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Bradley to institute the suit for
damages.
party will be one of the highest in
terest and Importance, not only
to the party, but also to the coun-
try.
The only other avowed candidate
up to this time has been Mr. Fair
banks, who is the representative of
the conservative element of the
party. Mr. Fairbanks has had his
friends at work for a couple of years
perfecting organizations in the
southern states, and that work has
been greatly encouraged of late by
reason of southern republican oppo-
sition to the presidents dismissal of
battalion of the Twenty-fifth in
fantry, colored. The republican
party in the south is controlled by the
negroes, and it is very certain that
if that section were soon to choose
delegates to republican national
convention not a single Roosevelt
admirer would have a ghost of
show Of selection. Venal negro
all over the south and in
the Ohio valley have been secured to
aid in the work of destroying Roose-
velt's influence among the colored
people, and they are doing their
work with will. 1t seems now as
if the conservative element in the
party will control nearly all of the
southern delegation to the 1908 con-
vention.
Jap Question on Coast
On the Pacific coast, also, the con-
are at work, and it is said
with good results, using the presi-
dents Japanese policy as a leverage.
In the Pacific coast states, it is said
here, the radical or Roosevelt repub-
may not be able to secure delegate
in 1908. In the east, especially in
New York, there is also much oppo-
sition to Roosevelt.
This situation is in itself quite
handicap for Mr. Taft, or any other
man whose candidacy represents
continuation of Rooseveltism. 1t
means such candidate, if nominal
ed, must have practically the solid
backing of the great middle west
that section between the Alleghanies
and the foothills of the Rocky
mountains, and from the Ohio river
north to the international boundary.
With such solid support, in addi-
tion to scattering votes picked up
elsewhere, the radical might be nom
mated. One element of weakness of
the radical cause, in this respect,
however, comes from the fact that
Mr. Fairbanks lives in one of these
middle-west states, and will hope at
least to divide it's delegates with his
opponents.
Right now, therefore, the conser-
vatives of the republican party are
feeling very good, thank you, and
beginning to sit up and take notice
of what they think to be the drift of
party sentiment in their direction.
1t will make one of the prettiest
fights the republican party has had
for many year; at least, since John
Sherman was in his prime. Roose-
welt will not himself be candidate,
but he does want to have something
to say about the man whom the
republicans will nominate to succeed
him. The conservatives, in their
effort to prevent this, will have the
more or less open support of numer-
Gus republican senator's and repre-
sentatives, who at heart have never
been friendly to Roosevelt or his
policies, but have been compelled to
accept them by public opinion.
AS the conservative republican
cause thus seems to be looking up,
there is great joy in democratic
ranks, especially among the friends
Of Bryan. These Bryanites profess
to believe that they do not want any
thing better than for the republicans
to nominate Fairbanks or any other
man who represents reaction fror.
the Roosevelt policies.