Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-17
PLANS FOR THE CAMPAIGN
Action to Be Taken Should Foraker
Defeat War Secretary.
NEW YORK MAN TO BE CHOSEN
Conference With Colored Leaders With
View of Recapturing the South
ern Colored Vote.

Not only is President Roosevelt giving
Gov. Hughes of New York all the help
possible in his contest with the legislature,
in which certain reform legislation is
sought, but he is looking forward to the
New York governor possibility for
the republican nomination next year. More
than that, he may go so far as to give
Hughes assistance, under certain con-
ditions, to obtain the nomination. Should
Secretary Taft fail to make Roadway in
his Ohio campaign and Gov. Hughes sue
coed to a considerable extent in getting
what he wants from the legiSla ture, the
President would consider Hughes big
factor in affairs and worthy OF support OF
the strongest kind.
Although the President would be greatly
pleased TO see Big Bill" Taft come out
with flying colors in Ohio and acquire dele
cations from other states with which to go
before the republican national convention
next year, he is not unmindful of the fact
Taft has a tremendous fight on his hands
and may lose out, which would remove him
from the presidential field, unless the PreSi-
dent himself should control enough votes
in the convention to nominate the Secretary
of War.
But it is considered certain that he would
not press his friend should Ohio defeat
Taft in a race for delegates, and he would
turn to some other man who would con-
tinue the policies he has pushed for a
NUMBER OF years. Under contingencies of
this kind he has in mind two New York
men who might fill the requirements he
has set for his successor. Hughes is one
of these and Secretary Cortelyou is the
other. If Hughes wins out with the legis-
lature and Taft loses in Ohio, Hughes may
fall heir to the support of the President.
On the other hand, Cortelyou may be the
lucky man, and it is now regarded as
almost certain that Cortelyou will compete
for the New York delegation with Hughes
should the latter become weighty enough
to be a presidential possibility. Neither
man would have the backing of what is
at present known as the organization men
of the state.
Will Take Hand in New York.
At the proper time the President will be
found taking hand in the fight for dele
gates from New York. He claims that he
has right, as a citizen of the state, to
manifest his interest in all that is going
on politically. In a comparatively short
time his friends, representing him, will be-
gin to shape the fight for delegates. Be-
fore the fight begins, though, Gov. Hughes
will have had opportunity to demonstrate
his strength in the state.
If he is unable to secure the enactment
of the essential features of the policies he
has contended for he may drop out of the
calculations, and the Roosevelt people will
then take up Cortelyou or make fight for
Roosevelt delegates straight, depending on
the word from the President. With Hughes
in the presidential race, and strongly back
ed by the republicans of the state, the
Roosevelt people would probably not under
take to make fight for Roosevelt, and. on
the other hand, might aid the governor, as
already stated.
White House people frankly admit that
the President has more than string
to his fiddle. Right now. Big Bill" Taft
is the bass string, and the President is play
ing that for all 1t Is worth. Should the
string break there are others"
A Movement Among the Negroes.
There are strong indications that the
President GOES not propose to let Senator