The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-08-10
PRESIDENT IN CAMPAIGN

The congressional campaign ibis
!ah OIL the republican side of the
fence will be made exceedingly inter
esting from the fact that the person
| siity OF President Roosevelt will be
injected as an Incentive to more
steadfast work and to make the ext
regular session OF congress all the
stronger republican. The presi-
| dents record for 1906 will figure
largely in the campaign argument and
it will stand as a mighty barrier i'm
the attacks Of the democrats. The
Kanas City journal makes the fol-
lowing comment concerning the Pres
ident's personality showing in the
campaign:
AS a matter OF political strategy
the republican congressman cam
paign committee bias made II Ss,rewd
move in making President lsoose-
velt's personality and his executive
record the chief issues OF the cam
paign this veal. Mr.. Roosevelt is. is a
day, ~"easily the most popular iigule
in american public lite,'' and conss-
quently his party, which is RESPONSE
bile for his acts. can we'll afford to
put him forward as the ''cential fig
ure," and his achievements dis the
central Lhought," in tie alEpaisn.
10 the next place, being an of wear
in politics. when a change in mat,
ional administration is impossible,
and furthermore, being the first cam
pa n since Roosevelt's election in
1904. the logical issue is what mas
been lccompli bed so far by his ad-
n. inistration In giving an account
CT has stewardship President Roose-
welt is assured in advance of the in
dorSement and approval of the peo-
pie. and therefore of their continued
faith and confidence in The party
Of which he is the leader,
The democrats have already Nirtu-
ally confessed Judgment on the issue
thus framed and joined for the decis-
ion of the American voters. They
have stamped R~oosevelt's admInis-
mournful complaint that he has Car
put 1T. has stolen stolen their
clothes. By this ingenious. though
unconscious, admission they have
put themselves out OF court They
are not only estopped, as the lawyers
say, barred from criticising bis poll
cies and acts, but they have no facts
left sufficient TO constitute d cause
OF action and to make out a case.
No higher praise could be given the
president by an opposing party than
its frank statement that he has done
just what it would have done had it
been in power.
The American people, however.
can form a pretty accurate opinion
as to whether the administration has
been a democratic one IN disguise, a
;"ckeaw in p"acock's plnmage. and.
juAsiHs NY the psf, whether the
democratic party could be trust. d to
carry out the policies which the re.
publicans have brought to a tfium-
plant conclusion. Whenever the
democrats have been given a trial
in national administration since tile
wal they have made a sad mess OF
it, %betraying their utter i%ncapacity
to execute any policies whatever.
Witness their tariff fizzle in 1904.
which cost the country so dearly,
and which ven a democratic presi-
dent denounced as "a contract with
peridy and %dishonor."
The republican party says that
Roosevelt is all right and claims an
endorsement OF him at the hands OF
The people this fall so that his adj
mlnistratjon may be uplifted and
strengthened for its work in the flu
ture. Inasmuch as the democrats
admit that he is right, the verdict is
Fapt to be pretty nearly unanimous.