The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-13
He Must Accept Fusion Ticket Or Re publican Ticket
 Will Collapse
PECULIAR SITUATION HAS
 ARISEN IN NEW YORK
Roosevelts We'll Known Antipathy To Hearst Will Stand In the Way of His Accepting Fusion Candidate,
 and There Is the Rub.

Washington, October 12-(Special.) l. Even admitting his utter disregard for being consistent friends of the President here do not see how he can swallow the Hearst republican fusion In New York dictated by his representative. Chairman Herbert Parsons. of the New York re- publican committee. The President has never minced words in speaking of Mir. Hearst. Only last year he sent Secretary Root to New York in behalf of Hughes candidacy, and that official in a memor- able speech full lndorsed by the Presl- dent reiterated the charge that Hearst was practically responsible for McKn- ley's assassination. Much of what he said about Hearst by tho state repub- lcan of New York bordered upon being unprintable and now these same repub- llcans are hand-n-glove with this same Hearst and allow him to name six out of the Il officers to be voted for. Also they denounced from every stump in tho state the alliance the democrats made with Hearst last year. The net result is that the President Is placed in an ex- cecdingly embarrassing position, and as he is not given to lodging he will have to come out for Hearst or repudlate tho action of the New York republicans.
 Edflce Will Tumble.
 If the President repudiates Parsons it of course means the,faillng to pieces of the republican organization for this campaign and puts the fight squarely between tho Tammany ticket and the uearstites. tine regular republicans taking their choice between the two. His indorsement, how ever, would bring into line quite num- Der of republicans but it is very doubt ful if 1t would materially affect the re- suit, consequently 1t will not be sur pIising if the President repudatcs the whole deal
 The surface indications would therefore point to Il democratic victory in New York this year. but it should be bolne in mind that Hearst has a splendidlv equipped organization and all the money that can possibly be used With these n his favor, 1t Is idle to predict his certain defeat
 Former President Moreys Of the New York county republican committee, was in Washington today. and In reply to n question upon his views of the situation from the standpoint of republican. said
 "I think it was a very bad move In every way. combination between the republicans and the men who do linate the Independent league doesn't seem good politics. but the worst of 1t is that 1 7 fear it means the dlsintegration of the republican organization in the county am afraid fl will split our organiza- ton wide open.'
 Blow Against Taft.
 Is some bigger man behind the letter of I. II Whitney to A. l. Norys man ager of the Taft presidential boom. than the Michigan state senator who signs ita This is I question the Taft supporters are asking each other Speaker Cannon has lot of friends in Michigan; so has Fairbanks and Knox and the rest of the standpatters. The letter of State Sen ator Whitney K considered the worst re- buff in the Norys correspondence yet made public. It settles what little hope the Taft managers have had of gain ing support from the thousands of re- puhicans throughout the country who believe that the tariff ought to he left alone.
 It seems that Mr. Noreys has been ad- dressing letters to prominent republican politicians in different states reciting that he is actively interested in Secrs- tary Tafts political welfare, and ex- pressing the hope that he can count upon the receiver as one of the secretarys good friends. Then comes a word or praise for Secretary Taft and request for an answer MT. Whitney took d couple of weeks in answering, starting off by ying that. "It pleases me to state that so far as l know there is practically no sentiment in this immediate vicinity for MT. Taft" and that he cannot support the Taft candidacy He bases his oppo- sition at length upon Taft's tariff reform ideas. and says his policy would bring disaster to the country. He concludes by declaring that the secretary's reference 10 the railroads was unwise and only tends 10 widen the breach between capital and labor. w. s.