The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-07-06
A Room THAT LIVED.
McKinley's Candidacy was Early An
nOunced-A Hint to Taft.


Washington political news, in the alb
sence of anything positive in other
quarters, naturally gets rather pro-
nounced administration coloring-
and proadministration" means little
else than a Taft tinge as far as pres
idential possibilities in the Republi-
can party are concerned. Up to date
President Roosevelt has not openly es-
poused the cause of any aspirant for
the nomination, but he makes no eff
fort to conceal his present preference
for his secretary of war-unless of
course, the "call" should come to him
self irresistibly-a1 although 1t is not at
all incenceivable that, if some other
fairly representative Republican were
some fine day to betray affection for
the Rooseyeltian policies" and to
present strong Availability" william
H. Taft might then and there begin to
wonder what he was ever begun for
If SO soon he was done for" The Oys-
ter Bay disposition is said to be to let
everything lag until just prior to the
regular meeting Of the Republican ma
tional committee next December, when
a determined effort would be made to
put the committee on a thoroughly adj
ministratton basis from top to bottom
and thus be in good form early in 1908
for handling the Taft boomer any
other boom that the administration
might at that particular time be ambi-
tious to promote. In this connection
late bulletin from the national capital
is interesting.
General James IS. Clarkson, who may
play an important part for the admin
istratlon, particularly in the south. was
here last week In conference with Sec
rettary Cortelyou. He expressed the
opinion, based upon a long political ex-
perience, that the early boom general
ly died a-bornln'," and observed that
next year would be early enough to be-
gin work
Let it be trusted that the chairman
of the Republican national committee
in lS92--the second of the only two
campaigns that have swept the Repub-
liean party out of power during forty
six years--has here been misquoted. He
must know a boom when he sees it.
And the most conspicuous +early boom"
in recent american history-presiden-
tial boons are here referred to- Of
course-was that which had its incip-
iency as far back as 1893 ANA its frui-
ton in landing William Mckinley of
Ohio in the White house on March d.
1897. 1t was the most carefully nursed,
the most industriously and most sys-
tematically promoted boom of record
in the politics of this country. And
yet Thomas Bracket Reed of Maine
and his friends either did not actually
sense its growth and strength and ire
sistibility until the very eve of the st.
Louis convention in 1896, or else they
affected not to; for when Hon. Joe
Manley, already on the ground in the
convention city, wired the Maine dele
gates en- route, Everything here Is
Mckinley" they branded him forthwith
as political traitor: and Sam" Fes-
sender of Connecticut was so terribly
cut ap by the dsquieting news that
he made the telegraph wires into the
Manley headquarters fairly hiss out this
answer: God Almighty hates quit
ter, joel In short, the Reed men-and
there We're nlyrlads of thern-had put
off the organization of his boom so
long that Hon. Mark Hanna had left
them not even a scrap to make It out
of.
Better an early boom that dies a
bornin' than one that never gets gen
Grated at all! Secretary Taft's pro-
moters have practical lesson in dele
gate-getting in the history Of the Han
na-Osborne system of 1S94-S5. McKin-
ley could not have secured the 1896
nomination through any other means.
The early boom IN adroit hands
was his only chance.-New York Com
mercial,