The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-12-11
AN AMUSING ORDER.

Albany IN. W Argus, Nov. 25.
h New York Sun lately published
the following Washington dispatch:
"A federal officer close to the Presi-
lent said today that officeholders in
the several states and territories who
may accept election as instructed
Roosevelt delegates would do so only
upon pain of dismissal, but it was
added that there was no objection to
political activity on the part of these
~officeholders il the primary conven-
TONS. The embargo applied, as nearly
as could be learned, only to actual
membership in delegations instructed
for the President. There is no objec-
ton to the election of officeholders Is
delegates instructed for some candi-
date other than the President"
Soon thereafter, substantially the
information above cited began to ap-
pear in other dispatches emanating
from the most reliable cuckoo CORES
pondents on the White House list.
They were drawn out, undoubtedly,
DN IGCtllllN puOlho11Cu AhhA
eating that the majority of the next
Republican national convention would
be federal oficeholders.
Next came the announcement made
on authority of Internal Revenue Com
missioner Capers, after visiting the
White House. that h President had
issued no such restraining order, and
would issue none such; and then on
the heels thereof it is published that
the President had elected Capers to
the Ananias Club, and given out the
following:
1T has been called to my attention
that certain officeholders under your
department have been proposing to
obtain election as delegates to the
national convention advocating my
nomination or proposing my indorse-
ment at state conventions. This must
not be. You will notify SUCH Office
holders as is necessary that their ac-
c%eptance of election is delegates for
the p of their advocating such
Endorsement will be considered a ser
nus NlOillAOh vi OAiSAI ASIg oAN
will be dealt with accordingly"
Directly after the issuance of this
attest pronunciamento, Governor Cur
ry of New Mexico took luncheon with
the President. and this is What he
old the reporters about it:
Il have not talked with the Presi-
dent about his third term boom. No
friend of the President has to. We are
going to have six delegates from New
Mexico, and the six will be instructed
for Theodore Roosevelt. l am not go
ing to be a delegate. and 1 suppose
no federal official will be, but l will
be at the convention %whooping it up
for the President. The IA friends of
the President need no instructions
from him They can go ahead and do
what they think wise and best for ais
interest"
What a funny Illustration of the
mutations and vagaries Of the All Reg
ulator in the White House. But other
wise, what does it all amount to?
Federal oficeholders control the
machinery of the Republican party in
this state, in nearly every Southern
state, and in many other parts of the
country. It will not be at all neces-
sary that they cause their delegate
choosing conventions to instruct for
in case he should decide
to run for a third term; OF the con-
trary, it will require the most abso-
ute and undoubtedly sincere refusal
from aim personally to prevent them
from winding up il the third term
whether instructed or unin-
structed; any tyre in politics knows
that.
At the Saratoga convention of 1906
a majority of the delegates and of the