Life — November 19, 1908 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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AES EES Mr. Gobblefat: so YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST? “NO, 1 THINK THAT AT OUR WILL BE AMONG THE ABSENTEES.” Post Election Thoughts T congratulate you, and the country even more.— Roosevelt to Taft. most heartily congratulate you.—Roosevelt to Sherman. HERE is a distinction here that only an able person like Theodore Roosevelt could make. It is noted that Mr. Sherman is con- gratulated but not the country. Let us hope, and pray if needs be, that nothing will happen to Mr. Taft EXT MEETING THE FITTEST In speaking of its initial advocacy of Theodore Roosevelt for President, the Sun is moved to say: A more humiliating failure of judgment than this of ours there could not well be, and it may be that we cannot hope ever to atone for it, Considering the fact that the Sun has been wrong on every public question since the year one, why this invidious distinction in favor of ‘one lapse? t that Florida made substantial gains over Roose- velt is significant. Everybody knows that most of Wall street that has been on the right side of the market goes to Palm Beach every winter. Thus, in an unconscious but none the less practical way the financial interests have spread their in- fluence through the orange groves of the South I have heen talking for forty days —President-elect Taft. This is really nothing much te crow over. We know some Presidents who have talked for four years, without visibly feeling the strain. Says the Tribune, in speaking of Mr. Sherman on the night of election He was at his best This gives us a renewed feeling of security. The question naturally arises whether, amid the cares of state, Mr, Sherman will continue to be at his best, or whether when the tariff comes up—assuming that it ever does—he will lapse, and be only the same old Sherman. What did the election prove? Merely that the Republican party has not yet grown rotten enough to be turned out. In this process—which is historical and inevitable—the party in power always in the end oversteps the mark. While they are in, however, they have the great advantage of being able to incubate their great men and through their machinery ad- vertising them so as to make it appear that the party not power is short of material. The Republican party has been in long enough to have made its leaders prominent—fixed in the popular mind, Some of them, indeed, have become so “ fixed’? that they hardly dare show their faces. On the other hand, the Democratic party has just as good material, but it hasn't had the opportunity for so long to advertise it properly that it necessarily remains in the background. Four years more, however, may give it the desired opportunity. The Judas trick of Mr. Rockefeller in announcing at the last moment that he would vote for Mr. Taft will doubtless meet with its reward in the next administration. The tariff will now be -evised by its friends. This means that the duty will be raised in all industries important enough to have a vote in Congress. * Of the four chief actors in the late unpleasantness, Taft weighed the most, Bryan talked the most, Sherman dodged the most and Kern had the best whiskers. This is the sum total of achievement up to date You may, if you will, talk about the “New Era,’ the “Ideal man. the “ Settling down? or the settling up—or anything else you please, but the description given covers all that is necessary for destiny purposes. It is generally felt that without the aid of John D. Rocke- feller, Jr.'s Sunday-school class, New York City could hardly have gone Republican “THE GIRL BEHIND THE COUNTER’? comicbooks.com