The Washington times., 1906-07-04
TAFT IN SOUTH
TO Be INDORSEO
FOR PRESIDENT
Managers of Rival BoomS
Experiencing Great
UneaSineSS.
HAS SETBACK IN OHIO
Home States Also lnimiCal
to Shaw and Cannon
Prospects.

Secretary Taft is going 10 make a
speech on The evening of Monday. July
8. the eve of the Republican State con-
Vention, at Greensboro. North Caro-
lima.
The next day, in convention assembled,
the Ohio man is 10 be indorsed for
President in 1905.
such is the program of the first in
cursion OF the Taft movement into the
South, according TO current report,
which is giving the managers Of rival
bComs much concern.
The TAFT movement has had some
distinct boosts lately, There is differ
ence of opinion as To whether the Presi-
dent really said he guessed Taft was
The only man who could beat Bryan. d"
but there is no difference of opinion
about Tart being the Presidents IA
vorite in case the President isn't going
10 permit himself 10 be drafted Neither
is there any doubt that the President
has, of late been making stronger and
more definite his assurance that he
viii not be in the next race.
Here is the sequence Of events that
has caused worry:
President strengthens assurances he
Will not run.
President says only Taft can beat
Bryan 90.
Tart starts after the Southern dele
gates.
Wouldn't that naturally worry Fair
banks and Shaw, both Of whom have
made tours into North Carolina and
tried To solidify themselves with the
Organization?
Home State Against Taft.
The Taft movement. however, is in
Ohio, where the Republican organization
is pulling itself together 20 indorse For
aker at the coming State convention.
Not that they love Foraker more, but
Taft less They don't take at ali seri-
cusly The notion that Foraker has q
chance al the Presidential nomination.
Neither does Foraker himself il credit
may be given 10 statements by people
who claim 10 have some measure OF mis-
confidence. The Senator s opposition 10
rate legislation has made him deal
OF trouble al home. and while the old
machine might succeed in IndOFsiug him
IN a convention IL could not give him
The standing - other States that was
hOoeiessly sacrificed by his opposition
10 the Administration policy In the re-
cent session of Congress
But there is desire for the gore of
Tart, I'm revenge for what he did in Ohio
last fdl- The State administration is
once more sOEdly Republican, the organ
4errAtAAfi4 4ft4S It's 1aAst ana the disposition
tp put the klbosh on the TAFT Presiden-
Il1l movement is strong and growing
TAFT has no organization al all. though
ne Is personally strong in the State. To
give Endorsement To Foraker would be a
long step toward eliminating Taft, and
that's what the Buckeye machine really
wants.
Shaw UnaPpTeciated at Home.
Secretary Taft is not the only man
with big troubles at home. Shaw is sit
ting by helpless, while Iowa IS raising
up in Cummins a favOrite son who not
only has his state at his back. but
stands as the country's foremost repre-
sentative Of the growing tariff revision
sentiment
Speaker Cannon has been through
some grueling experiences lately for a
Presidential candidate He won his
fight for the packers and he succeeded
IN sm0therilg most OF the labor legis-
lation which he opposed; but in doing
these things he sadly injured his Presi-
dental prospects with the country az
large. Organized labor has his name
a. the head Of its blacklist. and organ
lied labor is probably more powerful
IN Illinois than in any other State of
the Union. The man with the big pull
on the labor vote just now is La Fol
lette.
Vice President Fairbanks really ought
TO be the strong man Just now and it
Is one of the anomalies Of politics that
he Is not developing irresistible strength
so tall, outrageous, and cooling. In
the midst OF an ice famine nation wide
81 would be assumed that folks would
Just flock 10 him. That they haven't
done so is but more evidence of the
ingratitude of republics.
Bryan Urged to Stay Away.
The whole Presidential game is in
fact getting something of a setback
Bryan may not come hurrying home.
after all; his most devoted and astute
advisers think he would better stay
awhile longer and let matters Demo
cratic take on more definite form before
projecting his personality into the sit
uaJi0n. Especially do they want him
Hearst and anti-Hearst tight Is IN
progress. Likely as not he viii decide
"a go 10 New Zealand and come home
by the Ptcitc, thus tactfully avoiding
tac possible embarra sSments Of re
ceptlon In the erstWhile "enemy's cOun-
Try"
It's stiH two years before any national
conventions viii meet That's a long
time. II nterneclne war in Ohio puts
TafL 10 the undated canned goods and
the Iowa feud eliminates Shaw. and
organized labor makes real progress in
It's fight on its pet enemies, two years
may rcVOlutuLize the field of candi-
dates. instead of Taft and Cannon and
Fairbanks ana Shaw, a national con
Vention might find itself confronting a
choice from such a list as Root and
Foraker and La Toilette and Cummins
Hearst, given the New York governor
ship as stepping stone, might become
factor against The conservatized
Bryan.
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