The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-10
FINE LOT OF THEM
SOME REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL
 POSSIBILITIES.
Taft Fortunate In Being without Bee--"savoyards Starts to Write of Roosevelt as . Fighting Man.
 Bat Branches on Subject.

cratic side of the hedge they are wait ing for Mir. Bryan to get back to tell | them what to do. When Mir. Bryan went of to foreign parts he turned tne party over to Roosevelt. and 1t is very l evident that that gentlernana will find something for 1t to do beforethe win l ter is over. This letter is written in advance of the Presidents message. but I make this prediction that if Mir Roosevelt is spelling for a fight. and they say he was born that way, he can get 1t out of the Republican side of the Senate.
 As for me, don't believe the Presi- dent is much of a fighter. Certainly he Is not half the fighter Cleveland party about 1s to 1. He fought and won. Roosevelt disagreed with his
 party on the subject of the tariff. He
 surrendered and lost. And I'll say
 right here that if the President puts up no better light against the railroads
 than he did against the standpatters he
 would peter give up his gun.
 If the Republican National Conven-
 tional were held rext year do believe
 Secretary Shaw would be nominated
 for President. He would be the favor
 ite of the standpatters. He would be acceptable to Wall Street. He tastes
 of the soil. and the farmers of the
 West would flock to him. Then he would get the South---is he not master of the pie?--and all these would make
 him very formidable, though John sherman said the Southern troops in Republican National Conventions were not to be implicitly relied on. It is a contingent that has an enormous and abnormal appetite for graft, and would advise Secretary Shaw to take a n anNsdant
 ern delegation.
 remember tfat I was at Chicago in 1888 when Ben Harrison was nomi- mated. There was a man named Alger also candidate. The first parade of
 his squad was an insignificant affair. An athletic man could have gone from
 head to tail of 1t at q hop, skip and jump. But on the Saturday night fol-
 lowing it was two miles long. due to accretions from John Sherman's troops or the south, mostly colored If you
 will read MT. Shernan's book you will
 discover that he was not in very good
 humor about it years after it happened. MT. Taft Is a very formidable cam
 didate. He has the faculty of impress
 ing people. He looks like great man. He talks like a great man. He acts like great man. Another thing in his favor is that he is a candidate without the bee in his bonnet It has never given him any concern. It is not going to keep him awake of nights. seward, Chase, Blaine, Sherman, Reed
 all died disappointed, all had the bee,
 Not so Taft, and maybe that Is what VIII give him the nomination.
 Foraker is also a candidate. and A
 Formidable one. If he gets the support
 of Senator Dick 1t may put Taft out
 Of the fight. Some of them are laying L. ..g- ana It IS certain that the speech Mir.
 Taft made at Akron did the Demo- 1 cratic cause no injury. No doubt there are many Republicans in Ohio very
 much enraged with the Secretary of War. but it is a long time between conventions, and MT. Taft has plenty or time to indulge the great Ohio in-
 dustry of mending fences.
 But it was Sbout time for the Dom. ! ocratic Party 10 again astonish the world with its! marvellous vitality. | When Ohio sent Thurman to the Sem ate the fortunes of the Democratic
 Party were even at lower ebb than now; but the Democratic Party fin 1889 was homogeneous. Nobody dreamed of a Roosevelt Democrat In those days. Thurman and Lamar talked the same 1 sort of Democracy Tflden, Morrison. Beck, Vest.l Hendricks, Ben Hill. Ran.
 dolph Tuckef'--all one. Now there are
 more sorts of Democrats than you can
 shake stick at. You can't find any difference between the political proach- ments of Culberson of Texas and OlIi- yer of Iowa with a microscope. and if a Democratic Idea should enter the
 brain Of Jonathan P. Deliver 1t would
 kill him as dead as a mackerel.
 States Rights is no longer a Demo-
 cratic creed. It Is buried in the RTAVaG nxff1 .1
 Yancey. If it should be resurrected
 and again play part in American pol- tiles. 1t will be Yankee invention.
 Henry Cabot Lodge, who, fifteen years
 ago. passed bill through Congress
 making it felony for Mississippi to vote the Democratic ticket, Is calling halt on the encroachments of Fed
 eral power. It was a beautiful speech.
 John C. Calhoun would have .endorsed every word of it. So would John Ram dolph of Roanoke.
 1T We just had a homogeneous Deno-
 cratic Party the late election in Ohio
 would be great comfort to it and a hamburger of victories to be. But there | are several sorts of Republicans also. Thank God, they, too, are unhappy. just as unhappy as we--more so: we are used to it.
 Governor Cumn1ins is trying to he A HepuDllcan and tarin reformer at the
 same time. It cannot be done. Mas sachusetts Is trying to cut that caper
 also. She ought to have more sense.
 She tried 1t years ago and had to turn mugwump. If it had not been
 for that 1e to 1 quarrel Massachusetts
 would be a Democratic State right
 now. etd the chances are many that
 but for the 16 to 1 issue a Southern
 Democrat would now be President of
 the United States. and the Republican
 Party at the North just as dead, and
 almost as damnej, as. the Republican Party at the South.
 But why cry over split milk? The mill will not grind with the water
 that passed yesterday. I started to
 write something about Theodore Roose.
 welt as a fighting man. For lack of evidence I had to branch of on other
 things. When he shall have given the Senate the veto ax, like a Jackson or. | a Cleveland, there will be some evil
 dence and then shall be glad to make | a note of it. Savoyard. | Washington, D. c.
 
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