The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-21
WILL ROOSEVELT RUN.
Republican wheel Horses Alarmed BY
Presidents Assumption

Presidents Assumption
of Power.
Chicago Special to New York Herald
Chicago June 2o.-In this the fiftieth
party. the organization finds itself on
| the eve OF its National Convention fac
| ing revolution the magnitude OF
which IL not generally appreciated.
This Is to be Roosevelt "conVen-
| ton" make no doubt OF that. But
| more than that. the party will be man
| aged hereafter by Roosevelt machine
ry' the president has planned coup
nomination. but everything else. in
GLIDING the control OF the organ.za-
ton of the party.
That is the great and impressive
thing connected with the prelimina-
ries of the convention. 1t is the I'M
portant and central sact that is con-
fronting the old time leaders who have
met here to arrange the preliminaries.
They see 1t sleeping and waking: It
follows them around night and day:
They discover the reins slipping out
of their hands. They have about de-
cided that 1t Is unsafe to make de-
cided stand. but they IRE on the vcrgs
OF "bucking." ana II they are encou.
ragged. no bronco that Mr. Roosevelt
ever busted in his younger days will
require as steady an eye and as firm
seat as he must have in the excit-
Ing experience seemingly not far
ahead of him.
1t IL a fact that the organization of
the republican party, has been on the
verge of revolt ever since the National
Committee met here last Wednesday,
test has seemingly depended for seve-
| raj days on the toss Df a penny.
The State leaders who have manae-
ed the party collectively for genera.
ton. are even now counting the cost
and the prospects of success. II they
decide to fight against the Presidents
assumption of authority, as party lead
ers there will be trouble and perhaps
repetition of the ill-starred HarrI-
son campaign of 1888.
II they yield they will simply sub
init to what they regard as the newt
able and will pass under the rod sing
Ing
The Reillys. the Caseys, the Onslaught
nesseys.
The Keileys and every Mcclure.
Bow down to him low. as marching We
go, the iligant,
Bold Mcintyre.
The feeling of unrest that has broken
out in the national committee over the
Presidents wishes in the Wisconsin
contest. and in the reported disincli-
nation of the new members of the
committee to elect George 3. Cortel-
you chairman of the committee. is Ae
entirely to the fact that the men who
have united In the past and been SUI
preme in the party under men like
Hanna and Quay see that their power
will pass away under the new order OF
things.
1t is doubtful If the revolt will de-
velop into open opposition on the floor
of the convention. This is SO. because
the day of strong men in the party
has passed. A strong man could step
into the centre of the arena and give
of the actual machinery of the party,
which would become historic. But
Hanna Is dead. Quay is dead. Tom
Reed is dead. Plat is old, and does not
like TO fight any more. The old war
horses like Allison, Cullom, Frye and
Aldrich have lost the fire of youth,
Beveridge. Dolliver, Lodge, Herrick
and Foraker are committed to Roose-
welt The young men with Preslden-
tial ambitions have not come forward
in the party SO there is no one daring
enough to underrate the force and re-
sources of Roosevelt, who has the cou-
rage to lead.
The inception of the present trouble
took place months ago. 1t was soon
after Roosevelt succeeded Mckinley
that 1t made Its first appearance.
Businessl Interests were afraid that
Mr.. Roosevelt would do something
that would unsettle values. He had
taken a vow at Buffalo that he would
do his utmost to carry out the policies
of the late President Mckinley.
At that time the great financiers
of New York were much disturbed.
They believed that it would be imi So
sible for the young Vice-President to
restrain himself, and that something
would be done over night which wouI-.
plunge the country into war or IL
nancial smash. One of the leaders of
finance went to Senator Hanna and
said to HIM
I'VE are going to depend on you TO
keep Roosevelt on the right line. We
will hold you responsible for his good
behavior"
Senator Hanna got along very well
with the President. but there were
that he wa snot given the support
to which he was entitled from many OF
the Senators.
He thought that they were playing
with him; that they did not take him
seriously, and that they would keep
him out of the presidency il they could.
There was lack of camaraderie be-
tween him and the older senators, of
which Mr.. Mckinley had the benefit,
which the young President took very
much to heart. He had decided to be u
candidate for the presidential nomina-
ton in 1904 before Mr.. Mckinley
ambition; but he realized that he must
be largely the maker of his own des-
tiny.
Great men in the party held aloot,
and he experienced a personal feeling
of isolation. He began TO think for
Things the President Did.
Many of the things he has done
would never have been done II he had
listened to the advice of Senators and
members of his Cabinet. He did not
dare tell his cabinet what he had de-
termined to do in the Northern Secu-
rifles case until the notice he had au-
thorized the Attorney General to make
public had appeared in the morning
newspapers.
He was advised to drop reciprocity
with Cuba, but insisted on carrying it
policy of Mckinley. and it took him
three years and cost an extra session
to do it.
He interfered in the great coal strike
against the advice of almost every
member of the cabinet He did not
in the Panama matter until he and
Mr.. Hay had taken the step which com
mitter this government to the policy
which gave the country the canal
II he had consulted the Senators who
are labelled leaders they would have
set up such an outcry that he probably
would have accomplished nothing.
Learning to think for himself and
to act for himself, the President began
to wonder whether he would have the
hearty support of the leaders of the
party for the nomination and the cleo
the attitude assumed by the great
financiers in urging Senator Hanna to
become the candidate, and he went to
work and put in operation certain ele-
ments which forced the hands of many
State leaders and practically gave him
the nomination more than year and
a half ago.
When the President made his several
tours of the country for the purpose
of making that remarkable series of