Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-10
DOUBT B0THERS
THE POLITICIANS
Uncertain Over Presidents At
titude Toward Nomination.
lIC WICHEC MEIl KM0{NM
HIS WISHES WELL KNOWN
Claimed That He Has Not Said He
Wouldn't Have It.
BELIEF OF WESTERN MEN
Some Of the Leaders Hold That Only
Roosevelt Has ANY Chance Of
Being Republican Candidate.


II don't want 1t"
That is what the President has told four
or FIVE Of his close personal friends in the
past week, when they have sought to OBJ
tain his views as to the next republican
nomination.
Not one of them, from information that
has been carefully gathered, has once
heard the words, Il won't have it,
Not a single man Of the number believes
that any other man than Roosevelt stands
the slightest chance for the nomination
next year. In most instances they have
pledged the President the votes of their
states, to be used either for his nomination
or that of any other man he may see fit
to name. OF course, the President knew
he would get these votes, as his visitors
have, without exception, been men from
far western states recognized as at the
disposal of the President.
1t is notable that to none of the eastern
republican leaders has the President un-
bosomed himself with frankness. He has
not even seen any of these leaders lately
except Senator Scott of West Virginia, who
returned to his home and gave out an in
teryieW saying that he and the President
were the best of friends; that he accepted
the statement of the President that he
would not be a candidate and that he
would support one of the men now named
for the nomination-Fairban Cortelyou.
Taft Knox, Hughes or Shaw. He went so
far as to say that he did not consider that
the President would allow these men to go
forward with their plans for the next con-
vention and then permit himself to be
nominated.
A Recurring Question.
The question hobs up frequently in front
of even the men with whom the President
has talked.
why is the President less emphatic in
his private conversation to the nominal
ton than he was when he talked to the
Gridiron Club few months ago and when
he made his announcement the night after
the election In 1904?'
Notable among the almost daily call
ers upon the President is Senator bourne
of oregon, who, it is claimed has pre-
dicted to intimate friends that the Pres
ident Will be nominated in the next re-
publican convention. Senator Bourne,
who Is to have charge of the campaie.n
for the President on the Pacific Coast
has had half dozen conferences with
him in the past ten days Senator Hans
brough of North Dakota, who will per
sonally take charge Of the campaien in
the upper middle west, has been lust az
emphatic as Bourne in his assertion that
the President will be the nominee again
and he has spent much time with the
Warren of Wyoming and Curtis of Kan,
sas have passed in and out of the execu-
tive offices with more or less freedom
and frequency, and have sent out to
their respective constituencies the same
ncement--"Roosevelt must be the
nominee again.
Effect on the East.
The politicians are asked whether the
west is to be put forward with the shouting
and the noise for the effect 1t will have on
weakened republicans of the east? Will
New York and New Jersey, as well as Con-
necticut and Massachusetts,, be brought