The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-05
A Personality Campaign.

A Personality" Campaign.
With folly born of blind and bitter
and an insane desire to win, the demo
cratic party-in the absence of real
issues and with no record to which it
dares to points preparing to make
paramount in this campaign the per-
sonality of President Roosevelt. The
agitation which is bringing this lis
sue" to the fore had It's beginnings in
the southern states, which this year
have negrophobia in worse form than
at any time since the day of the force
bill agitation.
The country will be invited by the
democrats to believe many things Of
the president which are untrue. A false
! Roosevelt will be thrust before the eyes
of the multitude, and it will be ugly
and repulsive. A false Parker will
be thrust before the multitude, and it
will be so highly .ideaized as to be
hardly human. Roosevelt-al that is
bad, that is dangerous, that is BIZARRE:
Parker all that is good, that is 'ssafe
and sane, - that is correct.
We mistake the temper of the Amer
lean people and underestimate their in
telligence if such an argument can
find any Judgment among them. There
are real issues in this campaign, and
hoy ohiIirr irfo IN W.
ing them carefully discussed and prop
erly settled. The democratic lack of
issues cannot be covered up by "per.
sonal' assaults on the republican nom
inee. The people know that nominee
: quite as well as the men who will seek
i to hold him up to popular ridicule, and
are as competent to pass judgment upor
him as man and as president.
They know, too, that the sole depend
! ence of Judge Parker for success il
the New York element that has beer
roughly handled by the Roosevelt ad
ministration thru the coal strike arbi
tration and the enforcement of the anti
trust laws. There is sound campaign
issue in this one thought alone. Do tn
d people at large like the president s per
Torrance on the two occasions referred
too If they do, let them support hin
! at the polls, and not the man who's
l. support by the other side is almost
guarantee that he would not, on occa
sion, duplicate the Roosevelt perform
ance.
The president has been absolutel.
L frank and fearless in the matter of lay
enforcement. A millionaire has had n
/ greater rights than the poor man. Bot
}. have been measured by the justice o
8 their cause.
g He has been frank with the people
who during his administration hav
n been taken into the executive confdenc
0 in a manner which has marked wild
departure from long established prect
L dent.
a He is man Of positive character
l. who does things, and does them so we
IS as to merit the applause not only 9
It his own people, but Of the civilize
IL world as well.
g He has corrected abuses in the civ
d service and has hunted dishonest pull
% lie officials to their destruction, withor
IS regard to whether they we're republican
or democrats.
n He "stands pa" and ".,stays put,
[c and that is more than can be sal
n with any degree of certainty Of the ma
A who is running against him. He BIZ
y the courage of his convictions, and b
e. presence in the White House has bee
"a an inspiration to the young manhoc
i of the country such as it has not ha
N for many years.
n Let the democratic party, led on +
~ the embittered and prejudiced sout
in make the personality campaign
y, it thinks wise. Let Theodore Roos
ct welt become the issue of the hour. I'll
3. republicans can well afford to accel
al the challenge. Theodore Roosevelt hi
1g been in the limelight for o good mar
a. years. For three years be has be,
OF living and acting in plain sight @of {
to the people. That g long enough for t
in people to find out what kind of m.
n, their president is-whether he is cap
d BILE and honest and courageous, whethe
be being all that, he is in sympathy wi
no the people and faithful to his respon
biGties, as president of all the peoI
nd and not of a favored few.
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IS John Sharp Williams will probably re
r resent his Mississippi district in congre
=. as long a s he lives. unless the state shni