Show ROOSEVELT AND THE SMOKE Indictment of o President Weakness Weal i m and Unfit UnfitS S Tribune PeP Hep One ice for all wb wa desire to announce that sit V hat this paper h Ii x o e candidate candidateS S t e Jb W i of president of the fe When the Republican party n national convention selects its candidate this paper win will give him what a wn may be a cordial and My W We have no c candidate to urge upon the convention lor tOr the dl We w J have Republicans we believe tc to be fitted forthe peal position tion and ma my name others whom we know to be qualified and who c i without a if nominated Our sole aim I is that the party may achieve success In 19 1904 M Toe The Republican party never selected Mr tr Roosevelt as president of the United States It selected him to an office of honor and high rank but of far teas less im importance than the one which the terrible act of an nit assassin gave him the legal right to occupy Mr Roosevelt was not thought of for a moment as a candidate for the presidency I dency at t the Philadelphia convention in InI I and if anyone Mad bed the fats fat W Gf our beloved McKinley Mr Roosevelt would B yer have been nominated for vie preSIdent however much the state of Now York desired te to be Th rho is not hot disposed of as a Mr iRos veR wiH n iU ce hope serve out foil term feral aad aed we believe he will die dis ff ever every duty to the full fall extent of his The Th Republican party has given Mr Roosevelt cordial support and wilt will do 90 sO rin In all al groper matters until the close cose of his trw term of office Republican tat Is for the people an has Ms ever placed the interests of the Whole people above end and beyond those thorn of any etess The advocates of Mr Roose Roosevelt floo e evolt volt velt this aft and that senator UK as favor favorable favorable able to his nomination Few of the Unit talt United ed out States r suffer even evett if the party was defeated at the election In lM lesi TUe Tb majority of them are secure in pleasant positions position and it is common g that tt the Ideal portion of a United tat p for orIs is hen the opposition has the exee por poW and there Is neither j fleg nor annoyance as an It J tors who would suffer if a be elected president It is within the t of possibility for forthe forthe the Republican party to be badly defeat defeated ed and nt t Republican loa lees his 4 at atIt 4 It is not the senators however who presidents but the delegates selected elected to by the people defeat for preel dener what of the fate of the staunch h of he the south who at home hom have ha e only Republican lose M look to lor social and ana political friendship af t in hi the election means at least four years of oat aiU anI despair to those hYe true Starts hearts who have never a amy ray of sunshine ia In their political Jive except when a Re president is In the White House Houser r a they to despair by the tji r of a man who cannot be o elected Are their delegates to the convention going to take any chances with New NewYork NewYork York a were taken when a former a New York Yorker er too able shrewd and diplomatic in tug full and sent Judge Folger to an open political grave anti antiI I wh when T that pit was closed in 1384 1151 under the sod of New York lay I burled the h boundless ambitions of the I Blame cUd the blighted hopes of I our national party Fre President A thUr knew New York state then as a well as President Roosevelt does today He Hp was a better politician than chief magistrate lt he and his went down t in monumental defeat na ao to will it be next year if our party parly chances with Mr Roose veit t Th paol Is a deadly one to our party and New oA S ArthUt hl h The result r years of Republican lican terminated by the fatal vote vot 9 NE Twenty years more elapse a ad d McKinley te Is culled called higher and New Yorks Roosevelt tak f I hU his Shall w again meet Nemesis Do the Republicans from the south from to Texas want two more terms I of Democratic presidents in the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House The last accidental president I gave Xav them that and air Roosevelt can cando cando do work prk tor It was s wM was an dent grave digger in the thees Ms es lie ie stay may be desirous to chan chAnga i and to be hi In the front vehicle tIti time but the Republican party cannot af afford ford it Do the memberS of ol the Republican part in the east esat the west the north and the south wish to see the post postmasters postmasters masters of their own political i faith turned out and their places f filled Hied by Democrats Aj Aft they ready to turn over the th llO mail carriers places to o our r foes De Be they wish to see Democrats in trenched for years ars in every custom house housend and nd revenue Do th they y se to pave the way for Democratic marshals a and d deputy mar marshi shi for f cratte attorneys tend land agents and Inspectors throughout the length and breadth of the land by a gentleman that we cannot Elect We do tie not believe the Republican party will commit Bi lt ft m In convention says sail it f Os t then so ao say all of us dh R s MISTAKES Pori a Basis Tor Eor Strong Opposition ia in Party Ledger Rep RepP P id nt Roosevelt has made mistakes are grounds for legitimate opposition and attack He has handled the negro question with lack of discretion