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DARK IIORSES IN POLITICS
When Lord Beaconsfield, as Benja
min Disraeli, tho brilliant rising
novelist, penned a passago in "Tho
Young Duke," descriptivo of a great
.ovont on tho turf, ho probably little
dreamed that ho had contributed a
"Stolen Delegates"
Wilson's Conquest of the Dosses
The Birth of tho "Moose"
And many other BtlrrlnR incl
dento of tho rocont Republican,
Democratic, and National Pro
gressive conventions aro graphi
cally described and keenly
analyzed by
W. J. BRYAN
in his now book, just Issuod,
"ATaleofTwo
Conventions
Mr. Bryan devotes graphic, day-by-day
chapters to tho Republi
can and Democratic conventions,
all written on tho spot, and
gives us a good account of tho
ProgrosBlvo convention. Tho
book contains tho platform of
each party, and somo of tho
notablo convention speeches, In
cluding Mr. Bryan's own at
Baltimore, with commonts on
the speeches of accoptanco of
Taft and Wilson. Some of tho
best cartoons of tho period aro
included,
12mo, cloth, Illustrated, 91.00 net
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of whnt wnN done at tke conven
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phrase to tho terminology of Ameri
can politics, says tho Boston Even
ing Tolegraph. In tho passago oc
curs tho expression "a dark horse,"
a steed which had never been
thought of and which tho careless
hero of the novel had never even
observed in the list, but which rushed
past tho grandstand in sweeping
triumph. It was a long time before
our American journalist and poli
ticians wore affected by tho symbol
ism and put the phrase "a dark
horse" into general circulation. It
has been circulated so extonsively
since its adoption that it is decidedly
hackneyed. Every man who is not
in tho first rank of favorites, but
who manages to come out ahead in
the struggle, is nowadays described
as a dark horse, whereas it is clear
that Disraeli simply means an ani
mal that not even tho experienced
frequenters of tho turf had thought
worthy of notice.
We hear much of the dark horses
of presidential conventions, so much
more in fact than is justified by
truth, that there is a necessity for
tho phrase-makers to begin to find
a substitute for the outworn expres
sion. It is the fondness of one party
and the prejudice of the other which
lead us to the characterization of
every winner whoso success was not
palpably foreordained as a dark
horse. For a number of years now
we have not seen tho nominating
prizo of the campaign turf carried
oif by a dark horse. Indeed, we may
reasonably doubt whether the United
States has over seen a dark horse.
Almost all our presidential nominees
since tho convention system came
into use have been men of whom it
might ' be said that they were not
unreasonable if they cherished the
expectations of obtaining the highest
honors in the gift of their party.
How about Polk? somebody will
ask. To this the answer is that Polk
was not an unknown man to his
generation. He had served fifteen
years in congress, four years of that
time as speaker, had been governor
of his state and was regarded as an
effective campaign orator. It Is no
exaggeration to say that Polk was
as well known to tho Americans of
1844 as Champ Clark is to the
Americans of 1912. He was no sud
den discovery, and though he profited
by a boom, sprung on a late ballot in
convention, he did not emerge from
obscurity.
Another president who is put in
the dark-horse class by those whose
knowledge of his time is exceedingly
limited is Hayes. Yet Hayes had
been voted for on several ballots be-1
fore that which gave him the nomi
nation, and, moreover, Hayes had in
JL875 made a campaign in Ohio for
sound money which had attracted the
attention of the nation. When the
convention of 1876 met, Hayes was
by no means an unknown quantity
or of unknown quality.
Senator Cummins of Iowa has is
sued a statement saying that he is
opposed to the third party but ex
pects to vote for Roosevelt.
Mr. Roosevelt left" Oyster Bay for
a western trip, visiting Missouri and
Iowa.
It is announced that Woodrow
Wilson will deliver a series of
speeches in Michigan, Wisconsin and
Minnesota during September and
that early in October he will speak
in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and
Iowa.
On Sunday, September 1st, Mr.
Roosevelt made public an 18,000
word statement in which he takes up
the testimony recently given before
the senate investigating committee
by John D. Arclibold, of the Standard
Oil company, and Senator Penrose,
with reference to the campaign con
tributions of 1904. He denies flatly
any knowledge of tho gift; refers to
the alleged efforts of tho Standard
Oil company to negotiate through
Senator Bourne as to rebating
charges, and tells of, his relations
with George W. Perkins, of the Har
vester trust.
A dispatch to the Louisville
Courier-Journal says: Colonel R. C.
Morgan, of Lexington, brother of
General John H. Morgan, pronounces
absurd the claim of Mrs. L. F. La
Brue, of Oklahoma, that the con
federate leader was not killed at
-Greenville, Tenn., but went west,
married under an assumed name and
was her father.
