Amador ledger., 1908-05-01
Washington Letter.

| III BennsylVaulA, inc allies, as the
other presidential candidates are
called, are ahead of SECRETARY Taft in
point of delegates, and Washington Is
seething with political talk,
Senator Jonathan Bourne, ir,, OF
Oregon, the original second elective
term man, is growing happier every
day, because he processes to see d
development of his idea all over the
country.
More insisteut pressure is being
brought to bear every day on presi-
dent Roosevelt to change his mind
about another term. Politicians from
all over the country are going to him,
pleading that he permit himself to
be named again. their reason is
given as fear for the success of the
republican ticket if Taft is nomin-
ated. Clouds are gathering on the
horizon of the Taft boom every day,
and they are worrying the managers
of that expensive campaign, which is
said to have cost more than $500, 900
up to date.
In many states, the negroes hold
the balance of power, and the labor
vote is being lined up solidly against
the secretary. In many states, where
elections are close, the state tickets
have been named, and the nominees
of the republican party want man
at the head of the ticket who will be
sure to carry them through to success.
In the past week there have been
three distinct and important protests
made against the Taft candidacy, and
they are certainly worth considera-
tion at the hands of partisans who
want the ticket to succeesd next
November. In the first place, the
negroes enraged at the treatment
accorded them by federal office hold
ing bosses in the South. managed by
Hitchcock, have eliminated them
from participation in party councils,
met in Philadelphia, and drafted pro-
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vote.
In the second place. president
Charles j. French, of the New Hamp-
shire branch of the American fedora
ton of labor, has issued an appeal 70
laboring men to fight the Taft
candidacy, and declares the opposi-
ton, universal in the ranks of
organized labor, is not based on
politics, but that it is from union
men. Mass meetings are to be held
in every city in the country to carry
out the protest.
The third important development
of the week was the issuance of q
letter by former senator Chandler,
calling on the country to support the
Latollette candidacy. He bases his
argument on the ground that the acts
of the administration have nullified
the past good work, and says there is
collision between the administration
and the "int or ests'' in consideration
whereof support is throw to Taft.
These protests are all from republi-
cans, and they have resulted in
bringing the Taft boom to a stand
still. All one can hear now in
Washington is the question: "Will ii
become necessary to draft Roosevelt
again to save the republican ticket at
the polls?'
| That the presidents name is being
: used in the South in cases where be
knowns nothing about it is pretty
, generally believed in Washington,
) and the charge is made by the friends
: of other candidates that the Tart
managers have availed themselves OF
, opportunities of all sorts. President
Roosevelt is believed to have been or
, the point of Investigating, so as tc
call halt, but has not done so.
| Vice president Fairbanks class has
, been entered by senator Knox, Of
Pennsylvania. For several weeks,
the vice president was the only presi
7 Dental candidate who had the I'M
, qualified backing of his state. Nc
attempt was made to invade his state
by the Taft forces, although an effort
} was made by them to get delegates in
? the Keystone state, unsuccessfully,
however.
, Charles Hernley, former state chair
man of Indiana, was caller at the
White House recently, and told the
! president that the Indiana delegation
= would never stop until they hao
} nominated their man. 81 told the
president he said after the visit
/ Uthat ha had entirelv misindped thl