Show b 1 w wI I f CR n Lends rends Interest Int to Historic Precedent Pr Touching rA talF New York Herald Horald Ind md One of or the most astute j of ot modern times Benjamin Disraeli declared that u precedent pr od nt embalms a 0 principle In ln our own history it is unbroken u proc prece precedent I dent debt that no vice president Jr advanced a to th the chief magistrate chair chain bee ha fever eror r I dominated d his party part or succeeded to the theOffice i i Office Ulce by bv the votes of t th Will Mr hir Roosevelt sevelt Ro be an exception c U nf I The Question n conies Inter later 1 eating in hi view lew of the facts tiled In lii our columns Y by b a correspondent S dent j t I who iio pointed out ou t that thai the present PJ Kent i situation s is oo not unlike ul that before betor the I election el In 1892 l itS when for br the first Ora time in more than a third of a n century control of ot all aU branches br aches of ot the ov passed into the hands of or the Democrats i iAn I An article In our columns elt T i briefly sketched sk ched the history of the four foar UI I Ivice vice presidents pres who In the past beginning g I with John Tyler and ending with Cister Ci f I 1 A Arthur acceded ded through the death an d of r the elected chief magistrate The Tha Brook lyn lJ rn Eagle of last evening t takes kes this anti arti article antiOle Ole cle Ie as the text for a u long leader In which It says The Herald errs In regarding these instances as conclusive against Mr 1 Roose R alt s ambition As a matter of ot j I fact the Herald made no no deductions i I whatever b but t merely s se t put i lt the facts i iThe I IThe The conclusion has un been drawn from them by b our amiable contemporary contemporary for itself It strives to diff ren I the position of the present meats bent from that of former vice presidents who acceded to the chief magistrate ma and aul j I addes I For better or worse Roosevelt and nd I Republicanism are one Thre are re Re Republicans Republicans Republicans publicans who wish that it Jl were not so Wishing however does not alter alien the facts Mr Roosevelt and his party rt are arable arabic The next President of ot We tI United States will be Theodore Roosevelt or a Democrat Despite pledges of Republican state con contentions conventions made long lung before existing condi conditions conditions i had bad developed it It If rash to assert that Roo welt and Republicanism are re reone reone rl one in vi view 1 w of the very y ry many miny m ny I Jica s who wish that it l I were not eo so I and in view also of ot his hL democratic per perI I H nat tendencies i and of ot the hostility he lie behas has excited e in the great and aad andI I financial interests which dominate his party and upon which wl ich in past campaigns s I it has bas relied for tor the sinews of war ww Jn In view Yi w of the enmities he has I among these powerful interests within Ws Ida party and the distrust excited in its con conservative conservative j elements el m ts It would seem e in not at atall atall all certain that he will win be nominated Al dl Although though our contemporary C as a I that It Is certain In asserting that the next president win wilt be bo Theodore Roosevelt or a Democrat That Th t is a suggestive phrase or a Doss Dem Democrat I coraL The resentment of independent t Republicans against the course of th thI UM the UMI I I majority in congress during the last few t tI Yrs years nd od the dissensions within toe the I party in ill this and other states 15 t give the th Democrat b t r prospects t than y ey had h for tor Many ny ye ears As Uv the her Bei 1 correspondent Jakon ot yet y r day pointed out the tte struggle 1 tw tt the e Platt and ami Odell factions f pr presents them with the th best opportunity they have hae n i sine since or f carrying thIs state atre D Dole ia wares Republican Re oligarchy is rent with dissensions dig In Illinois there in till 1 intene dissatisfaction dl with the state sUto tion HOD Maryland ha t in ln passed pa com coal m into control t of th the Democrats Democrat Rhode Island has twice elected a Demo governor In tn Indiana Indian the Demo Democrats Democrats eats have hawe carried earned s eral 1 1 titles clUe held bv bY b bdie bYthe the die R bl since the outbreak of or and a MI they have arne carried d all im important city elections In Connecticut while Boston i is 18 about to a Demo craU mayor nayor almost without t opposition In short rt the conditions are we such suell as s t impart Impert a p r t to the leal Isal fact that no ao accidental president ha has ver ever been elected to succeed d himself h elf and aud to t that there is 18 a principle embalmed IB a i this unbroken ull kea precedent pre dent a Li |