The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-01-25

the time had come and the question
might as we'll be settled.
The President does not favor any
resolution which will be satisfactory
to the Republican leaders "who have
been against him on corporation ques-
tions and who would now wrest con-
troll from him to take the party back
tc its old affiliations"
He is thoroughly disgusted, not only
with his Republict1 enemies, but with
those half-hearted Republican friends
of his who have not the nerve to take
his side He said Lodge was the only
one of the leaders who had backbone
enough to stand up for him.
The Senate oligarchs tried to get at
him first through Senator Lodge,
his friend, and that failing, several Of
them went to see him themselves.
Every other argument failing, they
trotted bogy which never befored
failed to bring the President into line
the bogy which made him quit his
Democratic allies on the Rate bill at
the last moment This bogy is the
split-in-the-party bogy.
The President has always been NOR
bidly sensitive to the charge that he
was splitting the party or was within
measurable distance of doing it. To
fire that argument at him is to hit his
weakest point. To-day he listened to
the argument with an numovable grin.
He told his Senatorial suppliants that
if the party had to be split he would
prefer that as big a fragment as pos
sible should be found on the aftirma-
five side of the Blackburn resolution.
Furthermore, the President took
every means in his power to see that
his wish about that big fragment
should be realized. He sent for his
friends and told them just what ne
thought and wanted. They are full OF
enthusiasm and determination. Most
of them are rank-and-file republicans
who have never had so much as a
look-in at the conclaves of the Senate
oligarchy, and for once they feel thai
their time has come. For years they
have looked up to the Sanhedrim with
awe and reverence and taken OIL thell
hats when they passed the door OF AL
drich's committee room. Now they
see these world compellers running
around in circles and begging thu
President to save them from the stu
alton they have created out of animos
ity to him, and all the awe and mys
terry is gone.
The Democrats also display unwont
) ed grit. Usually all that is necessar.
to make the Democrats back out OF al
impregnable position is for Aldrich o
somebody to come over on the Demo
. cratic side and say: Come, now, b
good: what's the use of being mean!
This time that and everything else ma
been tried in vain. Tillman stays ou
of camp. and Teller and Carmack re
fuse to tell how they will vote, bu
Stone is in line and all the other Den
ocrats are immoyable.
The Democrats have counted noses
. and say that they will have
majority for the President. They d
: not assert that they have 1t nov
r Though they have nearly the require
| number but the five or six necessar
, votes they count on getting from thos
: who do not dare fight the oligarch
f unless sure that the President will al
nroye. and that there is chance
8 victory
, Lodge, after two interviews with tn
:. President, went not only committe
e to the Blackburn resolution, but pr
n pared to take the lead OF the RepuDl
s can insurgents. He burned n
bridges behind him, quit his fellow
in the machine, and hoisted the insu
gent flag. He got right to work coun
: ing noses, and is confident that thel
:. will be enough Republican votes
PASS the Blackburn resolution. II
: counts at least fourteen. He and ii
= President are so confident OF victor
: : that they expect to see the Aldrlc
= crowd abandon the fight and let IL
resolution pass unanimously.
Knox and Spooner, nominal frient
- of the President, are unhappy hnt
- said Yesterday that the Blackburn re
- olution was irrelevant. He is again
y it, in spite of the President. Spoon'
= won't commit himself, and the Pres
I. dents friends are predicting that
;, will ultimately swing into line WI
It Lodge.
- 1,..;lxo having hoard that II