The Paducah sun., 1906-04-30
NEW PARTY WITH
ROOSEVELT IDEAS
Is the Talk i'm Eastern Political
Circles Just Now.
Presidents Late "Muck Rake
Speech Has Set the People to
Calculating.
HIS PERSONALITY Is STRONG

New York, April 30.-The recent
speech of President Roosevelt upon
the "Much Rakers" has suggested
The forming Of a new party along the
presidents ideas. The comments
upon the speech have been wide and
a result which is looked upon by the
| political world as probably near at
hand is the possibility of a Roosevelt
party embodying his ideas on the
questions of the hour. Whether the
organization be called republican or
democratic, the view is that one in
which he will be master may come
sooner than is expected. For certain
ly as big as it is. the republican par
ty cannot hold two factions as far
questions of the hour as the one led
by the president and the other by
Senator NAldrich, of Rhode Island.
One must give way to the other. II
this be true of a dominant political
organization, how utterly impossible
will it be for the democrats to house
the Cleveland and Parker Belmont
conservatives and the radical wing
under the same roof?
The Presidents Personality.
The next question is, if Roose-
welt organization should come into
being two years hence, taking an ad,
yanced position on the tariff, trusts
and also with the progressive inheri-
tance tax as an issue may not the
personality of the president be pow
erful enough to force the Hearst
radicals to follow his party or suffer
apart I'M their convictions on the
themselves to be defeated at the dem
ocratic convention or the polls? For
Mr.. Roosevelt is today believed TO be
stronger with the very class that Mr.
Hearst counts on than the latter
himself, and any contest between the
two or a man representing the ideas
of the president, at the polls, it is
claimed. would be very one-slded,
with little chance of success so far
as the congressman is concerned.
The democrats here classed as CON
servatlve have noted the sign of the
times, that is the leaning Of masses
toward radical men and measure.
They appear alive to the hopeless
ness of naming the old-time safe"
man on a "safe" platform. New
York is apt to have new candidate,
at least for that state, at the coming
national convention. His name is
William Jennings Bryan The time
appears to have arrived at last when
those who fought him on principle
in 1896 and 1900 have come to real
ize that the Nebraskan has grown to
be a statesman and many believe that
he is the only man with whom the
party would stand a chance for vic
tory at the polls if the present public
unrest over the trusts and tariff con
tinues, and Mr.. Roosevelt succeeds H.
fastening radical program on the
republican party.
Bryan's Growing Popularity.
The recent magazine article of Mr.
Bryan on socialism, has done much
10 winning editorial and other praise
from the elements heretofore regard
ed as inherently hostile to him. From
the standpoint of those who have eN
pressed themselves, William Jen-
nings Bryan appears to be the man of
the hour in the face of the present
tidal wave Of radicalism. Whether
he would under ordinary circum-
stances cannot be said. It is also
significant to no,s that his name is
no longer being linked with that of
Hearst The expression Bryan
Hearst forcesT appears to have ceased
in political circles. Does ii mean that