The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-11-17
INDUSTRY.

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yelling their wares. Already the
ear has been assailed with
the names of a half dozen or more
possible successors. Some news
papers who have been seeing things
not usually produced by immoder-
ate teetotalism have even Roose-
welt himself in the field again, ar
guing that even if he is sincere in
his announcement to retire at the
close of his term he will be forced
by the voice Of the party to come
to its rescue. On this hint we are
certain that Henry Watterson, who
long ago saw clearly that what
Roosevelt was really aiming at
was the purple and that he would
as soon as convenient be found in
the New York shopping district
looking for q first class crown,
scepter and other regal parapher-
nalia-we ore certain that Henry
Watterson is even now penning
another philippe describing the
future feats of the Man on Horse
back with a lurid golden glow of
rhetoric that would put to the
blush the composer Of a circus ad-
| vertisement. If some one cannot
manufacture a Napoleonic coup
d'etat ont OF the present material
before another two weeks is past
and have President Roosevelt Sc
curely invested with a new purple
cloak, an ermine cape and a dia.
dem that will discount anything
that ever doomed on the roya1
crania of the Old World, the sea.
son will be unusually dull,
Then there is Fairbanks. AL,
ready we are told that be hopes tc
establish more firmly the prece.
dent inst established of making
the vice presidential candidate oil
one campaign the presidential can.
didate of the next. Then there il
Shaw, whose claims and whose
elements of strength are not suffi.
GENTLY detailed to afford ground
for comment. Next in order o
mention hut among the first az z
probability, "Uncle Joe" Cannon
is named, a man who ought to ap
peal strongly to the public anf
whose only crime appears to b.
his age. There is Root also. obi &c
ted to partly because of his geo
graphical position and partly be
cause he has been known as a cor.
poration lawyer, neither of whicl
would count for much if New Yorl
should again be considered a doubt
full state and if four years do no
efface from the popular mind his
remarkable record as secretary 0
war, and as one of the creates
statesmen that have ever sat in til,
cabinet of any president. Agar
there is Secretary Hay, conceded
by the world to be the leading dip
lomat of his period and the great
est secretary of state, if not tn,
greatest man that has held tina
position. But Hay possibly hal
failed to touch the popular imagi
nation as a presidential poseibili
ty. Not to leave the cabinet Jus.
yet there is Taft also, who does
possess great elements of popular
ity and who, if nominated, would
sweep the country. But Taft, i
is said, has always nursed an am
bition to be chief justice and il
slated to succeed Chief Justic,
Fuller on his retirement some time
during the next four years. II
fact it is barely possible that the
chief obstacle to the nomination o
either Root, Hay or Taft might
prove to be their own unwilling
ness to pursue that honor.
But for u part we are willing
to let the whole matter rest for $
day or two, or even for a who'll,
week if any one insists on it. Sine.
it is possible to find a half dozer
fit successors to President Roose
welt in as many days, a modicun
Of arithmetic will demonstrate tina
at the end of four years the supply
would prove embarrassing if The
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