The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-07

- is being endorsed In such A splen-
 oio manner ..s l also feel that there ought to be demonstration for
 MT Aldrich of some kind. know tn at
 you nave. so far from seeking. really | avoided anything of this kind such
 as the State Chairmanship; but I ar,
 sure that your associates and the Re-
 publicans of your State will insist that
 in some way you be given recognition,
 and that your superior abilities be rec
 ognized fer the public service. I think
 the President will feel that, on re- cleo :
 tion, you will be entitled to high con
 sideration fin the public service at home or abroad.
 To me. what seemed such A difacult
 problem In the State of Alabama, and
 as to which the President said. when asking me to take it up, that he felt
 he was giving me a very unplea sa nt
 task. has been instead one of much
 pleasure. A difficult problem to a res
 olute man who wants to get results
 is rather attractive than otherwise I And then, I was immediately brought
 into close association with you and
 the other gentlemen; and I shall ale 1 ways feel that coming in such close
 contact with you. has more than re- l paid me for the little trouble that I | have had It was a pleasure to help | in the surgury of removing the excres-
 cence that Messrs - tried to put on | the Republican party in Alabama. as a | mathematician st
 Mir. Aldrich made representations to | the President that the cause of .har- | mony among the Republicans of Ala bama would be best subserved by not l having Federal offlce-holder as Chair man of the State Committee. The President agreed to this proposition and directed a letter to Mir. Thomp- son, in Mir. Aldrich's presence. to the effect that hefwould not approve Mir
 Thompson's becoming chairman of the State Committed; but after an inter- view with Booker T.. and others in Thompson's interest. he crawfished again-withdrew the letter Mir. Aid. rich heard him dictate and wrote Thompson to use his own Judgment in the matter.
 The following letter from the same close friend of the President, who had special charge of lining up the South ern States for Roosevelt in 1904 con- firms the foregoing facts:
 April IS. 1904.
 Dear Mir. Aldrich:
 Tn Washington. learned that the President had changed his position from the course that he indicated to you. or rather in the letter Mir. Loeb wrote to Mir. Thompson while you were there; otherwise. that he withdrew that letter and left it to Thompsons judg- ment. am told on Monday when Thompson, Dr. Washington and Hund- ley were here that such letter had been received from the White House, and that they were going to washing ton that night and be there yester- day and settle matters conciusively. All these gentlemen who were here, including Nathan Alexander. who was present at an interview that I had with Mir. Scott. MT Thompson and Mir Hundley. expressed the friendliest feel ing toward you and gave me their as- suranees of their hearty support of you in everything except your position on the chairmanship matter.
 I told them that I agreed with you heartily in that policy and I thought q mistake had been made when Mir. Thompson. without a concurrence of a majority of the referees. declared for the State Convention plan of electing @ chairman. and that still believe that the Northern plan of having a State Committee select chairman was the best. but that of course I understood that my opinion could not effect mat ters in Alabama and would have no right to do so. expressed to all these gentlemen, in the. most positive man ner, my appreciation of your very su- perior work in connection with the referees, and I told them that as- sured the President of your unusual worthfness and Of your unusual ser vice, and that I should feel 1t as much q reflection upon me as 1t would be up- on you If in the future you were not as heartily supported as you have been and especially should I feel 1t q reflection If you were unjustly treated in any respect.
 wish the matter might be better, but 1t seems that ethe influence of Dr, backed by the colored people probably of his State, has con vtnced the President of Thompson's 
 In any event. if the President has decided, that ends 1t for me, and of course for everyone else. want to assure you again and again, and shall always have the same opinion. that think your course in your unselfish. patient work in straightening out mat ters in Alabama has been in the high est degree both of character and re- suit. It has greatly increased my per- sofal friendship and affection for you l md I hope that you will always feel that whatever comes my friendship to | you will not change except to increase.
 This close friend of the President | must have felt 1t "a reflection" upon | ntHls LOT the thompson Scneme was | fully worked out, and MT. Aldrich was | 'unjustly treated"
 IL Is clear from the letters above | quoted that Mir. Aldrich's work in l Alabama was entirely satisfactory to | he Presidents manager both in char | .cter and results" The President was | 'ully informed of this. Now mark the | .eward handed down by Roosevelt.
 At the State Convention of 1904. | when Thompson was elected Chairman. n order to influence the delegates in | lis favor. they were invited into office in the government building in Birmingham and there hown letter from Booker T. Wash ngton of which the following is an ,xact copy!
 Bear with Aldrich until after the and then the President will urn him down with pleasure"
 In spite of his long years of service @ the party and to Roosevelt. he has iot received much as thanks from he man in the White House. Ha was wen deprived of his refereeship and ,Rntzed, of controlling the patronage n his district until another Republi an Congressman was elected.
 As soon as Thompson was elected tate Chairman he began to organize party exclusively composed of of- Ice- hblders It was clear from his ctiohs that he and his crowd did not esire any changes or additions to the artv. but intended to keep 1t as Q lose corporation for the sole beneft f Thompson and his friends. When ha State campaign of 1908 came on e refussd to put ticket in the fisIa