The Washington herald., 1907-07-27
AT THE HOTELS.

cant contests. The real cause Of the con-
vocation is the desire OF the Taft fellows
TO force a resolution announcing the Sec
retary OF War as OhiO's only candidate
for President.
1T is doubtful If such a resolution can
be showed through, even with the millions
OF money that is packing Taft
"All there ever was TO the Taft senti-
ment IN Ohio was a popular belief that
Roosevelt wanted Taft as his successor.
Recently that idea has been disslpated.
Slowly but surely the Ohio Republicans
are finding out that the President IS not
SO eager for the Secretary. and IS disap-
pointed that Taft has had to fight for the
Ohio Endorsement Then. too. Foraker
has gone into the battle with his old-time
fighting vigor His admirers resent the
demands Of Burton and others that Fora
ker must be eliminated. It IS recalled that
Foraker has fought for his every election
TO Office, while Taft has been handed Of
fee by appointment because he had rich
half brother who married a few millions
and owned a newspaper. The reaction Is
setting IN for Foraker, and by this time
next year Taft viii be out OF It.
He Is for tariff revision as an 'ssge for
next year. yet his sponsor, the President,
gave out through Senator Hopkins the
other day a stand-pat talk that praeti-
eally eliminated Taft from the running
Take heed, too. that the Taft man
ayers in Ohio have been promising Fed
eral Jobs. pOst-ofices. &c, 70 members
Of the committee IN return for the Taft
Endorsement All this looked good % the
venai ones for 4 time. and then they woke
%. They discovered that the Taft man
sgsrs could not deliver the goods and that
Foraker and Dick. in the Senate. could
prevent conarmauons Then, Il was made
clear that Corielyou would be a caudi-
date. and that his friend Hitchcock
would appoint pOstmasteTs other than
Taft men, that Capers. as Commissioner
II Internal Revenue. would control that
service f0r C0rtely0u-and the aspirants
Eaw nothing in sight from this admins
tration. Hence they have weakened on
Taft, especially as he seems 20 lack the
Roosevelt backing. which. indeed, was al
that ever made TAFT candidate"
Hon. D. Il AIassle. OF Chllicothe. Ohio.
who used % De In the state senate. where
he made a fine record, has spent the
major part Of the past 1--WE years in Cuba.
He arrived in Washington yesterday
from that country, and IN conversation
with Herald reporter, recited a good
many interesting facts about the island
and its people. Senator Massie's grand
father. BY the way. was a native Of Vir-
ginla. and was the founder Of Chilli
cothe.
The Cubans." said he, "are thriving
and the bulk OF the people appear quite
contented with the regime OF American
/ control. Some Of them may be impatient
10 get the governmental reins in their
own hands but they acquiesce very
gracefully in the wise and benefcent ad-
ministratiOn Of Gov. MagO0n The gov
ernor IS making al excellent executive.
He is throwing his whole sui into the
building Of good roads which viii make
his memory blessed for generations, for
good roads are the greatest need Of the
island
THE Cubans are very clever politicians.
The two men who appear 10 be the
/ greatest political chieftains are Alfredo
Zayas and Jose Miguel Gomez. and one
or the other is apt 10 be voted into the
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chance TO run their own government
They are both of the Liberal party. Zayas
| is a lawyer. highly educated and greatly
respected. Gomez IS more Of man OF
the people His popularity was enhanced
not long ago by a curious circumstance.
/ He was a spectator at a cock fight, near
/ Havana, and as this form Of sport had
/ been prohibited the affair was rudely
/ interrupted by the police. and Gomez was
/ put under arrest with all the rest. IN
stead Of hurting him the incident added
greatly TO his prestige.
a good many Of the American colony
| are doing splendidly in Cuba in a finan-
cial way. One man who has made a lot
/ OF money is former Congressman HawIey.
/ Of Texas. Mr.. Hawley is presiden: OF
company that has an immense and highly
! productive sugar plantation in Santa
+ Clara province, the yearly profits Of
which are hign UP in the thousands"
! when that shrewd fnancier, John ".
Gates. predicted that Birmingham would
at no distant day be the largest and
most important inland city in the United
States. he knew what he was saying"
remarked Mr.. Martin J. Lide, an cleo
/ tricaI engineer. Of the Alabama metrop-
! oils. at the Arlington.
Mr.. Gates prophecy is coming true
very rapidly, for I do not believe that
these is any doubt but that in natural
/ resources Birmingham oUtclasses every
/ town south Of the Potomac. 1t is to-day
making iron cheaper by g a ton than it
/ is made anywhere else in the world It's
mills and furnaces are running day and
night, and the entire output Of its steel
rail plants for the next eighteen months
/ has been sold. Birmingham rails by the
way, bring more in the market than do
any others, because Of their solid and
durable character.
The town is scarcely in the infancy OF
/ its development II has been less adver-
tised. considering its merit. than any
I place in the United States. but this back
wardness is not to last. We are forging
/ 10 the front faster than at any time in
I the history of the community. and in a
snort while viii have three new railroad
connectiOns-the Atlanta, Birmingham
and Atlantic, the Illinois Central. and the
I Mobile and Ohio. Plans are being made
! for the construction of mammoth new
union station, TO cost about 81 800, COO.
which viii give the town the finest ter
minal Improvements Of any Southern
city"
IF the people OF Tennessee only had
chance to vote for United States Sena-
tor to-day. Edward W. Carmack would
| beat any man who might run against
/ him for the place by $1,000 majority. said
Mr.. R. z. Hunter, of Memphis. at the
! Shoreham.
Our people will be sOTTy till the end OF
time that they turned down this man. for
/ they now realize that in intellectual bril-