The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-07-27
TAFTS NOMINATION.

The New, York Sun, one of the most
powerful newspapers in the United
States, if not the world, and during
the present campaign a bitter opponent
the adjournment of the Denver con-
vention with the following editorial
leader:
ITO right minded citizens, the man
ner of Mr.. Taft's nomination, likewise
some, personal aspects of his candi-
dacy, ought to be the source OF pro-
found regret and considerable alarm.
In the course Of human events the
time has not arrived when it becomes
necessary in the interests of this re-
public that chief magistrates tenure
of individual power should extend
chronologically beyond the term for
which he was chosen. Inheritance of
by substitute, are words that express
ideas abhorrent to most Americans.
The attempt to rule whole nation
through the corporal person Of an
other is an impudent undertaking on
the part of the experimenter and hu-
initiating in the extreme to the subject
and medium. The pretence Of personal
responsibility for the administration
of public affairs, for the continuance
of any policy whatefer after the ex-
piration of the peoples commissions
and the bodily departure from office,
is pure humbug. To all these things
Mr.. Roosevelt is blind; to all such
things he was born mole-eyed. Only
three weeks ago, having repeatedly
and solemnly pledged himself not to
accept another nomination for presi-
dent, he was actually using the third
term threat to play upon the patriotic
apprehensions of the conservative re-
publicans at Chicago in order to ac-
complish some of his minor purposes.
The indency of this, we say, Mr..
Roosevelt does not see at all and can
not be expected to see. Mr.. Taft's
vision is another matter; and there
may be some dim perception already,
if not Of the improperly, at least of
this may be, the future can have in
store for one of the best men in the
world, now candidate for the high
est office in the world, no experience
more unpleasant than his initial dose
of mental and moral subordination.
Sun has no announcement to make
of modified views concerning the cir
cumstances of Mr.. Tafts nomination
for president.
"On the other hand, Mr.. Bryan's tri-
umph is in every sense legitimate, for
the convention accomplished precisely
that which a convention is intended
to do under the present system of
government by parties. The delegates
had been chosen by process fairly
representative of democratic opinion
throughout the land. The intervention
of federal power, the pernicious activi-
ty of federal officeholders, coercion or
any sort of big stick, were not factors.
By an overwhelming preponderance of
numbers the convention was for Bry
an because the desire for Bryan was
genuinely preponderant. His opponents
were fairly met and fairly overthrown.
The democratic leader is to be con-
graduated upon this remarkable de-
monstration of popularity apparently
undiminished by his own political fol-
lowing and his own political theories
and purposes. AS regards the methods
and machinery of nomination, Denver
affords a contrast which should be
contemplated by republicans generally
with respectful and regretful emo