Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-09-07
WATCHING PRESIDENT
What Will He Say on His South-
 ern Trip Speeches.

Washington, Sept 7.-There is a great deal of interest manifested nere among republican politicians as to the character of the speeches the presi- dent will make on his southern tour. He is scheduled to make five talks 1 and it is known that he puts in Q great deal of his time on them at Oyster Bay this summer. Whether the speeches will be academic, or what might be called political is what a good many people, with Wall street connections, would like to know. As yet no one, ont even the ubiquitous Loeb has an inkling as to what the president has on his mind The politicians who have been op- posing Taft have just awakened to the fact that the president seriously intends to force his nomination on the party. There will be 922 dele gates in the next republican national convention and 497 will be enough to nominate. The south will furnish 332 of these delegates in the shape of federal office holders. The dele gates from the territories, % in num- Der, will be of the same stripe. West of the Mississippi there will be some thing like 156 delegates, every one of them Roosevelt man. With this az to do is press the button and the ron- vention will do the rest At this time it looks as if Taft was as good as nominated.
 It is suspected that one reason wlly the president is going to make these five speeches is to pave in some fash ion, the way to this result. The pro- ceeding is little high handed, even for Roosevelt, and needs d little softening.
 The democrats in the south are alive to what is going on and they intend to line up this time behind a live candidate. It is expected that when President Roosevelt visits the south Lieutenant-Governor Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler of New York state will also be there. Mir Chanler has been invited to make the southern trip by some of the most influential democrats in the south. Since the candidacy of Chanler for the presi- dency has been announced the demo- cratic leaders in the south. who have been at the capital, have taken very kindly to it.
 Chanler's father came from most distinguished southern family. He married the daughter of John Jacob AstOr and made his home in New York. where he won fame as a law yer.
 In this sense the southerners look upon Chanler as one of their own. They. feel that this is not the time to ask the demorcatic convention to name man who lives in the south for president, so, in rallying to the sup port of Chanler, they are doing the next best thing.
 Chanler will not disappoint his southern audiences. He has a pleas- ing personality, stands over six feet and is q fiery orator when he gets gO- ing.
 His visit to the south will stand out in vivid contrast to the one made by Senator David Bennett Hill of New York on his memorable hunt for southern delegates a dozen yaers ago. Hill was cold and calculating and never for a moment could he get away from the business that took him south.
 Chanler is good mixer. He is as chlvalrous as Bayard, and while he will keep his eye open for anything that ''is doing" politically, he can be relied upon to measure up to the re- quirements demanded of a southern gentleman.
 It is predicted here that when lIr Chanler gets through with the south he will have the delegates of every state that goes to make up the ''solid south with him.
 The candidacy of Chanler has given the democrats a waking up. It has brought all the fighting men in the party to the front and they now talk hopefully of winning Of course, the fact that Chanler is millionaire may have something to do with that. Poli- ticians are known to be much more eager for battle when they see the shadow of the Tong green" even in the distance. Re this as 1t may. Chan Ter is a force in the democratic party and will continue to grow from now on,