Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-12
WILL NOT RUN AGAIN
FORMER PRESENTATIVEW ADS-
WORTH TO QUIT CONGRESS.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
GENEESO, N. Y, July 1.-THE dark
clouds which last fall lowered over the
house of Wadsworth are not yet buried
meath the bosom of autocratic power For
a time bossism is bent to earth and the
people are alert lest it spring back to
be more arrogant than ever This applies
to democratic as we'll as republican ma
chine leaders. Both are under the ban of
popular disapproval and likely to stay
there for a year or two at least. Both
machines in western New York are wrecks
blown to pieces, with most of the cogs
out of business, am those that are running
grinding against each other to their own
destruction.
The most important piece of news at his
time is that former Representative James
w. Wadsworth will not try to run again
for that or any other Office. Perhaps
equally important is the fact that Young
Jimmy" as the scion of the house is af-
fectionately called, will he sent back to the
assembly without opposition. There was
talk of preventing this. Plans had bee
laid to take from the speaker the nominal
ton and failing in that to run an independ
ent republican with the democratic ndorse-
ment This easily could have been done,
and in the present temper of Livingston
county against the house of WadswOrth
would have succeeded beyond question. The
fact that the county this spring elected a
democratic board of supervisors for the
first time in it's history is evidence of its
disposition. Such result vas entirely due
to the determination of the people to put
an end to Wadsworth political methods
forever.
1t is against these methods rather than
against the two representatives of the
line that the voters have rebelied. In fact,
the people of the section intensely
prou of this fine old family, with its gen
erations of able men from the beloved
general of the civil to the rough
rider of San Juan.
The Presidential Question.
The distinguished public services of Sec
rotary Taft are appreciated. but he has
not yet developed any personal strength in
these western counties. He would
doubteGly poll large republican vote if he
became Mr. Roosevelt's candidate, but he
would not get the full party strength as
things look now.
Will Not Stand for Machine.
Mr.. Roosevelt's own strength is itself
purely personal. 1t cannot be transferred.
1t is already clear from ten days study
of political conditions in a dozen western
counties, all republican, that Roosevelt
himself is the choice of the voters and
that next comes Hughes. Any attempt of
some of Mr.. Roosevelts overZealous friends
to deliver delegates for Mr.. Taft will pro-
woke that independence of spirit that Rep
resentative Wadsworth created and let
loose last fall. 1t is surely on tap.
The voters love the President, but they
won't stand a Roosevelt machine any more
than they will a Wadsworth machine.
According to report here the President
has been magnanmous. Plans were laid
to retire Young Jimmy this fall and his
fathers machine agents got very nervous
The holding of the legislature in pro-
longed session for personal reasons was
not approved by the county. They ex-
tended the olive branch to Judge Carriers
friends, and said there was no reason why
the judge should not have the vacant seat
on the supreme court bench in the seventh
judicial district, and that if the speaker
was allowed to go to Albany again without
a fight all opposition to Judge Carter's pref
erment would be withdrawn and he would
be Endorsed unanimously by the republicans
of Livingston county