The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-24
ROOSEVELT MAY Be
NOMINATED AGAIN.
Commissioner OF Internal Rev
enue Capers Is Quoted
as Authority.
is AFTER DELEGATES NOW
Report That Arizona Is Prom
ised Statehood for It's Dele
cation to Convention.
is AFTER DELEGATES NOW
cation to Convention.
~ WALTER EDWARD HARRIS.


WASHINGTON. D. c.. August %
to renominate President Roosevelt is
a statement that is vouched for by
John c. Capers, of South Carolina, the
personal appointee of the President as
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
pending the assumption of that position
by Pearl Wight.
Asked what he thought about the
candidacy of Mr. Taft for the Repub-
lican presidential nomination to-day,
Mr.. Capers replied:
II do not think that the candidacy of
Mr.. Taft has been taking very well
in the South. You sec. the Republicans
of the South are almost to man for
the denomination of Mr. Roosevelt"
1t was suggested that 1t is strange
that they should be holding out for
the denomination of the President when
ha had. eliminated himself from the
race.
"oh. we'll" he replied. 81 think that
the President will conclude that the
universal will of his party is stronger
than his opinion as to what constitutes
two terms in office ! think that pres
sure enough can be brought to bear
tc have him .,reconsjders.,o,
| Asked whether he thought that there
would he any organized effort made
to renoninate Mr.. Roosevelt, Mr..
| Capers replied:
Il most assuredly do think so. and
| that 1T will be q successful effort. The
people never have been in recent times
so unanimously for any other man as
they are to-day for Mr.. Roosevelt"
Commissioner Capers was supposed
| to be appointed to his present posi-
| ton in order to hold South Carolina
and several other Southern States in
| line for the nomination of Secretary
Taft. The Fairbanks people had been
dickering with him for the South Caro-
lima delegation, which, it is said. he
carries around in his vest pocket, but
| the President got to him first In the
deal. He Is in very close touch with
| oyster Bay. and It is known that he
| keeps the President carefully advised
as TO what is going on in Southern
politics.
Another sign that shows how thu
political "cat is hopping" is shown
| by the accounts coming to Washing
i ton in the New Mexico and Arizona
papers of the visit to those Territories
of Frank II. Hitchcock, the right
hand politician of the administration
These papers state that Mr. Hitch
cock went over into Arizona. and Their,
.
.Iif they would send a Roosevelt dele.
\ cation to tho next Republican Nationa
4 Convention. one that was not fol
Roosevelt policies or for Roosevelt
candidates. but for the denomination
of Mr.. Roosevelt himself, the Presiden
might be Induced to let up on hi
i fight for joint statehood. And Franz
II II. Hitchcock never speaks on a pc
! ltlcal matter OF such importance ex
cept by the card.
1t is further known that less tina,
two months ago Secretary Taft wa
mot any too sure that some folks higl
Iup in administration circles and no
a thousand miles from the Whit
House itself were for him.
The Capers statement is taken her
to mean that the candidacy of Mr.
Taft has not met with the reception
1t was expected to meet with, and tina
henceforth developments will all lea,
to the denomination of Mr.. Roosevelt
and that he viii come down to TIL
latitude of Barkis who was willin'.