Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-05-19
As Leaders in the Coming
Presidential Cam.
paIen Of 1868.
FREELY OR BURNING HOUSE
Is Comparison Made OF ROOse.
veil Wllh Other Repub.
Ilran ASplTaHiS.
sy sheldon g. cline.
SPECIAL oucp0ndeuce

future book On Washington as,d az.
ceis bets on the 1908 nominations.
there would bot be lacking those viii.
ing % put Gown their MONEY un q
hooseveit.bryan combination. No
matter how sincere tho president may
b. IN his declaration that he Will not
BE- in the 1905 race politicians cannot
rid themselves Of the suspici1n that
lt e likely % be- a w0lkover Cor the
present Incumbent Of the White
House. Likewise Mr. Bryan Is loom.
Ing large on the democratic horizon.
and, aside from Me- Hearst, his name
q che only one heard when demo
cradc cnances In che next democratic
contest are discussed.
Roosevelt talk has beer increased
by che presidents Standard Oh mes
SAGE 20 Congress. The promuinoss
with which the Standard on came
back with = disclaimer has only o..
creased t1e belief that the president
shot uncomioriahly close 90 the bulls.
eye. OF an the trust.bpstors aud OK.
poscrs who have aimed their shafia
% standard on, AIr. Roosevelt % the
urai 60 get a response. No doubt this
rs very largely due TO the fact that
the PRECEDENT Of the United states
ANS the man behind the gun, but the
Old adage that TIE hit dog h0wls Is
Icing quote1 as evidence that Mr.
Roosevelt found the mark.
From an parts ~ the country there
has come a harmonious note Of ap.
probation OF the presidents nee
a8ge. Had Mr. Roosevelt set out De.
liborately 20 keep himself before the
public az a presidential possibility. he
could not have made a more happy
choice than 10 atbW Standard OIL,
which has bUomo associated IN the
public mind with az that % unfair and
blamoworthy IN monopoly.
President More Popular Daily.
To date Mr. Roosevelt has been
raihor long On promises and short on
execution, hut the people appear 20 bel
hrmly convinced that he VIII make
good, n only he is given time. How
Is a Falrbanhs or a shaw 90 win any
consideration while such a man as
this ellis the public eye9 n Is like o.
FREELY beside a confaEraflon The
FREELY can attract attention on q dark
night away from every other sort
Of illumination. bat he wouldn't have
much chance with his cold phosphor
ascent glow against q house on Gre
These hreHics of che republican
party have just one visible hope
mat the blazing house may burn it-I
self cui and che flames dc ior want
20 fuel 90 Coed upon before the sum
mer Of 1905 10 uHmo any other man
Tor president. with che great reforms
advocated by Roosevelt ssiii un.
would be- nerelwy an invi
iation tor The lost tribes OF the dem
ocacy 10 enter into Canaan. In such
a situation. Il would De a mighty poor
sort Of Moses thad couldn't ind the
Promised Land for tho democracy.
Why Democrats Turn 70 Bryan.
Just why democrats are turning
their optimlatlc eyes toward Bryan
docsnt appear quite plain 70 the lay
observer, but toward Bryan the dem
oeratio trend Is undoubtedly. Il would
seem THAI Mr Bryan's absence from
American soil mas enhanced HIS pop
ularity. Al amy rate, he win come
home 10 Md hlmaelf much stronger
with his party than he was when he
departed.
a prominent member OF congress
from a southern state givta a very
plausible explanation 81 the incroas-
Ing Bryan popularity. He points ont
that The element or the dCmUcFauc
Iarty which Mr Bryan led into rad
icalism has now out.Bryanod Bryan,
and d finds its oEiCal leador In Will
lam Randolph Hearst Conservatives
who opposed Bryan, dread much more
the leadership ami policies Of Hearst
yet. being wise M the ways Of politics
and human nature they fear % up.
pose Hearst with an ultrHconsorVB-
live, Test all democrats with any faint
Of radlcalHm DO driven into the
hearat camp. Ia this dilemma they
turn hopefully % bgyan. They believe
that with bryan in the iiold a line
can ~ drawn between the radical
supporters 81 Hearst and the semi.
radical Bryan men, and that with The
strength thrown 20 Mr.
Bryan he can be made the nominee
"a would he a strange situation ioF
ligyan 90 be placed Ia nomination by
mo votes of tho ulirarconaerVaflgo
iemocTuts, but conservation isl
llWays "a cOmnfcmiser (oikcrwisn e
would not he conservatism and Hl
always willing 20 choose the lessor 81
what 50 conoolves 20 be- threatened
OWLS,
He Has Grown Conservative.
Such a Situation as this. q rendered
somewhat less paradoxioai by one BE-
Ilei That the years since 1896 have
made hryan himself more ConserVn. |
i've than be was that memorable day
when bic im, asgiontd orai0ry swept |
d great Convention of iis feet and
Hired tho hearts az radically thinking |
men the country over He hes
mingled with the world since then. |
has himself hcceme a man Of prop
afty, and property has IA natural tond- /
sncy % make a man conservative. ]
Certainly, tho conservative interests I
y tho country would prefer Bryan %
ltoarsi--and q % not altogether im.
possible that they might prefer him
10 Rouieyeit
This brings us 10 the prediction,
beard more than once 81 late. shatl
Bryan vii DO tho conservative and
tho Pndlcal candidate Soil
Ia9s STRANGER things have happondod
"a politics Than such an alignment Of /
hc forces in the next struggle log
me presidential prize, bat there Is
20 convincing evidence today that /
'nch an apheaYai IN the established |
order Of things Is imminent
IA the hrsi place, While Bryan