Show IS us ROOSEVELT T FIT DEMOCRATIC party leaders leaders or or at least a considerable number of them them seem to have pointed toward the nomination of Governor Governor Gov Gov- Roosevelt of New York as the standard- standard bearer of the party next year and strangely enough the only question in the partisan f fit fit- t- t mind appears to hinge upon his physical ness Having suffer suffered d for ten 1 years from the effects of infantile paralysis the Empire state stat governor has battled the dread disease to a stan standstill 11 in a constant endeavor to regain regain re regain re- re gain the full use of his lower limbs and discard discard dis dis- discard card crutch cane and steel braces which have kept him on his feet Those party leaders who have sponsored his Ws candidacy for more than a year have gone to the extremity of publishing the results of medical diagnosis to establish in the minds of partisans the physical fitness of the ex executive executive executive ex- ex realizing that something of the sort must be done to allay any existing fears that Mr Roosevelt may not be able to survive the heavy demands made upon him in the event he is chosen to take up the grind as the nations nation's nations nation's nations nation's na na- na- na tion's chief executive The physical and mental strain of the presidency has left two modern modem presidents ina ina in ina a bad way although the temperament of Mr Coolidge for example seems to have carried 1 him Um through the ordeal without any serious results There can be no doubt that in the appraisal appraisal appraisal ap ap- ap- ap of presidential timber physical capability capability capability capa capa- is something to be considered |