The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-29
TAFT AND HUGHES.
n.ta Have Oppo~atiom In Home
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 considerabIe mart of the congressioh- ., onnosition to Taft Is a, reflex or tn ID anti-Rooseyelt feeling. Taft is resaro- cd bv the Senators and Hepreseh.a lives as the ,President's man, as tae as he cir of the administration, anu tnoy S ct not feel very cheerful over . tne ,ead. ma Ss' man , in the Presidential race today. Rut a mart of the congressional oppu- ,, sition to Taft is found in the, stu1oy wa dependence of character oh Ine
 are Taft Wfi. is sood-natured laughins, genial at times bubbling. but on sne hill they say he is dictatoS ass,,ses beast; a mat, man who ond a's who & always iooL;ng o,it for the interests or ms denartYnent and of has dear Taipinos ip ,sa Political machines mach Suiids nds . up and helps ,,eintain machines he cares nothing for He is not politician; he Wouto never have a machine 1T dne. ne times Euh Ha would not know what to do with it. Taft's attitude when he goes up 10 Congress seeking s9msthpibnYff, ps hpbYff,nnsnes % 'hs is War Pep pepartmeaad !T aona of care @ a rap about ter. ter, I want 1t because 1t is rishg1; 1;s and it you fellows have iuss tSsy Ho. ,I do. an the end s0 me But when they go down to the War Department and want someuIng nice for one of their constituen...su ..uH ly Hrry are are met fnst w,tn Wouid a'S be s0 permitting poc. to influence our action. We never play politics in the War Department; SAn.s drs do it; Good,dayyi ssantay yivss An1 Wonder In wIners they come in.
 'If Taft has troubles fn ohio and Atxzer denltS tdn ,n S,s seSua o%n statethe Hughes po- Formation p1s aas m1 from from New York is to tbs effect that. while ,s.pu to outs1ders so hs ouiss formida ble. actually there IS no enthuS siasm for him in the Empire state.
 r,.re ,s some unfathomed mystery about the Hughes movement. anywayt It seems to be chiefly in the n,eewspas.. s. pers. The people and the p9i,siciansjs dan gass do not take kindly to d. sort Sah tsst Hughes. s It is a White House theory that they have, or are about to do so. The White House is always alerts ai- ways looking for. conspiracies. But men who usually know what Is going on in New York Say the financiers ana Roosevelt R i and perhaps also to beat Taft because he is Roosevelts choice, cannot make up their minds to go in Tor
 The Governor Is an unknown: They can't get at him. can't size him up. "Why,a they say. If he were to be nominated and elected he might De thousand times worse than Roosevelt himself and with out Roosevelt's hu- maneness and approachability." So we shall have to wait a while to see what the Hughes affair Is going to amount to. It may be formidable and It may flatten out.
 The administration purpose, 1t Is said, Is to force Hughes to declare where he stands on public questions. There Is belief that in regard to the tariff he is a reactionary. against re- vision and in favor of the highest sort of walls imaginable-a man after the heart of the Wilbur Wakeman school of "tariff is sacred" agitators. If these are Governor Hughes's ideas, and he were to express them publicly, 1t would be all day with him in the middle West. And that. 1t is said. Is just what the adn1inistra tion is working for. It is pretty evident that in this most inter- esting and peculiar Presidential game we now have on our hands the man in the White House IS going to play a conspicuous and powerful part. His central and controlling idea Is that his policies shall live and be perpetuated and not be permitted to ferish from the face of the earth.