The daily sentinel., 1907-11-21

seemeG surer to us than that w
should have the issue upon us. 1t q
hero. II is here in most tangible
shape. To the self-confident eve al
the ready opportunist, to the opti-
mistic eye of the eager partisan, the
Presidents popularity can not be re-
sisted. He holds the winning hand,
they say. why should he not play
it?
There are many, very many, rea-
sons why he should not play it, chief
of which, from the standpoint of
character, is his plighted word, his
plighted word to his frieLds, his
piighted word to his party, his pligh-
ted word to the country. If he broke
his word upon any fancied exgency
or trumped up pretext, he would
stand Infamous before all honest
men-eternally infamous in all his
tory-even as other traitors to honor
ana liberty But, he would be beaten
ingioriously beaten. disastrously
beaten, beaten worst than he beat
Parker three years ago, and thence
consigned to life of ignominy and
an Immortality of contempt. We
truly believe this, ard for the sake
or the integrity of the country As
well as the name and fame of "a
highly-consi Tered and world famous
contemporary. We pray to God 1t NAV
not come to pass. But. as Demo-
crat, we do not fear it. G7
me Declaration of Independence
and the War of the Revolution laid
the ak at the roots of the tree Of
Fuedalism. The New World set the
example and the pace for the Old
World. The battle for Liberty be-
gun in the Eighteenth Century oc-
cupied the whole of the succeeding
Nineteenth Century. Constitutiona Al
Government gradually crowded ont
Despotic Government. France Is "a
Republic. England is a little else.
PUBIC opinion rules in Germany. Tho
United States have weathered the
historic rock SO familiar to ancient
peoples; the struggle for existence.
uhe Foreign invasion, the geographic
coniiict' the disputed succession.
win the one-man power gone in
EUROPE. snail it be set up in Amer
.Sa Wlth image-worship thing of
the past in Monarchy. shall II nre-
vail over Democracy?
We do Tot believe it possib,e Tho
very talk of a third term for Tbao-
dore Roosevelt is treason. II tbrougb
any machination of political con-
dltlons, or any conspiracy of mart.
machinery, 1t could present itself as
an actuality, the people will rise en-
mas asse-especially i'll New England
ana crush 1t as a giant might crusb
mere was never prettier scheme
ON paper-than the Free-SiIver
combine OF 1896. 1t only proposed
10 Mexicanize the Currency. What
happened to it, and what has since
happened to the Democratic party.
we an Know. But If Free Silver
would nave Mexicanized the Curren-
ey' what would the Qualification of
theodore Roosevelt do to the Gov
erhment of the Country? 1t would
oe the end of what Europe still per-
slsts In calling the American EXPERT
ineht' nndihg its counterpart in the
coup d'Etat worked first through
me Conspiracy of the Elysee and then
,hrough the Plebiscite of 1852 by
Louis Napoleon. ~
The people are ready for no such
thing, They will not even seriously
ADMIT 1t to contemplation. Every
Where, except at Washington. they
take the President at his word But
let it materialize, and its authors
VIII waken to find themselves doubIy
beaten and trebly damned On thai
one issue even William JeInin cs
Bryan can defeat Theodore Roose-
| Vet, Hence it is, perhaps. that the
immediate followers of Mr.. BRYAN
are sure that Roosevelt will be the
| republican Nominee.-Henry Wat
| terson i'll The Louisville Courier.
Journal.