New-York tribune., 1908-08-10
fs THE ro1cAyo ExTIycTs

The danger to the Republican national ticket
of a failure to renominate Governor Hughes.
which is pointed out by "Lesle's Weekly IN
4 forcible article. is one to be very carefuly
considered. Whether Mr.. Hughes is as strong
as his friends alIege weak as his enc
mics protest the national ticket would seem
to be safer with the Governor renomlnated.
The sporting" opposition to the Governor Is
not likely to support the Republican ticket IN
any case Republicans who complain because ne
has been too independent of party leaders
are not the kind of voters who will carry
their opposition TO the point OF reJectihs
the whole ticket while those who would resent
the failure to fenominate would he inclined pS
temperament. training and poltlcai hapit 10
punish the party for disappointing thelr eA-
pectations The former are mostly Irregular
only by a violent effort and no matter no"
great their antipathy TO the Governor theY can
be held in line for the rest of the ticket but
who can hold in line the army of independ-
ont voters who are sure to be indignant at
rejection of the Governor: To oppose Mr.:
Hughes because he does not seem enough OF
party man" requires firm devotion TO party.
which will hardly be unsettled by the failure
of it's possessors to prevail in It's COUNCILS Io
admire him for putting the public before party
indicates a far different frame of mind, one
much more difficult to deal with, much more
devastating in the havoc oil ltS resentment "heh
aroused.
II is sometimes asked. Where can these adj
mirers of Governor Hughess administration go
if the Republican party turns him down ana
nominates good candidate in his place! Sure
Iy not to the party of Murphy and Conners!
And is not Hearsts Independent venture sunl-
cent guarantee that this year at least IL Is SAFE
to play with political fire? Gamblers chances!
Even the Democratic party may show sense
Political blunderers are not always timely and
accommodating Hearsts party itself may turn
out boomerang to those who fondly think it
was providentially bestowed upon them as
license. Nineteen hundred and five is not ir-
retrievabIy buried under the dust Of oblivion
certainly not after all the publicity that has
been devoted to keeping it uppermost In the
minds of men, In that year a somewhat re-
Iuctant third party astonished itself and every
body else by being hit upon with something
dangerously near unanImity a party of pro-
test The people of this city credited the lead
ers of both the regular parties with turning
down an honest if not strikingly efficient public
servant and they voted in 4 way that could
not have been figured out in advance from the
noIitical aImanacs If Governor Hughes is
defeated for denomination this year, there will
be a similar widespread belief that it was be-
cause the politicians could not use him. And,
we take it. the people regard Mr.. Hughes's con-
tinuance in public life to-day as a matter OF
much more consequence to them than that of
Mr. Jerome in 1905. The principle is the
same. If anything, the temper OF the people
upon this question Is intensified.
Where will they go? Why, in the light Of
1905 they might go almost anywhere and do
almost anythingt