The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-05
HEIR OF ROOSEVELT
@wHo IS LIKELY TO BE PRESIDENTS
 CANDIDATE.
Either Taft or Root Most Likely to Be the Lucky 0ne-Vice-Presid<nt
 Fairbanks fs Wide
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nx AIfred .. Stofer.

Washington, Feb. .4.---fSpeclal)-li is slipping away so fast that the he publicaus are beginning to pnt tnsil heads together. to find out wno 1i I air party candidates Is likely 10 ts @ to the Roosev6ft influence. NV tss in ten of the experfeneed nt nsh ras party takes stock in the lSsqul'
 xn.ts sert Nyinz around that the he- nuhlscsna will insist upon President px~.-v<I, becoming a candidate agaih' TS~s, thfnrr he meant what he. said on ss sA,eh<E of last election. and they re-
 ~srsfhinn as too shrewd poHtIcian C.isl,i f EmAr observer of events to run any IlsA n. H sr-his trrestige or reputation, py per hitting his admirers to N.
 'Ths n,est observing Republican poll fxt~sans admit that Secretary Tart IS nrohabiy the most popular man "ith fse people who has been seriously men fionad in connection with tne nom nation Of his party for the Prssioency K teas. This is in a general sense. rh : masses out in ohio like him: Some of the leading politicians in the Buck ave state also are very fond or him .,,S yvouIa like to see him get Ohios sele~ation to the convention of 1908; bnt or, account of that broadside speech last fall in which he waded into the bosses of the George Cox stripe, the E0Eak@T scare or two to settle with the genaai' ress,na Secretary of War. They have never forgiven Judge Taft for that ~neech. and ever since the pontical rSvoIutfcn that sent Mir. Patison to Ssols,rnbus as Governor and came near sxfvinR the Democrats control or tne Lsgislature. the regular organization has been studying plans 10 heao oii the Secretary of War
 sFt sa& &0 q PTaEi6entlal ssdate in 1908 the followers of senator rnragxer are of the opinion he shouio he the man, Control of the delagation swi1i depend upon whether or not sSena- fors Foraker and Dick can manage 10 pull together. They have oeionseo to z;ssar@rf factions. but the exigencies of ~ifration may cause them to form an ailfance President Roosevelt has not hAen dealing out the Federal plums 10 suit the Senators from Ohio.
 A great many of the Republican poll tfcfans are anxious to get positiNe and reliable information concerning secretary Roots status as President. lar candidate. When he gaveup that tremendous law practice in New York gsitv 10 return to Washington to work twelve or fourteen hours a day for the paIkry sum of $S.00a year, and spend S30,0O0 more to live respectfully in the capital city, the old timers got to
 
 was doing, and they cannot help think ing right now that he has his grap- ylinx irons out for that nomination to Ehe Presidency two years hence. If he is to be the Roosevelt choice 1t will be necessary for the other candidates to go to work in earnest.
 A great many politicians wonder how long the voters of this country are going to continue to alternate between New Yerk and Ohio for Presidents They are beginning to think that there are some other States in the Union that might be considered at least once or twice fin a quarter of q century. The friends of Secretary Shaw have slight suspicion also, that Iowa amounts to something as a State. and even If MT. shaw has been made fun of as a sort of David Harum banker, they do not re- gard him as slouch either in the field of finances or statesmanship
 Secertary Roots chances, in the opin- ion of many of the best posted people tp be met here, will depend greatly on how the next New York State cleo ton turns out. A big row is going on among the Empire State Republi- cans. and it promises to split their party wide open. If the Democrats elect their candidate for Governor next year that will help MT. Root. He has not been mixed up in the factional squabbles. Is a close friend of Presi- dent Roosevelt is recognized as an exceptionally able man. he knows how to make himself pleasant to the boys" In politics. and should the New York Republicans get a walloping in 1907, the cry will go up that the only way to save the State and make it's cleo toraI vote safe for. the Republicans in 1908 IS to nominate Mir. Root for the Presidency.
 Ohio. Iowa. Indiana and all the oth- CT State with favorite sons will be told in effect to stand aside and let New York step to the front once more and save the party and the country
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