Life — June 20, 1912 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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And there's Dr. Wilson. We know he is a clever man and an admirable speaker, and that he has as fine an as- sortment of political ideas as anyone about. We think we know, too, that he is a radical, and a decided char- acl He may have it in him to make the best performer in the whole Demo- cratic troupe, but we remember that he has lived somewhat out of the world, and that the same studious life that has qualified him so amply as a political theorist has kept him some- what out of the ordinary competitions of men, so that his dealings with them have not always been felicitous in the past, and might be disastrous in an imaginable future. Dr. Wilson is a man of parts, and might make a notable President, but it is with him as with Mr. Clark. Cer- tainty fails us, and we feel like con- sulting a clairvoyant about him. It’s different about Brother Bill Bryan. We know about him, and re- joice, not too boldly, that he has over- come his habit and will not be a can- didate this year. There are no obscurities about Uncle Judson Harmon, He is a sound ar- ticle, and about him the question is mainly one of the public demand, Is there a call for him in this market? Mr. Underwood has never been President, but if the Clayton resolu- tion becomes a law we shall never vote again for a man who has had Presi- dential experience. Mr. Underwood is a very able, sound-thinking person. If we had to choose the next President, and were forbidden to consult a clair- voyant, we would choose Mr. Under- wood, with confidence that he would make a fair job of it anyway, and might make a great one. UT it is not for us to choose, but for the Baltimore convention, which, as a whole, won't know the can- didates any better than we do—per- haps not so well—and won't know its own mind, and must find it out by re- peating shakings of the dice and count- ing and recounting their fate-directing ro PRESIDENTIAL CHAIR, GOOD FOR Uncle Sam: THEODORE, I'VE A NOTION TO BUY THAT CHAIR pips. Heaven send that convention wisdom. There must be in store somewhere in the vaults of Destiny a great accumulated store of wisdom for the use of Democratic conventions. The last time it was drawn upon was in 1892, and since that was twenty years ago, and the deposit has never been disturbed since, the accumulation must now be enormous. Draw on it, Democratic brethren ; draw on it abun- dantly; and spend it as lavishly as though it were the national debt HERE are some other matters, not political, that deserve a word, The waiters in New York and some other places have been on a strike to have their uni recognized. Why they shouldn’: have a union and have it recognized we don’t know, but there seems to be objection. The public sup- position is that every New York waiter cleans up a fortune every week from tips, but the possibilities of profit in the hotels and restaurants are now so carefully farmed out by the manage- ments and harvested by their lessees, that we suppose the waiter’s fees go into some more-or-less incorporated maw, as the hat-girls’ tips do, which is contrary to Scripture which forbids muzzling the ox when he treads out the corn. Wilber Wright has died and every- body is sorry. He liked his own, but loathed advertisement, and all its re- sulting cheap and nasty glories. He did us proud by his great gift of keep- ing his equilibrium. Are we never in to have for President a man with that gift?) Are we never again to have any but noisy men in the White Hous Not nearly enough mo: has been paid in for the sufferers by the Missis- sippi floods. The Red Cross has been calling desperately for more funds. Come, brethren, contribute! It is late to speak of it, but the flooded people were mostly poor and need help. Our Mayor receives money for them,