Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-20

Hughes, Vice President Fairbanks,
Senator Knox and Senator La Toilette.
There seems to be every reason why
Governor johnson, IL he desires to be a
candidate, should be given the support
of his state delegation without serious
opposition. Probably he would have
none except. for the violent enthusiasm
shown for him by the Washington Post
and Cincinnati Enquirer, owned by
John R. Mclean, who also owns many
of the public service corporations in
both of those cities: by the New York
Sun, believed to be owned by ]. Pier
pont Morgan, and by the New York
World
Governor Hughes and New York.
Few people in Washington take very
seriously the candidacy of Governor
Hughes for the presidency-if indeed
he Is a candidate. He is too new to
national affairs-too noncommittal, as
a Republican senator who really adj
mires him said to me, to attract the
support of a majority of the Republic
an convention. But Hughes, without
chance Of nomination, received few
days ago the Endorsement of the Re-
publican state committee of New York
The New York man has been q good
insurance investigator and, with one
exception, a popular governor. The
exception was his veto Of the two cent
fare bill in New York state. That ac-
ton indicated willingness to put the
burden of proof, in an issue arising be-
tween the people and the railroads,
upon the people rather than upon the
roads. But the chief criticism upon
Governor Hughes among national poll
ticians in Washington is that it will
take four years to make him known to
the people of the United States. He
has seldom been west of the Niagara
river. In his public speeches he has
dispensed fine sounding phrases and
accepted platitudes. But with an elect
crate which seems now TO be interest
ed in Roosevelt or Bryan, Hearst or
La Toilette, the old line Of underground
politicians of whom New York has
produced so many must be regarded
as shopworn and only fit to be laid on
the shelf.
A View Of Roosevelt.
And when it comes to considering
Roosevelt as real politician, one of
the most practical type, some things
which were said to me the other day
by a southern senator, who, though a
Democrat, yields to nobody in his adj
- CIV Of 1nn
president, may seem pertinent.
You may remember" said he, that
when 1t was announced that Governor
| Hughes would make a statement of
+ his position on national affairs on a
Saturday night, Roosevelt was clever
|. session, though its practice is to ad-
journ Thursday night over until the
following Monday. Then he sent in a
message so fierce in its tone that it
would draw away from the Hughes
speech the attention of the entire cOun-
try. That is so regent an incident that
everybody remembers it, but how
many people do remember now that
when the revelation was made that
the malefactor of great wealth. E.
II. Hartman, had raised more than
S250,OO0 for the Roosevelt campaign
fund at ROosevelts incentive, spOkes-
man of the president suddenly discov-
cred that there was a conspiracy
among rich men to raise 100000 to
defeat the presidents reelection? The
mere suggestion of the conspiracy was
so much more dramatic than the proof
of the corporation Doodle put up for
his election that everybody talked
about the former and forgot about in
surance moneys used in his behalf.
When California was up in arms
against japanese immigration and the
rights of Japanese students in Ameri-
can schools, Mr.. Roosevelt, as COM
mander in chief of the navy, found the
time propitious to send the greatest
fleet the United States has ever put I'M
der one command to the Pacific.
''They talk about there being Knox
press bureau in Washington or a
Hughes press bureau in New York or
organizations to support this or that
andidate--Democratic or Republican.
want to tell you that the greatest
press bureau, in charge of the clever
est political advertiser and manager
ever known, is maintained today in
the executive Offices at the White
House."
Four or five newspaper men and two
members of congress who. listened to
this outburst of oratory applauded the
southern senator and said he was
right.
Washington, d. G.