Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-06

VIVA TAFT RETAIN suPPoRTs
Believed President Will Support Him
Earnestly on Partisan Lines-1ryan
Said to Have Selected chanIer as
4 His Running Mate-The Presidential
Situation to Date.

tary Taft,s return from his tour
around the world, President Roosevelt
viii write to him letter for publlca-
ton in which the president will set
forth plainly his attitude toward the
third term movement. washington IS
considerably divided in opinion as to
3 whether or not the president IN this
letter will announce Enthusiastically ms
determination not to accept the NOM
ination. Politicians here Of all grades
1 are looking Forward to this letter with
as keen interest as they do the results
4 Of elections. While the majority OF
them are strongly Of the belief that
the president will leave the third term
question open in his letter to Judge
Taft, still they have learned that the
president will earnestly support the
Taft candidacy.
"A That Mr.. Roosevelt desires the CAM
paign OF next year {. to. be conducted
strictly along party lines, In spite OF
the nom partisan spirit he has been
displaying for the past few months, IS
Ii shown by his vehement reputation OF
fusion effected between the republi-
cans in New York City and the Hearst
Independence League on the county
I ticket. This is interesting as throwing
an illuminating sidelight upon the
presidents purposes and attitude TO-
ward 1908. 1t has been favorite the
DRY OF the third term boomers that
the president would accept renomina-
ton in order to fuse into q militant
following all OF the independent ele-
,nents in the country. "A corollary OF
this theory has been that by such
( fusion he would smash the solid
south, and thus effectually wipe out
the last vestiges Of sectionalism. But
his violent denunciation Of fusion IN
the local New York campaign that has
lust been brought to q close demon-
srrates that his mind is strongly set
against the non partisan currents
which his course may have stimulated.
His intimate, personal and political
friend, Herbert Parsons, member OF
congress from one of the silk stocking
districts of New York, is chairman OF
the republican, committee OF New
York county. It was the presidents
influence that put the inexperienced
Mr.. Parsons in the position. When Mr.
parsons effected fusion with the
s Hearst elements on the county ticket,
he gave It out that he had done SO at
the presidents behest At that time
President Roosevelt was in the cane
breaks Of Louisiana, hunting bear. AS
soon as the president emerged from
the canebreaks and learned what had
happened in New York he violently re-
pudiated the Parsons fusion move
ment. This action on his part has
quite upset the calculations OF the pol
4 iticians here as to the presidents ul-
innate purpose, because it convinces
them that Mr.. Roosevelt is still q ro-.
bust partisan. BY the same processes
of reasoning, they have reached the
conclusion that he will turn a deaf ear
to all opportunities to accept renom-
ination as a non-partisan, for that Is
what It would amout to should he con-
sent to lead his party next year.
The news has reached Washington
from New York that after William
Jennings BRYAN had made q complete
tour of that state week before last
he gave his friends there and else
where to understand that should ne be
Snominated next year as the democrat
lie standard bearer, he would want
Lieutenant Governor Lewis Stuyvesant
%Chanler as his running mate. He is
said to have told everybody who has
"a right to his confidence that he has
not yet made up his mind as to wheth-
er or not it will be best for his party
Ito nominate him. At the same time
he acknowledged that the pressure
on him was so strong from the big
and little democratic leaders In the
close states in the middle west that
out Of consideration for their interests
he might have to accept his party's
nomination. Loyal followers of the
Nebraskans in Ohio. Indiana, Illinois,
Missouri and Kentucky have repre-
scented to him that he owes 1t to them
to lead the party in 1908, even If by
so doing the result should show that
he made a great personal sacrifice.
They have told him that his name at
the head Of the ticket will bring out
a greater democratic vote in their
states than will that Of anybody else,
that this will help them in their local
fights, and will be certain to hold a
half dozen or more congressional dis
tricts.
It is not known whether Mr.. Bryan's
alleged desire for Governor Chanler
to be named as his running mate has
been communicated to the New York
er. Nor is it known how Governor
Chanler would receive such SUCCESS
ton. He is earnestly in the race for
first place on the ticket, and altho the
relations between himself and Mr.. |
Bryan are very cordial, it is believed
here by some democrats well ac-
quainted with both men that the New
Yorker would somewhat petulantly re-
sent the Nebraskan's offer to relegate
him to second place. It is said that
while travelling thru the south week
or ten days age, Governor Chanler |
was met by many of the southern dem
ocratic leaders and assured by them
OF their desire for him to make fight |
in their respective states for the dele
cations After his speech in Atlanta, |
the New York man received assurances
from numerous democratic congress-
men that If he would openly lead a
revolt against Mr.. Bryan, they would
lend him aid thru their district organ
izations. Governor ChanIer's friends
say that he declined all proffers of this
kind. and told them that unless they T
cared to come out in the open now
ASd support him that he would havel