The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-04-29
Chief Executive Regrets What
He Said on Election Night
About Third Term Since Re-
cent Insult.
MILL HE BE RENOMINATED
AT CHICAGO CONVENTION.
Thought That If Taft Is Not
Nominated on First Ballot,
President Will Step in and
Take the Plum.

could have foreseen how things were
going to frame up, would never have
nnade that election night pledge-and
I would never have reiterated it three
anonths ago.
President Roosevelt fairly chopped
his words when he savagely made that
announcement to a Senator who stood
by him IN his fight for four battle
ships.
! There is no doubt but that the Pres
tdent is about as angry as he ever
has been in the course of his Admin
nstration. The attitude OF Congress
Toward the Executive and his 1egisla-
Tive program has tested his temper
10 the limit
There has never been a Presidents
message so discOurteOuSly received as
WAS the recent one sent to Congress.
IN the House it was ignored entirely
In the Senate, as soon as message
fFom the President was announced,
tthe Senators yawned and moved that
II be laid over for day or two. This
WAS done, and the Senate adjourned
without even polite inquiry as to what
the esmessage was about
The President gave utterance to the
Ntatement quoted above in talking
with Senator who was one of the Ad-
Anotnistration leaders in the four battle
Bnfp fght. This Senator commented
Edpon the extreme Indifference of the
Senate toward the Presidents wishes,
tand expressed the opinion that this
indifference, which has almost as
1umed the attitude of studied af-
l1font, is due to the fact that the Pres
b0ent has eliminated himself from the
Race for the presidential nomination.
Iand that Congress, no longer fearing
Ehe shadow of his influence, is trying
no get even for past times when he
has held 1t up to its duties.
Yes" snapped the President, and
81 could have foreseen how things
were going to frame up. | would never
have made that election night pledge.
Stfn," he added, 1T is made, and it
stands, even if advantage is taken Of
st."
Quotes loneworth.
The Senator in question then re-
ferred to the interview ascribed to
Representative Nick Longworth. of
Cincinnati, the Presidents son-in-law,
an which he said that he did not know
what the President would do if nomi-
mated by acclamatiOn. The Senator
asked the President if he would ac-
cept. The President snapped his
teeth, and said: My position on that
question is we'll known and ringing
the changes on it will not alter it
1t is practically certain that the pres
ident will get none of his pet legisla-
tive bills through. The Civic Fedora
tion-Hepburn bill, which is white
house child, is as dead as can be This
bill was drafted after many long con-
ferences In the white house. in which
the President. Samuel Gompers, Seth
Low, Francis Lynde Stetson, E. H. Ga
ry and others participated. 1t is one
of the presidents dearest wishes that
this bill be made a law: it centralizes
power, hobbies courts and invests the
executive with prerOgatives of the
most farreaching character. Its re-
lection is a serious blow to his scheme
for continuing my policies"
AS for tariff revision the best possi-
BILE recognition he will get from pres
ent indications. is the empowering Of
the Ways and Means committee. a
sf1ide- bound stand pat organization. TO
sit through the summer as a tariff
commission and study the needs of re
fvision.
There are many who would no: be
surprised to see him step into the
breach. if Taft should be defeated on
the first ballot and take the nomina-
in, n hn in
tion to force from congress the legisla-
tion program it now views with indif-
sference.
Fight Only Begun.
Senator Beveridge of Indiana who
led the contest in the senate for four
hattleships in this session of congress,
declares that the fight for greater ma
Wy had only just begun
we fought for a greater navy and
we are going to keep up the fight" he
said. Heretofore the fleet has been
kept on the Atlantic coast Hereafter
there shall also be a fleet on the Pacific
Coast, The president is more deter
mined than ever. and so are We
1T is we who fought FOR greater ma
Wy and who stand for it now more than
ever. who are happy today We won
a substantial victory in getting an ap-
preparation for two battle ships instead
of merely an AUTHORIZATION. and in get
ting a promise publicly made on the
floor Of the senate from Mr. Allison,
chairman OF the appropriation commit
tee, and Mr.. Hale. chairman of the ma
val committee. for two more battle
ships next session, making four in this
pengreA