Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-09-29
STRENUOUS TIMES AHEAD

STRENUOUS TIMES AHEAD
That man-and we suspect his name is
llegion-who is not satisfied with dull
time and finds no happiness on this earth
unless excitement is prevailing may, we
seriously inclined to think, lol back in his
easy chair for the next few weeks and
watch things happen! 1t will, we venture
to say, require his continuous and undi-
vided attention to the performance in or
der for him to gather reasonably intelli-
gent conception of what is going on
After several weeks of inertia and dead
~ dullness, the national campaign has
started off with rattle and bang that is
quite apt to safe the appetite of the most
strenuous advocate of hot time at large
throughout the republic! Mr.. William
Randolph Hearst, in the role of chief
trouble-maker for everybody in sight ex-
cept the Independence Party, has made a
most conspicuous and stupendous success
of his undertaking. Trouble, with big
"T'' and fiercely rolling "r," has
bounded right into the middle of the lime
light, and leers quite as meaningly Repub-
llcanward as Democraticward! The New
York editor-publcist has kicked the lid SO
high that it will never in this world come
down until, at least, we shall have arrived
at that magic and reputed mileniumesque
period, latter the election!" Just how
many bombshells Mr.. Hearst may still
have concealed about his somewhat mys-
ferrous person is purely conjectural, and,
we fancy, horrible for some people to
think about!
This is to be no mollycoddle campaign !!
Pop-gun statesmen and small-bor poll
ticians will do well to take to the woods,
if they can, and wait until the cyclone
blows over! Here and yonder Foraker
may be bowled over, and on this side and
that Haskell may bite the dust; but those
things are destined to be incidental we
think. Mr.. Bryan is nobody's easy mark
that's primary proposition well worth
keeping in mind! The president enjoys
no larger measure of fame for honesty, in
tegrity, mental combativeness, and ear
nestness of purpose than the NebraskanI
enjoys. All Of which means that if Mr..
Roosevelt assumes personal sponsorship
for the republican candidate and his adj
herence to the Rooseveltian policies, and
himself that candidate IS |
and Mr.. Bryan vouches for
the performance of the democracy; if the
people will intrust that party with the adj
of their affairs, and if these
two men fight this battle out, each will
have foeman entirely worthy of his
steel! Indeed it will be knightly row
and no mistake! The ipse dixit of neither
will outweigh that of the other, so far as
the confidence and probable applause of
the people are concerned! Both are ag-
5ressive, progressive, and amply cou-
rageous for the demands of the conflict.
We predict that there is to be a wedding
out of undesirables and a smashing of
fake idols all along the line in the ranks of
10Th the big parties. We have been trav-
cling fast during the past few years, and
We are beginning to realize that we have
travelled far! The American people are
lpt to stand aside and watch with no en-
'hatic sympathy either way conflict be-
ween leaders they honestly admire, and
concerning whom they are about equally
livded on the question of popularity.