The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-02-06
REPUBLICAN SPLIT
BELIEVED THAT TWO TICKETS WILL
BE PUT Nv THE FIELD.
Next to President, LaFoIlette May
Prove Bfggest Factor I'm Chicago
CoAvention--Messag OF Friday
Has Made Mischief which
Causes Serious Appre-
hension to Party Men.

Wash ington Herald.
VIII there be two Republican Presi
Dental tickets IN the field In the forth
coming national campaign
A combination Of conservative Repub.
lfcans with conservative Democrats Ii
considered to be easily within the range
OF possibility now. A large element OF
the Republican party. especially In the
East ana In the great cities OF the
West. Will never be reconciled to q
to candidate named by Roosevelt and
sJanoing on a platform of modified
Scores OF Republicans In the past two
days have outspokenly predicted the
denomination OF Roosevelt They look
upon this as quite the natural and logi-
cal cal aa outSome OF the remarkable party
They realize perfectly that It Is wholly
out OF the question for the Republican
party to escape responsibility IN fullest
ton and all the utterances and policies
attaching thereto. II. then. there must
be q campaign of radicalism. from
wnich the hepu6lican party cannot eso
NO one questions that In such a cam
pasgn he would he infinitely stronger
than any other Republican who could
clumsy misfft In such role; Fairbanks
and Knox impossible; Hughes a doubt
ful quantity. who might be. strong or
Joe" Cannon lacking in availability as
Q leader In such a campaign for the
double reason of his age and his abhor-
renee OF radicalism Of the Rooseveltian
stamp.
Next to Roosevelt, and since Friday
iast. looming up more prominently. in
the republican party than any other
lette Of wisconsin. He is today a real
factor IN the preliminary Presidential
contest. and he promises to become q
sttli greater factor as the days go on.
He would Mt into q radical campaign as
logically as Roosevelt himself, for he
mas stood for just such reforms as
roosevelt advocates and, better still.
s sSst SY9 Foes
those policies which he has fdr years
sxpounded. and which are in perfect
He believes they represent the truest
conservatism. because they stand for
honsty and square deal.
and destroying" said Senator La Fol-
lette In recent conversation, but /
have torn down and destroyed nothing.
On the contrary. 4 have helped to build
healthier condition than ever before.
No corporation has been put out of
business; The policy which I have adj
poratione meet their just share OF tax
alton and contribute to the bearing OF
the burdens Of the State. There IL
nothing, radical in this 1t is conser-
It is the belief Of President Roose-
velt. as e Is and has been the belief
of William Jennings Bryan and Sena-
tor LaFollette. that these corporate re-
forms must inevitably come about in
national AFFAIRS and that IL they do not
come about under the leadership of
men now in political life, they will be
brought about ultimately through radi-
cals and radical legis1ation that the
country might well fear.
The effect OF the Roosevelt message
upon the Taft Campaign is problemati-
cal. His friends are hoping that Il will
orove helpful to him. But sober con-
liberation OF It. and q glance into the
future seem to point 10 the contrary
effect. No one will at 90 well into the
RADICAL campaign. as now ordained, as
Roosevelt himself. and the opinion Is
growing daily that the call upon him
o continue to lead the fight viii be 80
that he will be unable to
resist it. He has said that nothing
would tempt him to make a race for
another term except call direct from
the people. involving a duty which, as
! patriot. he could not shIrk. And II is
today generally believed that such call
10 coming.