The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-01-25

He has secured large following in labor circles, and Gompers is to him very welcome person indeed Yet his policies have been marked by such Q shrewd moderation that he has been careful to give no of ense indeed to capital and had num- erous conferences with Morgan and other industrial chiefs. He has all lowed numerous trust prosecutions to lapse and no one could say that the Department of Justice unneces- sarily embarrassed Big Business.
 Wilson has really done nothing which could inspire a bitter and persistent antagonism against him. When he judged that the nation wanted preparedness and the voice of many papers became too insist ent to be ignored, he and his cabi- net, bereft of Bryan, became whole hearted preparationists. Under or dinary circumstances he would ap. pear to be the ideal candidate who suited everyone.
 Against him who in the world can the republicans put. up except Roosevelt? Not Taft who has been discredited as the cause of disrup- tion; not Root who is regarded merely as the representative of cor porate interests; not Hughes whom labor bitterly opposes, and whose rule of reason has become a ju dicial theory that enables courts to encroach upon the legislative func- tions the rest are smaller fry, fsssnkly not measuring up to Viii son standard, perhaps because un- known, but mainly because too well known.
 On the other hand here is Roose- welt. The man who despises the golden mean; who seizes an extreme and fights for it with an earnest aggressiveneSs that will not be de- nied, who when he hears mar vigorously accusing him calls him a liar, and when he thinks man Is shamming, says he's Q scholarly fraud; who is in no way disturbed by the fact that his policies of vest erday are today his anathemata; who is not at all dismayed when he finds that those who crowned him yesterday would tomorrow cast his political carcase to the dogs; who has penetrated the suave, subtle, moderate priggishncss of his grea. f opponent with unerring and sagaci- ous penetration, and who tears the contentious platitudes of Wilson into tatters with one hand, while with the other he emphasizes his own pla titudes on the all embracing neces- sity of brute force himself.
 If Roosevelt is selected to repre- sent the republican party it will be because those who control the de-
 stinies of that party realize he is the only man who can successfully fight Wilson. Whatever one may think of the Bull Moose as a party, Roosevelt himself is a force always to be reckoned with He is eternally and audaciously aggressive. No man can compel him to the humiliation of confessed defeat. The elasticity of his genius stretches beyond the commonplace as politician ana beyond the humdrum routine of the average man.
 For 1t is above all things evid- ent that Roosevelt more than any other man is right now the political embodiment of a terrific idea that is manifesting itself supreme in all civilizations: an idea that never has
 been proven false however it may have submitted to be covered with
 sententious and soft colored gar mcnts of lofty and pacific principle
 tho idea that might is right.
 . To almost any man to have been
 steam rolled as was Roosevelt at the Chicago republican convention would have meant political extinc tior. Instead of that what did oc
 cur was the surrender where there was not inglorious defeat of those who steam rolled him.
 Great in his temporary eclipse b, , the rise of Wilson and the demo , crats, Roosevelt is to be withdraw
 from obscurity to be the hope O ! those very republicans who crushed } him.
 ,l His progressiveness has been al
 intolerable nightmare. But 1t ha