The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-06-27
Special - The Caucasian.


Washington. ID. e, June -, 1897. -
Secretary Taft returned from has tsS" !
week : western trip looking the PIE
ture ot robust health
When asked about the report that
he was III bad health and that =
might Withdraw from the presidential
race he said that his health was iinc.
aud that a. to the presidential race.
that he had neger announced that ie
was a candidate that be saw no rea-
son for sim 10 either confirm or deny
any stories lie said that the people
were unusually alert 10 the great H.
sues involved that they would be SURF
10 select the candidate they wanted.
Taft For Roosevelt For a Second
Term.
In this connection II should b.
stated that Judge Taft thinks that
the President should yield to the
general public demand and agree a.
serve his country four years more -n
the White House.
West Virginia Also For Roosevelt.
The Attorney general of West NIr-
einia. Hon. {. Y. May, often comes
| To Washington on matters In which
his Commonwealth is involved. He i
Young man who has built up an ex
| ccllent reputation, and his friends say
| his public career has only begun. He
was prosecuting attorney of Lincoln
| county, a member Of the State senate,
and, for two terms. president Of that
| body. In an interview in the Wash
ington Herald yesterday Mr.. May
said:
| .'It IS idle to assert that President
Roosevelt s own disinclination to run
again can prevent his denomination to
the Presidency. Nobody questions
the sincerity Of the President, but
how is it possible for him to decline
that which a united party tenders I
No man ever did, no man ever will
renounce a nomination that means
election to the greatest Office in the
world. The President will simply be
forced to run second time, because
it seems as certain as fate he will be
chosen by acclamation in the Republi-
can convention. The convention will
not wait to get any word from him
as to his own desires i'll the matter.
1t will nominate him and adjourn,
snd the people WILL do the rest
This is the concensus of opinion
that one hears here every day at tie
hotels from prominent men, from one
end of the country.
North Carolina Declared For Rooso-
velt Again Over Two Years Ago.
A year ago last summer former
Senator Butler of North Carolina
gave an interview to the Washington
papers in which he pointed out why
the American people would demand
that the President should serve g
second term and how the President
could and would be induced to yield
! Now that view has become general.
''Bowing to Public Opinion"
The Washington Evening Star LAS
very timely and thoughtful article
under the above heading. The fol
lowing extract is most interesting:
1.-TWO interesting dispatches bear
ing upon the general railroad situa
ton in this country are printed in the
news columns today. One is in t.lt
form of an interview with NJ. f. In
gals, president of the "Big Four
road, in which he says that the rail
road men of the United States II,
longer regard the President as +;
bogey and have passed the stage o.
keen apprehension lest the chief exc
cutive may adopt a redical policy O.
appropriation. They are now able
: he declares, to apply the persona
: equation to his uterances and to Sc,
railroads only in matters in which E
! Fl. Hartman is concerned. The mos
+ important sentence in the interview