Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-09-08

New lOfk. Sept. S.-Cnuel Tue dp-
parently placid surface of the Republi-
cans in New York state, With its cut
and-dried program and its state
ticket nominated in advance OF the
convention, a storm is brewing which
threatens to sweep Republicanism
from it's bearings and divide its forces
from Maine to California.
Preside Roosevelt is the storm
center. BY forcing the trust issue
into the first place among the debat-
able questions of the political cam
paign he has mortally offended j. +.
Morgan and Thomas c.. Platt. They
have sought, both by persuasion anu
bv threats to dissuade him from adVo-
eating the control of trusts by feder'
al legislation. and he has ignored
them.
He has been made to understand
that if he insists upon telling the peo-
ple that the trusts can be made SUD
servient to the law, he may nave 10
fight for the presidency in 1904. He
has replied that his attitude toward
the trusts was taken without thought
of it's political effect but was because
he believed it to be right, and that ne
intends to maintain it regardless OF the
future.
Other expressions of powerful an
tagonisms that the president mas
aroused by his trust policy have been
confined until now to the scarcely veil
ed attacks upon it and him which
have been appearing in the trust or
cans among the Republican newspap-
ers. :.
The first gun of the Republican anti
Roosevelt campaign is being loaded
and shotted ready to be fired when
the Republican state convention meets
in Saratoga.
Senator Platt and financiers whom
be represents propose to deny 10 tne
president in the state platform the IN
dorsement for the presidential nomlha-
ton in 1904 that has been aucordeo
him by the Republican state conven-
tions of California; Missouri Pennsyl-
yania. Iowa and Delaware. Ihey IN
tend to go further and withhold from
him the support of the party organlza
tion in his own state by shutting over
the trust question with a few glitter
ing eeneralities and thus leaving hll'
to fight his battles alone.
This plan to place the president in
the position of being at variance win
his party will not go unchallengea.
Among the delegates to the Republl-
can state convention will be men who
cannot be made to stand idly by and
seq this slight put upon him. Ihey
nroDose to defend him by every means
ir their power, and it is certain that
ro victory will be won over him by
default.
Whether the president will be sus-
tanned or oyerriden at Saratoga de-
peuds upon the attitude taken In the
convention by Governor Odell. whose
attitude toward the president has been
generally antagonistic. While 1t is
generally understood among Republl-
cans in this state that the governor is
oDposed to the endorsement OF Mr.
Roosevelt for the nomination in 1904
and that he desires the trust issue to
he subordinated in the platform, he
has not vet definitely shown his hand.
His alterations to the trusts in his
speeches to the farmers have been can
fined to the bearing of the state laws
upon consultations of industry and he
has declared the statutes now on the
books to be sufficient to meet the situ-
alton. What he has said in regard to
the trust question has been generally
not specific.
When the president began to outline
his plan for dealing with harmful mo-
ropolies in his New England tour the
trust leaders told him that unless he
abandoned his position he would bring
disaster upon the party. They assur-
ed him that his ideas were impractlc-
able. and that nothing could be done
by legislation to curb the trusts with
ont causing the ruin of business in
terests and threatening the continu-
an,e of prosperity which, they told
him. should be put forward as the lead
ing issue of the campaign.
Mr.. Roosevelt replied that sincere
effort must be made to regulate mo-
nopoly and to destroy their evils by
tbe massage of laws. II it was really
imnossible to reach them in this way
he insisted that the fact must be dem
onst rated and that it could be demon
strated only by an honest trial. He
pointed out that he was not seeking
to destroy the trusts. but to render
thom harmless and he continued to
e1ucidate his plan in his speeches.
Finding him intractable the presi-
dents opponents in his trust policy
made it clear to him after his return
to oyster Bav that he was seriously
endangering his chances Of nomina-
ton by refusing to he guided by them.
To this the president answered tha'
;f bv recanting he could make certain
~ the nomination. while to continue as
he had begun would absolutely prevent