by
the convention" was an act of enforced
machine unantmity. The words which
Mr.. Root uses to define or describe the
machine nomination of Mr.. Fairbanks
and the words which he uses implicitly
TO slur the nomination of Mr.. Davis, by
the ST. Louis convention, when the lat
ter was In his West Virginia home.
convey an impression SO absolutely
| contrary to the facts that we shall not
| trust ourselves to comment upon them.
We predict. however, that the moral re-
volt of the sense of fairness and of
| justice in the breasts of voters will he
90 marked that Mr.. Roots address will
always remain unenviably unique.
Mr.. Fairbanks's speech was on Mr..
Fairbanks's level 1t Is courteous,
pulseless, proper-snd commonplace.
| Less he could not have said. More he
promises to say in a letter soon. The
more will unquestionabiy resemble the
| not much of today. We predict. how
ever. that 1t will not be married, for
Republican purposes. either by that
| assumption of Judge Parker's election,
which Mr.. Root was forced to make for
his grewsome augmentation, or by
that anticipative implication of Mr.
Davis's imbelicity upon which, let us
all hope, Mr.. Root will yet become
ashamed that he felt required to en-
large and to gloat.
Each party has been closely looking
for the first break" or blunder of its
opponent. Patient Democratic wait
ing for that at the hands of Republi
canism has been no loss. Mr. Root
made the break" and supplied the
blunder today We feel very sure that
neither Mr.. Parker nor Mr.. Davis who
are yet to be heard from, will, in any
allusion which they make to their
honorable opponents. either initiate or
emulate what yesterday we should not
have hesitated to have called the i'm
possible and the incredible method
which Mr. Root adopted today.