The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-16
POLITICAL NOTES.

POLITICAL NOTES.
President Roosevelt" remarked n re
publican United States Senator the other
/ night, lis evidently playing politics at the
expense Of the country. In other words
! the President is making a football OF the
| country and its prosperity for poilt'cal pur-
poses Of his own"
when Senator Boies Penrose Of Penn
svlyania called at the White House to eX-
plain to the President that that five million
dollar conspiracy yarn was the emanatlOh
OF a disordered mind, said a member oil
the Republican national m at the
Waldorf-Astoria the other night ne was
! handed a plank TO be submitted to the harris
burg convention which practically lndorsed
President Roosevelt for a third term. Sen
ator penrose returned TO Pennsylvania ana
ha nded the plank to Senator Knox. where
unon Senator Knox said. We will have no
such plank in the Harrisburg convention
YOU may rest assured of that. ! believe
. the convention is to indorse me for the Pre>i-
dency.",
SpeakinE Of President Roosevelt's recent
| speech at Indian ma polls, it was said the other
night by a well informed Republican that
the original draft of il contained a para
calling for tariff revision and that that part
Of the speech was submitted by the Presl-
dent to Speaker Cannon, who promptly blue
p%encilled II.
Ten DAYS before the President made his
speech in India ma polls the prices OF invest
ment securities began to decline. The drop
In most securities was from s to 10 per cent
The President, it is asserted, while on MS
way to India ma polls to make the speech
remarked to a friend
81 am very glad that this slump in securities
has taken place before ! make this speech.
All, MIR. President" replied the friend.
your speech was known in Wall Street ten
DAYS ago and the ow ners of securities have
taken adva ntage Of the knowledge to sell
out.
President Roosevelt, according to high
Republican testimony, has told Speaker
Cannon that he is not for Secretary Taft
and has made the same remark TO Senator
Knox and to vice-President Fairbanks. but
ne hasn't said so TO Senator Foraker.
As a matter of fact. from all that can he
learned the Ohio situation would have been
fixed up admirably had it not been for Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Representative Burton.
the latter gentleman being a cand idate for
Foraker's Senatorial shoes.
An this talk that the Ohio Republicans
couldn't have got together'and framed up n
programme Of harmony to meet the enemy
is nonsense. 4" said a Republican United states
Senator last night: and he added: What
harm could there have been in repeating the
precedent Of the GAINESVILLE convention Of
1895. when Mckinley was Endorsed for Presi-
dent, Bushnell was handed the Govcrnorship
and Foraker was Endorsed for United States
Senator? There was no talk then of bargain
or deal for the reason that there was no
bargain or deal. 1t was simply the Re
publican household arrangement OF Ohio
against the common enemy, the Democratic
party.
Now for some unforeseen reason all
efforts on the mart OF the Ohio Republicans
TO indorsc Taft for the Presidency. Foraker
for another term in tho Senate and Harris
for Governor have been thwarted. \ good
many people know the reasons and some
Law them 10 tho personal enmity of the PrcSi-
dent to Senator Foraker and to the nmhi-
ton Of Represe1 tative Burton to attain n sent
in the United States Senate.
The Republican national situation so far
as candidates is concerned. in the opinion NJ
well informed United States Senators Of the
Republican party, is that Cannon Of Illinois.
Knox Of Pennsylvania and Fairbanks Of
Indiana are not at all unfriendly TO each
other. but that there is very great opposition
on the part Of all three and their friends
to the idea that President Roosevelt shall
Ilih 'AN aug NNl'A''iNhlt NAl'All'l Nv
he Secretary Taft or any other man, and
attempt to name him as his successor. There
i no unfricndly feeling. it was added. to
Secretary Taft. The only thing object cd
to. it was stated. in the entire matter is That
the President should attempt to name his |
successor and that any policies advocated
by the President should he accepted as the
policies of the Republican party until they
are incorporated IN the party platform.
IN other words the complaint of these
eminent Republican, Is that the President
j. attempting not only 10 dictate his ~rlc-
ccssor hut also To dictate the policies Of
tho narty. which il contrary 10 an precedent. /
from the foundation Of tho party. i
Then some of these well Informed national
Repuhlica NJ, 40 on ~ ssy TINT they brlicNc Z
that the President hd, lutCntionslly hallNd up
the situation in Chic 80 that ~ the lHsi mo- ]
nent q situation shall bc created which may
ca use the nomination 10 hc thrust upon