The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1916-01-13

ter The colonel always has been great bogyman for tn
Democrats and most always they have realized fully al
the fears they have entertained of him. The only time t
colonel has failed to land upon the Democracy with solar
pexus blow the late Republican unpeasantness whe1
he and Mr. Taft each reached the very unwse selfish
cluson that he would rather Democrat seated in the
White House than have his hated Republican rise SUI
perior to they sacrificed their party On the altar
their hatred and selfish ambitions It is human to err
but divine to forgive And Solomon the wiseman has in
formed That all is vanity and vexation of spirit Be
that regarding the vanity part is plain to
that the first nmaon that the colonel spite of the
SEEMING lnsurmountable "error which his weak humanity
led him into 1872 might be able come back with the Re
pubcans the Democratic vexaon of spirit and time fear
mounts on the wings OF the eagle and
to be of all So it is noted the Democratic
editors leach carrying out his peculiar idea of the most
effective way OF dspong of their hated enemy dealing
out their little packages of advice and wisdom for the disposal
OF the colonel However it is pleasing note somewhat in
contrast with nnenne per cent of the Democratic
thee omments the colonel by the Lewiston Tribune which
frequently known to have quite lucid what might be
termed almost wholly rational spells Therefore, having
caught the Tribune of those pleasing moods ard
also out of Difference to the EDITORS ability as writer
give readers chance weigh it statements and Judge
OF their truthfuness and value for Themselves by giving the
Tribune editorial in full:
Col Roosevets declinaton TO have his nama voted o
IN the Minnesota other primary is couched only such
terms in his position would naturally employ and
not to be considered having deepunnng urve
hve is usually ascrbed great public men in their
attitude toward conditional eventuaties AS matters now
stand there is powerful movement foot to procure Col
Roosevet nomination by the Chicago convention as the Re-
publican candidate for the presidency This fur
thered by strong faction of the republican party and
by the remnant OF the progressive party and designed
reunte the party numerically stood four years ago Col
Roosevelt is doubtless participant in the movement but
necessarily must await developments before becoming active
~ Identified with the propaganda We do not think the
movement Will succeed ought to succeed anac
gous to those who made it mpoc for the republican party
to be absorbed by the progressive party years ago The
republican party means something distinctive in American
political fe the democratic party does or did The Amer
lean people have also enjoyed under republican admnisra
on PERIOD OF brilliant achievement and progress that
been unequaed to this day. while the reflex action
came the democratic party hand shining and unterr
ed to perform its special duties in the complement of things
Ii has not yet been shown that the policies which this
party and this country together wrong or oh
soe and the Tribune would prefer to see these parv
pies kept intact while itself adherng to the oppositon
as 1T certainly the intention of the guard to do The
purpose In nominating Col Roosevelt would be to retain the
prestige OF these old principles while changing its substance
for the Jane Addamsy mush with which the colonel dntes
the raw head and bloody bones of it. On this good
1oo GOOD devil program the politicians who now en-
gneerg the proposed ason hope something that
will please the eye and the appetite of majority Of the
people.
The thing Judge Taft declares is absurd bnt # nd
Gates much anything confusion into which nation
al politics is now plunged and especially republican politics.
1here no commanding figure at this time the republican
party but each of these is deemed ineligible for more or
enough to the support at the nos for
e presidency against name and mode of thought ia
mlar as Woodrow Wilson's Judge Taft Justice Hnobes
and Mr. Root the strongest personalities in the republican
party party but each OF these deemed ineligible for more or
less conclusive The personality of Tho candidate
however, Will concevably not be the determining factor
ing TO the further development of conditions now in tho for
nation For one thing President Wilson may yet become the
laVote OF the German Americans the Irish Americans
I gs1 s opponent and the present rapprochement with
the Ieutonlc powers have eye in that direction For
some the republican party has always seemed more
than the democratic party, perhaps because of the
close business and social relations between the two nations
ana OF which the republican party has, by the incidence Of
@ case oeen more nearly representative than the democratic
Mr. Wilson therefore will little to exnect from a. 10y
British vote against his republican opponent in anv cir
stances ana his administration should continue to antaco
Az ne and Irish VOTE he scarcely reener
Tue "ne house Tor a second term. We are snaainr ~
only OF the politics of it, and not 10y