The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-18
VIEWS OF EDITORS.
The aniescent Knox Boom.

There are giants in the Republican party
in these days. and their stature has been
revealed in the battles for the peoples
rights. One Is a citizen of Pittsburg.
Anything that might be said in praise or
the mental and moral qualifications OF Tart
and Hughes could be ssid with entire truth
of Pernsylvania's candidate for the presi-
dency, Hon. Philarder c. Knox. In the
recess Of the United States Senate he is
temporarily in the background, while cir
cumstances have kept Taft and Hughes In
the public eye. Mr.. might have
sought ways and means of keeping himselt
before the public, but he is Of the sort
that avoids public appearance for the mere
sake OF the stage effect. But when Con-
gress is again in session his quality VIII
appear once more, and by the time that
the national convention meets knox's
prospects will be bright.-Pittsburg Chron-
icle-Telegraph
The Need of the Age.
What this age needs above most things
Is simple honesty. 1t should be the sort
which makes two and two equal four.
whether multiplied or added; the sort that
not only abides by the promise. as Wal
Street forever prides itself In doing, but
the sort that will not take advantage of a
weak or uniformed individual to impose
or exact severe terms in trade or agree
ments; the sort that gives an equivalent
of effort, or service, or merchandise, or
gratitude. for that which is received; the
sort which forgets self in the discharge OF
duty.-Boston Herald.
Essex County Republican Platform
The platform is thus one upon which
both branches and all members of the party
can consistently agree and which they can
ali cordially support. 1t is one upon which
any of the proposed candidates can prop
erly accept nomination. 1t is one which
must itself strongly to the peo-
pie of the State at large without regard to
party lines. The State convention can
scarcely do better than to take Its plat
form from Essex County, as 1t is expected
to take its candidate.-New York Tribune.
Via Is a Republican,
Although the query, What is a Republi-
can? is not a poser, and, therefore, is not
a burning question nevertheless in these
days of political definitions 1t may be we'll
to remark that a Republican is one who
does not get his political opinions from
epitaphs. He lives, politically, not in the
past, but in the present. He Is nchored
not to party antiquities, but to wholesome
present-day opinions and issues. He knows
how to give an answer for the faith that
is in him. without consulting a book of
oracles or seeking occult divination. His
political progenitors are honored not ac-
cording TO the principle of ancestor-wor-
ship. but only as they lived vitality in the
forward movements of their times. He
never makes tombstone appeals to the peo-
Pile or Supports pleas deciphered therefrom.
In consequence Of the indubitable fact that
he Is a live member of society in every
sense of the word, he is never asked to
support a party platform with nothing
more recent In 1t than the Poe amend
ment. Having never forfeited the right to
form his AWE political opinions. he may
be A little rusty upon the political cate
chism. but he never fails to know the
will of the people. of whom he Is one
Baltimore American.