The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-02-13
NO OPPOSITION TO HIM.
President Roosevelt VIII he the Sole
Choice of the Republican
Party.

Leading republicans whom demo-
cratic organs have alleged to be OPP
posed to the denomination of President
Roosevelt have evidently concluded
that 1t is. time to expose the lie, and
they are doing SO. says the San Fran
cisco Chronicle. Within the republi-
can party. at Washington as well as
elsewhere, there is not only NO ''op-
position" to the president. nor even
'lukewarmness." but there Is actual
enthusiasm for his denomination. It
Is freely stated not only that there Is
no better man" in sight, but that there
could not well be any better man either
as candidate or president. No other
republican Is seeking the nomination
and nobody has ever pretended that
any other could get II II he did seek
1t. All that the democrats have ever
pretended to assert was that there was
dissatisfaction" with the president,
which, while not strong enough to pre-
vent his nomination, might, as was in
timated, induce a few disgruntled re-
publicans to vote the democratic ticket.
There Is nothing In this. There new
er was anything in 1t. There are ele-
ments which are opposed to the exc
cution of Statutory laws which are very
strongly opposed to President Roose-
welt because he enforces law as he finds
1t. Some of these men doubtless call
themselves republicans. AS a matter
Of fact they are political Ishmaefites.
who will vote for the man whom they
think least likely to interfere with evil
doors. Some of these will very likely
vote for the democratic candidate in
preference to)President Roosevelt. II
the democratic press likes to brag
about the accession of these malodor-
Gus recruits it is welcome to do SO and
to the strength" which they can add
to the democratic cause. Honest re-
publicans and honest men are for pres
ident Roosevelt, who executes the law
whatever the consequences and who is
not afraid of anybody. The man who
would rather be right than be president
is most likely to be right and president
both when the people know him as
they know President Roosevelt.
Aside from the personal character of
our fearless president, influential re-
publicans recognize, as the people Will
recognize, that 1t would be both fool
ish and dangerous to change presidents
at this particular juncture. The United
States is adjusting itself to the new in
ternational relations into which 1t en-
tered as the result of the events of
1898. In the Caribbean and in the far
east there are policies half worked out
with whose threads and bearings the
president is familiar as no other man
can be. Until five or six years ago we
were living on our continent in COM
parative isolation, concerned only with
our domestic politics. Now our interests
and responsibilities have suddenly ex-
banded until we find them impinging
on those of other powerful nations in
ways wholly unfamiliar to our expert
ence and traditions. The mastery
handling of these delicate questions by
the president and preceding admins
trations has excited the admiration and
secured the respect and esteem of the
civilized world. The president is need
ed to finish the work.