The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13
TO BEAT ROOSEVELT
SCHEME TO NAME
 0o11GAN.
Brooklyn Eagle Tells of Plan Said .o Have Been Matched to Elect
 the MaEylandsr Presi-
Advertiser Bureau,
 Colorado Building,

Washington, Dec. IF. The Brooklyn Eagles Washington Bu- reau sends out this evening the following: There has been some big political schem- ing here during the past few days and In this plotting both Democrats and Repub- iicans have taken part. whenever lead- CT of one party becomes unpopular with his colleagues, the discouteuted ones look about in . search for opportunities ta make combinations with the opposition for the purpose of defeating their own man by helping to elect the candidates of the other aide. tgf ~ This kind of deal can 0piy Do esse:s cessfui when the man aeIac1ed by tae
 examination ls fatrly Accert&bie tp eboth position to state upon high authority that a deal of thls sort has beefl made in- volying combination between the Dem oGrats and Republicans to defezt Roose- welt and elect Arthur Pue German as Pres ident. The Eagles inforrhant. who is a Virginian of prominence fn his party and who Is on terms of close intimacy with
 leading Democrats and kepublicans, said: The great political contest next year will be between President Roosevelt and
 Senator German and it will be red hot fight The Democratic leaders, the men who really exercise influence in the coun-
 cils of their party. although they respect Judge Parker and believe that he would
 make an available candidate in many re- spects, are nevertheless convinced that German is the one man who can carry Maryland, West Virginia and New York. They have all gone over the ground thor oughly and carefully canvassed the sit-
 uation. You are aware probably that the most bitter opposition to President Roose- welt comes from West Virginia RepubiI- pAprfkIfoa 70 for German. If German Is nominated. former United States Senator Davis. the father-in-law of Stephen B. Elkins, will be nominated for Governor, and the pow erful Ellkins-Davis combination will throw all it's strength in favor of the Maryland man. The Republican end of 1t will keep its hands off but Davis will furnish the money with which to carry the State. He
 will also contribute largely to Germans campaign fund in Maryland"
 The leaders of Tammany Hall under
 stand the intentions of the new couabi- nation and Leader Murphy, no matter
 what he may say. wants, and when the time comes. will insist. so far asahe can, on the nomination of Senator German | for President The anti-Roosevelt Repub- licans who have been sounded say that they are entirely satisfied with German,
 his attitude in the Senate having been extremely conservative. particularly on the tariff question and the Republicans
 believe that he can be trusted not to
 revolutionize things if he gets into the l White House.
 As one of these Roosevelt men puts 1t "Gornan Is a good enough Re- publican for us. He is a Democrat all
 right. but has never turned against the
 great financial and business interests of
 the country. .. s
 'Ths big financiers of New York, who
 are opposing Roosevelt and who now see
 that they cannot prevent his nomination regard the German movement with pleas
 ure, and many muwumps who dislike | the President on account of his foreign
 policy. will, the German people think,
 be apt to vote for him if Roosevelt is
 nominated as the Republican standard
 bearer. The German movement is be- l ing carried on with great secrecy and
 with as little publicity as possible. Sem ator German dooe not believe in brass
 band politics. He has watched the rise and fall of a good many presidential
 booms, and nothing pleases him more
 than to see his rivals boomed for the presidency this early in the game. When
 he regards the time as ripe his friends will seriously take up his boom and will
 not let go of 1t until the convention se-
 lects the candidate.
 The stalwart Republicans who have
 heard hints of the anti ti-Roosevelt-G German
 combination are not very choice in their
 language in denouncing the traitors
 They are called political buccaneers
 who are endeavoring to use German for their own personal and selfish interests | They declare that the plotters will be
 exposed before they have chance to do
 harm and that 1t will then be shown
 that they are the direct representatives
 of trusts and corporations.
 R. H. Watkins.