Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-01
CONVENTION NEXT WEEK
Practically All the Party Papers in
State in Line.
PRESIDENT KEEPS HANDS OFF
Lull in Politics as Regards Candi-
dates Until Next Fall Expected.
No Change in Ohio.

The principal event in national politics
next week will be the bringing out of Sen
ator Phlander c. Knox of Pennsylvania
as republican candidate for the presi-
dency. 1t is expected that the state con-
vention which meets at Harrisburg next
Thursday will unanimously present the SEN
ator to the country as a candidate. Within
the last week or ten days practically every
republican newspaper in the state has come
to the support of the Knox movement. The
Pittsburg Dispatch, one of the most in
iuential Independent newspapers in the
western half of the state, is the last of the
great newspapers of the state to join in
the movement.
1t is said by Pennsylvanians here that
there will be no half-hearted Endorsement
Of the senator. The call for him to lead
the party next year is not to be coupled
with any declaration which might lead the
republicans of other states to suspect that
the Endorsement lacks sincerity The Roose-
welt policies it is announced. will be ap-
proved, but the convention will not follow
the advice of some persons who suggested
that a platform should couple with the in
dorsement of the Roosevelt policies a de-
mand that the next convention nominate a
candidate pledged to carry forward the
policies The position of the prospective
platform makers is that 1t would be super
fluous to pledge that Senator Knox would
carry forward the Roosevelt policies; it is
asserted that there is no disposition in any
quarter to back away from the task of
completing the reform program which Pres
ident Roosevelt has mapped out.
The Presidents Attitude.
The Discrimination Of the President to
frown upon the movement for Senator
Knox, it is related by Pennsylvanians, has
given the friends of the senator much en-
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House was putting out stories to the effect
that Pennsylvania was mixed up in the
$5,OO0,000 conspiracy, but recently when
prominent republicans from the state
sought to get from the President some ex-
preston as to his attitude toward the Knox
movement they found him disposed to keep
hands Off. Pennsylvanians seem to believe
that their candidate with sixty-eight votes
behind him will have to be reckoned with
in the national convention next year
Following the formal Endorsement of Mr.
Knox by his state convention next week
| his friends will organize to do some mis-
sionary work in other states. They will, it
| son states, including New York, with the
understanding that the party in that state
! will, at the proper time, present Gov
| Hughes as its candidate.
Lull in Politics Expected.
The prospect is that after the formal
bringing out of Senator Knox there will be
| a lull in presidential politics which may last
! until fall. The President has only one more
| week in the national capital before he goes
| to the jamestown exposition and then to
| Oyster Bay for the summer 1t is an
| nounced that politics is to be barred at his
summer home.
! No developments of Importance are looked
| for in Ohio until next fall or winter Sem
| ator Foraker makes no secret of the fact
| that he intends to stand pat There is
| only one compromise that is possible ac-
| cording to his friends, and that is for the
! Taft people to come forward and pledge
| their support to him for reelection to the
| Senate. This the Taft people seem disin-
] clined to do.