| Show NOMINATION EASY But It Will be Koro to Elect J New York Evening Post It has ha been very easy to nominate nominal Theo core dore Roosevelt ft it will wi I be more difficult to elect him He was inevitable can ot his part though many of the leaders dislike him and many of Its rank and file distrust him but he is not the in inevitable evitable candidate of American voters with alternative of a trustworthy l Democrat From Fo now en on begins the proc process ess of persuasion and what have the Re Be Republicans publicans publIcan to offer but the magic name of Roosevelt The party cries ring hollow protection meets the tact of business depression Dine bike oratory would leave a vacuum in the campaign cheat shipping subsidies cannot be advocated In t the face of a de treasury sound soune currency is a non noncontentious noncontentious contentious Issue even on the subject of imperialism no one longer seriously urges Mr argument We doubt If any Republican campaign committee has Laced faced a contest with so little partisan ammunition In re reserve servo serve Charges of f paste pante and disloyalty upon the Democrats are worn out what remains ia Is simply the Imor that cur sur surrounds rounds the th personality and the deeds deed ot of the candidate Whoever doubts that Mr Roosevelt Is the tite soe sote Republican issue has only to re remark remark mark the last two days davs of ot the convention What changed the apathy that greeted Mr Root s weighty chronicle of Republican lican ilean successes into the tremendous en enthusiasm that followed the braggadocio concerning Governor Black portrait of a stern stem war chief and Mr florid visions of the commercial conquest of the world Why simply the Introduction of Mr Roosevelt in his heroic w may say his legendary It was this that 4 moved end and bound delegates to en enthusiasm enI I it is In this sign that the tho Re Rei i party will conquer next Novem I ter Der If conquer it eSH IH But flut it is a terrible I thine to be legendary before you are ste deed Few lew statesmen pave have had Dis luck to keep even pace with the belief in them and no statesman who ever so little disappoints a people habituated to scan him In heroic dimen dimensions Is forgiven Witness the most In Instructive of Admiral Dewey The triumph of Mr Roosevelt then de depends ponds largely upon his ability to seem for forthe forthe the next four months as lovable picturesque esque Incalculable sensational heroic as ashe ashe he has appeared for the past seven years vears It is a task to appall any one but Theo Thee Theodore dote dore Roosevelt It may mav well transcend even his histrionic powers hampered as ashe ashe he is by th the presidential office For your professional hero Is in terribly In danger of repeating himself and even more In peril of to taking kin the fatal step from the sublime to the ridiculous And Mr Roosevelt IE is driven toward an awkward dilemma Could he carry on his continuous heroic performance at st a pressure which but Just content c the strenuous lie would take the risk of ef searing the effete seat Into the arms arnie of any reasonably rest reat restful ful Democrat To frighten the east means o sap the golden stream of cam eara campaign contributions at Its Wall Wail street fountainhead and a drouth at this point Is serious for even the west will not in indefinitely Indefinitely definitely shout Itself thirsty at Ha Its own expense Yet we believe that Mr Roose Roosevelt Roosevelt velt must confidently oust himself upon his legend The hypocrisy of nosing as a safe candidate merely would be as in intolerable intolerable tolerable to him as It would be transparent ent to all his doubtful supporters For Far this campaign he is the party and the Republicans will find in his volatile per personality both their strength and their weakness Herein lies lien obviously the opportunity of th the Democrats They may present not only a man but a Their man possibly rival Mr Roosevelt In so called popular qualities he may however have the advantage ef of presenting himself straightforwardly for what he Is worth He need not divert the energy fairly oe due to advocacy of his principles nto incessant or heroic at attempts tempts to bolster up a waning legend As Ashe Ashe he reveals hi his i personality to his fellow countrymen he need not be he haunted by bythe bythe the harrowing fear that he Is beIng round found out This Is a dread that can never be bevery bevery very far away from Mr Roosevelt who must know better than any of us how vulnerable his legend really is There Is also a great advantage for a new candi eandi candidate date of s regenerated Democracy la I the fact that everything i possible has been said In extolling Mr Roosevelt virtues and the country is In possibly just a little bit weary of Its strenuous Aristides It ItIs Iti Is i certain that Mr Roosevelt will win very vary few votes between now and Novem November her ber he may lose los m n Yesterday after afternoon afternoon noon he touched his maximum strength a sufficient and overwhelming strength t may be but his qualifies and nd the position of His iSa party are so welt well known that if there is any weakness today that weak weakness ness Is I irreparable Hither Either Mr Blacks Black s boasting yesterday was truth ruth or snore mere bluster let the Democrats prove prof Their hope of beating Roosevelt lies in striking him where he is vulnerable In his enormous egotism and capacity for swift error and in attacking his party where it is most open In Its stolid ia ad hesion to the selfish interests it has wil willingly willingly confused with the American people The combination of a man of solid parts standing not on glamour but on pie would to many be far more attractive than the spectacle of a roan man of glamour thundering upon the slippery planks of the present Republican platform Te To Towards wards Mr future the attitude of men la is that of the publicist toward then am ambassador ambassador at Paris whom de Lhuys the French minister had declared to be a negligible quantity Alas said we shall see that man at work he is more than dangerous he Is attractive With all willingness to admit Mr s attractiveness there Is a consIderable dread d of seeing the theman theman man at work S i |
