, 1906-08-10
SENATOR WARREN AND THE
EASTERN PRESS.

EASTERN PRESS.
There Is no senator from beyond the
Mississippi that receives the attention
from the Brooklyn Eagle, one of the
tor Warren of Wyoming. Recently
The Republican published al extended
and entertaining Interview with him
from the Brooklwyn Eagle, n of the
brightest and most popular papers of
the Empire state, and he is constantly
being referred to in complimentary
terms by so many of the great eastern
dailies that 1t Is impossible for a west
ern paper to keep track of all the nice
things that are being said of him. The
Boston Transcript of July 81 contained
the following in its editorial columns:
In an interesting interview with
Senator Warren of Wyoming, a native
of Massachusetts, but long n of the
political. leaders of the west, our Wash.
ington correspondent today quotes him
as showing that the woods are full of
republicans suitable to become presi-
dental candidates, and the senator al,
so asserts that any man whom the re-
publicans nominate will defeat Mr..
Bryan. who occupies the peculiar po-
sition of first a radical. then a conser-
vative, and now added n codical that
he is likely to become a g~reaterNradi-
rn1 than aNynr haFDra Ia tho fann 80
this general optimism, Senator War.
rem says there are two sections of the
country which will not for a long time,
If ever. furnish a republican p~residen-
tial candidate-New England and the
far west, where he lives, and, of course
he might have added. the south.
He thinks the republicans will select
their candidates for some time to come
from the section bounded by the Hud-
son river and the Mississippi, the Ohio
and the lakes, That this area holds d
preferred claim on the presidential Of
flee cannot be denied
A Breezy Article From The Post
And this article from the Washing.
ton Post carries with it an air of close
confidential relations which any man
in the nation would be proud to enjoy,
1t appeared in that paper August 1:
Senator Warren, of Wyoming, deck.
ed u in a natty suit of flmy tweed
and wearing a pale-blue four-in-hand
very much soufled, with an airy thing
of a sombrero that seemed light as a
robins feather, strobe into the New
Willard the other day and was pounc-
ed upon avidly by a host of news-hun
CRY journalists.
There is one thing about you news,
paper folks here in Washington that
admire immensely, declared the sen
ator, after he had recovered from the
sudden onslaughto of the chatting journal
lists; that is that o have what ap
pears to be a positive genius for touch
ing the national nerves of exquisite del
licacy in your handling the news. For
example, a year ago you were keeping
the papers in all parts of the country
filled with the news of the growing de
felt with which my brother Shaw was
wrestling in the treasury. Now that
that deficit has been wiped out, and
there is a surplus where once there was
a deep hole in our finances, you are
saying nothing about it, obviously for
the cas- that a deficit or the pros
pect of a deficit, is news-is something
the people eagerly ead about and un.
derstand. At present you have hold
Of the livest wire in eXistence-the
third term bugaboo-and the people
are reading every word sent u from
Washington about that, 20 the exclu-
sion of nearly everything else. l un-
derstand, and l take it that you do, too,
that the third term rumor must not be
taken seriously, but at the same time
l know that the people back in the
country are greedily ~devouring every
word that you are giving them on it.
! am confident the president meant
what he said when in his statement to
the world on the night of his election
in 1904 he declared that he would not
be a candidate TO succeed himself, nor
would he accept a nomination should
1t be rendered him
Senator Warren asked not to be
quoted extensively on the probable sue