The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-20
TO BOOM HANNA
MOVEMENT TO PREVENT MOOSE
 WELT 6 NOMINATION. IN 1904
Presidsnts Fight Against Proposed White Manb Republican Party in South Considered Likely to Cost
 Him Delegates from There.

Washington Special to New York Times
 Delegations pledged to Mark Hanna for the Presidency are likely to appear at the next Republican National Convention, as result of President Roosevelts fight against the movement to reorganize the party in the South. A quiet movement is being put on foot in certain Southern States to fight the Roosevelt boom by turning the support of the Lily White Republicans to Mr. Hanna.
 The "white'' Republicans are thorough iy in earnest in their purpose to form a white mans party, with the view of att tracing to the party persons who have hitherto held aloof merely on account of the negro question. The attitude of Mir. Roosevelt. MT. Payne and MT. Clarkson has severely injured their movement and has completely deprived them of Federal patronage. They intend to keep up the light regardless of this state of things, and as they have control of the party organization in their States they can fight the administration.
 contesting delegations to the National Convention. They believe. however, that they can make such fight before the Committee on Credentials that 1t will be dif1icult to turn them down." In most of their States the negro has been dis franchised by the Democratic Legisla- lures. In Alabama, for instance. only few hundred negroes are entitled to vote under the law. while there are thousands of white Republicans. Thus If the Na- tional Convention, organized in MT. Roosevelt's interest, admits delegates who represent the few hundred and throws out the thousands of voters who constitute the Republican party of the State the white men believe that 1t will be such an object lesson of minority gov- ernment that the Republicans will not wish to carry during the campaign.
 Early reports indicated that Senator Pritchard of North Carolina. was waver- ing in his adhesion to the movement of which he is the leader. The bait of a Federal Judgeship was dangled before Mir. Pritchard's eyes. He has long want ed to be Judge. and the demand for a new Judge in the Fourth Judicial Circuit. which is apparently about to be granted. gave him an opportunity to realize his ambition. Owing to the volume of busi- ness in that circuit, which Is made up of the States of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and North and South Carolina, | third Circuit Court Judge is recognized | as a necessity. and the place undoubted- | ly will be created.
 But Senator Pritchard has, according to | good authority, decided to reject this bait and continue his fight. In Alabama it is | certain that the fight is to be continued even if the President lops of all the Fed | eral patronage and continues to give 1t to Democrats, as he has been doing. How far the Alabama and North Carolina Re publicans will be supported in Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas and other Southern States. which have indicated sympathy ir l the movement is not known, but a Han | na movement has been started in these | two States at least, and recruits are ex- pected in the others.
 | Last week ex-Congressman Romulus z Linney, a well known figure of the Fifty sixth Congress, made a speech nominat ing Mr. Hanna for President, and he de livered it from the steps of Senator Pritchard's law office. in Marshall. N. c It Is not long since the President deliv cred a speech in the same town. goinl there for no other reason except that i
 was MT. Pritchard's town, and eulogizini the Senator. MT. Pritchards persona newspaper organ is declaring for a con
 tinuance of the fight.
 That Alabama is prepared to fight |, the bitter end. even though it has no em inent statesmen in public ofhce and m
 grip on Federal patronage, Is well known
 The doubtful question has been about tn attitude of North Carolina. It IS certail
 now that a Hanna movement has beel
 started in that State, and that 1t will
 make fight.
 Whether Mir. Hanna is friendly to tn
 movement the Southerners do not knov
 and do not care. Their adhesion to MT
 Hanna is not because of any knowledg
 they have about his sentiments towar'
 their party organization or toward tn
 negroes, but because they want to bea
 MT. Roosevelt and think MT. Hanna tn , | likeliest candidate.