Show HUGHES THE DARK HORSE Henry Watterson Sees Only Hard Road for President Louisville Mr Roosevelt has broken all aU the records rec records records Tyler Fillmore Johnson and Arthur long ago paled their Ineffectual fires be Da fore him He Is Is a law unto himself lf Nothing seems s ms to lease him hit Doing wrong things outright or good things In Inthe the wrong g way backing and filling as the case requires making issues of ot veracity with the th proof against him choleric o In n method cynical In action by turns a daring temporizer and a rash assailant as a practical politician among the most I ueal Ucal politicians a reformer among pur purists Inconsistent as asa a conservative Il li Illogical illogical logical as asa a radical there still exists In Inthe inthe the popular mind a fixed belief In ln his es essential virtue in his good Intentions his hla Integrity and his courage His enemies would agree that If you offered hint him a bribe he ho would knock you down Yet nevertheless and notwithstanding the president Is going to find Jordan a ahard ahard ahard hard road to travel and In the end if he be beIs heIs heIs Is able to keep his party together and issue from the fray drums beating and flag flying he will be fortunate Indeed l because he be can c n no more divert the Republican lican party from tram Its It nature kill kUl In it the reason of Its being than he can out Bryan Bryan Blan in the estimation of the Democrats Dem If the country wants anta an nit overhauling of policies it will not go to the author of or those policies for tor trained workmen and a chest of tools The whole people may not be quite ripe for this overhauling Or Orthey Orthe Orthey they the may consider that the Democrats Demo rats are not ripe for It I Thus there may be one more victory for tor the Republicans In 1908 as there was for tor the Democrats in 1856 1156 But It ft will have hae to be gained by a change of riders and a straddle for the talk about a third term Is the purest non nonsense nonsense nonsense sense lacking the president behind It and having defeat before It a figment of ot hot which the patronage In ease esse cannot afford nor the discipline In posse will not brook The best the president can hope for in the he next national con convention convention convention in my judgment Is a What Is the Republican layout From Froma a distance it seems to be this Taft en entered entered entered by the president first choice of or orthe the ladles ladies and gentlemen in the Grand GrandStand GrandStand GrandStand Stand Fairbanks and Foraker from the senate stables backed by the knowing ones and a field of favorite sons Uncle Joe roe Cannon from Illinois for all alt that may be in sight Knox to hold Pennsyl Pennsylvania Pennsylvania I Ivania vania for contingencies and the list of or entries not yet closed In sporting par parlance parlance lance such appears at long range to be beabout beabout beabout about the size of It Eminent wrists Jurists make disappointing candidates You may remember that be before before before fore the last national Democratic conven convention convention convention tion I said something of this sort about Judge Parker It is equally applicable to Judge Taft Those who still insist that Mr Roosevelt Is s secretly conspiring for a third term might see a deep design in inthis Inthis inthis this There are others who declare that ho is under pledge to the secretary of state rather than the secretary of war But great as Mr Roots Roofs abilities and services must be conceded to be the line which events have drawn upon the cor corporations corporations corporations makes the nomination of the mot most eminent of the corporation lawyers unlikely I take it that the president wants want the secretary of war that he hem means m ans it and that as surely Merely as Jackson stood by Van Buren Roosevelt will stand standby standby standby by Taft Tait Whoever Is la nominated will have hae to beat Taft It will be Taft against the field and the field against Taft But let It not be forgotten that Fairbanks is in the tho field and that whoever is nominated will have to beat bc t Fairbanks The vice vico president is an old a cool and anda a shifty hand at the bellows He is the incarnation of orthodox and conservative Republicanism Indiana Is a pivotal state What Foraker may do to Taft in Ohio re remains remains remains mains to be seen Even if Ohio goes back backon backon on ForaUer Foraker may not the country be a trifled tired of buckeyes If H It rejects Taft can Taft still pull through a national convention as Cleveland did Every delegation In that convention will have its price every ev ry delegate his tag will rise high but it Is likely to run fun Taft Why not Roose Roosevelt velt veit himself Fairbanks why not Har Harriman riman Foraker F Why anybody can beat Foraker Uncle Undo Joe Cannon 7 Good Goodenough Goodenough Goodenough enough but too old Knox dee Crane A little shadowy Root Too bad we Our national conventions are growing more and more like our race horses where to the knowing ones there are few tew surprises Being in France I am going to buy a Paris on a dark horse I I picked nearly a year ago that Is In June I see my long shot Is be beginning beginning beginning ginning to show In the betting to wit Charles E Hughes governor of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York YorkI I met Governor then Mr Hughes fa In Providence during the commencement com commencement commencement of Brown university I said to him The Republicans will nominate you ou for I governor of New York Mr Hughes They dont want to but they will have to They can elect nobody else Now when you ou get to Albany give ge your days das and nights to a close study of the career of Samuel J Tilden because you Will stand precisely In the relation to the presidential nomination of 1908 on the Republican I side which Mr Ir Tilden stood to on the i Democratic side in 1876 The issue which made Tilden the Democratic governor made him the Democratic presidential nominee The issue which is going to tomake tomake tomake make you o a Republican governor of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York will wUl make you the th Republican nom inee meetor for president They will no to more want you yeu for fer than th y BOW new want you for governor But they ll have to take you The issue of the time and the situation of the party will force forca them team th em Governor vernor Hughes seems to have learn learned learned ed ad the Tilden lesson pretty tretty well already and the rest will wUl take care ear of Itself It seems a kind of at Irony of bf fate that the Democratic party should be so 0 ill prepared to t take advantage of ot the situa situation situation tion Have we Indeed in the old sense a Democratic party part The south is held together under the Democratic label by the race question and the race ques question question tion alone At the tho north we see two J JI mo ac motions actions neither of which will vote for the theether theether theether I ether Yet as a party arty platform the tho con constitution constitution of the United States State ought to be broad bread enough for tor each of these elements to stand upon and Back to the constitution constitution tion 1 a rallying cry reaching all minds and hearts carrying yet some memory of the music musio which filled the souls soola of the fathers of Democracy |