The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-16
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 PHILANDER C. KNOX

tCopyrighted by E. w. Newman.


 goldbugs and silver cranks. and in 1907 the Republicans are become separated | into progressives and reactionaries. President Roosevelt is chief of the former and the greatest politician Of his generation; but a single battle brought to naught Hannibals hundred | victories, and if a reactionary shall be nominated for President by the Rep ublican national convention of 1908, failure will be writ against the name or Theodore Roosevelt in the book or political destiny. Hence; we may ask: Will he take it himself rather than go down in defeat before the cohorts of reaction? And 1t is quite lkely that it will come to that.
 Never was there such string or candidates, avowed and receptive. These are Fairbanks, Cannon, Foraker' Shaw, Cummins, La Toilette. Spooner, Cortelyou, Root, Hughes. Crane, scott Taft. and Knox. There are others. In the convention progress and reaction will be face to face. Al present MT. Taft is the favorte of the progress ives and strongly backed by the Presi- dent He may have to give place to Hughes, who may have to surrenoer the thing to the President himself to beat the mollycoddles.
 Knox is mighty dangerous man.
  Republican party Pennsylvania will have a real favorite in a Republican national convention, in which there IS a real contest when progressives and reactionaries shall be lined up in op- posing columns in 1908. Pennsylvania will have sixty-eight votes. New Eng 1 land is a reactionary, and New Eng land will have eighty-two votes. New Jersey is another reactionary, with twenty-eight votes in convention. And there are others The unit rule does not prevail in Republican conventions and that affords political genius | grand opportunity. Every out. down South will be a reactionary, and the "outs" down there outnumber the 'ins It will be as easy as 1t is natural TOT Knox to fall heir to Fairbanks and to Cannon. The greatest man in Iowa is George Perkins, of The Sioux Clty Journal. He will see to it that cum mns does not cast the solid vote or that State to suit himself Taft may get the bulk of Ohio; but the Senators can be depended on to have several districts There are reactlonary districts in New York. and the Japanese business may defeat the President calculations in California. We may pc sure that several Wisconsin districts are for Spooner. and if the State were solid for him his chances would be as good as any mans that could be nomeo. good as any mans that could be named. ities and his lofty character, and the day is not distant when the fact that a man Is a great constitutional lawyer will not render him ineligible to the office of President of the United states.
 It is easy to forecast the battle In the next Republican national convention The victory will incline to the side that is the more skillfully led. Fairbanks may get 1t; Knox may get it. spoonel may get it; Cannon may get 1t: mess gentlemen are natural allies; but Will they be, like Dumas immortal 1our' "All for one, and one for all?'
 Pennsylvania has voted for more sue cessful candidates for President than any other State. In 1796 she gave one vote for Adams and fourteen votes TOT Jefferson. Four years iater she sa.e Jefferson eight votes and Adams seven. In 1924 she lost Jackson. who had nlurality in the electoral college. Fourteen times in succession. lS2S-leoo. both inclusive Pennsylvania picked the winner, if we shall so class Hayes. Since 1880 Pennsylvania has lost put twice out of possible six times. And vet, powerful, populous, and opulent as Pennsylvania Is and mas been she has furnished the Union but one President and one Vice Presloeht, though it has been saying since Jacksons time. As goes PehhsylNdhia' so goes the Union. r,,,
 And so, In a practical sense, Pehnsyi- vania is the best politician in the Trnion. Republican Pennsylvania goes to the convention to observe and con slider When she has settled on the winner she springs like tiger ana holds on like bull dog, though 1t IS my recollection that her vote was cast for Blaine on the final ballot at mt ing more certain than that Pennsyl- vania defeated his nomination then by withholding her support until what Is called the psychological moment was past.
 Rut Pennsylvania is going to the next l Republican national convention "lth candidate a favorite son, and no second choice Philander c. Knox Is among the leading lawyers of the American bar, and. like all great law vers. he is necessarily a conservative, a term that is now become com ounued with reactionary and mollycoddle' No man can be great lawyer Wio "o ,1 moi reverence the law, and herc' Is all that law is-fidelity to obligation. | This great government at Washington l Is marty to a contract expressed III the Constitution of the United states and things never get out or 9olht III | a politiCal way except when the SoN- ernment defaults and repudiates It's eoTfhhnr pS1innder c/ Knox was born in Pennsvlvania in 1858 and Is only few | months older than the Republican party i tbat was christened at Pittsburg in | 1854 He was the son of suostahtldl | citizen, who gave his boy every 1 advantage and started him in life at l inc age of nineteen with classlcal | a In inc office of a leading lawyer or Pittsburg and came to the bar In loto ! He was assistant United states dls- 1 trict attorney in 1876, and subsequent i lv his general practice was extensive | and remuneratiVe.
 There is a popular belief that Knox is .corporation lawyer" l do not sup nose he would be any the worse II Il | u,era true We have established a standard of patriotism and of morals III tkis country that reads out of respest- ahla nolitical society any lawyer Who ever held a brief in court of justice with A corporation for cneht' Col norations are artificial persons created | bv the law They have rights IS to as well as duties. and one of their rights omnlov legal counsel. An honest cor l noration lawyer is a public behelactot | if he had capacity to see the law as 1 if is and the co rage to eXpound II a9 l bo sees it. Cheap, low. and disgust inc demagogy has created popular | ''0 cCrp0ratiOn lawyers