Bisbee daily review., 1908-01-26
BEATING THE BRUSH FOR EAVoRITE SONS.

FOR FAVORlTE SONS.
 Evidently the St. Louis Globe-Dem- ocrat has not been successfully moe ulated with the kind of political yir- us which has been going out from the white house to all sections of the country during the last six months. This paper is taking more interest in fayorite sons now than in the can didacy of Secretary Taft, as will be seen by the following editorial taken from it's columns:
 Where is the fayorite son of old, taat so many of our sovereign states should now be said to be on the edge of tying up their delgations to Chi cago with instructions for an out sider? Is the spirit of sovereignty dead, or only sleeping, when there is voice from Keokuk declaring that Iowa shall not be heard for her own? What's the matter with Shaw, who held panics and stringencies at arm length while secretary of the treasury; or what's the matter with Cummins, that mighty commoner; what's the matter with Allison, or with Deliver or Hepburn. that pair of Hawkeye twin giants who struck the railroad octopus such a mighty blow, as with one hand, that they loosened its locked jaw to the point of apoiogetic defense? We dare not presume to name, in such a galaxy, that name which is most magnetic in Iowa But we dare to say that Iowa has brains enough under her own hat to be a sovereign republi- can state at Chicago, speaking in thunder tones for some one of her sons, who tower as sons of Anak in
 
 a mighty land
 Whats the matter with Kansas?' is an old question which has been so often asked and so well answered with the ringing truth that She's all right that we are almost ashamed to ask it now. But what IS the mat ter with Kansas? Where are her men of seen stature and of just renown? Illinois has her favorite son, around whom she. will rally in convention as she rallied around Lincoln in 1860. Indiana will present her own, as will Ohio, and Pennsylvania and probably New York. Why should the northwest be mute If the republican party has never crossed the Mississippi river for a candidate may it not have been because, on this side of the great stream, we have never, until lately, realized the heavy weight we throw in the balance of national republican conventions and in national politics Bryanism is alarmed at democrat ic threat to cross the river and make an appeal to the heart of the coun- try wifh man who once sawed wood, man who can saw wood and keep sun is often a dangerous man. but Senator Curtis of Kansas was once a Jehu. and if people doubt that a Jehu is dangerous to his enemies let them fead in the Second Book oi Kings of driving like the driving oi Jehu who driveth furiousIy'
 We have long wondered how long the sovereign state of Nebraska would be content to offer presiden tiaI candidate only to the national conventions of a minority party. The quicksands of the Platte have never shown as strong an appetite for re publicans as for democrats. and fai beyond the Platte in the states where republicans have displaced the sagebrush the new crop should soon begih showing some of the signs of 2 section to which the seat of political power is rapidly moving. The waters should begin to move this year, The great northwest should be growing conscious of itself and its power ir republican party councils. Misso--i as a rev part of that northwest might even begin to think of putting a good boy in the school exhibition at Chicago. If we are to come into our inheritance we must be grassine down all of that vast empire where she mighty Missouri rolls down tc