The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20

Washington. Sept. I9.-(special)-It Is said by those who have kept well informed on the expressions of visitors~to Oyster Bay that President Roosevelt Is beginning in a measure to realize that he lacks en- 1oyment of the confidence of the veteran Republican leaders and that he is anx- ious to do something to gain their good graces.
 He is apprehensive of the standpatters. the real makers and the potential mas ters of Republican party policy. Mr Roosevelt has never disclosed a definite scheme of statecraft that has attained the dignity of an administration policy. IT his strenuosity has developed anything of executive moment, it has been in the dls- pensation of office and playing the game of personal politics with reference to ms own candidacy for President: t:.uoons
 To the disgust of old-line RepuDncans, who, ever since the last defeat or the force bill. have abandoned effort to estsp- fish a policy of Federal interference Wlth State elections MT. Roosevelt's campaign ing for himself has been devoted noto- riously to cultivating and captivating the negro vote. The veteran RepupIcan lea9- CTS contrast the condition or the hGpupi- can party in the South when Mckinley was President with its present condition under Roosevelt. Mckinley, they recall, had the united support of the white Re publicans of the Southern States, while Roosevelt has alienated and offended all of them except a coterie of officeholders in each.
 Has Torn Down the Structure.
 Roosevelt. in their opinion. has sacri- ticed the fair commencement Of a re- spectable white Republican party In the South for the sake of the negro vote of the border States and those States north nr the Potomac and Ohio rivers in which the black vote is an important factor In the final results. His abnormal exalta- tion of the negro has lost him white votes in his own party in his own country.
 Negro visitors to the White House have filled him with notions Of the magnitude of their cause which to the old Republi- out at national conventions is likely to ag- gravate race friction by which the Repub- 'ican party has always suffered. But the leaders have not had much to say on this question. They have been quietly watching for effects. They are far more concerned about policies which mean the maintenance of cordial and mutually help full relations with the aptains Of indus try and the masters of finance than they are with abstract questions of race rights and privileges. The Repu~ can conven- on-holders, platform-makers and law givers who have been wont to appeal to the cupidity of the masses with talk about protection, progress and prosperity have ever practiced politics as business. prop osition and cast sentiment to the winds. Sick of Negro Philism.
 The moment they discovered that agita- ton of the negro question for the real
 
 the whites meant 8 serious disturbance of the opportunity to practice remunerative politics with the business world. they dropped the negro. Now that Roosevelt has taken the black man to his bosom and made his guardianship apparently paramount to everything else, they are simply sick of it and are beyond doubt longing for the close of the Roosev' It regime. But according to best advices from sources that warrant the crystaliz- ing of opinion, MT. Roosevelt Is worried about the temper of the old leaders of his party toward him. They have never sought him in any way commensurate with the vast importance of the position he occupies. They have never treated him as political leader, They go to him only when they are called for or when small personal concern srequire consulta- ton wit hthe executive offce.
 In other words MT. Roosevelt is more frightened over the unattained confidence of the Republican leaders than he Is dis turbed by Democratic repugnance. He Is with all his animal grit an arrant poiiu- cal coward and it is not doubted by those who are scrutinizing the signs of the man and his immediate environment that un- avoidable issues of the coming Congress will expose the trepidation that possesses his spirit. r.. It seems to need no gift of remarkable foresight to behold Roosevelt trucking to the leaders who have sought him not and before the end of the coming session beg ging them to be assured Of ms utmost consideration and willingness to serve without some consolation to him, for he has never. as already inttmated. dlscoV. cred to his observers single policy ot StatesmanShip outside or nlS excess ol zeal for the negro.
 The question is asked and well may be | pondered. how have the executive de- partments presided over by Cabinet or | flcers of the Roosevelt administration fared under the guidance of the man Who Is constantly prodding the pubic con | science about honesty and decencyI when was there an admlnstratlon tnat tuI- nished as many candidates for the pen; | tentiary? With departments discovered | to be rocking with rottenness, instead oi remaining at the capital to see that the | guilty were punished, he has spent half l the year taking his pleasure and seeking personal political capital, exhibiting him | self as though that vision were healing balm for every evil of the body polite How well has he guided the heads of the | departments? How has he helped in the
 confronting of threatening financial con- l ditonS?
 How About Shawl
 What has he said or done to indicate his view of the policy of Secretary Shaw | who proposes to put 40 OOO.OO:. into the
 hands of national banks? Could there be | a disposition of public funds more assur- l edly a gift? This handing over or ml-
 hons of ta money to the banks is giver l out as a precaution against serious finan- | cial disturbances. Supposing after the | banks receive this money occasion shoulo arise for the Government to require ii | back, could not aand would not the banks | say that to take the money from then
 would produce a panic? It is believ"' Dy | sensible persons that with such noicy
 as Secretary Shaw proposes to practice | the Government would never again get | back the money it let the banks have | Consequently the beneficiarieS of the de- | posits would be the recipients of gift of so many millions, gift and nothing
 else. This money the banks are to enjoy | by grace of favor comes from interna
 revenue taes which the law requires shal | De placed as soon as collected in tht Treasury of the United States.
 l Shaw, in his effort to donate to the , banking concerns, made up by individua | capital, the financial backing of the Gov | ernment. appears to be moving quite in dependently of President Roosevelt. Int | only thing that has come from the Pres | ident on the financial question has beer | a kind of opaque acquiescence in the de
 sirability of an elastic currency"
 No, a Roosevelt Idea.
 | MT. Roosevelt has been consulted abou l the Aldrich bill, or rather he has beer | allowed to see what kind of measure 1
 evolved. Nobody knows just where thu l President Is on the question of currenc!
 reform.
 | On the tariff he is hardly more explicit l His earlier writings, presumed to be th
 considerate reflections of a student, arr | greatly at variance with his latter-da!
 tariff expressions and associations. Il
 his Life of Benton." Mir. RooseveI l write:
 Political economists have pretty gen erally agreed that protection is vicious | in theory and harmful in practice; bu l if the majority of the people In interes l wish it. and 1t affects only themselves
 there is no earthly reason why the. l should not he allowed to trV the eXperi