The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-05-10
GOSSIP FROM
WASHINGTON
POLITICAL PROGRESSES FROM
THE CAPITAL CITY.
Roosevelt And The Third Term. That
Alleged Conspiracy.

Alleged Conspiracy.
Special correspondence Of the Herald
WASHINGTON, d. c., May 9Th
thing that lies nearest the democratic
heart just now, from a national stand
point, is the coming election, mex
August, in the new State of Okla
homa.
Unless the President turns down thu
new state constitution recently made
by a convention largely democratic
in membership, and which he will no
do, there will be an election down
there in August for a whole State
ticket. judicial ticket, legislative tick
ct, which legislature elects two Uni
ted State Senators, and five members
of the lower house of the Congress
The democrats are anxious to make a
clean sweep of the entire board, but
they have a fight ON their hands and
they must work to win the victory.
1t should be the desire of every demo
crat in the country to see the new
State come into the Union as a demo-
cratic State, and it should be his pleas
ure as well, to help toward that end.
l will tell him how he can help.
Chairman Griggs, of the Democratic
Congressional Committee, here, has is
sued a call for one dollar subscrip-
tions to send to the State Chairman
of the new State of Oklahoma, to as
sist our brethren down there. Let
every democrat who reads this send
in his dollar to "Chas. A. Edwards,
Secretary, Democratic Congressional
Committe, Washington, d. c." He
will receive a receipt for the same
which he can transmit to his children
as an heirloom to show how he helped
to make Oklahoma democratic, and he
may be proud of it. A dollar is not
much to you who reads this, but the
aggregation of dollars will help the
boys down therewho are fighting the
battle of their lives with the whole J
of the republican administration
against them.
Send in your dollar.
All political conversations in the
national capital, these days, are con-
fined chiefly to the muddle in the
republican party anent the Taft boom
and the Presidents attitude thereto,
a third term for Teddy and the row he
has kicked up over the Hartman mat
ter and the accusation against the
imprisoned miners out in Utah.
The correspondence between Roose-
Jelt and Hartman was the sensation |
If day or two here, but when it got t
lncomfortably warm for Teddy and {
people begun to ask questions and |
Joint out that the President had de- (
ibrately cut out some parts of the i
etters he had written to Hartman t
# vice versa, and that Hartman had t
vidently told all the truth and that t
Roosevelt had not, the latter side j
topped quicker than wink. He sent Il
Or whole bunch of newspaper cor b
espondents here and told them huge s
story about five mil il
on dollar conspiracy to defeat him il
nd his policies and had it sent broad in
lst over the country. Of course, IL
lat stopped all talk about the Harri-
an correspondence and everybody n,
ent to talking about the great al pl
ged conspiracy to defeat the great de
AM and it was intended to have re
st exactly that effect. AS | fire. of
ently remarked previously, Mr.. de
)osevelt is a good politician and wi
ows how and when to get to the pub tn
with something he wants the pub re
to talk about. He did exactly the Pr
me thing year ago last winter. In
hen he got into that tangle with tn;
Ilman, Bailey and Chandler con- ca
ming the railroad rate bill and off
me out of It with some OF his tail fro
thers plucked, he Immediately col
itched the talk to the beef barons a
l the meat packers Of the country pre-
showing up the report of his spec An
commissioners, who said that the or
liking houses were filthy and need |
reforming whole lot, and hence dec
cry for the cleaning bill passed sir;
the Congress. The packers may +
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