The sun., 1907-04-22
WATHERSON SCANS POLITICS.
SPIES NOTHING But BRYAN on
DEMOCRATIC HORIZON.

On the Other Side II Would he Too Much
l1ke MexscanIZlnE TO RenomInate
ROOsevelt-M Democrats Would only
Cease Unsettllng Each Others lnsIdes
Henry Watterson. the veteran editor OF
! the Louisville CouTieT-,JOurndl, got in yester-
| day on the Hamburg Line steamship Amer.
| ika. Although he had been abroad since
early in December. he had managed 20
| keep tabs pretty we'll on events in the United
! States He had heard a good deal about
! this talk in the United States Of a third
term for Mr.. Roosevelt, but he didn't believe
that the President would accept the NOM
ination again. He was willing to take Mr..
Roosevelt at his word.
1T is my understanding" said Col. Wat
terson, that Mr.. Roosevelt said last winter
TO a group Of journalists that il the Repub-
lioan national convention met and nomi-
mated him and adjourned it would have
TO reconvene. l know that happened and
| have accepted the Presidents word in
good faith
Even il Mr.. Roosevelt did want a third
term it was the Colonel's opinion that he
couldn't get il. A reelection for Roose-
welt would be too much like Mexicanizing
the country, the Colonel said.
1T would said Col. Wa tterson like
wise, -be just as much Of a Mexicanization
as the adoption Of 10 to L."
Col. Wstterson couldn't throw any light
ON the rich mems conspiracy but he was
pretty certain that the lines Of battle we're
already being drawn pretty sharply between
the Administration and the field.
The Colonel was interested in the news
that Assistant Postmaster-General Hitch
cock was in the South searching out the
unfaithful Republican Federal ofrceholders.
1T goes without saying" he commented,
that the Vice President is not in the field
for fun, and the President has plenty
Of means with which to pay the freight,
and there is a good deal of freight lying
around loose in the South"
Col. Matterson thought that the defeat
OF Taft in the primaries in Ohio wouldn't
necessarily mean his withdrawal as the
Administrators candidate. The Colonel
recalled the nomination OF Grover Cleve-
land in 1892 after the New York delegation
had refused to support him and had de-
clared that he couldn't carry the State
He thought MIR Roosevelt might be ma
nIuvring 10 put New Ork State safely
behind Taft.
The President said Col WattersOn.
'is a very good machine politician. Isn't
il true that he threw the civil service sys-
TEN out Of the window after he entered
the White House, and that he has been
playing politics ever sincey BY the way,
he seems 10 have played Mr.. Hartman
pretty effectively"
The Colonels view OF the Democratic
situation wasn't rosy. He thought the
party might have a glorious chance of
winning Il there happened to be cholera
in the phittnpinaG yallnW favar in
and II wheatN Ndropped TO 10 cents a bushel
and corn to ten. Then again there might
be something doing for the Democrats il
the split in the Republican party was big
enough. In regard 10 Mr.. Bryan's latest
fetich, the initiative and referendum, the
Colonel said:
Mr. Bryan is fond of speculation and I
shouldn't be surprised at any novelty he
might trot out. Mr.. Bryan is a public
speaker and he has TO be both entertaining
and attractive if he is to hold out"
The Colonel didn't doubt Mr.. Bryan's
ability to carry out his threat 10 drive
everybody out Of the Democratic party
who didn't accept the initiative and the
He is a pretty good driver" said the
Colonel He has already driven a good
many thousand out of the party. has driven
the power OF the Democracy out of the
North and has driven Democratic majority |
out OF Congress"
able to accomplish anything depends. in
the Coloncl's opinion on whether the fraV-
ments that arc lying around loose can I've
and united. Al present it seems
TO him that there are in the North at least
wo factions Of the Democracy which de- |
lest Pnch other more than they detest he |
Republicans. In the South the Demo- !
Gratis wear the label only, and are held to- |
gether by the race question. Resides the |
Democratic party lacks executive leaders. |
The stock has run down through diNIse !
The party seems 10 have exhausted all |
It's resources in finding out the wrong way |
10 do things. The Republicans. on the !
other hand, have developed i'm rec ent years |
three or four first class crops of political !
managers. The only thing for the Demo
Gratis TO do is to begin TO think together
on some subject and quit kicking the stun. |
nG out CT each other.
The only chance that the Colonel can
see now. though. is BRYAN in INOS. But he
ioubts whether BRYAN cares fg about
he nomination. II he did he would be
more circumspect in his statements OF
,ourse the Colonel couldn't tell what
Hearst might do. but he didn't regard him
ls 2 possibility.
Tho Colonel explained his recently written
tatement that hs had passed over the
lpennines between Port Bou and Rarce-
Dna as pen slip. He meant the Pyrenpes.
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