Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-05-04
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down by George WASHINGTON and fol
lowed by every president to the pres
ent time that no man should serve
more than two terms in the White
House. A prudent politician in Mr.
Roosevelts place-and he is a politi-
clan even if he is not prudent-would
set aside any immediate ambition. re-
tire for awhile, select il not Overstrong
candidate for the nomination in his
stead, look with philosophy upon the
defeat of his party in this year and
four years hence seek to come back as
its savior
There are many people about the
capital who think that this will be the
Kooseveltian programme.
Oklahoma to the Front,
The two Democratic senators from
Oklahoma are proving themselves fight
ing champions of true Democracy. Sen
ator Gore. known as the blind senator.
succeeded in getting into the Congress
sional Record the famous letter writ
ten by President Roosevelt to f. II.
Hartman. In which the president de-
tlared they were both practical men
and should meet as practical men to
discuss the state Of the nation. or
course history records that the meeting
was held and that Mr.. Hartman raised
$24o,OOO for use in the state of New
York for Mr. Roosevelt's political adj
vantage
a lot of the somewhat old maidenly
persons In the senate expressed much
horror and modification that United
States senator should have inserted
such a letter in the Record. But it
seems to me that Senator Gore met the
criticism conclusively when he said
that he would rather be responsible for
having had that letter read in the SEN
ate than to be responsible for having
written 1t. 1t is peculiarly inept to
describe letter Of Mr.. Roosevelt's as
| confidential. He neither writes nor talks
confidentially. 1t is his practice when
question to wave the inquirer away
and answer with a shout that attracts
the attention Of everybody in the exec
utive offices. Mr.. Roosevelt himself
should be the last to assert that a let
ter from him to L. Fl. Hartman, rail
road magnate and plutocratic politician.
was confidential and privileged.
The other senator from Oklahoma,
Robert L. Owen, attended the recent
dinner given by the 50 called National
Democratic club of New York and
there had an opportunity to preach
some Democratic doctrine which the
officers Of that club did not desire to
have Mr.. Bryan expound before them.
This paragraph gives a fair example
Of the general tone Of his address. The
National Democratic club, which fear
ed to have Mr.. Bryan speak before it,
must have found that the gentleman
from the southwest whom they select
ed was an equally vigorous exponent
Of the principles Of the new and the
progressive Democracy:
It is also true that some men who are
go religious that they will not shave on
Sunday find no conscientious scruples
against shaving other men for the bal
ance Of the week, but among the captains
OF Pharaoh there are also many men of
great intelligence and OF great benevo-
lence and of great patriotism who do not
realize the effect Of monopoly on the
weaker laboring elements of the nation.
Their benevolence is shown by such enor-
nous contributions to education and to
| the public service such as the benefac-
| lions of John d. Rockefeller, Of Andrew
| Carnegie and other very rich men. They
| are entitled to personal credit for their
| good works and to discredt for their bad
| works. Their good works, however. show
| that the men who have conducted sue
| cessful monopolies under the shelter of
n nj
| generous impulses which God has planted
| in the hearts of the great majority of
| men. 1t would, however, be asking too
| much of human nature to expect those
who have been or are successful IN the
| manipulation of business and in the es-
| tablishment of monopoly, by which their
ambition for power and for property &C
| emulation Is gratifed to contribute to
| the control of monopoly by law. This
| duty Is imposed upon the patriotic sons
| Of America Of both parties-of both those
| who have always adhered to the original
| Democratic party or to that branch of
| the Democratic party that arose under
the new name Of Republican party
The Democratic Conventions.
Up to the present time every state
convention held by the Democratic
party, and there have been ten, has
| instructed for Mr.. Bryan, with the eX-
| ception of Rhode Island, in which sew
! en- out of the eight delegates are pro-
nounced Bryan men, though not Off
cially instructed for him. The half
dozen delegates from Delaware have
been instructed for Judge George
Gray. as they have been for some con-
ventions heretofore. New York will
| also send an uninstructcd delegation.
| which has been its practice almost i'm
memorially; So too, will Pennsylvania.
| Colonel James NJ. Guffey, who has long
been the dominant factor in that state,
says cheerfuly that as Pennsylvania
never will give any electoral votes to
the Democratic candidates he thinks
that its delegates should so to the con-
vention untrammeled and able to give
their votes there to the candidate
whom they think will be most accept
able to the voters Of other states.
"Untrammeled" in Colonel Guffeys
mind means bound by no instructions
save those that he will give them him
self when he calls them to order in the
committee room at Denver. In the