A cablegram to the Louisville
Courier-Journal Bays that tho Aus
trian suggestion of autonomy for the
European province of Turkey has
spurred that country and Italy to re
newed negotiations for peace, as both
are opposed to the proposed change.
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The tradition of dark horses is fed
from several sources. In the first
place the tradition is picturesque,
and, secondly, it is very gratifying to
our national vanity as showing that
whatever our situation we can develop-from
the material at hand the
man ror the hour who promises to
be a man, if not for all time, for a
conspicuous place in history.
Bryan came nearer to filling all
the catalogue requirements of a dark
horse than any man over nominated
have used, nor how mnny doctors have told you tu " y waiwwiiujr. rew oeiore tne
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Dr.,.) Ei Cannaday, tC38 Park Square, odalla, Mo.
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given anything like a comprehen
sive sketch of the life and achieve
ments of the now famous Neliraskan.
His career had not impressed Itself
on the public imagination, and he
was, the morning after the standard
wis placed in his hands, nowhere
near so well known as Polk was to
tho democrats of 1844. Denver
Times.
Governor Wilson spoke at Buffalo,
and referring to the progress of the
social betterments, outlined in the
third party jplalform, the governor
continued:
"With that program, who can dif
fer in his heart, who can divorce him
self in sympathy from the great
object of advancing the interests of
human beings wherever it is possible
to advance them? But there is a
central method, a central purpose in
that platform from which I very
seriously dissent. What is the pro
gram of the third party we regard to
the disentanglement of the govern
ment? Mr. Roosevelt has said and
up to a. certain point, I sympathize
with him that he does not object,
for example, to the system of protec
tion except in this circumstance that
it has not inured to the benefit Qt the
working nien of this country. It is
very interesting to have him admit
tnat, uecause tne leaders of the re
publican party have been at times
out of , mind, putting this bluff upon
you men, that tho protective policy
was for your sake. I would like to
know what you over got out of it
mac you am not get by the effort of
organized labor.''
The speaker then assailed the
minimum wage idea and tho plan of
a federal commission, to control mo
nopolies, and continued:
"Ours is a program of liberty and
theirs is. ft program of regulation
Ours is & program by which we say
we know the wrongs that have been
committed and we can stop, these
wrongs and we are not going to adopt
into this governmental family tho
men who have done the wrongs and
license them to do the whole business
of the country. I want you men to
grasp the point, because I want to say
to you right now the program that I
propose does not look quite as much
like acting as a providence for you
as the other program looks, but I
want frankly to say to you that I am
not big enough to play providence
and my objection to the other pro
gram is that I do not believe there
is any man who is big enough to play
providence.
"What I fear is a government of
experts. God forbid that in a demo
cratic country we would resign tho
task and give the government over
to experts. What are we for if we
are to be scientifically taken care of
by a small number of gentlemen who
are the only men who understand tho
job? Because if we do not under
stand the job we are not a free
people; we ought-to resign our free
institutions and to go to school to
somebody and find out what it is we
are about."
At the citizens' meeting in the
evening in the old Sixty-fifth armory,
Governor Wilson was greeted by the
largest crowd that had yet gathered
to hear him in his campaign. In his
speech he renewed his praise of the
third party, said there were many
noble men in it for good purposes,
but others also for special individual
purposes about which it was best to
say little, because, he added, ho had
forbidden himself the discussion of
personalities. "
The governor declared that if the
leader of the third party was elected
president, he would have "no third
party congress besind him." The
third party, he predicted, would lead
to confusion. He analyzed the re
publican party as the "old-line-stay-where-it-is
republican party," which
"did not know how to govern," and
suggested that the third party was
"unorganized and not ready to act
for the people," but the democratic
party represented the single united
force which was ready to undertake
the task of reform.
The progressive party in Nebraska
had a state convention and indorsed
the republican state ticket. They
nominated six of the eight republi
can electors who had declared for
Roosevelt and nominated two new
ones to take the place of the two
electors who had declared for Taft.
There was a riot in the Michigan
penitentiary and troops were called
to suppress the prisoners. One pris
oner was wounded.
Ohio held a special election Sep
tember 3rd. An Associated Press
dispatch from Columbus, says: With
the exception of woman suffrage and
possibly one or two minor amend
ments, the entire work of the con
stitutional convention appeared to
day to be ratified by the people in
yesterday's special election. With
only about 50 per cent of the vote
of the state polled, indications at 8
o'clock were that the Initiative and
referendum, home rule for cities,
constitutional amendments, judicial
reform, state-wide primaries, taxa
tion reform, good roads and liquor
license were adopted by pluraltie3
J ranging from 10,000 to 60,000.
, Woman suffrage waa defeated
by about 5 0,000'. It Is believed that
the amendment providing for state
wide primaries will have the largest
plurality, with minimum wage, sec-
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