Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1919 — MUST HUNT A NEW MOSES. [ARTICLE]

MUST HUNT A NEW MOSES.

In speaking of the death of former President Roosevelt the Indianapolis News says of the political effect his death will have on the g. o. p.: “There can be no denial that the death of Theodore Roosevelt will have a tremendous effect in a political way and that it will cause some' thing of a new alignment in the Republican party. Those who were in his confidence understood that he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for President. Whether he would have made an active fight for the nomination no one knew, but he had indicated that he would not press his own candidacy if some one could 'be found who would represent his ideals. Even though he had decided not to make the race, he was looked upon 'by many as the leader of the progressive element of the Republican party, and it was felt that no man would he nominated for the presidency unless that man was aceptable to Mr. Roosevelt. His death leaves the party, to some extent, without a leader; - at—least, it robs the progressives of the man to whom they turned for advice. “Mr. Taft is not seriously considered as a candidate for President. Mr. Hughes race in 1916 and lost. Former Governor Whitman of New York was said to be a candidate, but he la under the disadvantage of having lost at the last election. The effort made in various quarters to arouse enthusiasm for General Pershing as the Republican nominee indicates,, to some extent, that the Republicans have no one to whom they can now turn. "Death having removed the on§ man who might have claimed the nomination, there will be new combinations, new deals, new angles and new situations to meet. The reactionaries must be kept from becoming still more reactionary. The progressives themselves may have

trouble in agreeing who shall lead and who shall serve.”