The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-12-04

organization politics, First Assistan
Secretary Hitchcock sent forth quietl,
a letter which explained that post
masters could be members of politica
committees If that service did not in
terfere with their duties. So tn,
twenty-five members of the Alabama
Committee who were postmaster
withdrew their designations from thai
committee which they had written.
1t was then that the old Hanna
guard in that State quietly organized
boiling organization. Last fall the
Roosevelt men feared to put their
tenure of power to the risk of State
convention and neglected to call one
Nor did they take other means to put
a ticket in the field. The Hanna Re-
publicans took prompt advantage of
this tactical error.
They nominated a ticket by means
of a mass-convention, and by the de-
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Alabama, it went on the ballot under
the Republican emblem as the regular
Republican ticket The insurgent or
ganization, therefore, has legal auth
ority of the highest for demanding that
its delegation to the National Conven-
ton in 1908 be recognized as regular.
In Mississippi, another State which
the Administration is satisfied it con-
trolls, an anti-Roosevelt boiling organ
ization has been formed on the Ala
lbama pattern, although progress has
been slower. Tennessee is in the hands
of H. Clay Evans, who has no friendly
feeling for Roosevelt His lieutel-
ants have been keeping elbow touch
with the work of the old guard else
where in the South. Arkansas is held
by General Powell Clayton, who was
pried loose from the fat Mexican Am
bassadorship by President Roosevelt,
much to his disgust
Shaw Still Factor.
Strange as, it may seem, Shaw con-
trolls Virginia and Florida. Represen-
tatiye Slemp too, who is boss of the
Virginia organization, is with the old
guard as against Roosevelt Republi-
canism. And while Shaw has been
eliminated from fine race by losing |
control of Iowa, he will be in a posi- |
ton and in mood to help deliver his |
goods to the enemies of the man |
who unceremoniously hustled him out |
of the Cabinet.
Yerkes, Commissioner of Internal |
under, Roosevelt, but an old
lieutenant of Hanna, has Kentucky
The old crowd say he will march with
1t when the time comes. In a less
way the old crowd has
worked quietly into power in the Car
)linas and Georgia. Texas lies in the
hollow of Col. Cecil Lyons hand. He
s a strong friend of President Roose-
yelt, it is true but he is also ambitious
o be power in National politics. For
orn hopes are not in his line, says the
Insurgents.
Insurgents in Ohio.
So much for the South. The insur-
,ent analysis of the situation in Ohio '
hows the practical nature Of the anti |
roosevelt system of politics. Their t
eaders point out that Foraker and +
)ick captured the organization by +
afe margin at the State Convention /
ast fall. This organization commit \
ee will issue the call providing for the d
lethod of selecting, National Conven- v
on delegates for 1908 II necessary 6
hey can direct the various county a
majority of which are
leirs, to select those delegates. It is h
leefully emphasized, in short, that t;
lie organization is in position to dis W
gard any Taft sentiment by mere n
)ters in Ohio, If there is such a SEN *
ment by 1908. The insurgent cam ei
,ign textbook contains just two SEN al
nces Ell
"A retiring President has made all CT
$ appointments and he has no pow al
to punish Roosevelt, as retir- oil
& President, can nominate nobody It
1t himself, and he is not 'candi- rs
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