New-York tribune., 1907-04-29
HUGHES THE CANDIDATE
Henry Watterson's Vie5o of Condi-
tons in the TzcO Parties.

Oouiler-JournaF tomorrow morning, will say:
Tr, roosevelt has broken all the records Tyler
itoIe, Johnson and Arthur long ago paIed their
Tflh, tbiN Notning seems to feaze him. Doing wrong
bacEino ou.TighS; UTE or good things in the wrong way;
SsnIis nths ana Milling as the requires: making
issues issues OF veracity with the proof against him:
ticoI t1t.HPoIIzer and rash assailant; a prac-
tioin Ponuclan among the most practical poll
conservative. illogical as a radical"there still
@ @eAistn in the popular mind a fixed belief in his
W his Courage fGG s enemaS %oRS RI5
yo Si6at II you offered him bribe he would knock
nid. men. are sometimes magnihed and sometimes de-
and bs in MtIe is man who gets credit for good
as a ailke' ana there is nothing successful
Yet nevertheless and Notwithstanding. the Presi-
d eed' Is going to find Jordan hard to travel
@ una IN the end II he is able to Keep his party
spI a an issue from the fray drums beating
anu anu nag flying. he will be fortunate indeed; be-
TT use me ne can no more divert the Republican party
tb its nature Kill in il tho reason of its being
ap th ne can out-Bryan Bryan in the estimation Of
:, II the country wants an overhauling of policies
e. Mil not 80 10 the author of those policies for
people may not be quite ripe for this oyerhauiing
III In '1ey F may consider that the Democrats
DemarIa.e g HePubesns m @ in 1908 there for the
y Dy change Of riders and straddle for the talk
n .b ptnTd term Is the purest nonsense. lack
Is,. Iore II. hgment of hot partyism which the
% I'm In esse cannot afford the discipline
can hope for in the next national convention in
what IS the + RepG6fcdn fSf fal layout? From dis
fSnes It seems ems to BE this Taft entered by the
men men In the grand stand; Fairbanks and Foraker
ones and Held Of ayoe sons nce the oa kaoETg a
non, R, from Illinois. for all that may be in sight:
the list of entries not yet closed In sporting par
lance such appears at long range TO be about the
There is material hero for the widest and wild
- Eminent Jurists make disappointing candidates.
NsI,onay rSielDef thaf before the last Democratic
so sort S6SU about T1dse Parker = equally apPcbe
Judge Taft as man Of all work mas 9aSS & fe
much Of fetch and carry. Those who still insist
third term might see a deep design in this. There
are others who DECLARE that he IS under pledge to
OF War But. great as Mr. Roots abilities and
events have drawn upon the corporations makes
the nomination Of the most eminent OF the corpora
wants the Secretary OF War. that he means H. and
PtL Po,t as sure,y % as Jackson stood by Van Buren,
Whoever is nominated will have to beat TAFT II
TAFT i Il ,8 But it Let IT. !, not be forgotten that
& rl tio i Iq ~ ana Iat whoever is nominated will
The Vice, President is an old. cool and shifty
orthodox and conservative Repubilcanism Indiana
is is o P0otai state What Foraker may do % Taft
back on Foraker. may not the country be trihe
still pull through national convention as Cleve-
land did? Less and ess has the furor trick
the trick has come to be understood. Two. even
three. can play Il. The professionals prepare for
II. In advance. they discount IL. The wiser among
the Republican leaders we'll know that the party is
which lies between the dsvii and the deep sea
Concession and compromise are bound 20 De the
GS e %6h ' they % n Kim f96s 96s
and work hard against an unreasoning stampede.
price every delegate his tag. Factonism VIII rise
not Roosevelt himself? FSirbanIs? why not Ma
riman? Foraker! Why. anybody can beat Foraker.
Knox! F9dde-dee-dee. Crane? little ' shaGoWy. WY
Root? Too bad we dasn't, And so along the gamut
very tenpin alley, where most are set up only to
our national conventions are growing more and
more like our Tacecourses. where 10 the knowing
am ong buy s% Pas Matua an dark horse
picked nearly a year agomthat is in June. 1895
In the betting 10 wit Charles f. Hughes. Governor
I met Governor Cthen Mr. Hughes Familiarity in
Providence during the 1895 commencement OF Brown
us. He impressed as a fine type OF the New
England American, in the prime OF his powers. un-
affected and sturdy. with charming twinkle OF
dry humor The final evening which we passed to-
a. FoGG b Tb anf vii SI s0on water said
want e but they viii haze to- They can elect no
Your days and nights to close study OF the
career of Samuel j. Tilden, because you will stand
nation Of 1903 on the Republican side which Mr.
Tilden stood 70 on the . Democratic side in 1876
ernor made him the Democratic Presidential nomi-
publican Governor 0? New York will make you
the Republican nominee for President They will
want YOU for Governor. but they'll have 10 take
YOU. The issue Of the time and the situation Of
the party will force them"
Governor Hughes seems TO have learned the TIL
den lesson pretty we'll already, and the rest will
take care OF itself.
It seems kind Of irony OF fate that the Demo-
cratic party should be Ill prepared to take ad-
vantage Of the situation. Have we. indeed in the
old. historic sense. a Democratic party? The
South IS held together under the Democratic label
by the race question. and the question alone
AZ the North two factions neither Of which
will vote for the other. Yet. as a party platform
the Constitution Of the United States ought 10 be
broad enough for each Of these elements TO stand
upon and Back 10 the Constitution a rallying
cry reaching all minds and all hearts. carving yet
some memory of the music which filed the souls
of the fathers OF Democracy.
The Constitution is vital to-day ever II was
II is applicable we'll az institutional reaching
the railway problem. the tariff problem and the
problems Of high finance. All parties more or less
have detected from its mandates and its teachings
But a party has taken the field committed 10 de-
fvinR It, altering Il by executive construction. and
If this party should triumph. system of Repub-
lican government would go alorg with its organic
laws.