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Show THE COMING CAMPAIGN. Theodore Roosevelt has received the unanimous unan-imous vote of the Republican convention for President. It is a great honor, such an honor as was hardly over given a candidate before. In a few days another candidate will be named at St. Louis, and then will come one of the longest and hottest presidential campaigns ever known. From the tone of the leading Democratic -newspapers we can anticipate the nature of the campaign cam-paign that they intended to wage. Already the President is designated as a usurper, a would-be would-be war-lord, as one who thirsts for military pover for conquest, a dangerous, self-willed obstinate ob-stinate and erratic man, in whom the spirit of the cowboy keeps In subjection the high thoughts of the statesman and' the gentleman. On the Republican side, the campaign should assume the offensive from the start; the appeal to the people should be as Mr. Root outlined the record that the party and President has made and the condition of the country under Republican Republi-can rule. , As the days go by that record will be called up, piece by piece, and reviewed, so will the President's record and it will all be submitted to the people for their decision in November. In Pharoha's dream the lean kin oame up and devoured the fat ones, and were no happier for the meal. That may be repeated in November in our country, but we do not believe it will. The trials which the country has "given the Democracy Democ-racy since the war do not supply much encour-ngement encour-ngement for a change. But it will be a red-hot campaign sure enough and the prayer of both parties should I ko behind the candidates and ask only for the test welfare of the Republic. |