The hostile view if i that he lie tried to gain by coddling the negro we Pre Prefer fer to assume aume thai Jt was R a chivalric if idea hiss impelled hint him to open an insoluble problem Insoluble by any Y action RoO in the Panama has all his ideas idea has th the principles and the republic Preaching exalted constantly declaring with the t em on all occasion that the ldes of justice and morality are just as closely applicable to the conduct of governments as to private conduct he has approved despoliation of a friendly republic ad at which in its elements and results Was piratical and in the attempt attempted ed for the tho act has in effect cited our eur great of the tho stolen goods thus informing the world that our na national virtue virtu is not net strong enough to re rei elst i a very ery high price V t gp Weakness Kew w Dem Dern I Thus It come conies about that while the f tHc fi t com nO tr S1 th s rl nl with whom the president has made JB 19 V for publication that the party mart inSet stand tand l and nominate hint him they admit that they regard be before fore the people copIe Wh Because he has baa lost t the e e b of ofa the e pe tb the a sL W alarmed the genuine the patriotic re States ates tee OdoU Gang in Tew York Will Not Promote Chances York WorM WoM Dem DemOnr Our lively and nd persistent con contemporary Contemporary temporary lectures the World with an anair anair air that almost suggests sincerity for commenting upon the obvious fact that Governor Ic the boss bool of the Republican Republican lican party part in this state with the knowl edge and o the president and backed by the irresistible patronage pow power er cc of the executive office As the Press sees It the New York delegation goes to Chicago will be for the nomina nomination tion of President Roosevelt because the party in this state as in every other state which CArt ad cast Republican votes in itt inthe the electoral college is Ia back in the hands of the people So Murray Armitage MaThews Abe and the gang that Governor Oell with the help of the urea pres president Went ident has just put in control of the Re Republican publican organization in this city ar are the people the real people Th These e are the themen themen men selected by the president and his new partner the governor to run the great party of which Mr Roosevelt is the natural chief Honestly now does any send sane Republican Republican lican actually think that this seizure of the Republican local organisation by the president ind nd the and their avowed purpose to control the state corn com committee md nd the national delegation by such means for their own purposes will conduce to party catty harmony or promote Mr chances of carrying New NewYork NewYork York m hi t the election MUST TAKE Is Sure of the Nomination Although Democrats Can Easily Beat Hint Him New York News Rep RepIn RepIn In nix his own state where he is best beet known Mr Roosevelt today faces faced the prospect of certain defeat He will have to work Miracles within the next eleven months to carry 2 New w York Unfortunately Unfortunately for hint him When he plays hardest at pure politics politic he mars mare most his own chances of winning The mud muddle muddie die dle in which be had the shaping hand is worth tens of thousands of votes to the Democrats Ae As Representative John Sharp Williams the new Democratic leader of the house said in a recent interview The chances of a Democratic victory are hatter better with Roosevelt as the Republican candidate than any other men man and yet I ain am sorry to se it as If he should be elected It means a threat to the peace of nations The country distrusts Win bite the business Interests have no confidence hi In him and his sets acts are reacting against hint him now POLITICAL SITUATION It Is Brightening For the Democrats and Roosevelt Can Easily Beaten Atlanta Constitution Das Dem The situation politically is one that is continually brightening at the Democratic end and if the Democrats of congress wilt will only cucu closely and decide care carefully carefully fully upon their policy between now how and next nest June they can do magnificent work In the party perti upon the national field flem in winning form So far AS the nomination of President Roosevelt by the Republicans is the Democrats need not worry Let him himbe himbe be nominated If the Democracy cannot beat him they can hardly hope to beat any Republican He has saddled and bridled the party arid and 18 iS riding it rough and hard He is making independent Re voters every day So long as he heis heIs is doing that the Democrats can atford to toI I let him caper and curvet as lie be will That the great area business interests of the country are afraid of H a second trial of Roosevelt is too plain to Sear bear contradiction He may go mildly enough now BOW while the question of his I nomination and election are pending but with these assured and nd th the ides Ices or March 1906 p passed 8 d only the can tell what Roosevelt would then do He is s sout out oat to be elected president on ot his own personal account His means if elected to make a Roosevelt record that will wiil stand out in presidential annals as one altogether unique and Individual to the end elid of the It is no wonder that a mn men with his lite nerve ambition and headiness should k 9 by