The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-17
MIx.Na Ir NM YonIr.

| In recent issue of one of our New
 York contemporaries. the name of which
 is not remembered. we saw statement
 to the effect that plaft and odsll had
 entered into a combination to defeat
 Ifissins. as boss of New York Repubii-
 can politics. and incidentally to give
 the President slap in the face On
 the same aupjeet- The New York Post
 says:
 New rrssdsn Yess stsss Hi sssR bis ssse. for the sake of harmony In Republican ranks These are the. contradict.rv
 Oyster paS ana washins.on. % poabtisss TheTrihgnss prophecy that the Presi.
 n % Teinss fss, 'o is ms re n ofs ess l accurate. With his passion for being
 or the wipnins side. It would be ioth- welt to take oart in the contest for control of the party. Of course. he would have to back Higgins against
 Platt. odeil; Black and the rest of the
 eiled, Did he not cali the Governor to Washineton. when he was not so badly
 in need of an undisturbed vacation: and Assembly last winter? Did he not ia- nore Piatt and scorn odeil m appointing Charles M Hough district judge? But together and declaring that they are
 In control of the State Commfttee, is it the part of popular President to resist
 Roosevelt needs rest; ii Higgins and wadsworth and ParsnnA need help. they must apply elsewhere. The Presi-
 SsPf @ bs s s4T srtiS syfr sasaa ass oeen and ever All this is what may be called in- teresting. if true. PIatt and odeIl
 have not been harmonious. to say the least of II. but they seem t, have bur led the tomahawk. at least for the time being. for the purpose Of dsposing Gov ernor Higgins. but that isn't the main point with them. Their principal ob- ject is to give Roosevelt q setback. He wants Higgins to control the politics of the State and will assist him. The two contradictory statements copice by The Post are to the point. apparently. but both are misleading Roosevelt will not keep his hands off New York State politics" That would be entirely foreign to his nature ana habits His interference in Pennsylvania in favor of the Penrose gang was not only out Of place. but was not at all to his cred- it. There was no call for him to mix ID with the politics of that State. and more especially us he did. If lie had exerted his influence in favor of those who are trying to redeem the State he might have accomplished much good. but he chose to ally himself with the side of corruption and machine :ule. His interference and the manner of 1t is no credit to him or his administra- tiou.
 IF he could not keep his hands of PennsylS anfa State politics what reason | Is there to believe that he will renlain l neutral in his own state7 None in | tho world. Ills habit of putting in is too confirmed to expect him to re- main quiet when there is bloody war | going on In New York. If 1t be true that he forced Platt and odeil to make up 1t appears to he also true that their | making up Is against Higgins, which | means that they are against Roosevelt | also. Sc far as the rest of the country 1 is concerned. we don't know that it | matters if the New York Republicans eat each other. and If the President is determined or inclined to mix in he | may not fare much better. If he does not take hand ho will be geing back on his record.