The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-10
Question Asked by Republicans
 and Democrats Alike
WILL HE MISTREAT SOuTH2
It Is Thought That As a Whole There Will Be But Few Changes in Federal Office
 Holders.
BY PATTERSON sTEALEY.

BY WATTERsoN sTEALEY.
 Washington, November 9.-CSpeeial.)-
 What will Roosevelt do? This is the
 uppomost question in the mind of politi- cal Washington today.
 It Is not too much to say that the
 Presidents own party associates are giv-
 ing this matter far more thought than
 the democrats. Mr. Roosevelt is now an
 elected President. Two years ago he is
 quoted as saying in his vigorous style;
 T want to be an elected President He
 Is now such and his own party is guess
 Ing.
 The President is said to feel that his
 election is due more than anything else l to his own personal popuarity-that ho is not under any obligations to his party managers. and goes in the White House
 free to do anything he pleases. The con-
 tention urged so consistently by the demo-
 cratic party that he is unsafe and err
 ratio, liable to do anything, was either
 not believed by the people or else not cared about.
 Is Simply Dash and Courage.
 Circumstances are multiplying that
 show that the people construed his knock
 down -and-dra out way of doing things
 simply as the dash and courage of an
 intense American, admired him for it and
 voted for him. The democrats bfoushe
 every argument to bear to snow tnae t
 conservative administration was wnouy
 at variance with the election or Koose-
 yelt The plea, however, proved unaVah- ing Roosevelt was the choice His kind of conservatism was the only kind want , ed.
 , cussion among southern democrats is the l probable attitude of the President toward n the south.
 It is reasonably safe to say that the L congressional representation will not be - | reduced. This Is no fault Of MT. Roose- q velt but Is due 10 the fact that the sen q ate can block legislation looking to that
 end. It Is not unllKey that the house # will pass she Grumpacker resolution, put Q 1t will encounter such opposition in the z upper branch of congress as to preclude a the possibility of it's becoming law, unless q indeed, the senate rules are overturned L. in a revolutionary manner
 6 The republican party already has so l. much that there will probably be little
 desire to make big fight over the re-
 auction of the souths electoral vote, thus
 taking away the little left to the demo- 2 cratic party.
 s Same Negro Policy. . President roosevelt will follow the same . policy on the negro question he has in the past. The appointments of negroes to . offices in the south will be continued and it is expected that the day congress meets
 the nomination of Dr. w. Crum for col- ' lector of the port of Charleston will again be sent to the senate. As has been the case in the past three years the Presi-
 dent will be largely guided in southern appointments, both black and white, by
 Prof. Booker T. Washington, in whose i. Judgment he has every confidence It is not expected that there will be
 great many changes in federal office , holders throughout the country. Here and there men who were appointed py
 President Mckinley will have to make : way for a friend of President Roosevelt, | but foIrf al n al federal OfttCe-
 holders will hold their places. In a num-
 Der of instances it is reported that tho
 party organizations will ask, for the good 2 of the party, that certain officials be re- 7 moved to make way for men who nave = been more active In the support of the : party. In this way, of course number Il l of changes may be made.
 = Will Be No Sweeping Changes. = There are, however, to be no sweeping v changes, and one thing can be depended upon.-Mr. Roosevelt is going to be Pres-
 ident in every sense of the word and
 there will be little trucking to members '- of congress on the subject of patronage tt or any other subject. There are to be 10 some high old times in Washington our- "a ing the next four years. If the senate d and house think they are going to have II much to do with running the country 1- thev are preparing for very hard fall f Even under the restraint or being a President by succession, President Roose- ,e welt has shown little disposition to meet ~ ~ congress half way. Wlth the assistance 'u of the democrats he forced Cuban re- m cInrocity upon the republican majority, v and when laws now on the statute books .h don't suit him he simply makes others is and has congress to ratify them, as was - the case in the service pension bill. ,a Other incidents might be pointed out t showing the Presidents indifference to "a the legislative leaders. That there will q be many more to come Is what repub-
 lican politicians fear.
 ~~-~---~---~~~~~>~~~~~~-~- f ences. l myself have signed no less than l five treaties of arbitration. Only yester-
 day the American ambassador, MT.
 Choate asked me if we were prepared to sign similar treaty with America , have also been lately asked by Presi- g dent Roosevelt, to whom we may offer congratulations on his return to power
 by a vast majority, to participate in e second international peace conference. . While reserving the right to consider 0 what subjects and the terms of reference. Q we did not hesitate to say that we were . ready to participate, and to tell the Pres- ident that we wished him God-speed in the useful work he has undertaken Is there a better way than this? Is it not , better 10 pre-arrange matters that dis :, pute shall not arise at all?'
 Lord Lansdowne then referred to tho z Anglo French arbitration treaty, and said
 he hoped 1t would be adopted by a large I ma iority of the chamber of deputies, and : that it would be effectual in removing . dangerous and difficult questions from in- !, ternational controversy. He some e thing of this in the assistance Great - Britain has received during the last few
 days from the French government in
 bringing about an amicable settlement | batusaeT Great Britain and Russia Patrick Cudahy is ILL e Asheville N. C.. Novem. CT s.-Patrick g Cudahy president of the Cuuahy Pack