Bisbee daily review., 1905-10-20
MR. ROOSEVELT
 AND REVISION.

yelt's hand; and then induiges Tn this blunt and meaning statement
 He cannot much longer keep the country in doubt as to whether he is
 incerely for tarif revision. or whether he is going to allow his po- litical managers to call him of be- cause of their desire to earn the cam paign contributions of the 9taudpat- ters and life insurance companies combined"
 These are significant observations coming from such conservative source.
 It Is true that MT. Roosevelt has not yet shown his hand upon the revision issue. It has been given out by per sons apparently close to the Presi- dent that revision would be sukordi- mated to rate regulation in his coming i message; and this he has not seen fit to deny. though it must be borne in mind that presidential dignity Will not permit of the denial of every political rumor which is baseless; so that a doubt remains of his attitude.
 But MT. Roosevelt will have the ben eft of the doubt, and until he shall have acted the people will extend the presumption that he is in favor of revision, notwithstanding that he has yielded to political expediency in the past and ''subordinated" the Issue. And the reason which underlies tte presumption is that MT Roosevelt will have the people solidly with him in demand for revision, whereas he has nothing to fear from the poiti- clans.
 It is significant of which way the wind blows when old conservative or gans which are usually biased in favor of the existing order of things Re- publican take a radical stand for the overthrow of the old guard in their party, and advocate revision and other vigorous reforms. The Foraker speech in Ohio and the failure of the Ohio convention to stand for the pCl icies which are ascribed to the Presi dent have evoked a continual and rising storm of protest from many erstwhile defenders of the machine powers that be; and these papers take for granted that the President will persist in forcing revision to the front. The so-called independent press, such as the Philadelphia Public Ledger, Springfield Republican and New York Evening Post, assert Mir. Roosevelt's steadfastness in the most positive terms, while the Democratic press everywhere, with a few excep- tions, expresses the mind of Demo crats to the effect that the Presidents policies, of revision especially, and rate regulation, being essentially Democratic, deserve indorsement, and that MT Roosevelt ought to be cred tied with sincerity until the contrary is shown. That the press as whole utters the mind of the people, their confidence in MT. Roosevelt and in dorsement of his policies, is certain.
 MT. Roosevelt will likely not out rage the faith of the nation by com promise which is not absolutely ex- acted. His reforms will require the senate's consent, it is true. and the senate is not likely to grant all that he asks without opposition. But with the threat of the popular strength be hind his demands pretending party destruction, he should be master of the situation. Mir. Roosevelt will be less of politician than he has shown himself to be in the past if he yields to machine pressure and forfeits the peoples belief; and he will approach the stature of a statesman if he make;
 full use of the power that lies at hanC
 to compel submission by the stand patters.
 Nothing less than insistence upol
 tarif revision will bring out the ful
 force of public opinion to override or
 position and accomplish his ends Rate restriction already, in the forr of the defeated Esch-Townsend mea' :, ure, has had it's test. Tariff revisio is the issue closest to the countr! the issue of potentiality. and it mu: be made first in consideration, nc sacrificed or subordinated to other DO
 icies. if Mir. Roosevelt would get r
 suits. If Mir. Roosevelt misses his o a portunity with tariff revision he wi I. leave the Democrats a convincing an country-sweeping issue for 1908