Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-08
NEW JERSEY MAY GO
: AGAINST ROOSEVELT
Senator Briggs and Other Prominent
Politicians Are Likely to Line Up
Against the President.

then the party that stands for Mr. RooSe
welt for reelection may as well ask fol
| the abolition of the courts of law, and we
should have statue ,of President Roose
vent dressed as Russian Cossack instead
OF the Statue Of Liberty
Loud applause from the socialists fol.
/ lowed.
secretary to write to President Roosevelt
asking him to withdraw his reference to
Meyer and Haywood.
If the Cap Fits, Says odell.
NEW YORK, April S.-The speech of ex-
Gov. Benjamin B. Oden about political
grasshoppers, paranoi and dishonest seek
ers after political power at the dinner of
the Grillers' Club on Saturday night aroused
great deal of comment yesterday. and
there were anxious inquiries by those who
desired to get from the lips of the former
chairman Of the republican state committee
verification or denial of the statement
that his address was meant as a condemna-
ton of President Roosevelt
Mr.. Odell left town early yesterday MORN
ing and could not be seen by those who
most anxiously sought him here, but be-
fore leaving he had a brief conversation
with friend, in which he made a state
ment supporting the belief that his re-
marks were directed at the President
Il did not use the Presidents name"
said Mr.. Odell to his friend, but If he
believes that the cap fits him he is at lib
erty to wear it. If his friends are ready
to draw any such conclusion from what
said they are at liberty to have that in
mind, too"
Even Roosevelt TiredP
BOSTON, Mass, April Sat the dinner
or the Massachusetts Bar Association last
evening President Roosevelt was discussed
by Lieut.. Gov. Draper and Bishop Law
renee
In the course of his address the lieutenant
governor said:
1--WE are suffering not from bad condi-
lions, but from too much prosperity. We
ought to let our tired brains and disor-
dered fmagnations, which magnify every
thing seen, take a rest. We are tired. even
from the President to the bellboys. We
ought to stop month and take a rest"
Bishop Lawrence said:
Il expected a great deal from this dinner
nut never looked for that perfection of
counsel given by the lieutenant governor
mere this evening. Neither from the pulpit
nor from chair of philosophy have I heard
such advice SO unthinkable, so Improbable
that the President OF the United SHtes
should take rest"
Roosevelt Very Angry.
DES MONIES, April s.-Iowa democrats,
sa'hered around a banquet board to do
hohor TO the memory of Thomas Jefferson.
listened to a eulogy of United States Sen
ator robert M. LaFollette as the greatest
republican reformer, and an excoriation of
PRESIDENT Roosevelt as a reformer who has
mlserably failed, and heard notice sarved
on conservative democrats that that wing Of
the party will not be selected to manage
the presidential campaign next wear IN
cidentalfy William c. Bryan took occasion
TO state that government ownership 10 nor
the paramount issue at the present Tina
but rather the abolishing the watered stool
evil, the curling Of transportation abuses
ana Tightening the burdens of the "aver-
age man.
Representative Champ Clark paid his re-
spects to Judge Alton B. Parker and de-
ciared that If few more kilograms had
been received at the st. Louis convention
Farker would not have run at all.
But we are going to win next wear"
SAID Champ, because Of the disruption in
the ranks of the republican party. Every
gale that sweeps from the east brings to
our ears the clash of republican dfscord
Hartman. recent acquisition to the Liars.
Club. is nearer the idea of republican pres.
dental timber than is Roosevelt
The half was never told about that
meeting of the Gridiron Club. 1 know. be-
cause was there. 1 was sitting a little
ways from the President, and say 1 have
seen Six men meet violent death at diff
1erent times' but l never saw a madden
man than Roosevelt was at that time in
my whole life.''
Wireless Silenced Sherman.
NEW YORK, April s.-Thanks to wire
less telegraphy. the witness cited by both
sides on the issue of veracity raised be-
tween President Roosevelt and E. H. Har-
riman as to the financing of the New York
state campaign of 1904 was silenced yester
day. That witness was Representative
James S. Sherman of this state, who, as
chairman of the republican congressional
campaign committee. is supposed to know
whether or not the President personally an
pealed to the railroad man for the two
hundred-thousand-d dollar subscription which
Is said to have been SO potent a factor in
determining the political destiny of New
York In the year of the national campaign.
Mr.. Sherman arrived in port yesterday on
the Bluecher with Speaker Cannons party
which for the last month has been cruising
the Spanish main. He had in his pocket a
wireless message addressed to him, which
the Bluecher had plucked out of the air on
Saturday night. 1t read:
avoid all political interviews j. O."
Mr.. Sherman didn't seem to know who u.
O." was, but the message was as effective
as if it had been signed ct. R." He shut
up, and stayed shut up.