The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-26

0IdM MT. IleNe4anos II Lley CQulls and when they had done So, they were Tot pleased with the result.
 mr. Cleveland became president. Pr. Hill was Senator. Mfr. Murphy became Mir. Hills colleague in the Senate. The State or New York had 3. Democratic President and two Democratic Senators who were opposed to the Democratic Administration. The influence Of those Senators on Administration action was slight. The honor that accrued 10 this state from that condition of Democratic discord was not large. The Democracy has never since then had a President, or q Governor Of New York, or United States Senator from New York. The Republicans have relieved the Democ- racy of that burden of pleasure of pow CT. Mir. Cleveland remains tho great est of living Democrats. MT. Hills in tention to retire from politics, January l, November. Edward Murphy, Jr.. has not emerged from the retirement which followed the expiration of his one term in the Senate.
 4 New York Republican is President of the United States, on his second term nA1ANAl 4lC Has GOAGildlllCu Slldll DG HIS last A United States Senatorship from this Senate is to be filled in January by the Legislature, whicl. is overwhelming ly Republican. The Republican Presi- dent has been urged to indicate a pre- ference. No expression of a preference has been made by him. None is known to be entertained by him. He has not been drawn and it is not believed he { will be. The senior Republican United States Senator, Mir, Platt, is now a Roosevelt man. He thought to bury | MT. Roosevelt out of sight in the Vice Presidency, when the latter would rather have been reelected Governor. The Vice Presidency proved not to be a burial plot. The beloved Mckinley was assassinated. Mir. Roosevelt be- came President. He has been nonin- ated and elected for a full term of his own. Republican politicians cannot TOW be kept away from supporting him either by Tub or a mandamus. Yet he scrupulously refrains from indicating 4 7a preference for the Senatorship to be 4 filled from this State.
 Without any reflection on Grover Cleyeland's candor in 1894, we think Theodore Rooseyelt's reticence in 1904 is wise and fair, under existing circum- stances. MT Roosevelt knows how far he would have progressed in public life in 190O had MT. Platt's moftuary in- tents been effected. He knows how far he would have progressed even in state politics in 1898, had Governor Blacks natural desire to be renominated, then been realized. He knows what would have become of him in 1900, had Han mas oyertures to Odell then to take the Vice Presidency not been repelled by the latter. Events have made old op-
 ponents new friends and old foes neces- sary servitors. That which the relig- ious call Providence, the cynical fate, and the gamesters luck can Yariously be held responsible for it.
 There is no politician involved in the present scramble iii New York Repub- licanism who has not been both anti Roosevelt and pro- Roosevelt according as temperament or necessity dictated, unless the exception be MT. Depew. He was not concerned In operative poli- ties, but made a case for whatever programme was wrought out by those who were. Mir. Depew was the attorney for the party's case, whatever it was, ! till he was made the beneficiary of the partys action, when he was sent to the Senate The President is in a situation
 to be satisfied by MT. Depew's re-elec- tion, but is under no requirement to , force 1t. He could well be satisfied by ] Mr. Blacks election, though he is under no obligation to effect it. He may think that Mir Platt has becme more commit ted to him by necessity than Mr. Odell i, has but he need feel under no bonds to interfere between thm. No anti Roose- welt victory in New York Republicanism is possible, for he has taken himself out
 of the conflicts of his party by his re- nunciation of second nomination, in circumstances which would make him a
 candidate for a third term, were sec ond nomination to come to him or be sought by him.
 When the Black opposition to Roose- l velt--or shall we say the Platt support : of Roosevelt against Black in 1SsS2--is
 recalled, deal of thinking is started. When MT Roosevelt's dispensation with
 Payn and Aldridge is recalled that thinking is farther stimulated. When Platt's and others intended interment . of Roosevelt in the ,Capulet tomb of the \, Vice Presidential nomination in 1900 is recalled, the intellectual stimulation is
 increased. And now Platt, Odell. Pawn,
 Aldrige and Black are falling over one
 another in their race for Roosevelt rec
 ognition, and MT. Roosevelt does not need and is not minded to say a word.
 The earnestness of it would be inter-
 esting, if the irony of 1t was not ire . sistible The feuds of politics are rare- ly long, though they may be intense. It is impossible to elect Republican
 who will not be for Roosevelt and inl- . possible to name a Republican whom
 Roosevelt need say he prefers.
 Mir. Cleveland in 1892 was more can ] did, and his enemies in his party
 fastened on the Senate two men who antagonized his second administration 1 all through its term, with results that contributed more to friction than to