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Nome, Alaska, January liUil.
I >ny by day there seems to be
evident'-s of growth of a Roosevelt
sentiment even among tue stand pat
-republicans unless all dispatches lie.
Indeed it is now held that it is
■cot remotely probable that ho may
be nominated by that very party
which lie shook to pieces at the ia3l
election and whose defeat by his
defection ho clearly secured.
In all the republican party there
is no possibility like Roosevelt.
None have his vigor; his into isity
and earnestness; his aggressive and
dominating manner; his political un
scrupulousness; hi3 insatiable am
bition.
He has what no other man has
in the United States, a fanatical fol
lowing which will vote for and sup
port him, no motter how erratic his
policies or how extravagant his
visions.
People imagine that Roosevelt is
a has-been, but they are very wide
of the mark. Not a single inan that
visited the Fair in San Francisco
over had the roception that ho re
ceived all along the way. Thousands
hung upon his words and thou
sands cheered him as if he were an
emperor.
Dozens of other prominent men
from Bryan to Burton travelled
the same route, and spoke along
its way, but they were neither
greeted nor cheered as was Roose
velt.
Roosevelt was the man witli a
message. He came not to bring
peace to the world but the sword,
and to him there never has been any
question but that the sword was
mightier thaii the pen. Only the in
tellectual. proud in his own wild
conceit, thought different when the
facts of our civilization clearly
showed that force was everything
and peacefulness nothing.
The shrewd men who compose
the National Committee of the Re
'phhfican party want office, and they
are not selecting any person as a
possibility who is already in the
discard. They have been observing
the following of Roosevelt; they
beheld his reception in the West
and they have observed how they
still hearken to him in the East and
Middle West.
To pit Roosevelt against Wilson
would not be such folly aa it might
appear, and Wilson would get a
touch of the real thing when op
posing such an unscrupulous, shift},!
brazen, fearless, and determined an '
opponent as Roosevelt.
Pine epigram and sententious pla
titudes born of the Princeton mid-j
night oil would avail little before
the sledge hammer destructiveness of
Roosevelt criticism. The doctrinc
of gentlemanly preparedness that
Wilson has devised to satisfy the do
mands of the war fevered, would be
hut a shallow draft indeed for j
itoosevolt. Before the scorching
breath of Roosevelt aggressiveness,
these fanciful policies would evapo
rate as dew on a summer morn.
Wilson is a clover politician, and
he has taken care that no extremity
of policy will offend any large fac
tion of the voters. He has done this
ably and well. His policy towards
Germany was moderate and reason
able to all but an ultra fanatic. His
■ conclusion of the Lusitania case has
been hailed as a great success ano
his notes are not supposed to have
been lacking in punch.
He has not antagonized the in
terests unduly. He wisely upheld
the neutrality of the government
in the flotation of a loan for the Al
lies and will not Interfere with a
munition Industry which brought
•democratic prosperity” to the east
at least.
His remarks as to hyphenated
Americans were unfortunate and
did considerable harm, which, how
ever, he is now repairing by means
<of sevoral very forceful notes to
-England.
He says himself that any porson
who says that the democrats will be
defeated next , election is talking
through bis hat.
Ho has secured a largo following
in labor circles, anil Gompers is to
him' a very welcome person indeed
Yet his policies have been marked
by such a shrewd moderation that
he has been careful to give no ot
ense indeed to capital and had num
erous conferences with Morgan and
other industrial chiefs. He has al
lowed numerous trust prosecutions
to lapse an.i no one could say that
the Department of Justice unneces
sarily embarrassed Big Business.
Wilson has really done nothing
which could inspire a bitter and
persistent antagonism against him.
When he judged that the nation
wanted preparedness and the voice
of many papers became too .insist
ent to be ignored, ho and his cabi
net, bereft of Bryan, became whole
hearted preparationists. Under or
dinary circumstances he would ap
pear to bo the ideal candidate who
suited everyone.
Against him who in the world
can the republicans put up except
Roosevelt? Not Taft who has been
discredited as the cause of disrup
tion; not Root who is regarded
merely as the representative of cor
porate interests; not Hughes whom
labor bitterly opposes, and whose
"rule of reason” has become a ju
dicial theory that enables courts to
encroach upon the legislative func
tions; the rest are smaller fry,
TOSRvly not measuring up to a Wil
son standard, perhaps because un
known, but mainly because too well
known.
On the other hand here is Roose
velt. The man who despises the
golden mean; who seizes an extreme
and fights for it with an earnest
aggressiveness that will not be de
nied, who when he hears a mar,
vigorously accusing him calls him a
liar, and when he thinks a man is
shamming, says he’s a scholarly
fraud; who is in no way disturbed
by the fact that his policies of yest
erday are today his anathemata,
who is not at all dismayed when he
finds that those who crowned him
yesterday would tomorrow cast his
political carcase to the dogs; who
has penetrated the suave, subtle,
moderate priggishness of his great,
opponent with unerring and sagaci
ous penetration, and who tears the
sententious platitudes of Wilson into
tatters with one hand, while with
the other he emphasizes his own pla
titudes on the all embracing neces
sity of brute force himself.
