The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1907-10-30
NATIONAL
TOPICS.
Who
Will
BE
President?

ne utbtNtu ~ uulll ne saw nOW ut
had been bitten, how he had been
used as snapper to the whip welded
by the doughty Nebraskan. For II
was Bryan's work; Bryan. the man
who eats politics and everytime a
political thought is digested, elects a
new political battle cry.
For Bryan used Hearst as stool
! pigeon, as a commodore bird, without
exhausting the classification of orni-
thology. He wiled the yellow man
into a subjugated state that was reaiiy
pitiful He held alluring hopes and
promised him. Tammany, Murphy and
all those big fellows, including Tim
othy ID. Sullivan. And Hearst bit.
/ He announced his retiment just be-
cause, dangled before his politicalbe-
logged acumen. the bait of nomina-
| ton In 1912 was held out, or else a
second place on the ticket.
But Timothy d. was doing some
thing himself He was hiking about
oa a still hunt for some pumpkins
| along political lines. And when he
lit on Northumberland Chanler
of New fundamentally showing
| Tom Johnson and Folk and others
aside-even Bryan woke up with a
/ gasp and found first rate hotbed of
! sedition fired and famed into which
he was expected to precipitate him
self and howl to the case-hardened
gang who watched his writhing for
mercy.
Heigho. times were stirring for
Bryan just then. He never has and
never will permit the intrusion of any
D f..s 81 G..sI
| clavicle of political heart that he has
been creating for so many silver
coated years. SO he got busy and he
| began thinking Now Bryan, as a rule,
will talk frst-for his tongue is his
most convenient vehicle-and think
afterwards. But in this case he got
wise to the new move and he worked
first, and the talk is still coming.
Even with Hearst an open and
avowed adversary the path was
smoother for him to weld his party
into a Bryan chain than It would be
to have quiescent a most determined
enemy, whose very enmity might
prove the salvation of his own pros
poets. But, II greater sop were
handed til Hearst, and that gentle
man who bavors saffron sheets could
see second place on the ticket.
what better than Bryan should name
himself and then 90 whip New York
into line.i assume an alliance with
Hearst which would give that state
to his column and give him a walk.
over in the convention? And as II
was ordered. so 1t probably will be.
Timothy Darnit Sullivan and his
pet can go hang for all of Bryan.
That gentleApn of the Platte is not
going to losi the peerlessest state in
America jus1for a flipdoodle hanger
on OF Timothy d. So II you see
Bryan named, with a yellow streak to
his kite. you will know who his run
ming mate is.
And Teddy! My. what an astute
politician that man is He is doing
more to disrupt the notions of those
old fogies who seek to control the
eastern political situation than has
happened in fifty years of history.
He justs look at those hoary-headed
pastmasters OF the art, and gldes
right over them, never paying any
more attention to them than II they
were a cold potato in the wilds OF
Wyoming.
Unless every infallible sign fails,
Teddy Roosevelt will be the nominee
OF the Republican party for the
presidency in 1908. IL he refuses TO
accept the nomination, Il will prac-
tically spell defeat for him--a con-
tingency that he never will and never
did consider
Here In New York the other day,
II was sought to have the state Re
publican committee endorse Charles
Hughes. Did that committee do it?
Not much. IL was Just a matter OF
handing out pieces OF frozen bullion
that so effectually checked the hopes
of the followers OF that gentleman
that they have been drinking Toms
and JerTys ever since. II was worse
than having Teddy give them the
marble heart.
But Governor Hughes maintained
that he did not want the endorse
ment. That is where he was smarter
than his followers. He realized that
To make a bid for II and fail was
an infallible sign that his hopes were
gone. II would be much better for
him TO make an open race with what
ever chance in sight there may be,
than To be killed at the very thresh.
|
that IL Is a Roosevelt committee and
that for him to attempt to meet Teddy
on his own ground. was more than
n sign of weakness; Il would be an
indication of political senile decay.
So he tabooed the idea and must rely
on some sort of an uprising among
the money kings to help him on his
way.
That is why Roosevelt must accept
the nomination. II he does not, he
never can control New York. Tabu-
lated statements going about the coun-
try at present, assume to show that
Taft would get something over two
hundred and seventy votes In the ma
tional convention on the second bal
lot, with two hundred and thirty-nlne
necessary for choice. But that Is
misleading That count was not ta-
ken from the people but from the
assumed political bosses Of the states
that were questioned. And again, the
straw vote as. taken gives only an
4 inferential knowledge OF Taft's
strength from the fact that the vote
was cast In the majority OF cases for
Taft, with the understanding that II