The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-09-07
SPELLING F Q MAY
BECOME r ISSUE
The President May Be Known as Roosevelt the Reformer"-
The Troubles of the Senator's, Or the Wicked Mr.
Decentralization in New York.

+ But what was slavery or states rights
alongside though or tho? Did the gov
eminent of the people, for the people
and by the people pass through the
ordeal Of civil war and the bitterness
Of reconstruction only to be smashed
10 smithereens on the rock Of kissed
or kfSt:
SO busy has Washington, official,
nOn-Oficial and servitOr, been discuss
ing the spelling reform order that not
much attention has been paid 10 the
actors on the stge of politics. Yet
in several of the states there are con-
tests we'll worth the watching.
Out in Ohio a eriO-comic piece is
on the boards under the captain The
Troubles of the Senator's; or, The
Wicked Mr.. Burton" Mr.. Burton, who
is known as a scholar in politics and
who has managed to keep his hands
clean n his name untarniShed even
III congress has conceived the idea that
the endorsement Of the state cOnven-
ton should be less enthusiastic in the
case Of Senator Foraker and Dick
than it should be in the case of Pres
ident Roosevelt. The senators are
modest gentlemen and don't ask Il
single hurrah or a solitary hand-clasp
more than the president gets, but they
want every adjective h a goes to any
other man, Roosevelt or otherwise, and
they mean to have it or fight.
Of cOudse, there is more back OF this
thing hal the mere question of how
enthusiastically somebody shall be
embossed. Endorsement was merely
selected as a peg to hang a scrap on.
There is involved the leadership OF
the Ohio republican party and posi-
bly, OhiO's attitude toward the next
presidential nomination. The pros
poets of Secretary Taft undoubtedly
will be affected, although both sides
deny there is n fight either for o.
against him.
The main issue would seem to be
whether Senator Dick is to be depOsed
! as boss of the state machine. Burton
, gave publicity to the opinion that re-
publican chances of success at the polls
would be enhanced if some man other
, than Dick were at the head of the
organization. Then the republican re-
: vOlutiOnists in Ohio rallied arOunG
| Burton and ne has nov a fighting or
ganiZatiOn that promises to make things
exceedingly lively at the state owen
ton on September II and II. This
is Burton's first real fight in the field
of state politics, but he enters the
| arena under peculiarly suspicious cir
cumstances, inasmuch as he need take
no thought of his immediate political
! fortunes. The Democrats up in Cleve-
| land think so we'll of him that they
are not going to oppose his reelection
~ ~ r.. ON Glow 1~l YNrC
to his hearts content without bother
ing about things at home.
However entertaining and divertiHg
! the Ohio fight may be to outsiders, it
is a mighty serious thing for the two
Ohio senator's. Should Burton and
his forces triumph at the Dayton on
ventiOn, there will be a new deal all
around. 1t probably would mean the
retirement Of both Foraker and Dick
when their present senatorial terms
expire, though an exception might be
| made in the case of the former. The
late Senator Vest of Missouri de-
scribed the protective tariff as IN in
~terpendent mutually Of greed. That's
what the anti-Dick republicans call
the Dick machine in Ohio. and they
declare they are going to smash It. If
they do so, Burton will be the big man
in the neg regime. Probably he would
come t the senate as Dicks successor.
and he might we'll be OhiO'S favorite
son in some republican national con-
ventiOn of the future.
The almost daily changes in tie
New York situation are watched as
closely in Washington as they are in
the Empire State. A week or ten
days AGO Hearst's chance of securing
the democratic nomination for gov
ernOr WAS regarded as at least ; TO !
shot. The odds have been dropping
since. and there is talk now Cf Jerome
as an ven money proposition.
It is not, however, the personal for
tune of either Jerome or of Hearst
that interests democrats in Washing
ton: it is the involved issue of ne
things for which Hearst stands. Dem
Ocratic senators and representatives in
town, and a good many OF them are
here just nov for consultation at cam
paign headquarters, are agreed that
there is in New YOrk contest the DOss-
ibilty Il far~-reaching influence Oh the
democratic party. If Hearst captures
the New York democracy. they point
out. he will be Il figure in the party's
national councils that anne De ig-
nOred. and the doctrines for which ne
stands will have 70 be recognized in
greater or lesser degrte.