The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-15

Roosevelt. would be very formidable.
All the jingoes would flock to the
standard and the mercenaries would
enlist to a man. 1t is announced in
the New York Tribune that Colonel
Roosevelt WOULD sooner support
Wilson than any Republican run
ming on platform that does not de-
nounce Germany. That is shrewd
move. for it is notorious that the
sentiment for the entente allies is
overwhelming in our country, and a
skilled and agile politician like the
Colonel can be depended on to pay
this string for all it is worth and
make million damphools think that
a vote for Wilson is a vote for Ger
many.
Now. there is the scheme-Roose-
Welt for President, preparedness"
the platform. ito hell with Ger
many" the battle cry. Then make
Cortelyou the manager Of the cam
paign, give him doodle fund that
would make Mark Hanna piker,
and the country would witness a
campaign, the storm of which would
make that of 1896 a zephyr.
Everybody knows that no Repub-
lican ticket will stand the ghost of
! a show unless it has the 0. X. Of
Theodore Roosevelt. There is the
best authority for it that the Col
onel has eliminated all the Repub-
licans mentioned" except Hughes,
Hadley and Knox. Hughes has ELI
minated himself, and it would be
suicide to name either Knox or Had
ley. Root and Burton engineered
the Taft steam roller that ran over
Roosevelt in the national conven-
tion of 1912. and all the other IA
vorite sons from Weeks to Alden
Smith. from Fairbanks to Borah, are
simply impossible.
Then there is nothing to do but to
name Roosevelt. put Fairbanks al
the tail of the ticket. set Cortelyou
to manage the campaign. levy con
tributions on Wall street, go In fol
an army that can lick Germany's,
navy that can beat England's, ant
,cuss the Dutch. That is the scheme
as at present contemplated, and the
country might as we'll reconcile 1t
self to endure it. And 1t nigh
win Ours is an emotional and
mercurial people. Time very likel!
would undergo the enterprise, al
time beat Greeley in 1872 and Bryan
in 1895. Both Greeley and Bryan
had the country overwhelmingly TO
them in August before the Novembe
election. So did Hancock in 1880
The New York Tribune, the lead
ing Republican organ of the country
is ont for Roosevelt, and making fui
of that regiment of favorite sons
The Kansas City Star, great ant
powerful newspaper with an enor
nous constituency. is for the Col
onel. The Prosressives- II the!
are back in the party-compose
majority of the party; Wall stree
is for the Colonel, and who ant
what are to prevent his nomination
Corporations have no souls; but thu
Steel Trust has gratitude, might!
good substitute for soul, as soul
go in Big Business circles. Mr.
Gary remembers the indulgence
President Roosevelt granted him t.
absorb for his Steel Trust the Ten
nessee Coal and Iron Company, ant
the twelve-billion dinner the othe
day was Steel Trust spread.
OF course the "Old Guard" woul'
kick; but the Colonel has winning
ways, and on occasion can practic
the philosophy of Talleyrand an
treat his enemies as though the
were become friends. Besides, you
Standpatter is like Tammany Hall
He is bound to support the ticket
Your Standpatters Is what the lat
Murat Halstead called "yallar do
politician" and holds to the ide
tht a bolt is the same as treason, o
0 little saner.
5 Here and there, of course, on
0 would run across a Standpatter, VIII
o looks on the Colonel as Theodor
o Hallam looked looked upon WilliaI
o Goebel Hallam was making a speec
o for John Young Brown, the ant
Goebel Democratic candidate fo
Governor of Kentucky in 1899, an
someone interrupted TO butt in;
Theodore, l heard you say yo
would vote for a yallar dog II b
, was the Democratic nominee.
$50 | did and so l will" answere
Hallam. but lower than yalls
dog | flaty refuse to go
:, But there never was but Oh
Theodore Hallam.