Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-08
URGE PRESIDENT
TO CHANGE PLAN
Letters from All Glasses OF Peo-
pie Say He Should Accept
Nomination.
FROM FOREIGN MoNARcHs.
Much Correspondence from .tcross the
Seas Expressing Profound Respect
For the Chief Executive.
speelal correspondenee.

Special Correspondence.
Washington, D.CaMty 2.--Without at
tempting to detract In a single degree
from the very great lead which Secy.
Taft has fo- the Republican
nomination for president there
is no gainsayng the fact that
the last week has shown de-
cided activity looking to the renomina-
ton of President Roosevelt Secretary
Taft is picking up delegates every week
and during the month of May 1t Is con-
fldently predicted by his managers that
he Will at least have sufficient TO insure
his nomination on the first ballot. This.
however. is not conceded by the al
Hes. as those are called who are can
didates themselves for the high honor
and those who are honestly in favor
OF the denomination of Theodore Roose-
Welt
AS stated. however, the past week has
noticeably increased the talk about the
Capitol favorable to the denomination
of the president And this talk comes
not so much from the people. although
they are expressing themselves in no
uncertain way but from men who have
made a lifelong study of politics. They
realize that In order to carry out the
policies inaugurated by the chief eX-
ecutive. there must be a Republican
president and a Republican house, and
they argue that there is considerable
doubt and uncertainty of securing
Republican house should Secy. Taft
be nominated.
THE RESULT IN DOUBT
The Republicans most GENERALLY be-
lieve that the secretary of war can be
elected, but they do not believe that
they can carry the lower house except
by the most Herculean efforts and being
selfish. for after all is said and done,
politics is extremely selfish. they are
asking themselves the question whether
1t would not be the part of wisdom to
the president, making the
call upon him a matter of public duty
rather than sentiment There is no
one who doubts that President Roose-
welt is uncompromisingly honest in
his desire to lay down the burdens of
the presidency and to take the rest
that he so much needs. But the letters
the president is receiving from NIL class
es and conditions of people and the talks
he is making with the representative
men of the country are almost wholly
that he should put behind
him his expressed wishes and that his
country's call is the first considera-
should not overlook.
THE PRESIDENTS MAIL.
And as to the letters which the pres
ident is receiving. II is stated by those
who know that no president ever re-
ceiyed the number OF letters personal
and otherwise as are being received by
Mr.. Roosevelt His mail runs into the
of letters every day 80 per
Of whit ut
They some from the men
in the mines and in the factories; they
come from the clerk in the counting
room: from the merchant in the coun-
try store. the financier and the captains
Of industry. Some are comical but |
more serious and they have but one !
tenor, that he must not insist that the |
in Chicago must not NOM |
mate him, but that he should allow |
that convention to exercise its best |
not only for the good of the |
party, but for the countrys good as |
well.
HANDS ACROSS THE SEA.
And still further in this connection it |
may be said that President Roosevelt |
has been the recipient of the largest |
number of purely personal communica
tons from the heads of the ruling pow |
srs of the world than any president who !
has occupied the White House. Many |
If these letters have ebeen handed to the |
President personally by the duly ac-
credited representatives of the worlds /
rulers and breathe a personal apprecia-
ion which necessarily makes them sa-
red for the present at least. Some OF
he letters touch upon the presidents
tour Of the world and ex-
Dress / nthe warmest terms the desire
If the writer's to meet this man whose
makes him the most con-
,picuous figure of the twentieth CEN
ury. And when these letters are print
ID, as some of them undoubtedly will
De. when the president retires from Of
ice, they viii show as nothing else can
10 the respect the potentates of the
world have for the chief executive Of
he great republic.