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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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his defeat, and, on the whole, not veryanxious for it. It is a rather remarkable situa-tion. The explanation, however, is simple. Itis the conquest of American public opinion by astrong, perhaps a great, personality, honest, fear-less, sympathetic, and just. Readers of Ameri-can history will find an instructive parallel ifthey will study carefully the events leading upto the reelection of Andrew Jackson and to thatof Abraham Lincoln. The American people like Theodore Roosevelt,and they believe in him. They take no interestin what The Commoner, or the New York ISun,or the New York Evening Post, or the Spring-field Republican, or the Boston Herald say abouthim ; in fact, they hardly read it. They watchthe man, and they make up their own minds.They are not such fools as some editors andpoliticians seem to think. In one sense of the word, there are no politi-cal issues this year. The stupid result of theeffort of the New York Democrats to write a 36 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS.
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Copyright, 1904, by Arthur Hewitt. MRS. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. THEODORE ROOSEVELT AS A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. 37 platform that would have national significanceat once sent the promising Parker boom intotemporary, perhaps permanent, retirement. Yetno one else has come forward with anythingbetter. The Democrats are trying to leave offfavoring free silver and attacking the SupremeI lourt. For the good of the country, it is to behoped that they will succeed. Theoretically,they want the tariff revised ; practically, theydo not want it revised very much, or, at least,they are not willing to say that they do. Theycan hardly ask us to give up building the Pan-ama Canal or to repeal the measure that gaveCuba reciprocal trade relations with us, or togo back to an antiquated and ineffective mili-tary system and a navy of wooden tubs, or tostop trying to give the country an honest andprogressive administration. Economical, noAmerican administration can be while publicopinion and Congressional metho

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