The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-11-19
The Republican Delegates
Must Go Uninstructed
gUT WITH TEDDY'S TIP
,;,o Hundred to Attend Bryan's Din
ner-Ccnatc Committee on Mill
tary Affairs Meets Tomorrow.
The Worlds Finest Pas
Sen9er Station.
Rv THOMAS j. PENCE.

HN EtoNtAo ~
vy-oe,ington. D. c., Nov. 16.-Ad-
r,fnistration leaders who share Presi-
don't Rooscvelts confidence are now
advising their lieutenants in various
c,s+es to work for "uninstructed del
oates to the Republican National
Convention.
This advice is being sent out broad
net 70 any States where Roosevelt
FEDERAL Office holders have been
ratting to get the tip direct as to the
,,febns of the President Realizing
that Secretary Tafts candidacy is sag
ring badly especially in the strong Re
nubIican States from which the eiecto-
raj vote for the party's national nonl-
neee must derived. numerous admin
fztratfon supporters who a short time
ago we're shouting for Taft, now say
that uninStructed delegates from. their
states are preferred and that the ad-
mlnisttatiOn hopes IS friends Will
carry out that policy as widely as pos
sfbe
While no names are mentioned in
this connection, it is intimated on ev-
rrv hand that what Mr. Roosevelt
really is driving at is to secure from
New York delegation, which. while
nTOfessing to be ''uninStructed' Will
he a Roosevelt delegation rather than
q Hughes delegation, pledged to adopt
a5miniStration advisers may decide on
al convention time.
Much complaint is being voiced by
Rerublicans not in sympathy With this
program, because Governor Hughes
and his friends in New York do not
give other States some hope or en-
cnuragement to go in and make a
fzh- for out and out Hughes dele
gates The election of National dele
gates will begin in January. and anx-
i1us eyes have been fixed on New
York for many weeks. watching for
the first sign from some authoritative
source representing Hughes that he
does not intend to let his bright pros
pect of being chosen for the Presiden-
tiaI nomination, go by default
Although it is acknowledged that
strength with the Republicans it is
also contended that no one under the
existing system of party conventions
and the methods Of eIecting national
"alegates can hope to win majority
support. with a well organized Fed
eraI organization AGAINST him and no
organfzed movement for his own en-
dorsement in the various States.
Whether this is true deduction or
MT. it undoubtedly is entertained bv
any party workers in all sections Of
the country, who. as one said TODAY,
want something to tie to-" in a contest
ilency.
That the administration forces are
being we'll organized to resist any ami
all candidates. except srch as meet
with preference at the White House
has been shown again in recent White
House conferences between The Pres
iden& and National Committeeman
Ward. of New York. and Brooker OF
Connecticut. Both of these men. it is
said, were impressed with the desira-
J. L. 1o;,
choose uninstructed delegations to the
National Convention. Thet the Pres
ident and his advisers are piaVing skill
full politics in delicate situation. even
In the Presidents own State. is COM
mented on freely by other politicians
Senator Thomas H Carter, of Monta =
ma. who has been one of the Roose-
Welt spokesmen in Congress, said that
the delegation from his State probably
would go to the National Convention
unnstruCted.
Representative Hale, of Tennessee.
which state elects it's deleFates early
In January. said recently that the Ten
ncssee delegat ton would be for Roose-
EoIt for a third term. 1t is under
stood, however, that through the agen-
ev of First Assistant Postmaster Cen
cral Hitchcock and other Administra-
tion men. Hale and his fellow their
t-rm boomers have been advised to
send delegates without instructions,
Int of course 10 see to it that they are
first of all Rooseveltian.
The Dinner to Bryan.
The dinner to be given in honor of
Hon. VIM J. Bryan in this city No
-eIbCr 26th promises to be a very
Httable affair The occasion will pc
embraced by Mr.. Bryan's friends to
acclaim him as the Democratic noml-
Iee and the next President. and for
this reason a national significance at
'a1hcs to the banquet and reception
4. be rendered the Nebraskan. The
dinner, which will be held in TIE
banquet hall of the Raleigh. was ar
ranged for guests to the number of
5"t. the seating capacity of the dining
halL Every ticket Of admission. for
"Ach Il charge of SO was made, was
sod some days ago, and now there is
. big scramble amongst those who
were left out in the cold, to get in Ut
mis- Democratic feast. A lot of peo-
PIE are going to be disa ppOinted.
senator Rayner, Of Maryland: John
Sharpe Williams, of Mississippi, and
Nl-3FS who are on the program to re-
tH"nd to tOasts. have not always been
al thorough accord with Mr.. Bryan in
ne matter of party policy. He is not
Ser personal choice for the Presi-
t1AeN, but they recognize that he IS
i,N'nce is expected to give unusual
BRYAN
brownsville Affair Again Monday.
me Senate Committee on Military
t7'is. Of which Senator Overman is
a''t'nh@r, and which spent the great
sLdp%, 20 or the spring investigating the
VIII ~ uD' of the town of Browns
-, eXaS. nv negro soldiers of the