The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-08-26
The PRESIDENTS DELUSION
HE IDREAMS THERE is ROOM FOX u
REPUBLICAN PARTY SOUTH.
MIR. Roosevelt Wants Fight Made by the
Republican Organization in Every stale
40 has Give Up all Hope OF the Snc'
GERS of Such q Fight In Souln
Car a, Which he Once
INDUCED.
TSpecial to News ard Courier.

Washington, August 21.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt is disgusted with
Southern Republicans, who are con-
stantly wrangling over the distrlbu-
ton Of Federal patronage, Senator
Pritchard, of North Carolina, IN
passing through Washington to dine
with the President, at Oyster Bay,
left long trail of political gossip
behind him, which indicates the
Presidents impatience with the lead.
ers of the Republican organization
in the South.
From the beginning of his admin
istration the President has shown
symptoms of hearty disgust with the
factional differences in the South
| and with the constant anxiety of the
Southern Republican leaders to get
nearer to the patronage counter.
The President at first ignored many
of the organizations in the South,
and made appointments that suited
his own taste. He was warned that
he was doing himself harm politi-
aally and mentally. He then turned
around and placed the Southern
patronage question largely in the
hands of Postmaster General Payne,
who has been known from the be,
ginning as the political manager of
the Presidents interests.
The President has seen so many
evidences of this entire selGshness
| in the South and utter disregard OF
party interests that he has little pa
tience with most of the Republican
organizations in that section. He
long ago announced to friends that
he did not care the snap of the finger
about the attitude of Southern or
ganizations to his denomination IN
1904, and the main reason he had IN
turning over patronage matters to
The Postmaster General was to re-
lie7e himself of the worry and an
noyance they had caused.
The president is laboring under
the delusion that there is really a
foundation in the South for Re-
publican party of decent proportions
formed from among Democrats OF a
conservative tendency. Looking at
the question from this standpoint he
insists on the Republicans making
fights to show just how much may
be expected. He is a fighter him.
self and it is action that he wants.
| If the Republicans fight hard and
lose they will gain the respect of the
President. What he wants to see is
a fighting organization in each State
nat organizations whose only aim is
to secure the patronage. The Presl-
dent has not the least respect for
men of this stamp.
IF there is chance of making
some headway in some of the South
ern States, like Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana
and Texas, the President wants the
attempt made. If the attempt is not
made he will hold the leaders re-
sponsible and ignore them when the
fat jobs are to be passed around
Briefly put, the leaders must work
for their positions and not get them
by underground methods and by
fighting among themselves. At diff
ferent times the President has been
visited by factional leaders of South
ern States, who reported to him such
q condition in their respective States.
The opposing faction would come
along, see the President, deny every
thing the other faction said, and then
paint the other faction in the black
est possible terms, besitating at nc
charge. The President has often
said that he could not believe a WORD
said to him, and this lack of conf
dence caused him to 60 outside o1
the organization for Office materla
for long time at the beginning o.
his administration and even now II
occasional appointments.
The President, for time, believed
that there was really chance fo
building a Republican organization
in South Carolina, but he ha'
changed his opinion in that direction
Ho has turned from Senator Nc