The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-04-08

"The Shareholder. I" This is pub
lication which is edited by F.
j. Syme of New York city. Its
columns, as its name implies are
devoted to the interests of stock
holders. This paper refers to the
fight which has been begun in Ohio
and which seems destined to in
volve the whole country has the
following to say for Foraker and
his cause:
"Senator Foraker has done the
American people great service IN
bringing forward proposition to
test the opinion of the people OF
Ohio as TO who shall be the next
president of the United States. In
an unaccountable manner our poll
ticians and the people at large
have shrunk from the discussion of
this question until we find our
selves almost called upon to elect
delegates without having any defi-
mite views on the subject. Such a
condition of affairs is not safe.
Ii is almost sure to result IN the
nomination on the spur of the mo
ment of nominee, whose nomina-
ton will disrupt the Republican
party.
"Mr. Bryan was nominated on
the "spur of the moment" with
about this result. The Democratic
party since Mr.. Bryan's nomina-
ton at Chicago, has been in a
fearful'y demoralized condition all
on account of Mr.. Bryan, and this
condition is so bad that in looking
around for an instrument to save
the cuntry from a great public
calamity the Democratic party can
scarcely be taken into consideration
at all.
"Mr. Foraker sees this and so
far as Ohio is concerned, he pro-
poses to correct it. If Mr.. Roose-
welt is to be renominated he pro-
poses to have this take place after
a full discussion of the merits and
the demerits Of the case. lie does
not propose to have Mr.. Roosevelt
renominated as Mr.. Bryan was in
sort Of "w;ld frenzy. The
nomination of Mr.. Roosevelt for
a third time, il accomplished, will
be the most important event in all
history. 1t will prove that our re-
publican form Of government is a
failure. 1t will indicate that the
form of government we will here
after have in this country will be
either patterned after the Mexi-
can where the president has him
self reelected continuously, or il
will be patterned after the European
system where there is perman-
ent ruler with nobility, a court
and other fixtures. We do not say
that either Of these alternatives is
wholly wrong, or that any citizen
should not have the privilege OF
bringing either of these PROPOSE
tions forward. What we do say is
that we should not MeXicanize or
Europeanize our system of govern
ment at u national convention.
Such an important step as this
should only take place after ex-
tensive discussion, and after a
number of political campaigns. All
OF us should remember that we are
not the only ones interested. The
whole world is watching this repub-
lie, and the whole history Of the
world will be changed il republi-
canism proves failure here. Mr..
Foraker simply is doing in Ohio
what we think every republican
leader should do in every State.
He wants to have this great Ques-
ton discussed. He does not want
to 90 into the national convention
in 1908, and find everybody unin-
formed. and undecided. As a
shrewd politician he must realize
that the Democratic party eleven
years ago was wrecked by the i'm
pulsive action of convention
which adopted free silver plat
form and nominated Mr.. Bryan.
In this State OF New York, and |
in other States similar action !
should be taken. Everything
should not be left to the last mo-
mentp but discussion should be be-
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