The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-12-26
CREENvILLE, OHIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26. 1907

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it among the people, their great
er amenability to governmental
control, their increased interest
in governmental affairs, and
their augmented prosperity. Be-
| ginning with his arrival in New
York, Mr.. Taft has received a
continuous ovation and friends
and strangers, statesmen and
private citizens have extended
the heartiest congratulations on
the great work he has done in
promoting harmony between the
United States and Japan, in in
creasing the friendly regard for
this country in China and in ex-
erting a restraining and salutary
influence on the Filipinos. Mr..
Taft is looking in the best of
health and says he has neither
gained or lost in flesh during his
trip. His first evening in Wash.
ington he spent with the Presi-
dent, who had laid aside a great
number of matters on which to
consult his Secretary of War.
Almost the first news which
Secretary Taft heard on landing
in New York was that the New
York County Republican Com
mittee had refused to endorse
Governor Hughes for the presi-
dency. He would not, however,
comment on the occurrence. Gov
ernor Hughes friends in Wash
ington are distressed over the re-
fusal of the New York Commit
tee and they perceive that a
grave mistake has been made,
both by the Governor and by his
friends, in opposing the national
policies of President Roosevelt
and casting thinly yelled filings
at the President S methods. They
now realize the fact that the vast
majority of the. Republican party
stand for the policies of Theo-
dore Roosevelt and that they will
not support a candidate for the
presidency who sneers at them,
even in yelled manner. An
earnest effort is to be made to in
duce the Governor to retract his
sneers and to make some public
utterance in which he will en-
| dorse all of the Roosevelt poll
cies. It is violating no confidence,
however, to say that it is too late
for Mr.. Hughes to make his peace
| with the President. Mr.. Hughes
has cast his lot in with the New
York City Republicans, the men
| who hate Roosevelt because he
has uncovered rascality and made
Wall Street gambling, at least
for the time, improbable. He
has won the support of the Nor
gan newspaper and of the ele-
ment which dominates sentiment
in the Empire City, but unless
there shall be a great react
ionary" movement in the Re-
publican party, Governor Hughes
has lost the confidence and sup
port of the rank and file of the
party. At least that is the gen.
eral sentiment in Washington.
The President and Secretary
Root, Postmaster General Meyer
and Secretary Garfield are all
deeply gratifed at the withdraw
al of Secretary Cortelyou from
| the presidential race. His state
ment is taken to amount to such
a withdrawal and it is believed
that his course will greatly SIM
plify the situation. While the
President has never taken the
Cortelyou boom seriously, and
while even many of the Secre-
tary's own friends have appre-
ciated that he would inevitably
be regarded as the bankers can
didate, some of his less discreet
friends have sought to promul-
gate the entirely erroneous idea
that he was the Presidents Sec
ond choice. The President, how
ever, has clearly indicated to his
| friends. that he has no second