The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-14
EYE ON FUTUREs
WHAT OF ROOSEVELT AFTER TERM
 IN WHITE HOUSE ENDS.
~Sayoyard" Speculates on Possible Meaning of Some of the Presidents Recent Activftles--His Inter-
 ference in State Politics.

There is some talk as to what Is tn- tended to be done with Roosevelt after his time in the White House expires He will be less than nfty-one years ye he will write the history of his admin: istration is certain, and that 1t will be a very poor history Is just as cer- tain and little more so' judging 5,gb frSm Sia prolific pen has been delivered When General Jackson got out of the Wnlte House he did not cease to be the lead the only two of the whole lot of whom that can be said. though we can say, and all of us knoY, that General Wash. ington never ceased to be the head or
 That Roosevelt is politician, shrewd and able, there Is no denying. He never leads: he follows. That IS ish. True. he got Cuban rectprocity-% such as it is-out of a hostile Con- gress, but his party served notice on him that the little dab of reciprocity he would ever get. Had Theodor" Roosevelt been President during the Fifty-third Congress, this country would have tried 1e to l. It was Tor Grover Cleveland not Theodore Roose- welt the scripture was written-rhou shalt not follow the multitude as to evil" If there is anything that his party is for which Roosevelt would veto it has yet to be discovered. yet to be invented. What is it? Name it?
 Well. his party is for anything that will carry the next election, constitu- tional or unconstitutional Thurlow Weed made its political conduct to order and its battle cry is1A"Its good enough Morgan tili after the thee election: on. rupt the electorate will nevSc be known. The corruption 1t has employ ed to fry fat" out of the monopolies | common report and general notoriety. It is the great party of moral ideas with no more backbone than fishing worm. before anything with money now become the head of his party. Is he laying plans to continue his primacy after he leaves the White House? That is a matter of opinion. Some of his movements certainly look that way. President ArthuG inter, fered in New York politics and forced the nomination of his Secretary Of the Treasurer as Governor. The result was that Grover Cleveland beat Judge FoIger< 200, 900 votes. the largest popu- | lar majority any man ever received was in 1882. In 1905-6 MT. Roosevelt has been meddling with party affairs | in New York in even worse fasEton than did General Arthur. He has die l organization, who shall be chairman l of that layout. who shall be Speaker of the Assembly. Every day the | cal politicians from New York. hunt ing orders. They get them; at least they do them, and that is the inn l portant thing. That Governor they have up there-what's his name-Hig- i gins-says he is not for Wadsworth i for Speaker as Governor. but merely
 sitiFen If of tba the saS st@te Ro6sdvs %6at dq l of the Presidency and Higgins of the Governorsh'p. and Ben Odell could | knock them both into the middle Of next week before you could bat your
 Of course they have done up odell | Nobody objects to that, for Odell and the Governor give orders to the l Legislature to choo99 certain one of their number Speaker. how far is that from bossism? It Is true that | the Presidents partisans say that he does it all in the name of, and in the | inspiration of pure politics. That's what OdelI says he has been doing all the time. Now. when was 1t given | to Roosevelt to touch pitch and re- 1 main Undefled, while every time Odell cut the caper his hand was blacked 10 the elbow? l don't understand 1t at all.
 That the President has dictated things in New York Is as certain as ! that he is President. Now, the thlng is reduced to this. what. was wicked 1 iu Arthur is virtuouS in Roosevelt Arthur's hossism was odious; Roose- velts bossism is fragrant Once there l was a farmer whose OK was gored Dy d lawyers bull. There is a great deal of human nature and great deal ! of politics in that transaction between the OK and the bull.
 What a grand opportunity it would be for the Democrats of New York if they had a Wright Marcy. SeY- mour. or a Tilden to lead them. But the New York Democracy is without leadership. It Is confined to the me tropolis and there. it has become the stand that. We do not intend to be governed by the sans culottes., The South will not stand negro rule, and the North will not stand the prole-
 tariat. Both are right-the North and
 the South.
 And that recalls that some time ago a member of Congress from Florida
 insisted on washing some Democrats
 dirty linen in public. John Sharp Will
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