The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-27
OHIO ON WATCH
FOR UNCLE JOE
Significant Trip South Of
Speaker.
MAY LAUNCH HIS BOOM
Foraker is Still Hanging on to the
Machine.
Taft 4. Beating Tom-Toms I'm His state
where a Patent is Believed to
be Held ON the Pres
idency.
BY J. r.. HORNADY

ion of Uncle Joe" Cannon, referee OF
the House of Representatives. the time
has come when a Southern born man
should be elevated to the Presidency.
Uncle Joe," by the way, IS South
ern born man. His advent into world
of paregoric and politics occurred so
long ago that most folks have forgot
ten both the time and the place. but he
IS preparing to refresh the public recol-
lection on this point and, If Cannon
boom develops in the South, he can't
help 1t. He has announced his inten-
tion to visit the home of his birth, To-
Gated at Guilford Courthouse. North
Carolina, and while there he will make
q speech before the Guilford College
students and will probably refer to
the glad, free days of his own youth,
spent in that dear Southern commu-
nifty. He left there when he was five
years of age and has been in Illinois
and the House of Representatives dur
ing the most of the intervening years,
but he will probably be able to
dig up a few anecdotes with a Gull
ford court house flavor. The incident
will emphasize the fact that Uncle
joe is a Southerner by birth, and If
the South throws up its hat and yells
''Rah for Cannon" and insists upon
his being the presidential nominee, not
even the President could blame him.
Noted In Ohio.
This sinister visit of Speaker Cannon
to the home of his birth might have
escaped notice in other parts of the
country, until the real event was
pulled off. but here in Ohio where Re-
publicans think that they have the
Presidential situation protected by
patents. copyrights, prior liens and
FIRST and second mortgages. everything
looks liks an infringement is instant
~ noted and an immediate appeal is
taken to the high political court in
Washington.
h is not yet clear that an effort will
be y ade to enioin Uncle Joe" from Wis
itisg the scene of his collie and kits,
but he is being watched. and If he
tries to launch a Southern boom a
stick OF administrative dynamite may
be exploded under his flowing coat
tails.
1t might be mentioned IN passing
that the Indiana hackers of Fairbanks
are looking to the South for substan-
tial support for the Vfce-President,
and they also look with suspicion up
ON the Guilford Courthouse statesman.
Since Fairbanks invaded the South,
last year. and created a roar of laugh
ter by addressing the Southern Meth
odist Conference at Birmingham as the
publicans" 1t had been his pleasure to
appear before. the men who are trying
to keep the fires going under his pres
idential boilers, feel that a bond of
good fellowship has been established
between himSand the South that ought
to result In nice bunch of delegates.
Taft Kicks Up Dust.
Candidate Taft, who wants the 9TH
er aspirants to wait until he has licked
that fellow Foraker, is kicking up a
sight of dust in Ohio. but in the widst
of II all Foraker can be seen hanging
onto the machine with determination
that is somewhat disconcertlng to the
friends of the War Secretary With
the assistance of the President. Taft
has been able to keep the ether can
didates somewhat in the background
up to this time, but his friends are
becoming apprehensive lest these gem
tlemen should decide that Taft has
long and uncertain campaign ahead of
him in this State, and should refuse
longer to clear the right of way for
him. They admit that it Is scarcely
reasonable to expect tn eother would
be Presidents to keep their booms on
ice all though the summer while Taft
spars for the Ohio delegation, without
which 1t is practically useless for him
to go elsewhere with his Presidential
bug.
Everybody knows, however, that Taft
Is merely an incident in the Ohio
fight; that the real Struggle is be-
tween Foraker and Roosevelt, and bit
ter political enmity is at the root of
II. Roosevelt is determined to defeat
Roosevelt in his choice of of a sue
cessor. And while the fight goes on
the Democrats are preparing to cap
ture the State To them a Democratic
victory all along the line seems the
logical outcome of the row.
Boom for johnson.
An effort is being made to launch
q Presidential boom in Ohio in behalf
of Governor Johnson, of Minnesota, the
Democrats of Erie County being be-
hind the movement. The boom seems
a bit tame, however, and while It may
no the of the kind that will walk up
and eat out of your hand. 1t shows
no disposition to run away with the
State. In fact, the opinion seems to
be that the Erie County Democratas
- Will -need-no- assistance holding 1t
At this time the idea prevails among
the great body of Ohio Democrats that
Bryin knows the part of the presiden-
tial candidate so well that II is scarce
ly necessary to ring in a new man. and
II is taken for granted that he will be
again billed for the leading Fart. And
II he Is. they will, but the grace of the
hghting Republicans. seew to hand him
the Ohio vote in the electoral college