Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-27
list of a Dozen From Which
Next President Will Be
Selected
cuMMINs AND SHAW IN 1T
Prospects Bright for an Old Fashioned
National Convention - Corporations
Will Oppose Nomination Of Any Man
Representing Roosevelt Type-other
News.

Roosevelt succeeds in carrying out his
determination not to he a candidate
for re election, he will thereby cause
an old fashioned republican national
convention to be held for the first time
since 1896 The republican nominal
lions were made by reclamation IN
1864, 1858, and 1872. At Cincinnati in
1876 there were seven candidates in the
field and in 1880 there were twice as
Four years later only eight
men came forward for the distin-
gulshed honor, but in 1883 there were
no less than thirteen, while in 1897
there were five and In Mckinley's first
in 1896, the number was
Maine as the leaders in the popular eye.
Since then all the nominations nave
been settled long before the convention
and that body met for nothing more
than the adoption of a platform and
the ratification of the nomination OF
the men whom the people wanted for
president But if Mr.. Roosevelt will
not consent to run again the next con-
vention will see a larger school in the
running than has been seen In any con
vention of either party since 1888.
Those whose names are being mem
toned and who have more or less OF a
outside the president are
these:
Charles E. Hughes, of New York.
Elihu Root Of New York.
George B. Cortelyou of New York.
William H. Taft, of Ohio.
Joseph B. Foraker, of Ohio.
Joseph G. Cannon Of Illinois
Charles w. Fairbanks of Indiana.
Albert B. Cummins of Iowa.
Leslie NJ Shaw OF Iowa..
Robert NJ. La Toilette OF Wisconsin.
Philander c. Knox of Pennsylvania.
Winthrop Murray Crane of Massa-
chusetts.
In case the president is not forced to
take denomination it Is therefore not
that there may be as many as
q dozen balloted for in the convention,
and that the event may be one of the
longest and most strongly contested
in the history of the party. Certainly
the corporation candidates, such as
Fairbanks and Foraker. will not go
into the convention prepared to permit
an easy victory for any one Of the
type the president would suggest for
the honor. No Taft or anyone else
who is that kind of a man. will do
for that school of politics, for a contin-
be the one thing the followers of the
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object to, Anything but that.
Politicians here who are studying the
possibilities are of the opinion that the
tons will be much stronger in
The convention than many people ex-
pect and that if the president refuses
10 permit his name to be considered he
will find it very hard work to transfer
his strength to anyone else. There are
so many instances in history where a
strong man has failed when it came to
an attempt to name his own successor
hat they really have not much fear
hat the presidenta can accomplish it
his time. 1T will either have to be
Roosevelt himself or the convention
will do as it pleases,' they are saying,
and when it comes to putting up a
the opposition will be able
% show the president many things he
las never known before"
The one man the so-called money
powers have most fear of, according
% the talk heard in Washington, is
la Toilette. That peripatetic wonder
s known to be the most vigorous cam
oaigner, seen in this country in many
iears with the possible exception of
Mr.. Bryan. and while they do not APP
pear to be in any great and overpower-
ng dread of him. they do admit that
lie is dangerous to certain extent on
account of the following he is surely
up for himself. That is, they
eel that if any man is liable to SIAM
,ede the convention thru the strength
If his popularity with the common peo-
De- La Toilette is the man. The truth
S that they have found out during the
oast winter that these Chautauqua
alks here, there and everywhere about
he country have given the Wisconsin
RS In addition they have also learned
hat La Toilette is not a mbuntebank
,ut an exceedingly level-headed person,
md one who makes nightly few mis-
axes in the things he advocates, so far
Is hitting the popular chord is con-
.erned
Outside of LaFollette the corpora
ion candidates feel that they have as
,ood show to control the convention
# 1908 as they ever had any conven-
ion, and they are working to the end