Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1907-11-16

but also TO attempt first to inject new
life into ii.
This he is attempting 20 do by send
ing messages out to the third term
boomers everywhere to look sharply
to it that only men who are known be-
yond question to be supporters of his
radical policies shall be slated for del
egates to the convention. What he in
tends to do with these men after their
selection is assured is the question Of
chief political importance in Washing
ton today. The consensus OF opinion is
that he will be unable. even should H.
try. 10 head them off from renominat-
ing him. II is assumed, Of course. that
after he receives positive assurances
that the delegations Of the majority of
the states are to be dominated by the
supporters of his policies he viii then
undertake to organize them into
compact-wieldy Taft organization. No
other candidate now in sight suits the
president half so well as does Judge
I Taft. But IL he should fail to shift
them bodily to Taft they might split
up into warning factions and thus
strengthen the opposition 20 the RoOsc-
welt policies. Ii is this prospect that
that convinces Washington that Mr..
Roosevelt is more nearly convinced
than ever he was that in order to as
sure a continuance Of his policies I'M
/ broken he will have to take the nom
| ination himself
The leaders of his party i'm New
York will call upon the president in a
, few days to Law before him the cond:-
i i'm ha h., r.-fl lo
I ed by Timothy L. Woodruff. chairman
I of the New York republican state com
! mittee. who the day after election de
/ clared in a published interview his firm
( conviction that Mr.. Roosevelt's would
! be the only name presented to the next
I republican national convention. Mr..
I Woodruff had just won notable vic
/ tory in Kings county CBrooklyn). usu-
ally democratic by twenty thousand
and he attributed his success to his
/ appeal to the voters To stand by Roose-
Welt. 4 few days before the ballots
| We're cast he held a joint debate in
| Brooklyn with Patrick II. McCarren
/ the democratic leader of that city, on
the question Of President Roosevelt's
| responsibility for the recent financial
furry. MsCarren had stated in an in
terview that the entire responsibility
for the threatened fr.ghtful panic was
Mr.. Koosevelts. Woodruff thereupor
challenged the democratic leader to d
joint debate on that question. The re-
publican leader is now convinced thai
but for this debate he would have LOST
Kings county. Thereupon he holds
that the presidents popularity is 81
great that nobody can stop his nom
ination.
| When Mr.. Woodruff visits the White
House IL is expected that something
definite in the line of the president.
attitude toward Governor Hughes will
be developed. II is known here. as i
is in New York, that the one man %
whom the president is jealous above al
/ other men is Governor Hughes. Mr.
Roosevelt thinks. and always proclaim,
that he made Hughes and that Hughe!
has shown ingratitude and exhibited
it in a form unforgiveable. The fac
is that the New York governor is quit
too independent for the president. II,
has never sought advice at the White
House on any move made in the wa!
of exposing corruptions in high financ,
in New York, and in this way he ha