The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1907-03-01
ROOSEVEL,TS
DUPLI6ITY
Regarded as Candidate
for President
HIS FINE GRIP ON THE SOUTH
Boom News Now 6mdndt6S from
White House
HAS FINE GRIP ON THE SOUTH

That there has been no sincerity in
the declarations of President Roosevelt
in stating he would not be candidate
for reelection and that in fact he is
endeavoring to produce conditions that
will bring about his nomination are con-
victions that are forcing themselves
home to every observer of political
events in the United States.
A Washington correspondent under
date of February oath calls attention to
the fact that the White House is the
storm center of the third term move
ment, writing as follows:
"If President Roosevelt is not a candi-
date for president in 1908, he is GER
tainly making no uncertain noise like
one"
Such was the observation brought
forth in group of political soothsayers
the other night in the big lobby of the
New Willard hotel, which is now the
Mecca of both visiting and local wise
acres on national affairs.
A southern national committeeman
had been talking about the probable at
titude of delegations from the southern
states to the next Republican national
convention
The suggestion was made that the very
fact that southern delegations should
go uninstructed and untrammeled to
the national Republican convention was
evidence that the Republican leaders and
federal patronage referees in the South
realized that all candidates except Roose-
welt would be wasting the time trying
to get delegates from the South. Thus
il is foreshadowed that when the Roose-
welt wagon drives up and over the as
pirations of Fairbanks, Foraker, Cannon
and all the rest the Southern Re
publican contingent desire to be where
they can hop on without having to jump
off some other band wagon.
The biggest State delegation to the
convention from the South will be that
from Texas, where National Commit
teeman Cecil Lyon is an absolute boss
of the Republican machine, Lyon, who
was here a few days ago, declares that
the Texas delegation, which will num-
Der thirty-six, will go to the convention
for Roosevelt for president, whatever
anybody else does.
SIGNIFICANT INTERVIEWS.
1t certainly carries no contrary sig
ni6cance that whenever Republican lead
ers come to town from a Southern state
and visit the White House, they come
away and get interviewed to the effect |
that the people down their way, Demo
Gratis as we'll as Republicans, are for
Roosevelt for president for another term
a whole lot and to a surprising degree.
Captain Charley Scott, Republican
Committeeman for Alabama, has been
telling newspaper men here that Roose-
welt could demolish the solid South by
running as an independent.
Indeed, not day passes but one may
hear without ear to ground noises like
candidate for president emanating from
the White House 1t has become so
constant a sound that it seems sus-
tained and resonant hum that buzzes
far into the night to the degree that it
is causing insomnia among not few
Republicans who long ago wearied of
.hat Senator Carmack termed in his re-
cent Brownsville speech the incubus
OF Rooseveltism.
The great looming idea is sought to
be conveyed to the country by inevita-
Bile inference that President Roosevelt
has become engaged in too many en-
tsrprises of vast import to the welfare
Of the country for him to be retired {
after the 4th of March, 1908. He must,