Bisbee daily review., 1907-12-05
MAY BEAT HIM
BY BEING FOR
NOMINATION
Plan Of Roosevelt Opponents to
Control Delegates for Him,
and Use Them When He Re-
fuses Nomination.
lPhoenix Democrat.l


Sensational exposures. further IL
Illuminating the famous "$5,000,0oV
conspiracy" recently laid bare through
information emanating from the
White House. are about to be made.
Evidence Justifyfng the CONCLUSIONS
reached by the president when the
story of the conspiracy was first
printed is to be promulgated.
Delegate Bull Andrews of New
Mexico, the former lieutenant of Quas
in political corruption schemes in
Pennsylvania, and now a defendant
in suits brought by the government TO
recover timber and mineral lands in
est developments respecting the
schemes of the Observation-Disclosures
political leaders.
Several United States senators are
also involved. Together they are re-
sponsible for the concerted effort to
obscure the political situation by rails
ing the third-term cry.
From information received by men,
bers of the administration, it is now
the purpose of the reactionary lead
ers to beat the administration by zeal
in behalf of the presidents renomina-
ton and make him the victim Of his
friends.
The purpose is obvious.
Knowing that the president will not
accept a nomination, these men in
tend TO keep their respective states
from considering any candidate
pledged to carry out the policies OF
the present administration by pledg-
ing them to the president himself.
The whole scheme is to take advant-
age of the peculiar conditions Of
public sentiment at the present time
to promote reactionary interests.
Paradoxical as this is, the FEAST
| bility of the plan is not to be doubt
ed Many Americans are not yet
convinced that President Roosevelt
may not be persuaded in the end to
yield to their entreaties and accept
| the nomination or that his statements
| that he is not a candidate are at all
| sincere. When finally satisfied, as
! they no doubt will be, that the presi-
dent was in earnest when he declared
that he would not even consider the
proposition, they would naturally
turn to Secretary Taft as the man
| best equipped and most certain to
carry on the schemes the President
| has started.
To prevent this, it is now the pur.
! pose of the reactionaries to urge
| along the third-term movement. An
nouncing their loyalty to the Presi
dent, they will endeayor to conceal
their real purpose.
That purpose is to procure Roose
yelt-instructed delegates of their OWL
selection: Delegates thus chosen, II
is figured, can be turned to any can
| didate the reactiOnaries may center
upon. If they were chosen by the
people themselves they would un
doubtedly, after finding that the
President is deaf to all overturei
looking to a third term, turn only tt
the candidate who could be relieC
upon to continue the Roosevelt poll
cies.
But such delegates would be beyonC
control of the politicians. The rea
aim is TO obtain a majority in tbs
convention that will be susceptible u
such influences as they can bring t.
bear upon them. So, as the countr!
is unqestionably overwhelming in it!
support of the President, it is be
lieyed that the only way in which thi
sentiment may be beaten is in tbs
manner described.
'Bulr' Andrews comes into the mat
ter because the scheme is first to BIZ
tried in the territory of New Mexico
Andrews will himself be in charge o
the work, and he is the most blatan
Of all the third-term shouters.
1t is only necessary to consider tht
record of Andrews TO determine hov
little IN common there is between hin
. and the President, and how little sucl
man can really want to see th'
President elected again.
But as a pretended Roosevelt lntllI
Andrews can probably name the dele
gates from his territory. and tAe mel
he names can in the Fery nature 0
| things be relied upon to vote as An
| drews tells them to.
In states where the Roosevelt sent
ment is strong, and the people ar
. not particular how the delegates ar
chosen, provided only they declar
themselves for Roosevelt, the schem
is expected TO work as smoothly as il
New Mexico.
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