The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-06
TOO BUSY
 FOR HUNDLEY Roosevelt and National
 Politics. LAUNCHING THE TAFT BOOM President Engaged in Getting Things Ready for Convention. strenuous Executive Was Also Stir red up During Week by the Har- riman Charges and Oscar
 Was Left.
By Alfred J stofer

tention of President Roosevelt and his chief advisers to tie up consideration of the appointment of an additional Federal judge for Alabama as provided In the Clayton bill passed at the last session of Congress.
 One--that being the primary cause was the launching of the Taft boom for the presidency. and In the event he could not get that. the Senatorship from Ohio as the successor of the Hon Joseph Benson Foraker, generally recognized here by politicians as the most aggressive fighter today among the Buckeye" State Republicans.
 According to what the best inform ed people say the gauntlet was thrown down by the administration and 1t was quickly picked up by Senator Fora ker. Moreover Senator Dick. who did not used to train with his colleague, is standing firmly by Senator Foraker. and from now until the end of the fight all eyes, 1t is believed, will be turned upon Ohio so far as the Re- publican nomination for the presiden- cy next year Is concerned.
 It should be remembered that Sena- tor Foraker was not in the confidence of the late Senator Hanna and the forces led by him in Ohio. Senator Dick was. If 1t had not been for Senator Hanna Mir. Dick probably could not have secured a term in the House much less succeed the powerful Hanna in the upper branch of Con- gress when that forceful man passed away.
 Hanna-RO0sevelt Contest
 Close observers of political happen ings will remember that some months before his passing away there was a strong movement all over tho country favorable to the nomination of Mir. Hanna in 1904 instead of MT. Roose- welt. and to this day many of the keenest men in the Republican party express the belief that if he had lived Mir. Hanna would have defeated Mir. Roosevelt for the Republican presiden- tiai nomination.
 While this controversy was going on Senator Foraker was aredhot ad vocate of the nomination of President Roosevelt. They were then the clos est of friends, personal and political. Envious persons and others who did not like Foraker declared that he took such a stand because he wanted to be president himself. Realizing that Hanna was in his way in ohio they said he came out for Roosevelt be- cause he could not help himself. Well, all the world knows that Hanna died before test of his popularity for the nomination could be had, Roosevelt was nominated and elected and that chapter of politics was closed. On &C., count of his having espoused his cause President Roosevelt was much more than friendly to Senator Foraker.
 For months and months he was one of the most welcome guests at the White House. Many supposed that after the positive statement on the night of the election in 1904 that Mir. Roosevelt would never run again. that if he elected to dip into politics he was more than likely to favor Fora ker. Taft, the wiseacres of the daily papers and magazines declared, had been slated for the Supreme Court bench. and nothing could induce him to make a scramble for the presiden- cy or any other elective office.
 The average writer had a quiet sus- picion that if Teddy" came out in the open for any one his choice would be Root, but pretty soon 1t began to be whispered around that Secretary Root was too much of a corporation man, he Is a New Yorker besides, and the country. fin the opinion of few mill lions of voters in this country, 1t is commented upon in this town, think there are some other States in the Union besides New York.
 
 The break between President Roose- welt and Senator Foraker occurred when the railroad rate bill was ser iously considered before the Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. MT Elkins. of West Vir- ginia Is chairman of that committed MT. Foraker is leading member of the same committee, and other Republicans on 1t are Messrs. Cullom of Illinois Aldrich of Rhode Island and Crane of Massachusetts. MT. Cullom before he went to the head of the Senate Foreign Relations committee was chairman of the first mentioned. committee.
 Cullom. Clapp and Deliver were the only Republicans on the committee who really wanted to stand by the policy of the President with reference to re- gulating the railroads. And they dif- fered among themselves as to what sort of bill should be drafted, On ac- count of the attitude of the President in this matter the Democrats got them all by the back of the neck. and that Is why the slick MT. Aldrich and the others who sided with him put Senator Tillman in charge of the measure when it came before the Senate.
 Let 1t be borne in mind that when this rate bill was finally passed by the Senate only three members of that august body recorded themselves in the negative. They were the two Ala bama senators and Mir. Foraker And 1t Is universally understood here that such d vote by MT. Foraker caused the falling out between him and the Pres ident
 Tilt With Hartman
 In the first part of this article men, ton was made of two things which caused delay in bringing to head the appointment of an additional Federal judge for Alabama. The second ob- stacle was the lively tilt over cam paign contributions between President Roosevelt and Railroad Magnate Har7 riman. That's the lveliest piece of gossip that has cropped out here since Congress adjourned, and, of course. everybody who takes an interest Tn politics and the affairs of the govern ment has been discussing the matters. The President and the Attorney-Gen- eral were so much agftated that they had to throw aside such a small thing as the selection of an aditional judge ha frfa da