Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-11-12
MATTER WILL DEPEND UPON RE-.
a cEPTloN OF THE TAFT
BOOM "
IF THE SECRETARY CAN'T GET.
LIT ROOSEVELT WILL :
ACCEPT S5

FFApE1{ LOS s,CliG HoIASoE tiio ikiSiuo
and supporters throughout the coun-
try that it is his wish that the dele
gates elested from their respective
states TO tbs nextsrepub lican national
convention shall be men who can be
relied upon to support his policies
Tho viii cast their votes for the
ndidate who at the time seems best
equipped to carry those policies for
ward 8 X
This report is no idle rumor. In
quiry of the 81 recognized Roosevelt
third tsrm supporters in every state
will confirm its truth. It is known
here that the President personally has
taken hold of the political situation, 1
and that, from now on he will make
things hum. 1T appears certain that
he is gdespairing of the Taft candidacy.
A year ago Mr.. Roosevelt started the
Taft boom. He let it be- known that
The secretary Of war above all others
was his first choice for the succession
At that time he meant what he said
He then thought that the nomination
of Judge Taft would be easy Of accom-
plishment Even at so late date as
when he sent his secretary of war
on a jaunt around the world, first to
start the new Philippines government
off right and then to proceed to the
courts of Europe to confer with the
| cT'Wfied haads. the president felt con-
| dcrt e his abil'tv to name tbs, Ohio
- his successc Hence it be-
7,gas the occupant of the White
Housa not only to inquire into the
| causes of the threatened collapse OF
the Taft movement. but also to at
ter'nt first to inject new life into it.
| This he is attempting to do by send
ing the message out to ths, third term
boomers everywhere to look sharply
| tot that only men who are KIN wn be-
1 6, - = t'an tc be. supporters AT his
-ad:-al policies shall be, slated for
" $40 'as 0 the convention. What he
/ -4s>-' : Z witt, these men after
1 heir selection is assured is the guess
! 'icn cf chief political Importance in
i ID - 81, II ~ " Il. The consensus of
4 .sss'',i-,' 8 that he will be unable, Eev-
i .,', ,:.... ny $50, to head them off
from denomination of him 1t is as
4 u, or ccursa, that after he re.
-,eH,--t - 4 +~ii-rsnccs that the
:.;z,-' e'''t.>f's OF his poiieies he VIII tleT
i -; vt 1910 II Gfr'aniza them into a
!. -He,-.>aet Wieldv Taft organization. Nc
other candidate now in sight suits the
president half SO wsll as does Judge
q -Err q .si Pvt # he should fail to shift
Il them bodily to left they might spli
i M into warning factions and thus
n strengthen the opposition to thu
] Roosevelt policies. II is this prospecl
d that convincesj Washington that Mr.
d sevelt is more nearly convineef
,, than ever he was that in order to as
:, surs continuance of his policies un
! broken, he will have to take the nom
8 ination himself. 8$5
The leaders, of his party in New
( York will call upon the president ii
: a few days to lay before him the con
. ditions in that state. They will b
? headed by Timothy L. Woodruff, chair
i -, IT the New York republican stat
\ committee who the day after :lec
9 ton declared in a published intei
I view his firm conviction that MI
Roosevelt's would Abe the only nam
IL the next republican ma
!, tiolai convention. Mr. Woodruff ha
{ ;;i7s paf a r3tabie victory in King
II (Brooklyn1 usually daiaocra
lie. BY twenty thousand. and he attr
8 buted his success to his appeal to I'll
y voters to stand BY Roosevelt. A fe,
z days beforz the ballots were cast ii
b held a joint debate In Brooklyn vii
w I'm -. ISNIi1ia Sily LIZ uslilU St4t
4 leader Of that city, on the question (
d mt Roosevelt's rssponsibilsl
i for the recent financial furry. MI
+. Carren had stated in an intervie
q that the entire responsibility for I'll
e threatened frightful panic wass Nj
n Roosevelt's Woodruff thsreupon cha
Z, lenged the democratic lsader to
I joint debate on that question: AL
IT republican leader is now convince
zE TIL at but for this debate he would hal
g lost Kings county Therefore he fIolt
that the presidents popularity Is !,
great chat nobody can stop his rsnoI
ination
It'll When Mr.. Woodruff visits the Viii
House II IS expected that ssonethiI
~ definite in the line Of the presidsni
attitude toward Governor Hughes "