Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1905-12-01
PRESIDENT IN FOR A FIGHT.

ODELL, HERRICK AND OTHERS IN
OPEN REB NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. STIFF
FEN AGAINST HIS PROPOSED RATE
LEGISLATJON-NEw HAVE
GRIEVANCES, ETC
The easy sailing of President Koose
welt throughout his political career, ex-
cept the one time be was defeated for
mayor of New York, has apparently
come to an end, and what has univer
sally been described as the luck of
Roosevelt" seems in for a strain for a
while at least
The Roosevelt luck held good at a
time when Senator Bailey. of Texas,
openly stated in the senate that the
president was one man Everybody was
for and nobody wanted describing a
condition of party affairs that was
known to apply at that time to the
public men of the party.
The president has never been popular
with the Republican leaders, with few
exceptions, but he has managed to keep
the leaders of the opinion that the PEG
pie were for him and that it was the
people he depended upon. For more
than year not prominent Republi
can dared to enter into criticism, and
it had come to be so unanimous as to
Roosevelt that he was rarely criticised
by newspapers of the country. In the
last two months this has changed ma
terially.
First-Odell, of New Y ork, the poll
teal boss of that State, openly deties
the president as to reOrganzlng the
party in the State and warns him of
the awful Republican feud of the DAYS
of Arthur an6 Garfield Hands off -
is what Odell tells the president in
plain English, but the president con-
tinues to hold conferences with New
| Y ork leaders that are hostile to Odell.
1t is openly charged that the president
wants to control the New York orgaui
Zation for the benefit of the political
fortunes of Secretary Root.
( Second-GoveruO Herrick, of Ohio
after the election, took a deliberate
slap at the president, describing him
as trying to establish government Of
individual worship and not maintain "a
government of party principles.
Third-A number of prominent pa
pels are attacking the president freely
because of his attack on Mr.. Whitney,
of Boston, and others still criticlse
him as trying concentrate the news
service of the government within his
own hands, centraIzlng all govern
mental news at the White House, to
be sent out under White House stamp
FOurth-It is freely declared in news
papers that, the president will have TO
accept compromise on his rate legis
latiOn views by reason OF the stiff at
titude of the senators opposing his
ideas, and there is no question that the
powerful leaders Of'the senate, Demo
GRAFT and Republican, care nothing for
the patronage they may or may not get
The president. says ne will not bulge
an inch from bis position. end the lead
ers are firmly determined be will do 50
before they conclude.
Flfth-Organlzati of railroad EN-
plOyes have opposed the president on
rate legislation and the Jews have re-
Gently opened criticism upon him.
Some of them declare that he made
representations to Russia about the
kishineff horrors of eighteen months
ago, when be was a candidate for the
Republican nomination, but he finds
! himself unable to DO so now. The
Jewish leaders are trying to put down
this criticism.
acknowledgements correspondents in
Washington are by no means satisfied
with the explanation OF the embargo
on tariff news and maintain that it is
getting more difficult each day to as.
certain anything except at the White
House, where the Information on any
subject IS handed out in bulletin form,
without further explanation.