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Show ENGLAND TURNS TO AMERICANPOLITICS Bull Moose Leader Must Ba Reckoned With, Says the London Press. PARTY IS WELL NAMED Behind Roosevelt's Noise May Be Adroit Play for 1916 Victory. Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON, Aug. 24. Temporarily relieved re-lieved of the trouble of watching political polit-ical events at home, the English prese has turned its eyes across the Atlantic and Is following everything that happens In the United States. Of course, with typical British self-righteousness, England Eng-land was duly shocked at the revelations made in connection with the Rosenthal murder in New York, but the sensation caused by tho murder soon died away and the country Is now watching the skirmishes which are preceding tho American presidential campaign. Of course, ex-President Koosevelt'e new party conies In for the greater part of interest. Nearly all papers have been Criticising the name Roosevelt has selected se-lected for the party which ho hopes will transform America Into a politically cleaner country The London Standard writes In a long editorial: That strange atmosphere of vulgarity vulgar-ity which plays round Mr. Roosevelt is" redolent In the name Of his new party Anybody else might have ailed himself a social reformer, or a Progressive, or by some other title, more or less recognized in tho nomenclature nom-enclature of politics: Mr. Roosevelt, 11 appears, is to be known as the leader of the Bull Moose party, ap-parently ap-parently because he has deolared that Re feebj as strong .-s that powerful animal. Party Well Named. The Bull Moose delegates when iiwy assembled at Chicago were found to ie "appropriately adorned " we are told, with hjiTnl.'innri h.itidker'-iilefs. thouKh Whether thai ornament is hah- itualiy worn by bull oWosea we do now know. Other penetrating observers toll us that i he bandanna handkerchief hos another and a symbolic significance It has been assumed to show that the partv Is the party of plain peoople, us distinguished, one 'nay Imagine, from Ho hatightv aristocrat who wipes his fevored brow with silk Mr Roosevelt, wliatever olso he may do, is not likely t" make American Ameri-can electioneering methods more reticent re-ticent and retined, or U. render them more attractive to persons of sensitive sensi-tive delicacy, There are Qualities for which this StrenoUS politician has never evinced the smallest regard. nor for subtlety or caution or sorupu- lOUl consistency. The bull moose. dos nol operate timt way. Ho lowers his Butlers and goes "baldhesded" for any obstacle- Cannot Be Ignored. In tho early days of railroad enterprise, en-terprise, before the bull moose was used to the locomotive, he would sometimes charge It "end on." It was apt to be very awkward for the. hull moose. W'o nrp fsr from saying that this parallel applies to Mr. Roosevelt, Those who huve studied the most In- , teresting of American public men are well aware that behind his noise, nnd rant, nnd violence and his hopeless lack of distinction lu speech and manner, man-ner, there Is a store of enorgy and oonvfotlon and that driving force, of an Immensely vital personality. It is the recognition of this fact which gives him Influence Uth tens of thousands thou-sands of his countrymen, and makes him a personage to be reckoned with even in his errors He may he hated: he cannot bo Ignored And he has a ,'was of em rm after his reverses which la exceedingly disconcerting to bis opponents. It may be that Mr. Roosevelt will bo able to keep out President Taft and the machine Republicans, and to lot In Wood row Wilson In th hope that ho will have laid the foundation, for the real triumph of the third party in iho presidential election of vy 16. |