Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-08
WHO WILDE WARWICK
Of the Next Republican Presi-
dental Campaign?
THE PRESIDENTS BELIEF
That Party Should Go Ahead on His
Lines of Policy.
MAY DICTATE A CANDIDATE
Delegates May Be Divided Into Two
Factions-Ihe Roosevelt Wing
and the Opposition.
MAY DICTATE A CANDIDATE

"Nho is most likely to be the Warwick
of the next republican presidential cam
paiGn?" the politicians are asking. They
look the field over and see one figure striv-
ing for that post Gone are
the Hannas and the Quays; P,att. the easy
boss. is out of it: Oaell is in eclipse. The
old line President-makers are scarce, but
there is a new Richmond in the field.
Roosevelt, they say. is not so much con-
cerned in naming a particular candidate
as he is in debating the kind of candi-
date 1t is a policy he is working up to- not
a man. but he wants to make sure that the
man will stand for the policy. They say
the President will be influential in that con-
nection.
Not a Candidate for denomination.
The best judgment among politicians of
influence is that President Roosevelt will
not be a candidate for denomination. Not
that he is through with the presidency; far
from it, He will go after it again, but
when the occasion isl more suspicious.
These politicians say that the President
realizes the existence of the deep-seated
opposition in this country to a third term
and will not subject his prospects to conse-
quent hazard thereby. All politicians be-
after an intermisson.
They are convinced, however, that the
President is profoundly impressed with the
idea that the republican party should go
ahead on the lines of policy that he has
laid out and that he is aware of the grow
ing opposition within the party to further
expansion of those policies. They say he
expects to head the movement which is to
crystallze in the selection of candidate
who will take up the work where Roose-
welt puts it down. He knows, they say, that
the candidacy of certain men will mean the
pushing forward of. the opposition to his
policies. He will insist upon resistance to
those men, and it is in that way that he is
expected to figure as the Warwick of the
campaign.
Division Into Two Factions.
This view of the outlook contemplates the
division of the republican national conven-
ton into two factions-the Roosevelt wing
and the opposition. The President has al
ready found a name for the opposition-he
calls them ''reactionists.' 1t is an offensive
term to those who do not agree with the
President, and they will not accept the
libel. They will call themselves ''conserva-
tives."
The next twelvemonth will witness the
struggle. The President will busy himself
Line upon line and precept upon precept, he
will drill it into the party at large that the
administration policies must go forward.
The collateral proposition will be that only
safe man must be placed on guard. Who
is it to be? Has the President any one in
mind at this time?
1t is not to be expected that any pros
pective candidate for nomination will come
out in declared opposition to Roosevelt's
policies Such a course would be fatuous
in the extreme. Likewise it would be
A mans name and prestige
would be sufficient to designate his ten
denotes For instance, if Mr.. Bryan and
Judge Gray of Delaware We're opposing as
pirants for the nomination, would demo-
Gratis be at a loss to differentiate between
their probable leanings? 1t is said the lines
would be as readily discernible between
certain republicans who might be in the
running.
May Recommend Candidate.
The politicians think that President
Roosevelt will be allowed by his thick>and-
thin supporters in the party to recommend
a candidate. 1t is not to be contemplated
that they would accept man whom Roose-
Welt would declare to be hostile to the adj
ministration policies. The question will
then hinge upon which faction has the most
delegates in the convention the radicals
or the conservatives, to determine whether
the President is to be the Warwick of the
newt pampaiQn or not