If Roosevelt is selected to repre
sent the republican party it will be
because those who -control the de
stinies of that party realize he is
the only man who can successfully
fight Wilson. Whatever one may
think of the Bull Moose as a party,
Roosevelt himself is a force always
to be reckoned with. He is eternally
and audaciously aggressive. No man
can compel him to the humiliation
at confessed defeat. The elasticity
of his genius stretches beyond the
commonplace as a politician ano
beyond the humdrum ro'utine of the
average man.
For it is above all things evid
ent that Roosevelt more than any
other man is right now the political
embodiment of a terrific idea that
is manifesting itself supreme in all
civilization: an idea that never has
been proven false however it may
have submitted to be covered with
sententious and soft colored gar
ments of lofty and pacific principle,
the idea that might is right.
To almost any man to have been
steam rolled as was Roosovelt at the
Chicago republican convention
would have meant political extinc
tion. Instead of that what did oc
cur was the surrender where there
was not inglorious defeat of those
who steam rolled him.
Great in his temporary eclipse by
the rise of Wilson and the demo
crats, Roosevelt is to be withdrawn
from obscurity to be the hope of
those very republicans who crushed
him. <
His progressiveness has beea an
intolerable nightmare. But It has
had a chastening effect and if he
will forget all about it, why not also
the grand old party?
There is to be little If any con
cession upon the part of Roosevelt.
That is in evidence. If they do not
choose him, then his hat is sMll in
the ring to divde up the party whose
only hope of success i3 national
unity. It's an intolerable situation
to some of tho leaders, but politici
ans will make the best of it. They
could afford to dally with less
strong and less aggresisvo and less
vigorous and more scrupulous men
were they not trying to defeat a
strong man like Wilson. And that’s
why Roosevelt is today not only a
possibility but, absurd as it may yet
seem to some, a very serious pro
bability.
While it is too early of course to
say with any degree of certainty
that Roosevelt will receive tho re
publican nomination, it ic to be
hoped that he does. If he shoubi
he will certainly provide tho demo
crats with all the political fight they
want. Wilson himself shrewd poli
tician that ho is beyond the ways of
college presidents, will be able to
know, when the campaign is over it
Roosevelt is his opponent, that he
has been through a fight.
SHAW SPEAKS PLAINLY.
“The main reason why I do not
make our British voters happy in
M. Saintyve's fashion Is that I do
not want to make them happy. I
want to make them howl, to drive
them to rend their hearts and no:
their garments; to see them heap
ashes on their silly heads whilst
they confess in the dust, witn
humble and contrite hearts, that,
though they may buy victory with
their Ulood and iron, they deserve
defeat and even extermination, ana
have no plea to offer against that
doom except that the Germans de
serve no less. For just consider how
I must feel about it. I read in The
Times Lord Curzon's demand for
the suppression of the Derby on the
ground that it is unbecoming tc
j have “junketings” in the face of be
j reavements and wounds and death
j I ask Lord Curzon whether he sup
j poses that there has been a single
| Derby run during his lifetime, or a
| single junketing of antf description
i tljat has not been held in the teeth
| of the most abominable socially pre
| rentable evils, including child ipor
\ tality, compulsory prostitution, arti
ficially produced vice, disease,**"de
i gradation, suffering, squalor, fraud
violence, plague, pestilence ant
■ famine, battle, murder and sudder
death. Mr. Sidney Wobb offers t<
put an end to British unemploy
ment and destitution, with their
infinite loss and demoralization, for
a paltry couple of million pounds.
Sir Horace Plunkett offers to
quadruple the production of the
Irish soil, and thereby avert the
land and labor war that is hanging
over Ireland, at a cost of $25,000
a year for technical education in
agriculture. They might as well ask
for the sun and stars. No mother
sends her son to live for England.
No father shakes his son's hand and
says, “I wish I were young enough
to stand beside you in the fight for
a decent country to live in.” Yet,
for this senseless, suicidal slaughter
of civilization in Flanders and Po
land, this illusory hatred, this, mon
strous fruit of selfish, lazy apathy,
soothed by huge doses of falsehood,
we are putting down thousands of
millions of pounds eagerly; and the
mothers and fathers are sending
their sons to kill and die, to maim
land bo maimed, because none of
■ them took r.s much thought ami
care for the wolf.iro of Europe as
j lor the shinincss of their boots.
I And now that wo ara waked up at
j last, our first step is to cut off all
| the little grants-in-aid that a fe»v
! struggling reformers have man
iaged to procure for our social
needs, and to sweep them into the
till of the armament contractor.
This i3 what it costs to make a
Briton serious. We are more cal
lous than Tartars or Hottentots.
With them a few dozen heads chop
ped off and piled in the middle of
the street, and a few girls buried
alive under the door post of the
i king, produce public seriousness
J enough for a whole reign. But
we must have 30,000 men In the
flower of their youth bayonettea
and smashed and shatterod and
pierced and blinded and deafened
{with inconceivable violence every
morning for months before we can
feel really fine, and thrill with ad- j
miration of ourselves. Even then
our notion of rising to the occasion
| is to applaud the gentlemen who
write to the papers calling on me to
‘ cease frivoling and flattering them.
I—George Bernard Shaw.
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