The Washington herald., 1907-01-10
FAYORITE SON IDEA
VIII La Toilette Cummins
Radicals Form Combine?
COUNCIL SOON TO BE HELD
Game on to Prevent Roosevelt Sc
IcctinE His Successor - Country
Organization and Delegates to BE
Sought Rather Than Sentiment.

Cleveland. Jan. 9.-The Cleveland Plain
/ Dealer will tomorrow morning publish
/ the following reconnaissance of the adj
cal Republican situation, by its Washing
| ton Correspondent:
Radical Republicans have begun prac-
teal work looking to the capture Of the
! 1905 convention Of their party Taft
boomers, with the Roosevelt seal of ap-
prevail are now organizing 60 some pur-
pose in Ohio, Kentucky. and Minnesota,
at least La Toilette and Gov Cummins.
with favOrite son booms of their own un-
sanctioned and even frowned upon by ihe
| administration, are busy in Wisconsin,
Minnesota Iowa. and Oregon. The clash
OF radical purposes in Minnesota has re
suited In a get-together movement. La
Toilette and Cummins are now working
in harmony They are also trying 70
bring Gov. Dineen, Of Illinois, into their
combination.
soon they will have series OF con-
ferences with the Taft leaders IN Ohio.
in which a programme will he proposed
Of cooperation and conquest by favOrite
son tactics, the spoils Of victory TO go to
the man VINO shows the most strength
when the time comes. This is a step be-
yond the progress 50 far made by the
conservatives for the hackers of Fair
banks. Foraker, Shaw, and Cannon have
reached no agreement Still the conserya-
tive side Is better served as far as pracu-
cal politicians are concerned, and the po-
liucal mercenaries OF the old Hanna army
have everywhere formed free companies
TO capture control OF States which they
viii turn over 10 any auti-Rooseveit
candidate whose banner flies highest ia
the spring Of 1908.
Sentiment Versus Machinery.
The reactionaries hold the South. al
though no one Of .heir candidates can
claim IT, The radical Republicans must
begin at the beginning. The strength Of
Roosevelt Republicanism has been iu
public sentiment and newspaper editorials
and popular clamor and votes az elections
rather than in control Of the political ma
chinery- All the opposition the President
had IN 1904 was collected IN the Repub-
hcan convention at Chicago. Had Hanna
lived that convention would have nomi.
Al
least its affection was an for him.
With the sentiment Of the State
strongly pro-RooseyeIt, the Ohio RepubIi-
can convention of last fall voted its pre-
ference for the two Senators who had
been his determined opponents The radi-
cal leaders have discovered that they
must have a political organization and
delegates in 1888. as well as public senti-
ment Roosevelt and Taft Republicans
headed OF "a Fairbanks plan TO capture
the craftsmanship Of the Republican Ma
tional Committee when Cortelyou retired
and made Harry New. Of indianapolis.
his successor. His task is TO keep the
machinery OF this committee out Of Fair
banks hands. with the technical idea
that chairman and committee must be
neutral as 10 candidates
In Ohio. Bob Wolf. publisher Of Re
publican papers in Columbus. and the
backbone Of opposition TO the two Ohio
Senators. has completed arrangements for
an active TAFT propaganda that shall gO
deeper than noise and editorials His
work. which begun under cover. will soon
be in evidence. In Ohio. too. radicaIism
has money 20 spend. while its cause is
elsewhere as pOverty-strlcken as the re-
action is flush. But the real difficulties
confronting the radicals are the c00Iness
with which the Taft boom has been re-
ceived and the refusal OF the President to
recognize or cooperate with any but his
own brand Of radica!ism.
No EnthuSiaStfc Response.
The country has failed TO respond en-
Enthusiastically TO the Presidents sugges-
ti0n Of Taft as his successor. Worse still.
the country has failed TO respond AT all.
The President and his Secretary of War
are represented as discouraged. II is evi-
dent that such organizing the country
over as Hanna effected for Mckinley
would De necessary TO control the 1905
convention for Taft There is no one in
sight 10 do this organizing or TO finance
It. So the President is said to be casting
about for another candidate, and the con-
servatives are slyly circulating the rumor
that Taft viii soon go on the bench
But the practical politicians Of the La
Foliette-Cummins crowd say and the con-
servative experts agree with them. that
the failure of the Taft boom foreshadows
the failure of the President TO nominate
his successor by the simple process Of
naming him to the country. II he viii be /
satisfied 20 let the Taft boom develop the /
natural strength il can command. or that
can be organized for il. in Ohio. Ken !
tucky, and elsewhere, and welcome other I
radical booms for favorite sons combi- /
nation Of this strength might capture the /
next national convention. The combina-
ton could then agree upon the nominee.
There is no doubt that Wisconsin and /
Minnesota are now held in the hollow of /
la Foliette's hand. II is said he has ore /
gon as we'll Cummins mas Iowa. and he 1
is trying TO block the Fairbanks boom in /
other sections OF the Mississippi Valley /
But La Toilette and Cummins are in no I
mood 10 turn this strength over to Taft or I
any other man Roosevelt picks for them
They want a run for their money in the /
itself. But Roosevelt frowns |
on both of them. COrtelyou put BabCock. /
La Follette's worst enemy on the ma
uonal committee, and the President has /
held Shaw, bitter foe of Cummins, in his 4
Cabinet So the practical politicians of /
the la FOllette-CUmminS combination 4
have appealed from Roosevelt to the I
leaders in Ohio, Kentucky. and /
elsewhere, for the combination that the 4
President would not sanction. They viii /
soon take it up with Wolf in Ohio and 1
approach Representative Burton, of the 4
same State, for a council Of war.
Intervention Causes Deficiency.
Secretary Taft yesterday transmitted 4