Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-05-11
EAST AGAINST WEST
Presidential Campaign to Mark Geo
 graphical Cleavage in Party

Judging from scores of conversations with all sorts of people hereabouts, says Philadelphia correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, it is more or less evi- dent that in the next presidential carl- paign there is to be cleavage between the east and west so far as the Repub' licans are cnocerned, not on candidates but on policies. In fact, the east is fully prepared to accept western man as it's eandidate; it wants one, in fact. It is only on the question of govern mental policy that the two sections are liable to split.
 The great fight in the convention of 1908 probably will be over the platform. The east is conservative; the west is naturally progressive and even radical. The east is manufacturing; the west IS agricultural. The east owns railroads, and the west gives to them their ton mage and their passenger traffic. The east has been made great through the operation of the .paternal protective tar if system. The west is losing foreign markets because of that same tariff, in whose benefits it shares remotely.
 It is not strange, therefore, that the popular point of view should be so diff ferent in Philadelphia and New York from what it is in Chicago or St. Louis. The Roosevelt cult is by no means so dominant in New Jersey as in Iowa. There are lots of people hereabout-- good people, too, Republicans and res pected eitizens-who by no means ap- prove of the present course of the chief magistrate. They do not hesitate to declare that he is "grand stand player" and that, sometimes at least, he is charlatan. Epithets and eriti- eisms which would provoke fight in Chicago or Kansas City frequently are voiced in New Jersey, Boston and Phil adelphia.
 Yet it should be understood now, as it will have to be understood later on, that throughout New England and the Middle States, there is decided feel ing either of doubt or of downright hostility to President Roosevelt and the theory of government he is supposed to represent Part of this is honest eritl- cism. Part of it, however, is fear. The great business interests are undeniably in a condition of mental panic lest Roosevelt should decide to run again for the presidency. They think that four years more of strenuosity will un settle values to such an extent as to ,raa;n;tata Q. 6nanaial erash
 There is a great deal of third term talk in this vicinity, to large extent of the fearsome type. Many large busi ness men have come to look upon Roose welt as a "bogy man," and they are afraid he may determine to succeed himself in the control of the govern ment. Third term sentiment in the east is not at all enthusiastic. On the contrary, there is every reason to be lieve that if President Roosevelt should run again he would lose thousands and tens of thousands of good Republican votes in Pennsylvania, New Jersey Delaware, New York and New Eng land.
 People hereabout are not yet con vineed that anything but great 'na. tional emergency could justify the country in breaking down the feeling against the third presidential term which was originated by Washington and which has been carefully followed by the American people ever since. Most of those who are admirers of Pres ident Roosevelt do not believe tha5 ne can possibly be persuaded into accept ing another nomination. Some of them go so far as to say that if he did so he would surely be beaten and that Bryan would be the beneficiary of this ciola tion of cherished tradition.