Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1908-08-10
MUSIC 10 HIS EARS.

To the readers Of the gong ana Ia
bored address OF Mr.. Tart especially
OF the early part Of Il. says The New
York Times. there appears inevitably
the figure OF the gentleman at Oyster
Bay, to whom It was submitted and
who must have approved--could he
by any possibility have suggested
the fattering allusion to himself with
which the opening portion Of the adj
dress teens The figure Is vague,
necessarily, for It has been given to
few OF US to witness such a scene
in real life, II, indeed, II can be con-
ceived to have occurred before In
modern times and in the Western
hemisphere The official head Of q
great and powerful nation. passing
judgment on praise OF the most ex-
traordinary sort and degree. offered
by the candidate for the succession
to his high office, and Offering them,
not at all as the tribute Of his personal
affection and admiration, but as the
basis OF the electoral campaign. ON
which his party has entered. A Sc
rious and able and experienced states
man, submitting to his late chief in
the administration the amazing prop.
osItion that the success OF the party,
nay, the very safety Of the nation,
depends upon the fulfillment Of the
work that chief had begun, and the
recipient OF this unprecedented Eug.
gestion giving II his assent, and per-
hitting II to go to the country as the
final word on the issues Of the cleo
toni
Imagine for q moment Mr.. Roose-
welt in the place OF Mr.. Taft, open
ing the Republican campaign, and
making nutatis mutandis, the state.
ments he consented that Mr.. Taft
should make, II led the movement
for practical reform. / laid down the
doctrine that the rich violators Of the
law should be as amenable to restraint
and punishment as the offenders with
out wealth and without influence.
demonstrated to the people by what
i said. by what ] recommended TO
Congress. by what did. the sincerity
OF my efforts to secure equality for
all before the law and to save the
country from the dangers OF pluto
cratic government. toward which we
were fast tending. have set high
the standard OF business and obedI
ence 70 law. The chief function Of
the next administration, in my Judge
mena Is a progressive development
OF that which has been performed by
me-" Does that, I'm cold type, look
a little mdicrous? Yet Il was In cold
type that Mr.. Roosevelt read probably
the language OF Mr. Taft. In which
nothing is changed but the pronouns
And one cannot help recalling that
the period In which the hydra was
born and nuFtured which the PRIEST
dent appears to think that ne has
put in the way OF being strangled,
WIS in large part the period during
which the country was under the
presidency OF William Mckinley Was
he blind 70 the evils Mr., Roosevelt
saw aud challenged Was he ignor.
ant OF or Indifferent to the principle
OF equality before the law? Was he
indisposed 20 recognize the standard
OF business morality which Mr. Roose-
Welt has establisbedg Had he been
spared. would "the plutoeratic govern.
ment toward which we were fast
tending when AIR Roogevelt assumed
the functions Of the Presidential Of.
Ace have been fastened gpon ua3
These are questions which AW Rooss.
yelts authorization OF the TNtt euio.
elsm necessarily suggests, Among
the class 10 which the enloglsm Is es.
peclally addressed. memory may be
weak and respect aud affection b.
short.lived emotions nut among
shoaghttul Americans. who can retain
for more than seven years their
knowledee OF the eoantry'a real bene.
factors. n Is known that There were
brave men living before Agamemnon e"
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