The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-20
NO wOR,,/OF l MENTIONS | H$ PreSid> | Roosevelt Keeps
 Plans Secret. HIS OWN PARTY MYSTlFIED None Taken Into Confidence
 of the Executive. Backed By Overwhelming Majorities in Congress, Power of MT. Roose-
 welt Is Such as Not to Be
 Successfully Opposed.
HIS OWN PARTY MYSTlFIEI

Washington. Nov. 1s.-(Special. J. President Roosevelt will give no one, even of his own cohorts. satisfaction as to what will be the main features of his policy during his administration after the fourth of next March. when he will have Congress at his back with a larger majority in both Houses than any President has had since Grant.
 It Is beyond peradventure that the majority of the leading Republicans in the Senate and in the House, at the beginning of MT. Roosevelt's succession to Mckinley. were opposed to his &C., cession to the Presidency by election. Senator Mark Hanna was living then He was the paramount exponent and promulgator of McKinleyism and to him Rooseveltism was repugnant to his dy- ing day.
 Now that there is active discussion of the Crumpacker proposition to re- duce Southern representation in Con l gress. it is worth while to recall that at the Philadelphia convention of 1900 which renominated Mckinley, when Senatory Quay took up and fought for reduction of representation in the Re publican delegations from the South ern States. and a nearly all night ses- l sion was had debating the question. 1t
 
 with President Mckinley. who, in the upon the delegates and succeeded in persuading Quay to withdraw his res olution planning the reduction.
 Roosevelt Eyns silent.
 l MT. Roosevelt was In that conven- | ton: he was nominated by 1t for Vice President. but that was after the re- duction question was settled by the Hanna intervention. The future sue cessor of Mckinley in the White House had nothing to say in the debate. Just here 1t is interesting to note that most of the Southern Republicans. and particularly the coIored delegates. led I by Judson ". Lyon of Georgia, now 1 Register of the Treasury, earnestly op- posed the reduction. They held out | tt at suffrage for them must he pro- l tected and that 1t would be gross in- | justice to take convention representa- tion away from them while the post bellum amendments to the Constitu- tion had any force.
 President Roosevelt said nothing in his capacity as an active delegate at Philadelphia in 1900 on this question, and he has said nothing since to the public that would warrant any definite | conclusion as to his sentiments or in- tentions. The nearest approach to any 1 plausible report on the matter is this. I. Is said that during the last Con- gress the plan of Representative Crum- packer was sought to be impressed up- on him. The President said:
 T don't know about that: l don't kow about that. It would seem to me to be an abandonment of the black man and an admission of the right of the States to deprive him of his vote. Since that reputed expression Presi- dent Roosevelt. according to the best Information, has had nothing to say about the reduction of Southern repre- sentation in Congress
 How situation Stands.
 | But whatever Mir. Roosevelt has in mind, he Is not attempting to direct sentiment in his own party. At least that Is to be inferred from his reti- cence on the subject Meanwhile the situation is something like this: Crum- packer and his sympathizers are busy aEitating the question of reduction as fast as they can come into contact with the members of the great Republican majority and with such degree of sue cess as to appear to give them war rant for assuming that they will pret- | ty nearly have their way unless pres idential veto intervenes. Southerners are atmply guessing at what Is to be l l cordins to the best information to be l got from them, put their attitude about this way:
 Shall population or the number or male inhabitants admitted to the pal lot booths be made the basis of rep resentation? This, It Is said. is the question which the new Congress, with its overwhelming Republican maJorlty ought to settle once for all and let the chapter be closed.
 Fred E. Leupp. correspondent or me
 New York Evening Post, who has been as much infatuated with what ne ne- l lieves. that non-interference with
 negro suffrage will be second emah- l cipation. but who has never said nor
 intimated that in giving any or ms
 views that he spoke for the admihlStra-
 ton, has some interesting views on the
 subject, which in some or their phases
 most likely reflect some or the sen'i-
 ments of MT. Roosevelt.
 The Views of LeuPp.
 MT Ieupp remarks the great dis paritv .between population and the Vot- ing ratio" in the Southern states .where the negro Is excluded from the l ballot box" ~ ., yo,,,,,
 has become rather compialsaiIt le- | 1arding tbts exclusion, and proposals OIlATAnIeH
 tSote through federal interference. as 1 ar,hoaiad in the so-called force bill,
 now command little strength. It is | ,gho1I,, unlikely that the North will ever undertake to compel the South | to admit the blacks to full voting
 mower. there is too much northern
 canitei invested in the South and too
 much appreciation of southern condi-
 t5ons tn make this policy popular"
 Ir +bIs last observation of Mir. Leupp
 lies m inc he only hope of Southern Demo-
 crats w that Republican Congress and
 CErmrnnacker plan. It is the great
 amount Of northern and foreign capital
 sn,,es,ad in Southern railways and in
 srstries that will constitute the deter
 rent force against radical partisan
 iegislation designed to minimize the
 noGiIicai power Of the South far out
 pS nronortion to it's commercial import
 snce % m and all that 1t brings to the
 country and government in revenue and l trade. , .., l. a question, since the North is practi- | - h. ha F,01frkr