Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-18
ROOSEVELT IN DILEMMA
Presidents Mind i'm a State OF
Uncertainty as to Effect of
Another Statement
ENEMIES HAVE HIM IN TRAP
indications Are That Money Interests
Are Preparing to Back Cortelyou for
the Nomination-May Result in Sec
rotary Being Retired From the Cab
inet-RooseveIt Sentiment Growing.

rotary Being Retired From the Cab
inet-RooseveIt Sentiment Growing.
Washington, Nov. ls.-Popular in
terest Is centered at present on the
third term question, and whether Pres
ident Roosevelt is to issue another
statement saying he is not a candi-
date. There are reasons for believing
that he has this question under con-
sideration again, and that it is both
ering him not a little.
It is we'll known that the president
does not want to issue another state
ment. 1t is also we'll known that his
enemies are taking advantage of this
situation, and that in order to head
them off he may be compelled to break
the silence.
Here is the situation which confronts
the president: BY failing to issue an
other statement he is enabling his
enemies to lay plans for controlling
convention delegates for "a number of
the strong Roosevelt states. These
delegates, there is danger, will be
selected with the understanding that
they are for Roosevelt for another term
while in truth this will be subterfuge,
the idea being to manipulate them at
the proper time in the interest of some
reactionary candidate. BY issuing a
statement, he probably would eliminate
himself from the presidential problem,
and make it out Of the question for
him to exert satisfactory influence to-
ward the nomination of man who will
continue his policies.
1t is thus seen that the presidents
enemies think they have caught him
both going and coming. He is now en-
gagged in the important work of trying
to figure out what influence another
statement would have on next years
nomination. At present his mind Is in
a state of perplexing uncertainty.
Campaign for Corteiyou.
In this connection few more words
should be said about Secretary Cortel-
you. That gentleman, according to re-
liable advices from New York, has now
become the favorite candidate of the
financial interests there-the interests
which are so bitter in their denuncia-
ton Of the president and his policies
They are planning to begin an active
campaign in his behalf, The effort that
has been made this week to commit
Archbishop Ireland of ST. Paul to Cor
telyou is part Of the program. That
report will of course have no weight In
the northwest, where the archbishop's
loyalty to President Roosevelt is well
known. The purpose of the report, of
course, is to create the impression that
the northwest is changing f..An Taft
to Cortelyou.
The president has knowledge that
his enemies are promising to take UP
Cortelyou, but he maintains that Cor
telyou himself is not a party to any
scheme which smacks Of disloyalty
Indeed, the president is understood to
hold that Cortelyou as president, would
continue the Roosevelt policies. AS
has previously been said in these dis
patches, however, Cortelyou is natur-
ally a conservative. In all probability
Cortelyou has not said anything to
that he is a reactionary.
1t is believed in Washington that
should the Interests which are hos
tile to- the president show their hands
too plainly in support of Cortelyou
they may cause trouble between that
gentleman and the president and cause
the post of secretary of the treasury
in the cabinet to become vacant.
.Concurrently with this movement to-
ward Cortelyou on the part of the
Interests" there is a broadening OF
the movement to have certain states
in which the president is strong, send
Roosevelt delegates to the convention
next year. 1t so happens that in most
of the states thus far mentioned in
this connection the republican leaders
are well known to be anti-Roosevelt in
their learnings. West Virginia is one
Of these. It's voters are strongly fo1
the president for another term; its
political leaders, on the republican side
are Senators El1ins and Scott, botf
closely allied with the interests" and
both at heart bitterly hostile to the
president, but afraid to say so. Il
the republicans of West Virginia, un-
der their lead, could be persuaded to
choose a Roosevelt delegation, then, in
the convention, when it were found out
that Roosevelt was not candidate, the
delegation could with comparative ease
be swung to some such man as Cor
telyou, or even to Knox or Cannon.
What is true of West Virginia. is
true also of at least dozen other
states, among them Maine. New
Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode ISL
and, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland
and a considerable portion of the old
south.
Same Condition Westward.
There are touches of the same gen.
eral color in several of the middle
west states, where pro- Roosevelt SEN
timent has always been very strong
Political leaders from Kansas, Nebras-
ka, Iowa, Missouri, Michigan, Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota and the Dakotas, have
been here during the fall, and without
exception they say that their con-
stituents want Roosevelt for another
term In the far west the situation Is
the same as in, the middle west Il
the middle and far west political lead
ers are at heart opposed to the presi-
dent they are trying to conceal that
fact A number of them, however
have failed in this, and are known to
be in sympathy with the interests"
The question that confronts the
president is that: If he is not to be
candidate next year, how mucf