The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-09-11
To PAVE WAY
FOR NOMINATION
PRESIDENT HAS BEEN WORKING
ON FIVE SPEECHES FOR
SOUTHERN TRIP.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.-There is a
great deal of interest manifested here
among Republican politicians as to tn
character of speeches the President
will make on his southern tour. He
is scheduled to make five talks and 1t
is known that he put a great deal OF
his time in on them at Oyster Bay this
summer. Whether the speeches will
be academic or what might be called
political, is what good many people,
with Wall street connections, would like
to know. AS yet no one, not even the
ubiquitous Loeb, has an inkling as to
what the President has on his mind.
The politicians, who have been OPP
posing Taft, have just awakened to the
fact that the President seriously in
tends to force his nomination on the
party. There will be 992 delegates in
the next Republican convention and
497 will be enough to nominate. The
south will furnish 1872 of these dele
gates in the shape of federal office
holders. The delegates from the ter
ritOries. rs in number, will be of the
same stripe. West of the Mississippi
there will be something like 1856 dele
gates, every one of them Roosevelt
man. With this aggregation all the
President will have to do is press the
| button and the convention will do the
rest. At this time it looks as II Ia1t
! was as good as nominated.
| 1t is suspected that one reason why
| the President is going to make these
| five speeches is to pave. in some fash
| ion. the way to this result. The pro-
| ceedings is a little high handed, even
| for Roosevelt, and needs a little soft
ening.
| The Democrats in the south are alive
| TO what is going on and they intend to
/ line up this time behind a live candl-
| date. 1t is expected that when Roose-
Welt visits the south, Lieutenant Gov
| ernor Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, OF
| New York State, will also be there.
| Gov. Chanler has been invited to make
| Influential DEMOCRATS in the south.
| Since the candidacy of Chanler for the
Presidency has been announced the
Democratic leaders in the south, who
have been at the capital, have taken
very kindly to it.
Chanler's father came from most
distinguished southern family. He
married the daughter of John jacob
| Aston, and made his home in New
York. where he won fame as lawyer
| In this sense the Southerners look
upon Chanler as one of their own.
| They feel that this is not the time to
ask the democratic convention to name
| a man who lives in the south for Presi-
dent so, in rallying to the support of
| Chanler, they are doing the next best
| thing.
| Chanler will not dissapoint his
| southern audiences He has a pleas
| ing personally, stands over six feet
and is a fiery orator when he gets &
going.
His visits to the south will stand
| out in vivid contrast to one made by
Senator David Bennette Hill, of New
York, on his memorable hunt 70.
southern delegates a dozen years ago
Hill was cold and calculating and neve,
for a moment could he get away from
the business that took him south.
Chanler is a good mixer. He is as
chivalrous as Bayard, and while he
will keep his eye open for anything
that 'is doing politically. he can be-
relied upon to measure up to the re-
Quirements demanded of a southern
| gentleman.
| 1t is predicted here that when Gov
| Chanler gets through with the south
he will have the delegates of every
state that goes to make up the solid
| south with him.
The candidacy of Chanler has given
/ the Democrats a waking up 1t has
brought all the fighting men in the
| party to the front and they now talk
hopefully of winning. OF course the
| fact that Chanler is a millionaire may
nave something to do with that. Poll
| tlcians are known to be much more
| eager for battle when they see the
shadow of the "long green even in tn.
| distance. Be this as it may, Chanler
is force in the democratic party and
VIII continue to grow from now on.