The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1903-12-19
Woods Promotion the elimination OF Un-
warranted Acts in Connection With
the Army and Navy.
Real Heroes Like Dewey, Miles and Schley
are the Objects of His Violent
and Partisan Haired.

Former Senator John NJ. Thurston
of Nebraska, says the Chicago Chron-
icle, tersely and accurately epitomized
the situation in the Republican party
when he said, speaking of the presi-
dent: ga man whom everybody is
for, but whom nobody wants. Mr..
Thurston was making an after-dinner
speech to a mixed party of Republican
politicians, newspaper correspondents
and members and ex-members of Con-
gress at the Raleigh hotel. ]. Hamp-
ton Moore, of Philadelphia, president
of the National League of Republican
Clubs, was the host.
When the epigram was uttered it
was received with vociferous applause
and laughter and later on Mr.. Thurs
ton repeated it with appropriate
changes. He felt that so appreciative
an audience was entitled to an encore,
nay, many encores. The epigram has
been on the tongue of every visiting
politician, every statesman, and, in
deed, everybody who has heard it, for
twenty-four hours. The consensus Of
opinion is that Mr.. Thurston has made
an invaluable contribution to the liter
ature of current politics.
The gathering of the national COM
mittee demonstrated two things. One
is that, with the single exception of
Massachusetts, every state in the
union, so far as it's Republican COM
mitteeman is concerned, is ardently
in favor of Senator Hanna for presi-
dent. The second is that Massachu-
setts enjoyed the lonely distinction of
being represented by man who was
favorable to the nomination of Presi-
dent Roosevelt. 1t so happened that
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, premier
of the extensive and potent kitchen
cabinet, held the proxy Of the regular
member of the committee from the
bay state and it was not to be expect
ed that he would share the doubts
and prejudices of his fellow Republi-
cans. The senator found out things,
however, that he may or may not tell
the president. They were not pleas
ant to contemplate, from the Lodge
standpoint. He found that not only
was there aggressive opposition to the
presidents ambition to succeed him
self, but feeling on the part of
great many members of the committee
that the complacent attitude of the
Republican majority in Congress to-
ward Mr.. Roosevelt's unsafe and men
acfng policies ought to cease.
There were significant and impor-
tant conferences Friday and Saturday
between leading Hanna men on the
committee and Republican leaders of
the Senate regarding policies for the
Republican majority of the Senate.
These conferences made it clear that
comparatively few members of Mr..
Roosevelt's party in the upper branch
of Congress are in sympathy with
tAAAA' AAOJ nave AcSIIdlucu lFOlu quar-
reling with him, it was explained,
because it was decided inadvisable to
create party schisms that might dis
rupt the Republican organization of
the country on the eve Of national
election.
In reply to this explanation the SEN
.ators were informed that it was the
belief of many conservative RepubH-
cans that much less harm would ac.
crue to the party If a few aggressive
and determined leaders, either in the
Senate or the House, or both. would
make it clear to the country that the
Republican party is not committed to
all Of the follies that emanate from
the White House simply because they
happen to be conceptions Of Repub-
1ican president.
The senators were told, moreover,
that one of the most serious dangers
that fs menacing the party's contin-
ued success is the presidents insist
ence that his favorite sparring partner,
General Leonard Wood, shall be con-
Grmed as major general.