Bisbee daily review., 1906-08-05
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estimate a mans popular strength by
 his standing in the Senate. The Sen ate is not a pet of the people, and
 never was. If the current of popular ] feeling should set in strongly for re 1 form"-meaning anything under the
 sun that promises a new deal-it is 1 easy to imagine Senator La Toilette
 as the champion, the martyr, and the
 conqueror. He1s a poor man, which
 many people regard as a great asset
 in a Presidential candidate, as proof
 of honesty.
 Gov. Cummings, of Iowa. is another radical" who is sometimes spoken of
 as a Presidential possibility. He is
 thorn in the flesh of regular" Re publicans. Once a carpenter, and | later a civil engineer, he worked up in the law until he became the leader of ! the Iowa bar; was elected, and re- elected Governor in the face of bitter eDmity. and again victorious this sum- mer after a terrific struggle with George D. Perkins, former COngref man. Gov. Cummins' friends de scribe him as the handsomest man in
 American public life; and he is surely easy to look upon. He is tall, with snow-white, abundant hair, black eyes | full of fire. fresh youthful color alter hating with moments of intellectual Daleness. and his movements are quick and vigorous His partisans are as enthusiastic as those of La Toilette. They belong almost exclusively, of course. to his own state. Usually such intense hero worship is founded upon provincialism and inability, through ignorance, to make true com parisons between public men. Oc- occasionally, however, man springs up who draws to him not only cOmmu- nity but national admiration. Gov. Cummins' friends believe he is this sort of leader. and that once in the national arena he will easily prove his
 greatness. They fOresee at the end
 of the road upon which he travels the simmer of the White House.
 Senator Knox. of Pennsylvania,
 might have been a prominent candid ate for President, under certain cir cumstances. If Mckinley had lived,
 Knox might have succeeded him. He
 has many of the Mckinley qualities,
 and would fill the Presidential chair
 exceedingly well. Like Elihu Root,
 Senator Knox, as a corporation at
 tornev. has been colored by his sur roundings, like q dyer's hand" and many people seem to think his devo- ton to his country as a whole is
 impaired This is undoubtedly an unjust estimate of both men; but 1t
 remains ta plague them, nevertheless.
 For this reason Senator Knox is thought of in Washington to be only remotely in line for the Presidency g mere possibility.
 A few other names are mentioned occasionally, as for example Senator Jonathan Prentiss Deliver. of Iowa: Senator SDOOner. of Wisconsin: Sena- TOT Beveridge, O. Indiana, and others who are more or less prominent. The Senate, however, has never been 2 stepping stone 10 the Presidency, and mention of these and other Senators os Presidential candidates i5 mere idle gossip. Nor is there any mem. Ter of the House, with the exception of Uncle Joe" Cannon. who enjoys reputation comparable with that which led to the nomination of McKin- ley. Theodore E. Burton, represent ing the Cleveland district in the House. is so highly esteemed by those who know him. that he is sometimes suggested for the Presidency; but his merits are hidden under a busheI, so far as the great public is concerned. If the next natiOnl convention should seek for dark horses. as other con ventinns have done so unexpectedly, NIT. Burton might find himself sud dently in the spotlight. But a hun dred others stand just as good d chance, but it is idle to discuss them so far in advance of the actual skir- mish.