The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-12-04
PLANS TO UP
SET ROOSEVELT
FIGHT BEGINS TO PREVENT HIS
NAMING HIS SUCCESSOR IN
1908.
INSURGENTS cApruaE souTA
Campaign Already Well Under Way
For Control Of the convention-old
Guard Expected TO Retake New
2 York-Foraker Chief Leader.

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from controlling the next Nations
Convention and handing the successio
down to Secretary Taft OF some othe
man chosen by himself, has begun. b
fore January Is far advanced the de-
velopments In the ante-convention cor
test will probably have uncovered tn
situation to considerable extent.
No candidate has been agreed upon
nor will any be. The present move
meHt Is started by the old guard Il
prevent the Presidency from being
treated as legacy. 1t is the fielt
against the heir-apparent.
Senator Foraker's use of the Browns
vile incident was move in the frs
part of the game, the attempt to cap
ture that great asset of the Republi
can Convention-the vote of the
Southern delegates. The debate on the
Foraker resolution Is likely to un.
cover to some extent those of the anti.
Roosevelt-Taft combination who are
not afraid of publicity at this stage
of the game.
However, 1t has come to light that
the plan to hold the convention open
has proceeded much farther. In fact,
so well has the work been done that
President Roosevelt has already lost
control of the organization in the
South. The old Hanna guard has cap
tured it while the Roosevelt men slept
Old Crowd Lining Up.
The sudden change in the tactics OF
conservative Republicans has brought
the little politicians of the country,
and some of the big ones, tumbling in
to Washington to see what it means.
Reduced to the ranks by Roosevelt,
compelled to accept new rules of war
fare, ordered to turn their weapons
on their old allies of many cam
paigns, the corporations, these Repub.
lican veterans of the Hanna days have
been watching impatiently for the
time when it woISbd be safe and prof
liable to desert to the insurgents.
But the insurgent leaders, Foraker.
Aldrich Scott, Elkins, Hartman, Cox,
of Cincinnati; Blythe, of Iowa, the reb-
els in the Senate and the insurrectos
out of 1t, gave no open encourage
ment to recruiting. They were oper-
ating with small bands and under Gov.
err of the jungle, raiding the rate bill
one day, attacking meat inspection |
at a far-distant point on another,and |
hiding their arms and pa
rading into town as peaceful amigos |
the next, to meet in State convention |
and take the stump with eloquent In
1orsement of Roosevelt in their
llouths.
But with the meeting of Congress
ifter successful campaign conduct
ID in the name of Roosevelt to insure
heir party majority in the next
House, there was sudden lombard
nent of the White House with heavy
,atteries firing Brownsville ammuni-
ion. Thia-bombardmen has increas.
d in violence every day.
Foraker and the faithful "Scotty,"
he West Virginia Senator, who was
ne of Hanna's Field Marshals, have
Ioisted what ahey assert is the real
oval Republican standard on Capitol
I'LL. And the flocking politicians
ave been assured that the real war
or control in 1908 has begun. Cox, of
incinnati, was one who came and de-
arted satisfied.
Capture OF the South.
The situation, as described to these
lquiring visitors by the Republican ,
ebels, is as follows:
The President is not candidate, :
ut will try to make Taft his success
IT; Foraker, Dick and Cox have Ohio
swed up so that Taft cannot secure
s Endorsement; the old guard will re-
lpture New York shortly. Fairbanks :.
Is Indiana, Cannon. Illinois, and the :
d crowd has quietly taken possession :.
the South; no decision has been !,
ached as to a conservative candidate, "
1t within a year will be formed .
of their forces to get to- :
'ther against the common enemy i
It'll the convention meets, when the :,
um will be awarded by caucus or =
me other method. -
The capture OF the South is the ~
ost interesting part OF the prelimi-
ry campaign. so far revealed and -
ALBANIA particularly furnishes q beau =
III insight into the methods of the !"
IN whom Hanna taught to play poll :
s all the time. The Administration u'
serenely confident that It controls
> Republican organization Of Ala :.
ma. twenty-five members of the ~