Bisbee daily review., 1904-06-01

no doub. whatever that the ticket will be overwhelmingly elected. A man to meet these requirements must pos sess peculiar and very unusual qual- ities. He must be a man of unswerv- lng courage. unbending honesty, un- Tagging resolution, and who can neither be intimidated, cajoled, seduc- ed nor fatigued.
 Whether the peculiar tendencies of the present administration. its irresis- tible disposition to foreign adventure.
 Its spectacular and undignified at tempts to initiate foreign ceremonials anG foreign methods of diplomacy. Its eagerness to increase armaments. its actual subserviency to the worst political elements. while professing devotion to lofty ideals, shall be com pletely expelled from our political system or made permanent features of it will be determined by the sue cess or defeat of the candidate who has originated most of them and is
 
 The platform. if it be honest. can did and sincere. must necessarily be brief. The fact that there is no chance of our obtaining possession of both the legislative and executive departments renders and declaration of legislative intentions superfluous and therefore objectionable on every ground. They cannot possibly be car lied out, and to profess purpose i'm possible of accomplishment is neither prudent, nor impressive nor honest. But if the subjects which the platform are few. they are nevertheless so i'm portant that the sincerity of the party must be made absolutely beyond ques- lion.
 If the issues should be simply re- form in administration. the exposing of wrong and the pursuit and convic- ion of wrong-Goers, the man who has won national fame as prosecutor in St. Louis seems to possess every qual- ity to insure success. His record is absolutely unique, lso far as know in the history of the country. He is a reformer of singular efficacy, and at the same time a politician of skill, while as reformer and politician he has been successful in an extraordinary and almost be- wildering degree. Reformers have been numerous. but no other, to my knowledge. has eyer been equally successful in fighting rogues in the courts and in the local pri- maries.
 Reformers who are equally anxious to end wTongdoing have always been Reformers who have under taken to prosecute crime in the courts have not been few Reformers who have succeeded in obtaining convic- ions are rare, though not wholly un- known. But the only man, so far as I know, who has pursued criminals 10 conviction in the courts and at the same time has fought them success ,ully at the primaries, who has act lally succeeded in dislodging them rom the political control in which he found them and assuming that con -rol himself. is the prosecuting attor- hey of St Louis.
 That he has vindicated justice in the courts would have been plainly but that he has actually enthroned it it control of a political party so completely that delegates charged with the task of rewarding its champion by nominating him toI the highest office in the common wealth will dominate the state con vention of Missouri almost unanimous is an event undrecedented in poli- ties, so far as I know. and fraught with the promise of measureless bene- fits to the people of the whole coun. try.
 Of course there is one man whose election would be absolutely certain, but the opposition to his nomination is so strong as to make it impossible The men now prominent in the man agement of the party have all risen to prominence by denouncing him. md of course that makes it almost for them to now accept him as a candidate. If the opposi- tion was based on anything he had said of them it might be overcome. but it would be almost superhuman if these gentlemen forgave Mir Cleve- land the harsh things they have said of him. Il is very easy to forgive my neighbcr anything he may said of me. but almost impossible to forgive him he things I have said about him Of course, it must be admitted that the existence of this opposition to Mr Cleveland in his own party to some extent impeaches his capacity Or leadership.
 Mir Cleveland served two terms as President. After the first he left the White House with his party unan- mously and enthusiastically attached o him. After the second he left the