Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-05-15
FEELING IN NEW YORK
Hostility to Roosevelt and Taft Is Bit
 ter in the Big Metropolis

It is difficult for anyone from the in terior, where the condition of public sentiment is so different, to understand the bitterness of the anti-Roosevelt talk one hears everywhere in New York city among the more prosperous classes.
 There is no disguising this hostility to the president. It is by no means confined to the Morgans and the Harri- mans and the men of many millions It may have started with them, but it has plainly become diffused until now one meets it literally in almost every well dressed man who may talk on the subject of national politics.
 The magnates of Wall street have sedulously fostered the opinion that the railroad policy initiated last year at Washington is directly responsible for the stagnation which has come upon the stock market and for the lower prices which have prevailed, with the conse- quent paralysis of the favorite indus try of the whole of lower New York Whether President Roosevelt is in any way responsible for the condition of the money market, whether he is fin ancial disturber, are things which the future will show. That the great mon- eyed classes of New York and all those dependent upon them, down to their clerks and messenger boys, are bitterly opposed to the Roosevelt administration there is absolutely no duobt.
 This anti.Roosevelt feeling in New York city, which, of course, is reflected only to minor degree up the state, cannot fail to have an influence on the position of New York in regard to the select tion of the next candidate for the presidency The present indications are that President Roosevelt would find it a good deal harder to get the indorse. ment of New York for a third term than he would that of Illinois or Mis-. souri. There is big bunch of con gressional districts here in New York city which are certain to be controlled by what may be called the Wall street influence, for lack of better term. The delegates from these congressional districts will not be for Roosevelt for third term, and, other things being equal, they will be against any man he may happen to push at the time the convention meets.
 Under ordinary circumstances Secre- tary Taft would have large following here in New York city. He has a brother here and many influential col lege friends. His position on the bench and even in the cabinet has been such as to impress the moneyed men with the general idea of his conservatism. They know he approaches the solution of any problem by judicial process, and he will never allow his emotions or his enthusi. asm to interfere with his sober deei. sion.
 The hostility to Roosevelt, however, has distinctly hurt Taft. There was time when the big men of New York, those who are always called upon for campaign contributions, were led to be- heve that Secretary Root surely would be the residuary legatee of the Roose- welt administration. That was before the president broke with Hartman and made it evident to other fnanciers that whether he was right or wrong in his railroad policy, he was in deadly earnest and proposed to carry it out to the end.
 Secretary Root, as everyone knows, did not favor the rate bill. He had the confidence of the great moneyed inter. ests of New York. He had represented a great many of the biggest corpora. tions professionally, and they believed that if he could secure the Republican nomination the mere prospect of his election would prevent a reduction in stock values and would keep the money market in stable condition. Wall street hatred of Roosevelt was intensi- fled when it was made apparent that he had abandoned Root as administration candidate and was prepared to resort to extraordinar ytactics to secure the nom- ination of Taft.
 The result is that corporation infu- enee here, which may not be popular with the people, but which is usually listened to by campaign managers, is suspicious of Taft, although not actu- ally hostile to him. He would suit the men of millions well enough if they could be convinced that he would be en- tirely independent of Roosevelt infiu- enee when he became president in his own right. To this extent in New York city the president s friendship for the secretary of war has alienated great many men who otherwise would have boor o,Inl Co .,,n,ox.