The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1905-06-15

to q reporter: "You are authorized to
state that will not again be can
didate for the Office of president OF
the United States. There is no string
ON this statement. mean It," This
is clear and emphatic and Is merely n
reiteration of his declaration the night
of the election. 1t will cause pleas
ant palpitation of heart under many
waistcoats worn by Republican states
men and set divers and sundry per-
sons to initiating booms and boomlets,
to laying wires, setting up pins, swing
| ing round the circle and to doing all
| those things which are supposed to
| prepare the way to the White House
| The real friends Of President Roose-
| welt will feel like congratulating him
on his determination to let well enough
| alone. To try for another term would
unquestionably deprive him of much Of
| his popularity and might easily end in
his defeat for the nomination or at the
polls, either of which would be hu-
initiating end of phenomenal career.
| Every time we have had popular per-
sonage in the presidential chair there
has been talk of third term, for in
cense swingers and sycophants, like
| the poor, we have always with us, but
| fortunately the only men who could
| have been elected third time-Wash-
| ington, Jefferson and Jackson-put
! away the great temptation. None of
the rest could achieve this unusual
| vi ln ha-
! fore the two term rule Is broken. If
| wisdom prevails it will be maintained
| till the end of time.
The other retirement will bring joy
to another class Of ambitious men.
| James ]. Jeffrie5 announces his inten-
tion to quit both the ring and the stage.
In so doing he Is acting as wisely as
Colonel Roosevelt. The pitcher taken
to the fountain once too often Is sure
| to be broken. Truth to tell, the cham
pion bruiser has played in as great luck
as the president. 1t was his good for
| tune to lnplnge upon the public vision
at period when all the great fighters
Of dozen years ago had passed their
prime and when no new ones of any
consequence were in sight and they are
not in sight yet. Consequently the re-
nowned boilermaker has had soft
snap walloping has beens and second
raters. That he could have thrashed
| the Sullivan who defeated Paddy Ry-
an or the Corbett who beat Sullivan
or the Fitzslmmons who trounced Cor
bett will be doubted. But there is no
! one in his class, and he does well to
rest on his laurels and upon the repu-
| tation of being invincible.
"Coming events cast their shadows
before" sang the Poet Campbell. The
most important commercial fact now
casting it's shadow, before is that, the
scepter in our export trade will soon
pass from New York and other north
ern cities and go to the gulf ports.
1t is astonishing the way that New
Orleans and Galveston have grown In
this regard in the last ten years. The
secret is the downhill pull-a vast nat
ural advantage which cannot be over
come.
|
Hobson is busy with arrangements for
his impending marriage Admiral Mel.
vile, retired, is agtating for the big.
gest navy ever. Nothing short of six
hundred millions invested In ships, tor,
| pedo boats, torpedo boat destroyers
and so on and so on will satisfy the pal
plating patriotism of the good gray
| o1, i,oI 70 ;,,f
many more millions it will require to
support his navy. With growing def
icit, which causes Mr.. Secretary Shaw
to sweat copiOusly, the admiral fails tc
vouchsafe to an anxious world any In
formation as to where we are to find
all these millions. He Is derellct In
this.
Tariff rulings, like woman, are won
derfully and fearfully made. Lately O
slab from royal palace In Nineveh
on which were certain hieroglyphics
was brought into the port of New
York. The collector, evidently mar
of common sense, classed it as lime
stone, on which there Is an ad valorem
duty Of so per cent. The owner claim
ed that it was manuscript and there
fore free from duty, On appeal tht
board of appraisers sustained the con
tcntion that 1t is manuscript. II
that's true then foreign tombstone AND
monument makers can do a rushing
business. This decision of the apprals
ers Is about as wise as that of Mr. See
retary of the Treasury Shaw declaring
frog legs to be dressed poultry.
If Colonel William ]. Bryan reads
the Youths Companion for May IL
he will realize that he Is beginning
to be recognized by that journal
Without giving his name 1t refers tc
him as "a well known political orator
and then proceeds to borrow" one Of
his best anecdotes. The editor evident
ly liked the anecdote more than ht
does Bryan, but didn't have acumer
enough to know that to say that an an
ecdote told by the great Nebraskar
would attract more attention, hav,
greater carrying power, than the same
anecdote fathered by an anonymous
"well known political orator." TIL,
woods are full OF "well known politi
cal orators" but there is only one VIII
liam Jennings Bryan.
Ex-Governor James Fl. Peabody fol
rome unaccountable reason has ISSUED
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