St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-05-15
PRESS COMMENT.
Roosevelt's Platform.

At the original meeting of the Roose-
welt club in Boston the members. the
state and the nation deserved to get
some genuine Roosevelt doctrine. And
they were not disappointed. 1t came
from Congressman Driscoll of Syracuse,
Said he =
Theodore Roosevelt is character.
builder. In every department of the gov
eminent he has strengthened the charac.
ter OF the institutions.
A great and wise president NAV
establish precedents by which weaker
successors may do great harm.
Sustain him in his attempt to lift all
men up.
Sustain him in his determination to
give good and clean administration.
Sustain him in his expressed resolu-
ton not to run for third term, a
patriotic decision"
As platform for the 21 months next
before us this is is is impossible to siupass.-
The Majority Want Roosevelt.
1t is perfectly certain, that the people
will make the next President. 1t is
highly probable that they will make the
candidates of both parties. The result
OF the last nomination of candidate by
the interests that call themselves con-
servative-though many of them are
most destructive of the body polite
will not encourage its repetition.
Party ties have become too loose for
the easily gained control of a political
convention to carry even control of the
party vote in the following election. The
Democratic vote for Roosevelt is warn
ing enough against the nomination of
another Parker by either party. In the
face of this sober Republicans are not
going to put their money on a candidate
foredoomed to lose, however sick they
are of Roosevelt.
Nothing is palmer than that the
majority of the people of the country
want to elect Roosevelt again. They
are not scared by the third term bogy.
They will take him if they can get him,
from either party. If it could be sup
posed that the Republican reactionists
could nominate man of their kidney in
the convention, the tide would set
irresistibly towards Democrat nearest
the Roosevelt type, even il he were
impossible as Democratic candidate.
The surest way to prevent the people
from making Roosevelt President again
in spite of himselfis ageneral compromise
on some man of moderate temper who
still represents the spirit of his politics.
The capitalists and politicians are driven
to choose between Roosevelt and
Roosevelt man. They may as we'll make
the best fit Minneapolis Tribune.
The Senator Has the Goods.
Senator Dillingham; ought to be a
veritable walking encyclopedia of infor-
nation concerning immigration when he
returns from Europe Il Barre Times
Yes, and he is in a position to Husband
it if he wants to- Swanton Courier.
A Successful Farmer.
1t is asserted that there was no crossed
wires when the American Telephone and
Telegraph company elected Vermonter,
Theodore N. Vail of Lyndon Center, as
its president the other day. President
Vail is farmer when not controlling
electricitv.- Barre Times.
Judge Stafford not Suited for Virginia.
Judge Wendell P. Stafford is no
'mollycoddle." Neither does he believe
in the 'unwritten law" Hence the
haste with which lawyers for the defense
ask for change of venue in the case of
Mrs. Anna M. Bradley, charged with
numbering former U. S Senator Arthur
Brown of Utah, at Washington, D. {.
Moreover while still jurist in Vermont,
Judge Stafford evinced an unshakable
determination when convinced that he
was in the right. Judge Stafford would
never 90 for a Virginia court, we are
sure Barre Times.