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licans if only they can understand and find them worth understanding. The Republican candidates are good nough instruments if only the Pente- stal spirit can be induced to possess and c them. One of the ablest of these ndidates, Dr. Murray Butler, precisely described the ailment of his own party when, in talking to the Presbyterian min- ters about the causes of public unrest, he said: Man's attention and have heen increasingly turned to himself, his immediate surroundings and his instant Having come to feel him- self quite superior to all that has gone hefore, and being without faith in thing that lies beyond, he has tended lecome an extreme egoist. The natural result has been to measure the universe in terms of himself and his present sat- isfaction, interest That is a faithful description of the lisease generally prevalent, and nowhere ore so, nor in deadlier form, than in the epublican pa If only it & momentous spiritual visitation at there is no limit to what the But of all the Re- who is there but be cured Chicago, Republicans. do. publican candidates, Hoover who has evea a suggestion of the THE OLD FLIRTS Pentecostal flavor? Hoover has a gift of tongues of a sort, in that all kinds of people have been able to understand him, but he has little talent for setting a con- The chance for him is to come along and gather votes vention on fire with speech. when none of the other gentlemen named have shown strength enough to get the nomination. ROBABLY the Republicans could clect Hoover. That the: else is by no means so certain as it has appeared. To a great many voters, both those of the Celestial temperament and can elect anybody those who simply want a better regula- tion of our own mundane affairs, Hoover stands for the ideas that look best. What- ever party has him as a candidate, or even puts up a candidate who would use and back him, will call to a lot of people who think we are not doing our duty to the world, nor our duty to ourselves, and who want extremely to see us put in the way of doing what we should. It is time wasted to try to guess what the Democrats will do until one has seen what the Republicans have accomplished The idea that it may be necessary for the Democrats to elect the next President is going somewhat than it The Times has brought out Ambassador Davis as a candidate, and the fact that he stronger was is the sort of respectable man that looks ideal to the Times is nothing against him Mr. Dav little public notoriety, but he is heartily and for s has even now comparatively commended both for character ability and equipment by very good people. That Mr. Wilson sent him to shows pretty well what Mr. Wilson thinks He is not in the least like Brother London of him Bill Bryan, and whether he is wet or dry But all there is of him that is visible and accessible seems to we don’t remember. be in his favor. And then there is Mr. everybody knows so well that it is not McAdoo, whom necessary to discuss him, There may be other candidates, but there is no use of talking about them until after the Repub- licans have acted, for it is they who are to determine who the Democratic idate must be. comicbooks.com