Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-11-17

| OF NEW Works GOVERNOR.
| @ New York, Nov. Especial Cor
respond ence) Instead Of the expect
ed Iull after the elections Of last
week, politics has taken on a new
vigor. and the presidential nomina-
tions are beginning to be discussed as
holly as If the campaign were. six
months further advanced. President
Rooseyelt's attitude with regard to
the third term movement it causing
consider able speculation, and Secre-
| tary Taft's return is eagerly awaited
/ in the belief that the president will
take that occasion to avow his final
stand Friends of Mr.. Roosevelt and
of Mr.. Taft profess to feel no fear as
to what that stand will be- They
declare that the president will settle
all speculation as to his sincerity and
truthfulness by placing himself, at
once and for all, entirely without the
pale Of republican presidential posi-
biIities; and will also take that OPP
portunity again to impress upon his
party his desire that the war secre.
tary shall succeed him in the White
House. &.
Meanwhile the "favorite SON move
ment is in full swing and reports
from various states Indicate that
there will be many complime ntary in
,structions for resident statesmen who
are supposed to measure up to presi-
dental standards Beyond this al
Ways-to-be expected attitude of state
leaders, there seems to be nothing
developing that could be construed as
positively hurtful to Secretary Taft's
prospects. / say this Notwithstanding
the fact that recently a number Of
solemn warnings have been issued
that the president cannot hope to
have everything his own way when it
comes to naming his successor
| One of the most pond erously Inn
pressive of these has just appeared
| in the New York Press, which takes
up two columns of double loaded edit
orial matter in its attempt to prove to
Mr.. Roosevelt that in selecting Taft
he is ION a dead one" The Press is
strongly Hughes paper. and the way
| it goes about proving that Secretary
Taft is out Of the race is laughably
Illogical. After eliminating Mr.
Roosevelt from the race by putting
the president, on his honor, so to
speak, the Press declares that with
| Mr.. Roosevelt out, then, any Of his
advisers from New York can tell him
only one thing as to this state. ut
| is that MIR. Taft has no more chance
| of winning its delegation than M.
Fairbanks or Mr.. Knox or Speaker
Cannon or Mr.. Cortelyon. ID. S n ~ &
likewise. consulting his friends
from Pennsylvania, he will learn that
the delegation of that state cannot be
\ delivered to Mr.. Taft. Those whom
| he consults from Indiana will have
the same message for him about that
state These who go to tell him about
Illinois will convince him that Mr..
Cannon, not Mr.. Taft, will control the
delegates from there He will hear
that Wisconsin is for La Toilette. Mr.
1 Roosevelt has many friends in New
England They will tell him, just as
4 the others do, that while he could
4 ferent matter to think about obtain
ing the delegations of Maine, New
have thu, nomination with the consent
lof New England, 1t is an entirely diff
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island and Connecticut fol
i Taft merely because the president
would prefer to have the secretary 81
/ war nominated
Now, 1T is prepostarous in poll
tics" continues the Press, ITO tall
about nominating for president a can
u didate who cannot obtain the support
in the convention Of New England
New York New d erssy,s Pennsylvania
4 Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, the
Epossessors of the electoral votes thai