The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-23
ROOSEVELT PARTY
 FOR 1908 BATTLE
FRIENDS OF PRESIDENT PLANNING TO RUN HIM ON INDEPENDENT
 TICKET.
Congress Flares at Riis Interview.-Re- sents Idea That Mfr. Roosevelt Is Champion of "People Against Money POwer."-GettIng
 the South in Line.

Washington specitI to New York
 Herald.
 Jacob A. Riis interview in today's Herald, declaring that President Roose- welt would run for third term if 1t became necessary in order to achieve the defeat of the money power" which he believes IS engaged in obstructing the Presidents reforms, attracted con siderable attention here.
 In fact. everything printed bearing on the Presidents political ambitions attracts much attention, and especial importance is attached to Mir. Riis' statement that party lines will be wiped out in 1908" This. it is declared, foreshadows the formation of Roosevelt party" that will sweep the President for third term.
 Representatives here point out the significant things both North and South in Justification of their belief. They say that the President has already laid the ground for a Roosevelt party" in the North. He can either boss the Republican party in New York and New England, or create Roosevelt party" just as he chooses. Tn the South he is working to appease the Southern Dem ocrats. His apointment of General Luke Wright to be Ambassador to To- klo Is regarded here as purely political His selection of Judge Rose. of Arkan- sas, to be one of the American delegates to the second peace conference at The Hague Is on the same lines. His de- termination to retire negroes in the South as office holders so that they can make way for white men is in the same line.
 There is very general feeling that the President expects great, things from the South. and he is seeking to hold enough Southern men in Congress to carry through his measure despite Republican opposition. The Southern Democrats saved the Philippine Tarin bill this week.
 LawmaIxees Are ResentfuI.
 Senator TIliman when asked about the statement Of MT Riis said he was not surprised at 1t. Many members of Congress. however. immediately froze up They resent the idea that the President Is the only representative of the Amer lean people in Washington, and that they are controlled by the money power" except when the President spurs them into action, but they don't want to talk about it.
 They are growing to resent bitterly in private congregation the declara- tions made by Mr. Rlis and other mag azine writers and lecturers that unless they vote for the remedies presented by the President they are under the
 
 The clothing of the President with su- perior virtue and superior intelligence at the expense of members of Congress has had quite as much to do with the existing revolt in Congress as anything else. It has become the fashion for the admirers of the President to denounce Senators and Representatives who do not agree with this and that legisla- ton as being in the pay of corpora tions and as being corrupt and sordid. Tn consequence many of them were pretty mad today. Some of them when asked about Mir. Riffs announcement wanted to know when, the President was going to have a, consistent policy. so they might follow 1t.
 President Not Consistent.
 IL was related how the President had advocated publicity as the cure of the trust evils of overcapitization and fraud He held out for this for a long tirne MT. Littlefie1d, of Maine, and some others, took the President se- riously and introduced bills to procure publicity.
 But at the last minute. 1t was said, a compromise was made by the Prest- dent under which he abandoned public fty and consented to. a compromise. winch left Mir. Littlefield and others hung up high and dry. Mir Littlefield has since been denounced as being op- posed to the reforms favored by the President. Caustic allusions were made to the action of the President in step ping In between the Santa Fe Rail road and the criminal laws in connect ion with the rebates given to the Colo rado Coal and Iron Company, and it