The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-07
sUFFERIN SMOKE.
what an Indictment of President
Roosevelt's Weakness and Unit
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Cincinnati. Commercial Tribune, Rep.)
Once for all we desire to~announce that
at this time this paper has 30 candidate
for the high office OF president Of the
! United States. When the Republican
party in national convention selects It's
candidate this paper viii give him, what-
ever his name may be, cordial and
hearty support
We have. no candidate to urge upon the
cOnveHtien tor the nomination. We nave
whom we believe tc be fitted for the posi-
ton, and may name others whom we
| know to be qualified and who can De
elected without a question if nominated.
Our sole aim Is that the party may
achieve success in 1904,
The Republican party never selected
wr. Roosevelt as president OF the hlted
States II selected him to an Office OF
honor and bif-h rank but of far less inn
pOrtance than the one which the terrible
act of an assassin gave him the legal
right to occupy.
moment as a candidate for the presi-
Gency at the Philadelphia convention in
1850, and if anyone had foreseen the fate
Of our beloved Mckinley, Mr.. Roosevelt
would never have been nominated TOT
vice president, however much the state Of
New York desired to be relieved.
The presidency is not disposed of as a
legacy.
Mr.. Roosevelt viii. we hope. serve out
his fun term. and We believe he wiz dis
charge every duty to the full extent OF MS
ability
The Republican party has given Mr.
Roosevelt cordial support, and VIII DO SO
in all proper matters until the close OF
his term of office.
The Republican party is for the people,
and has ever placed the interests of the
whole people above and beyond those Of
any class The advocates of Mr. ROose-
welt ogote this and that senator as favor
able to his nomination. Few Of the init
ed States seust tors would suffer even il
the party was defeated at the election in
1891. The majority of them are secure
in pleasant positions. and it Is common
saying that the ideal position of nited
States senator IS when the opposition has
the exeooffye power and there IS neither
responsibility IN legislation nor annoyance
as IN patrolfa ge
1t is not the Ssnators who would suffer
II d Democrat sitasIld be elected president
1t is within the tspEnds of possibility Tor
the Republican party to be badly defeat
ed and not q Republican sentor lose ms
seat. E
It is net the seDators. however, who
nominate presidents. but the delegates
selected by the people.
With q Republican defeat for the presi-
dency, what of the fate Of the staunch,
heroic Republicans Of the south. who at
home have only Republican administra-
fions to look TO Tor social and political
4 Republican defect in the presidential
election means at least four years of
gloom AM despair TO those brave, true
hearts who have never ray OF sunshine
ia their political lives except when He-
publican president is in the White House.
Shall they be doomed To despair By the
nomination Of man who cannot De
elected2
Are their delegates to the convention
going TO take any chances with New
York state such as were taken when q
former accid entail president, New York
err too, able, shrewd and diplomatic II
full and implicit confidence sent Judge
Folger to an open political grave and,
when that merciless pit was closed IN
1SN, under the sod OF New YORK lay
buried the boandlesS ambitions OF the
brilliant Blaine and the blignted hopes OF
our national party
President Arthur knew New York state
then as well as President Roosevelt does
today. He was q better politician than
ouT~TBresent chief magistrate. but he ana
his friends went down in monumental
defeat and 50 will X be next year II our
party takes the chances with nj Koose-
The parallel is a deadly one to our
party. CarlielG-=0hio's pri0e-shot, ana
New York's Arthur his successor
The result-twenty-fiy years OF Repub-
lean supremacy terminated by the fatal
vote of New York. Twenty years more
eIapse AID Ohio's Mckinley IS called
higher and New YOTk's Roosevelt takes
his mace Shall We again meet Nemesis ?
Do The Republicans from the south, from
Delaware 20 Texas, want two more terms
of Democratic presidents in the White
House? The last accidental president
gave them that, and AIR. Roosevelt can
do EQUALS. good work for them.
1t was said that Mr.. Roosevelt was an
INDEPENDENT political grave digger in the
SOS. He may be DESTROYS to change places
and 10 be in the front vehicle this time,
but the Republican party cannot al
ford 81. .-,-,.--.
DO the members of the Republican
party I'm the east, the west. the north and
the south wish to see the 1900 post
masters of their own political faith
turned out and their places filled by
Democratsg
Are they ready to turn over the. 10000
mail carriers places to our political foes
Do they wish to see Democrats III
trenched for years in every custom house
and internal revenue Officer
Do they propose to pave the way Tor
Democratic marshals and deputy mar
e4als. FOR Democratic district attorneys.
land agents and inspectors throughout
the length and breadth Of the land by
nominating "a gentleman that we cannot
elect2
we DO not believe the Republican party
viii commit hara-kiTi; but il the party in
convention says Il must be Roosevelt,
then so say all of US