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IT, IT TASTES JUST THE SAME AS IT DOES AT CONEY ISLAND.” ND now whether Colonel Roos: velt runs or not scems not likely to make any vital difference. Marse Henry Watterson suggests t the third party might be able to throw the election into the House of Repre- sentatives, but even he is not afraid of that, and the prospect of it will have to be more imminent than it is at present, before much sleep is lost over it. So far, the Colonel's candidacy has accomplished a good deal, most of it good. Among other things, it has stirred up a very salutary opposition to his third-term aspirations in the party that was lately his, and has been a very valuable force in assisting the Democrats to put out a strong ticket. If the Colonel should think he had done enough, and retire to ofium cum Outlook, he would be justified in that If he thinks further sacrifices capital course. necessary, and can interest the necessary to make them, nobody ought to complain, and we guess nobody will. He has been a great spoon in our national affairs during the last four months and has stirred affairs up mar- velously. The indirect results of his activities are what will interest the reviewer of this year’s campaign. Among them must be counted his stimulating effect on Mr. Bryan, who evidently: started for Baltimore with the smoke of Chicago’s battle in his. nostrils, and with the high resolve to show ’em how, or perish on the field. And he did show 'em how. We have never had on our political stage such a pair as Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Bryan have been this year. It at- tests the amplitude and stability of the stage that it has been able to hold them. Mr. Roosevelt, if he is finally crowded out of active participation in current politics as a candidate, will re- turn, of course, refreshed, to his edi- torial dutie: How successfully Mr. Bryan can detach himself from the responsibilities of government we have yet to see, but if Mr. Wilson wi is probable that he will himself wish to be President, and if Mr. Bryan feels the need of taking an aggressive hand it would be a wise precaution for him to obtain a seat in Congress. It is quite possible that we shall see him 1425 in due time emulate Mr. Roosevelt as a would-be wrecker of his party In considering both these gentlemen it is necesary always to regard. the strength of habit. We ask ourselves rot so much “Should they stop?” or “Will they stop?” as “Can they stop?" Perhaps Yes, perhaps but certainly they can be stopped, and will be, when necessary. HERE were two objections to hav- ing the nomination go to Mr. Underwood. One was that he would hardly serve as well as Mr. Wilson to quench the Roosevelt propensity; the other that he is almost indispensable where he is to the success of a Demo- cratic administration. More than any of his brethren, he seems like a man whose feet are on the solid earth, and his head in consequence not in the clouds. He is a constructive man, by no means lacking in courageous enter- prise, not afraid of responsibility, but never combative for the sake of com- hat. He should be a great prop to a Democratic administration if we have ene. Nobody stands better for the Lrains of the party; no one more for its hopes; no one more for the whole of it, including every member who wants the country to prosper under wise laws justly administered. Mr. Clark, being human, is doubtless disappointed, but he is a disciplined politician, and sound at heart, and will adjust himself to events. To have a campaign opea with some distribution of hostilities among the openers is not such a bad thing. The hostilities are apt to come anyhow, and it is probably to have them start early and abate than start late and strengthen. With Mr. Clark pro- fessing sentiments of diminished kind- ness for Mr. Bryan, and Mr. Bryan for Messrs. Murphy, Belmont, Ryan, Sullivan, Taggart and other brethren, and them and theirs, presumably, for him, there seems to be no one with leisure to hate the candidate except Marse Henry, and he will support the ticket, and will learn in time, to like it comicbooks.com