Bisbee daily review., 1906-08-05

vantage of his own peculiarities in or l der to impress the crowd. What he
 says is usually the essence of hard
 sense. He does not spread the eagles
 wings, nor try to tickle the crowd with
 epigram.
 Uncle Joe" comes from Illinois, a
 fairly good habitat of Presidential ma 1 tsTial. He knows the workings of the l government, of course, as well as any
 Ctherman. His popularity both in
 Congress and among the people is i very great. He is now in demand
 more than any other American as a
 campaign speaker. A few months i ago Uncle Joe" declared that Ee
 would rather remain Speaker than be President. When asked if he was a l candidate for President he replied sig, 1 nificantly: Seat" But it would not i be strange if his name should lead al the rest in 1908.
 l Leslie M. Shaw. Secretary of the 1 CT and a stalwart standpatter. He shares with Vice President Fairbanks | the unusual honor of being an out-and- out candidate for the Presidency. A l few months ago he was regerded with apprehension by other candidates. and he iS by no means out of the race. If the Standpatters and tariff revisionists ! should begin to pull and haul. for i example, and the tariff should be the issue, it is possible that Secretary Shaw might be chosen by the stand-pat element of the Republican party as 1 the ideal candidate" His standpa- ! tism is of the deepest dye. and his 1 ability 70 make his meaning clear is not eXceled by any speaker of either party. When the tariff question is 1 left cut of the equation. however. Sec rrTary Shaw must also be left out. He is not especially prominent in con nectiCn with any other question. President Roosevelt said to a friend last winter: If by <;alking on my hands and knees from here to the Capitol 1 could secure the election of Elihu Root as President I would glad. 1 ly do it, He added, however. that he realized the imnJssibility of Mir. Roots nomination. The Secretary of State himself is well aware of the handicap under which he labors in the minds of the people, as being too closely allied to '' the money power" of New York. MT. Root is undoubtedly the ablest man in the Cabinet, and ur- GeT other conditions his elevation to the Presidency would be almost a fOregone conclusion. In Washington 1 he is regarded merely as a remote pos Sfbiliry-an honest, patriotic, and gift
 ed man whose environment is unfavor- able.
 Senator Foraker. of Ohio, said last winter that he was not to be con
 sidered in connection with the Presi-
 dency; that in former years he had cherished the hope of becoming Presi-
 dent, but that he perceived now the inDCssibility of realizing that great ambition. MT. FOraKGr's flashing per sCnality, his superb courage, as dis played in the TailrCad-Tate debate. and a hundred other encounters; his keen intellect as a lawyer and statesman. and his clean-cut Americanism pos se5s Q charm for many Republicans who have clung to the hope that he would yet be elected President. The fates appear to have been against Fighting Joe" Foraker He has won fortune, /ne, and influence, but he has never yet been within sight of the portico of the White House If any one of thousand ifs" had happened, this brilliant and audacious Ohian would have reached the summit. He may be placed there yet; but the chances arc as one in a thousand ac. cording to the present aspect of the stars.
 Tn those great crowds which thrill under the thundeTs of ''eloGuence" and form their opinions of government by the teachings of Chautauqua lecturers, the name of Robert Marion La Foll- cite is fondly cherished His :slmir- CTS are not lukewarm in their praise of his leonine courage. They think they see in him the political Moses whose rugged honesty and high for titude will lead them out of the wilder ness into political paradise.
 Senator La Folette's peculiar man ner of speaking has great charm for a large class of people. The sem blance of intense earnestness. tfC al- most threatening visage, the enormous volume of voice coming from a small but muscular body, seem to carry con viction straight to the /earts of his admirers. In the Senate this style of oratory is out of place, and natural ly it had little effect. The Seate, in fact, is a lethal chamber for mere
 'oratory." But it would be foolish to