The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-08
DOES PRESIDENT
WISH NOMINATION.
Ex-secrctary Shaw Quoted as
Saying Roosevelt is Candl-
date.
AsPl IRE ALL ANXIOUS
Sentiment Rpaidly Crystallizins
in Favor Of Roosevelt and
Bryan.
.AsPlRANTs ALL ANXIOUS
nv WAITER EDWARD HARRIS.

BY WALTER EDWARD HARRIS.
WASHINGTON, D. c.. August L.
The question most frequently put to
the Washington correspondent by the
visitor to the national capital whom
he meets Is: will Roosevelt be the
can d date again?
And the correspondent, however
much he may desire to pose as know
all has to dodge and hedge. Every
body is doing the same thing. It is
nositiye that several Of the Republican
aspirants for the Republican nomlna-
lttion are wrestling with the question
as to Mr. Roosevelt's ambitions. Sec
retary Taft does not know certainly
Isthat his chief Will not consent to az
cept the nomination before the conven-
/ ton assemblies. Secretary Cortelyou,
who Is taking his own candidacy with
I the utmost seriousness, does not know.
4 Secretary Taft told a caller short
i time ago that he did not know whether
A President Roosevelt could be induced
to accept the nomination, and lnti-
q mated that he should like to have 4apso-
dilute information on the subJect.
: At least one of the Republican posi-
y bilities. with President Roosevelt out
!, OF the way, believes there Is no doubt
4 of the denomination of the present oc-
. cupant of tho White House. That is
{ secretary Shaw who this time last year
: was carefully nursing what he be
8 lleved to be most promising presl-
. Dental boom, which has since dropped
= and died. and he has left the position
r of Secretary of the Treasury to take
s the place of head of q great trust
$ company in New York.
A close friend of Mr.. Shaw, who
n called to see him In his New York Of
fee a few days ago, says the former
i !. 1,oc n
concerning the trend Of the Presidents
= ambitions,
!, !. cor course, Roosevelt is candidate"
y Mr.. Shaw is quoted as having remark
I ed. "rhere was n time when did
q mot believe he would allow the use
Of his name. That was some time
d ago have not thought that way for
: a considerable period. He wants the
,e nomination and will get It,"
I'd There. is little or no doubt that Mr..
g. Shaw made the remarks attributed to
lie him. 1t would be interesting to know
is wheth a realization of the ambitions
err of Mr.. Roosevelt caused the then Sec
n rotary Of tin Treasury to abandon
presidential aspirations
m VIII President Accept:
~ The question as to whether President
Roosevelt would accept the nomina-
ton, ii rendered It, is not yet answer
ed 1t is impossible to answer 1T alb
ut solutely either attlrmatively or mega
nc lively. But the fact remains that the
~ great majority of the Republican Of
VS. flee holders in Washington believe tina
~ they will have to support Mr.. Roose
welt next year.
AZ, 1t is a significant fact that man
- Republican politicians out of office hay
e. recently begun to believe Mr.. Rooseve
:. will be nominated again. Only. to-da
ct an Indiana Republican, who is Yer
wv, close In several ways to the Hon, Cha
he Warren Fairbanks, expressed the opll
He ion, that every other aspiraant had q
to- R Roo ad was was already cad as good I
hit, elected 1t Is practically conceded !
zcd cannot carry Indiana; :,
Republicans are claiming that Nj
Roosevelt could get several southel
States. They claim he could carr
Missouri as he aid IN 1901; that 1l !
de- one electoral vote in 1904, and that
ad- could carry Tennessee, where there
vn, a strong sentiment for him, and Geo
lis gia, where Colonel John Temple GRAY
tbs has been Whooping up Roosevelt tor
year or more Arkansas is also BEN
has counted upon to cast It's electoral 70
vas for Roosevelt by those who want
.ich third term.
south Is Sun Solid.
OF course. persons familiar with pc
ticai sentiment In the Southern stat
I have mentioned know that i y =
ming the nresidercy to carry them. Nj
liant so,,ri pnye her vote 10 Mr. Roosey
RADIO III ren vears ago because the Democra
es- -, tI,at Cat rpS,isp1 IA sl,npOrt
900, IA MOI. and would not go to the pi,l
,oms lmgine,'t - Z hair fTm hejjef that tric
hich an, IVA H. soCnrnd ina nomina ton Of [
even 49, N,,,.i, 80 I,,tt ~ is odnittad M
the MI MI NJ, t,rxnn heen the candidate
Democrats would have swept the st,
by a large majority.
1T is doubtful, however whether
nomination OF Mr., Bryan wo
thur strengthen the party In the otl
ther States of the south whieh the Repns
lsiy, cans claim are doubtfnl But there
DAD not the smallest shadow of doubt
uni- the minds Of Democrats from tn
states with whom ] have talked In
---.-, course of the past few weeks conce
ing the ability OF respectable Der
ihTN era carrying every Southern state o
MIR. Roosevelt or any other man wh
lock me ,,'nt cn,ld n
luilt, ~ -