The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-18
ROOSEVELT'S
 POWER-LUST -rztsp Senators Talk of His
 Last Letter. WOULD IGNORE THE CONGRESS- Hopes to Stampede the Chicago
 Convention. . Demoernts in Washington Leok Upon Governor Johnson us the Man
 te Lead Their Party to
 Victory.
BY cHAs. A. EDWARDS.

Washington, May 16.-(Special )- Political circles here are all agog over the effect of the letters written by the President of the United States to sew sral of the Senators anent the so-called Brownsville incident.
 In these letters he says that he will ignore the Congress or the United States in the matter of the discharged niggers of the army; that if they dare to pass e bill to restore them to the service he will veto 1t, and If they dare to pass it over his veto he will ignore the measure and refuse to put them back; that he is all-powerful in the matter of the army and navy as it's commander-in-c chief and that the representatives of the people in the Congress have nothing to do with 1t or him.
 He says he is like the King in so far as the army and navy is concerned
 Well, now, wouldn't that jar you7 So far as his position in regard to the ntggers Is concerned quite agree with him, but when he gets to the point of saying he will not obey the constitution of the country and execute the laws af- ter they are passed by the Congress. he is getting his leg over the wagon tongue.
 If he persists in this sort of thing. I predict that the Senate of the United States will call him down hard before the adjournment of this session and give him to understand that he is not 'it' and cannot play battledoor and shuttlecock or even lawn tennis with the law-making power of the country.
 The trouble with the President is that he is mad with power He has got the power-lust worse than the Emperor of Germany. and would, if the oppor- tunity offered, go to the front at the head of the army of the nation, declare martial law everywhere and rule with autocratic power He would be the man on horseback, the actual ruler in- stead of the servant of the people. and yet the people all over the country are dead stuck on him and acclaim every act of his as inspired. He Is dead sore now that he renoureed the third term and would take 1t back if he dared
 May Stampede to Roosevelt.
 The Chicago Convention may be stampeded to him, however and if 1t is. he may take the nomination any way and take the chances because he believes the Democrats will nominate Mr, Bryan, and he thinks Bryan would be Handicapped in a race with him be- cause the latter has indorsed nearly all his policies, both in his public ad- dresses and in his paper. The Com moner.
 If the Democrats nominate a man like Governor Johnson against him on a platform that deals only with tariff revision and reduction and the control Of the trusts and corporations, the opinion here among many leading Dem ocrats is that Johnson would defeat him. for 1t is the announced intention of many leading Republicans that they will never support a man for a third term no matter on what ticket he runs.
 If these letters to the Senators ever come out and are given to the public it is going to start something in this country and the people are going to begin to wake up to the real man that Teddy is and they are going to begin to get wary of him and his policies.
 If Taft is nominated and elected Teddy will control him and his admin, astraticn as much as If he were in the White House personally. Whenever he pulls the string Taft will dance
 The real truth about Taft's candi- pear to refuse the third term until drafted by the convention, then be re- elected and make Taft Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court care snap to be President. but he does want to be Chief Justice worst way. Look out for Taft or Teddy.
 Democrats Look to South
 The movement for uninstructed dele- gattons from the South to the Demo cratic National Convention is getting much attention here at the present time and dt looks to the unbiased observer that 1t Is making much headway
 number of prominent Southern Senators have come out SQuare1y in fla vor of uninstructed delegations from the South and they say that they will do all in their power to have their peo- pie refuse to instruct the delegates from their States so that they go to the convention untrammeled and do the best thing for the party.
 They have been in conference with a number of prominent Democrats from the East for the past few days and have been told some things about the salvation of the party. They were told that if Bryan is again nominated and defeated 1t will destroy the Dem ocFatic party in the North and the East, that the South will be the only part of the Democracy left that there will be no Northern Democrats here to help the South in Congress when the Re pubiicans take 1t into their hands to State in the South and 1t is making hem sit up and take notice
 The South has it in it's power this time to absolutely control the situation at the Denver Convention and if they ignore the call of the North and the East and the North west 1t win be their own fault
 The way the leaders of the party here feel about the matter is this: they all love Bryan personally and would lfxs to see him President. but they feel that they owe much more to the Sou tn ambition and the strides that Cover nor Johnson Is making all over the country ana the way the North western