those who see the interests o q otle tIe tle country standing in jeopardy every everyday day with such a man nn in the White House HouseAs As to Roosevelt the Democrats need only to fled find a wise Stable and constitutional Democrat of clean record and unquestioned honed patriotism Between the tho two the tha choice will not be b hard for any Democrat nor for hundreds of thousands of conser conservative cons r Republicans PARTY Not as Solid For Por Roosevelt as It Was Six Months Ago Rochester NY N Advertiser There have lately beon some manifestations of anxiety on the part of President President dent and his friends concern Is ig the strength of his hold upon his party A tear few Republican lican state convention were passing rca res resolutions pledging to him for 1004 1904 few would have thought of raising an any question us as to his hla availability but the question te Is raised now in some gome quarters and nd there are indications that many of the men who direct the action of the Re Republican publican party are disposed to regard the tho question of the nomination of next year as by no means settled The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune which IB Is understood to be close cloe to Senator Rattan Hanna urges the loaders leaders to reason together and more than suggests that ft It may mu be bethe bethe the pert part of wiOTa to nominate some other man than Roosevelt It thinks there 16 io danger that he wit will not be aide able to carry New York and that he be wilt will be if nominated Governor Gorr Gor dOnot Ohio an Republican leader te Is quoted as saying earing that Ohio will willbe be for Roosevelt I 1 Senator not come out openly Such expressions as 8 this may mean much or little littie but they will tend to confirm the popular bo be lIst lief that the tk most powerful man in Mr party the man most able to bring things to pam pese in accordance with his own wishes and interests is Hot to be implicitly depended upon by the president dent It was In to Senator wishes that the Ohio Republic Republican an ass indorsed President Roosevelt at the state tte convention this year anti ana the big has made himself much stronger in Ill lis own state since then b by his Ma hilly campaign last fall In fact act it IB Is not nu to say sav that ran can hay hax his own w way v in Ohio now rw ml ni h 4 n fl rt the nr oni v Sr ater o cf large influence rho tho ma wiL wi good rea tn bo be distrusted 1 by the prest president dent Th Tue popular vote in in the it par party ty Si 18 th for him hta bat we do ito not think thin U It te to so soC C for him as it was s 85 x months agog ago and the convention that thai or reject hint him as a candidate for M in is isa tt i ia a tong tone way off Besides th iii pr uW wish does not always rule in t ht he s li c i lion ion of at In this state for ex cx i ample although the popular vote of the presidents party Is for him th theta e are i powerful Influences wM hill oppose turn Thus the question of may arise in the councils ef of the party It is ii the president and M hM mends friends are disturbed over the tut tt in hi his own state They out outward OutWard ward cheerfulness of the harmony that has come in consequence of recent conferences between the leaders but harm jay te is often deceptive president Has something to worry about lie it Is likely te to save stiR still more for worry before f re the date of the next nt Republican national convention comes DEMOCRATIC ISSUES Are A Plentiful and tl the j Patty Should Find Victory in a Campaign New York Evening Post if any ny man could read ta the popular iad he would discover there te Questions that ere are to be dominant 1 m the next campaign That is ot of course coarse the powers of any political Yet there are some surface plain plaint to t all For one thing it Is is pretty d dear r the people are tired of a tawdry and Haunting imperialism Their senses are jaded ded on the subject of the glor nory of fg nt t ting ing feeble foe and a nice little war now be distinctly liar If there la Is anything that American are sick it is the the am ad ail the business df the career whether we it or o not 1 To Tp take tak advantage of this re the Democrats should b he alert Sg i they should to other forms of all rati folly as It flies files Let them 0 g Y Lures tures as an o peculations and frauds aMi cue tt among amons Republican on the breakdown of the and on the fact th that K the Mil bill has hag now replaced the agent of prosperity In these things there are is issues sues sites aplenty u d the best nope of th the Democratic party today Is to if behave seemly to live cleanly and OnA ro so it itself itself self between now and or of lH that the country will not st be of I turning to it with or without a burning burnips I issue as the one to th the party hi power with whose account ot of Its i stewardship suck such grave fault Is t be quad found ELEMENTS OF WEAKNESS Impulse and Friendship Precede Tub Pu lie Interest With Him Blurt sew New York World Wort President att and t bullying attitude toward the of Colombia criticised a sharply by Sent Sena Senator tar tor Roar Hoar is not the thief chief cause ot of hie growing weakness as a candidate for re reelection reelection election It Is probable that there are more Democrats who 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