The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-15
Charley ToWne s Reasons.

Charley Towne's Reasons.
Charley Towne is always interesting,
tho not always important.
He has some reasons for democratic
defeat; in fact, six of them. He
places, first, the democratic blunder
in describing protection as "robbery.'
cit is not the first time,' says Mr..
Towne, "that effective rhetoric is prov
en- to be bad judgment.' Probably
nobody is in q position to judge the
value of reflective rhetoric' more &C.
curately than Mr.. Towne. EFFECTIVE
rhetoric' has been his long suit for the
last ten years.
Another cause is the "mythical
Roosevelt Mr.. Towne is not willing
to concede the real Roosevelt, but he
does concede that the people believe
thera is real Roosevelt. They GER
tainly do.
militarism do not alarm the people, but,
on the other hand, are actually allur-
ing to young men. The "big stick,'
he thinks, awakens kind of sneaking
admiration Preparedness for emer-
gencies is likely to create admiration,
but we have never been able to discover
anything sneaking about it. Perhaps
this is personal. Mr.. Towne may ad-
mire the "big stick,' too, in the sense
that the president intends, but would be
unwilling to admit it.
Fourth, he thinks Judge Parker did
not strike the popular imagination. He
was unknown. This and his fifth
reason "that considerable element of
aggressive democracy lost confidence in
Judge Parker because of the type of
men who were conducting his campaign
are confessions of Judge Parker's un-
availability to which Mr.. Towne
might have added, if he did not intend
to imply it, that as the campaign pro-
ceeded the fact became apparent that
Mr.. Parker, in trying to be president of
the United States was clearly out of his
class-was not big enough for the job.
Mr.. Towne s. sixth reason is that the
argument in favor of letting "wel
enough alone'' was very potent. Nc
doubt it was, and when there is vel
enough to let alone it always will be
and ought to be.
Mr.. Taggart thinks that one reason
is quite sufficient to account for Mr.
Parker's defeat, one which Mr.. Townt
has not mentioned at all, viz: That thu
democratic party does not contain
enough democrats. Taggart shows hi
practical side as politician in this con
clusion. The democratic party is jus
now at very low ebb. It has firte,
with SO many heresies and fads and po
litical fallacies that it has fritteret
away nearly all Of it's one-time robus
strength. There is hardly enough lef
Of it to make decent following at tn
burial of it's last hope.
It is this fact which makes the con
tinuance of democratic administrator
in this state so improbable. Probabl,
nobody realizes more than Mr.. johnson
himself that he has no right to expec
more than one term in the office Of gov
ernor. He is governor today becaus
the introduction Of unrepublfcan meth
DDS and the nomination of conspicu
ously unfit candidate turned thousand
Of republican voters Of the state to hi1
for temporary relief. They recognized i
him worthy candidate and an instru
mentality thru which to rebuke politi
cal methods in the republican part
which intelligent voters will not submit
2 to. But return to honest method
and worthy candidates, which will un
doubtedly be effected two years fro1
now, will restore the republican part
in this state to it's accustomed contrc
of state affairs. There is no reasonabl
doubt about it. 4