The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-14

lion that siavc accumulated aud must
hold what they have. Cannon aud Fair
banks represent Illinois and Indiana.
rather as favoritc sons than as tSpifN-
ing candidates. The real sentiment
which the allies stand for Is found Eur
Their from home.
Kind-Hcnrtcd3 Conservative.
SO here In the Republican convention
tho conflicting forces OF the present
day American problem will find cS-
preston, and expression is one step TO.
ward solution. And 1t is likely that tho
expression tho platform will take VIII
rmbody impcrsonal1y the temperament
Of the candidate. Taft is essentially a
kind hearted conservatives. The one
sure thing about tho platform is that
II will not embody the elements of
radicalism. 1t is bound to state III
terms, more or less definite the case OF
those who honestly earn and would hold
against those who desire and would
take. Probably not at this convention,
but ut some convention within the next
ten years, the Republican party VIII
take strong, clearly defined position
against socialism and for individualism.
raft is essentially an individualist, and
not at all OF the socalstlc tempera-
,nent and the two wings of the party
to-day, the Taft forces and the allies,
differ only in the degree which each is
willing to go In stating squareiy IN the
platform the belief In individual right
honestly to earn and to hold what lie
earns restricted and controlled by COM
mon honesty, rather than considern-
tions looking to the numerical well
fare. That is the philosophy of this
gathering.
Which seems rather absurd when one
sees this vast idle vacuous crowd OF
men in their Sunday enthusiastically
two-piece suits, such as are advertised
in the backs of magazines. The hotel
Hobbies are filled with prominent citi-
zens of brick-paved towns who drift
around as aimlessly and as much like
lost sheep as tho delegates from Grant
township do when they arrive the night
before the county convention In En-
porla. If you would know how the
president of tho marlborough Trolley
system is faring in Chicago, so to the
principal hotel in your country town
tho night before the county convention
big Men Arc Small.
Observe that clean shaved farmer
drifting around the lobby OF the hotel,
locking eagerly for some one from Will
lowdale very well, he owns the biggest
farm and the largest Hereford herd
III LOW ptN ~ Oiit sSS'S''iS
to care for him at the county seat. So
here the interhorougr president Is q
mighty small potato in q big pile. And
yet some way by the curious human
chemistry that forms great events, that
farmer in the country town. or that
street carman, or merchant, or banker
at the big convention, works out the
great problems of human growth:
and though he is sweaty and lonesome
and ignorant of all that lie thinks Is
going on about him. this man makes
the destiny OF the republic. For in hts
heart is the average honesty of the ma
ton. and TO keep within that circum-
Scrtbed area of average honesty and
still work out their fractional designs,
the fixers and manipulators in the
rooms upstairs are laying their schemes
and drafting their plans. But the lone
some little man with tired, aching feet.
with a Pullman shine on his hot shoes,
is after all the arbiter of the two camps