The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-25
AN EARLY SPRING. Nature May Be Fsehindland, but POli- tics Is Ahead of the season.

However i'll nature, rubbing snow into the face of the post Easter period, may be behaving, a similar change of against the political spring. Every where the sap is stirring. Great growths come in a night. Declarations of great pith and moment are being delivered. Candidates are in full leaf age-dark horses can be heard kicking against the sides of their box stalls. Yesterday was particularly busy day.
 Senator Foraker travelled to Ohio to launch his candidacy, and incidentally to declare that he doesn't believe Pres ident Roosevelt is so besotted with power as to intend to make any att tempt to, dictate his successor. While Senator Foraker was speaking at Can
 ton, John Temple Graves of Georgia, always vivacious. and always tremend- ously earnest in behalf of the latest coinage of his fancy, was entertaining a Chattanooga conspiracy that includ
 cd William Jennings Bryan with unique proposal. Mir. Graves, as is well known spends half of his time lauding William R, Hearst as the greatest pa
 triot of the age, and the other half de- claring that Theodore Roosevelt is the supreme one He was in the grip of the pro-Roosevelt mood at Chattanoo- ga. Waving his napkin in the direc- ton of the Nebraskan 'commoner," Alls GldNGS uFCldIGNt WI SllOulQ Rut the party below the people, the prin- ciple above the man" The way illum- ined by the light of this truth, he saw 1t to be the duty of MT. Bryan to rise in the next democratic convention, and put in nomination Theodore Roosevelt, the dauntless and conquering captain of the peoples cause, for one more un- disputed term of power to finish the work that he has so gloriously be- gun"
 MT. Bryan, it is perhaps needless to say, did not show any great enthusi- asm about promising to help make the dream come. true He intimated that he had other Ideas as to who should
 be the next president--said that if the democrats wanted 8 republican to head
 their ticket next year the man should be Robert M. La Toilette of Wisconsin. Thus the Graves balloon deflatulant and creased came back to earth, and, as the dispatch reads, MT. Bryan then
 proceeded with his speech, presenting reasons why, in his opinion, MT. Roose- welt was not the proper man for the presidency
 While Foraker was lecturing at Can I ton and Graves was among the stars, and Bryan was sidesteppng at Chat tanooga, La Folette had few things to | say at Helena. Roosevelt, he said, may not be entitled to another term, l but "the people are entitled to Roose- velt-he must again be a candidate | yes, sir we must have Roosevelt again;
 no one else will fill the bill"
 | The extraordinary personal hold i President Roosevelt has on the Ameri-
 can people has never been more strik- ingly shown than during the last three
 weeks. Andrew Jackson may have had an equal hold on the old democratic
 party, but the whigs of his day loath- | ed him, whereas President Roosevelt seems to have the sympathy of at least
 noiety of his nominal political oppo- nents. Nothing like it has ever been
 known in our political history There
 fore politicians all over the country are
 reaching the conclusion that 1t will