The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-05-03
banks is in that field and that who
ever is nominated will also have to
beat Fairbanks.

beat Fairbanks.
"Thc vice president is an old, Il
! cold and shifty hand at the bellows.
lie is the incarnation Of orthodox
and conservative Republicanism. IN
| diana is Il pivotal state. What For
akcr may do to Taft in Ohio remains
to be seen. Even if Ohio goes back on
Foraker. may not the country be a
triflc tired of buckeyesq IF it re-
jects Taft can Taft still pull through
a national convention as Cleveland
didq Less and less has the furore
trick worked in these gigantic mobs,
as more and more the trick has come
to be understood. Two, even three,
can play ii. The professionals pre-
pare for it. In advance they dis
count ii. The wiser among the Re-
publican leaders will know that the
party is trcadin" that narrow strip
of political territory which lies be-
tween the devil and the deep blue
sea. Concession and compromise is
bound to be the order of the day with
men invested with such transcend
ent responsibility. They will think
long and work hard against an unrea-
soning stampede.
Picked Hughes in 1906.
"Our national conventions are
growing more and more like our race
courses, where to the knowing ones
there are few surprises. Beng III
France. 7 ann going to buy "a Paris
Mutucl' on a drag horse | picked
nearly year ago--that is, in June,
l90G-thou9h ! see my 'long shot
is beginning to show in the betting,
to wit, Charles T.. Hughes. governor
of New York.
''I met Gov. (thcn Mr.) Hughes
familiarly in Providence during the
1906 commencement Of Brown univcr-
sitN which conferred degrees upon
each of us. I said to him:
"'The Republicans will nominate
| YOU for governor of New York, Mr..
Hughes. They don't want to. but they
will have to. They can elect nobody
else. Now when YOU get to Albany
give your days and nights to close
study of the career of Samuel j. Til
den, because you will stand precise
~ in the relation to the presidential
nomination of 1908 on the Republi-
can side which Mr.. Tilden stood TO
it on the Democratic side in 1876. The
issue which made Tilden the Demo-
cratic governor made him the Demo-
cratic presidential nominee. The is
sue which is going to make you Re-
publican governor of New York will
make you the Republican nominee for
president. They will no more want
YOU for president than they now want
you for governor. But they'll have
to take you. The issue Of thc time
and the situation Of the party will
force Them.
Learned Tilden Lesson.
"Gov. Hughes seems to have learn
ed the Tilden lesson pretty we'll al
ready and the rest will take care Of
itself.
"It seems a kind of irony Of fate
that the Democratic party should be
so illprepared to take advantage Of
the situation. Have We, indeed, in
the old. historic sense. q Democratic
partyq The South is held together un-
der the Democratic label by the race
question alone. At the North we see
two factions. neither Of which will
vote for the other. Yet, as a party
platform. the constitution Of the
United States ought to be broad
enough for each of these elements to
stand upon and 'back to the consti-
tution,' rallying cry reaching all
minds and all hearts, carryin" yet
sonic memory Of the music which
filled the souls of the fathers Of De-
mocracy.
"Thr constitution is as vital to-
day as ever it was. tt is applicable
as we'll as institutional. reaching the
railway problem; the tariff problem,
and the problems Of high finance. All
parties. more or less. have deflected
from it's mandates and its teachings.
But party has taken the field COM
mitted to dcfying il, altering it by
executive construction, and if this
party should triumph, our system of