Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-12
THIRD TERRIERS AGOG
RooseveIt's E mphatic State.
ment Arouses New Workers.
HUGHES THORN IN THE SIDE
Machine Leaders Afraid of His
Party Standing.
STRONG HOLD WITH MANY
HUGHES THORN IN THE SIDE
STRONG HOLD WITH MANY
Alleged Feeling of Opposition to
Presidents Efforts to Control
Delegation to Chicago.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, December 1.-THE situa-
ton in the republican party in the state
and throughout the country was complete
ly upset over night by President Roose-
velt's emphatic statement that he will not
accept a nomination for a third term.
Many republicans expected such a state
ment, others did not, but none expected II
at this time, after the President failed to
speak out to the members OF the republic
can national committee when they called
OIL him last week.
The Presidents announcement has al
ready created CONSERVATION among the re-
publicans In this state. A majority Of the
machine leaders do not want Gov. Hughes
reelected to his present office and they
do not want him as a candidate for the
nomination for President next year. They
had the word of the governors friend.
Senator Alfred r. Page, that Hughes
would not accept a denomination, so q
third term movement was organized to
prevent any instruction of delegates to the
national convention. The third term BOOM
ers are now all at sea and will be until
they get a tip as to what candidate the
President favors. If Il Is Taf... taen the
Issue will be Taft against the field, ana
the patronage-loving machine. building
and oiling republicans from Maine to CAL
ifornia will be falling over one announcer
In q mad scramble to get on the pahd
wagon.
President in the Game.
No republican politician who knows
President Roosevelt believes that the
President Is going to stop playing politics
for a minute until the Chicago conven-
ton has adopted a platform and nomi-
mated candidates. They believe that the
President will bend all his energies and
use all the power Of his great office to
name as his successor a man who Will
carry out his policies. Will that man be
Taft? republicans everywhere are asking.
ing.
For months the country has been told
from Washington day by day that the
administration was backing the candi-
dacy Of Taft, but through all the pages
of words sent out there Is nowhere even
an indication that the President has ever
told any one in SO many words that he
was for Taft.
Republicans who have watched and
studied the situation for months say that
the Taft boom has hit the country with
as much force and effect as light Sep
TENDER frost. In his own state of Ohio
there Is a bitter fight against him. led by
Senator Foraker. who is himself candi-
date for the nomination for President.
Not Bound to Taft.
While the Taft boom has moved as q
boom inspired whenever it moved at all.
there is nothing-not one word-in all
Washington record that need deter the
President for a moment from making
Secretary Cortelyou. Speaker Cannon,
Gov Hughes or any other republican his
political legatee,
,cretary Taft is due in this country
Saturday from his tour of the world and
developments for and against his candI-
dacy may be expected to come thick and
fast. II he cannot hold his own state and
capture a good many delegates from the
early state and district conventions, IL is
expected that another man will be Sc.
lected to carry out my policies"
The republican situation in this state is
expected to become turbulent in short or
der. There are many republicans of influ-
ence who will go to work at once and
with vim to make Gov. Hughes a candi-
date for the nomination for President I'M
less the governor positively forbids such
action. There Is no Taft sentiment in the
state. He is practically unknown to the
republicans Of New York. There is a
Widespread feeling of opposition to the
President trying to control the state dele
CATION to help him name his own sue
csssor The state organization, or So
called machine. is thing of shreds and
patches, with none to lead 1t and none to
drive If the friends of Hughes ara NOT
stopped by The governor. the - called
state organization will fall In lin. in q
hurry. because there will be nothing else
to do.