The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1908-03-05
POLITICAL GOSSIP.

Later issues of the national weekly
reviews, after an examination of rep
resentative papers from every section
of the country, agree in reporting the
effect OF the recent special message Of
the president reaffirming his radical
policies. The Literary Digest says
that political confusion was the most
noticeable immediate result and
that "a wider survey of the newspa-
per field seems to prove that the ap-
plause far outweighs the condemna-
tion--the latter being directed al
most entirely against the manner, and
not the matter, of the message" The
Independent finds that even in the
east, where some Of the leading
papers openly disapprove of the mes
sage, the great bulk of opinion is in
approval and that the people take lit
tie stock in the talk about the "Roose-
welt panic" This approval is quite as
apt to be found among democrats as
among republicans.
The anti-administration men and
organs continue to talk about the
chance of preventing the nomination
of Taft on the first ballot at Chicago
by combining contesting delegations
with the favorite son vote, admitting
that it is now a problem of Taft
against the field" Notwithstanding
that the Alabama State committee
has declared for Taft, the state con-
vention is expected to be repetition
of the one in Florida recently. Rumor
has it that Senator Crane of Massa-
chusetts is engineering the southern
campaign against Taft. 1t is openly
charged that Standard Oil money was
used freely in splitting the Florida
Foraker Is expected to
draw off a considerable portion of the
negro vote.
After his flying trip through Michi-
gan Taft came east to attend the
graduating exercises at West Point
and then began dash into New Eng
land with rousing reception from
his Alma Mater at Hartford, Conn.
At Concord, N. H., he said the time
had come when the Dingley tariff
should be 'sre-examined with view
to it's revision on a purely protective
basis" In regard to the Pacific
he said: with the
Orientals it is necessary to fill the
eye in order to be convincing. 1t Is
no ones business where the fleet Is
going"
The names OF two state-governors
have been much discussed in connec-
ton with the republican nomination
for vice president on the ticket in
case it is to be headed by Taft, name
" Guild of Massachusetts and Fort
Of New Jersey The former was
caller at the White House Tuesday
and from a statement he gave to the
press afterward the impression pre-
vailed that he would not be selected
as the running mate OF Taft. Guild
denied the truth of any statement
that a deal had been made between
him and Taft for the vice presidency,
adding that his duty to his state
would prevent his entering such a
contest. Later Governor Fort was
the presidents guest at Washington
and his availability for the second
place on the ticket Is said to have re-
ceived favorable consideration by the
friends of Taft.
In every one of the rs counties
Of Oklahoma, the primary elections
have gone for Bryan and the demo-
cratic delegation of the new state Will
be therefore unit for the Nebraskan.
Hereafter all candidates for public
office of every grade in Illinois will
be named NY direct vote in stated
party primary elections, law to that
effect having been enacted by the
will be held for this purpose.
IN a recent remarkable interview
At Boston, the richest woman in Am
erica had her fling at the fashionable
rich of New York, many of whom she
said had come to her for money dur
Ing the panic, and predicted that
Roosevelt would run again and win.
When the crash came she says she
was one of the few who really had
money. She loaned Harry Payne