The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-18
LET IT BE UNANIMOUS.

| should develop "alarmins strength" Roosevelt should take the stump for Taft. and The Norfolk Pilot wants to know why not? offices" it reasons, l "are not public trusts. They are only points of advantage from which the incumbents may sally forth to work their own advancement and the glory of the Republican party. If the Sec retary of War may legitimately desert his desk, while still drawing salary. and traverse the country from Dan to Beersheba making speeches in behalf of his own advancement to the Presi- dency, why should any other employe of the Government be denied the same latitude? From the highest to the low est none is under any greater oblisa- tion to attend to the public business and give service for the money drawn from the public treasury. than any other. If MT. Taft may so desert his post why not the President? If the | President, why not all of the Cabinet | Ministers? And if they. why not any of the bureau chiefs. or clerks. or door keepers, or janitors, who have an axe to grind or who think they can in- huence popular support to the general cause? There is no difference. In each case the justification would be the same. That Is, none at all. If the masters have no sense of obligation the men under them owe no more If the idea is to be that the most import Presidents choice for President and perpetuate Republican control of the leaves and fishes. by all means turn loose the whole kit and caboodle of 1 Uncle Sam's civil establishment and set them to saving the country as spell binders and recruiting officers. How could they be better employed? Or more satisfactorily earn their salaries? Indeed. there is no good reason why some of the idle soldiers and sailors might not be employed in the same way by the Commander-in Chief who has the right to issue any order he pleases. Make 1t unanimous Call out the militia. Put the Signal Ser vice on campaign duty. The Adminis- tration expects every man to do his duty. And the President will set the fine example of drawing the cam I AN- ~ n D taxpayers. whoop her up! If it is not an oficeho older's fight. whose fight Is it?'
 We hereby second the motion and further move that 1t be made unari- kmous. or anything else that will add strength and jubilation to 1t. We don't know yet of a certainty who will be nominated at Denver. and pos sibly the nominee may not develop such alarming strength as will neces- sitate the calling out the entire cab inet to make fight against 1t. That may happen, all the same. and as 1t is almost certain that Taft will win out at Chicago why. of course, Roosevelt must go out and spread himself in the interest of his favorite. It will not only be fight to elect Roosevelt's favorite but will also be battle for "my policies" and it may also be fight for the existence of the Republi- can party. It bids fair to be a mo- mentous business for a fact.
 And why not? as our Norfolk con- stitutional inhibitions against Pres ident going on the stump that we are aware of, and if there are what hind rance would that be to the man with the big stick? He is not going to let a little thing like the Federal Consti- tuition stand in his way when he has a personal or political object in view. He has bluffed his way through and over that instrument too often to have any scruples now. As for proprie- ties and precedents they do not have a straws weight with him when there is something he wants to do.
 And so. after the Denver Convention
 has named the nominee whether it be
 Bryan or another. and the campaign
 begins to hum and roar and
 threaten Republican domination let
 the President issue his orders to the Cabineters. assign their posts and or der them to do or die in defense of the
 ofices. It would be a new experience
 in the political caulpa isns but we have been treated to so many new and grotesque exhibitions during the past
 few years that one more will not para
 Iyze the country. So. if nothing will
 save the G. o. P.-and the ofices-but
 the entrance of President and Cabinet
 into the field why. let the Capitol be
 turned over to the ianitor. Certainly
 1t is an ofice-holders' fight. and may
 be A fight for existence. whoopl