The Springfield Republican has a suggestive editorial on the future of the Presidency. It refers to the coördinate branches of this government, the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial; but it points out that for a number of years past the Executive branch of the government was in the ascendancy. It speaks of Mr. McKinley as a very popular President, and yet during the brilliant and erratic career of Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. McKinley’s administration had been put in the shade; that if there could be a few more who would exceed Mr. Roosevelt in popularity, the Executive branch would hold an influence altogether out of proportion to the other coördinate branches of the government, and would tend to the utter ruin of the Republic. In fact, it would be but a step from that to the empire. There were those who talked of making Mr. Roosevelt President for life. Strong personal administration tends greatly to popularity, much more so than the regular machinery of government through its different departments. Yet a strong, personal government either in church or state has its evils, evils which grow upon the people. Better the little slower methods of fuller consideration, wider, broader thought, and divided responsibility, than the dependence upon a strong centralized government which continually detracts from the circumference and tends ever to perpetuate weakness in initiative and discontent on the part of the governed.