The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-26
Louisville-c Courier Journal.

Saws The New York World:
 we should hardly have expected that Henry watterson would take me return from Elba' seriously, yet he IS convinced that there Is strong movement on foot to bring about the renomination of president Roosevelt ana belteyes that the result will be a division between the Taft and Roose- welt men which may split the Repubii- can party The colonel has nved with the Republican party ever since tt was born, and he ought to be pet ter acquainted with 1t. There Is no strong movement to renominate MT. Roosevelt--merely much gossip. more or less wounded vanity and Irlend- ly disposition on the part Of the ra- d,cai Renublicans to scare the Taft administration. At present there is no more danger of a Republican split over Taft and Roosevelt than or the colonel voting the straight RepupH- can ticket in 1912.
 This is but an easy, surface view. It fails to take account of certain under- lying conditions. It does not sum ciently consider human nature. Tnere is now and again good deal of hu- man nature in politics MT. Roosevelt has been more, than once suspected or ii. and in the end 1t may be found that behind the calm exterior or the Pre- esident, and beneath that broad. ex- pansive smile few stray embers turk.
 Selfish Politicians at Work. Sometimes one has to go away from home to get the news. The .Courier- Journal gave no credit to the story that there was a dicker between Roosevelt and Taft to take turn and turn about in the White House. Neither did 1t question MT. Rooseveits sincerity when he announced that he would not accept nomination TOT .second elective term" That he was disloyal to Taft at heart, expecting stampede in the convention that would force It's candidacy upon him-which his enemies yet persist in charging we did not believe and do not be- iieve Nor do we regard the return from Eiba" chatter seriously. Either | The World misses the point ,or else MT. Watterson failed to make 1t as clear in the expression as he Is Tn the conception, that the Taft-Roose- welt situation would make break likely. if there were no busy-bodies to agitate 1t; but that. with a host or keen and selfish politicians to SC In | 1t at once their profit and their re- 1 yenxe. 1t seems inevitable.
 "A weII-Orgauixed Conspiracy" | MT. Watterson did not say. or did not mean to say. that there Is strong movement to nominate MT. Roosevelt" That would be putting the cart before the horse. He said | that there is we'll organized con spiracy to make breach between the President that is and the Presi- dent that was;a and this is true. Whither 1t will lead. and where 1t will end. 1t is too early to speculate. Men of importance are engaged In 1t, l Our esteemed New York contempor- ary would be surprised If we named them.
 Having delivered itself as above quoted. The World proceeds to mora lize as follows:
 "The Republican party is tough and eficient It's discipline is magnif- cent. The hahit of party loyalty is firmly established In national affairs If Mr. Taft lives he will be renomi- i mated, unless he abdicates. There Is less Republicans opposition to him than there was to Mckinley during McKinley's first term. or than there was to Roosevelt during either of Roosevelt's terms.
 "Talk is very cheap between elec- tions. It is about the only thing left in the country that is cheap. and everybody that does not get his mall promptly. Or Is overcharged by a rail road, or has trouble In borrowing money at the bank for the next two years will be condemning the Taft administration. This will be the case especially in the Middle West. But when the time comes for decisive ac. ton there will be few politicians who care to quarrel with the national ad- ministrationr and nobody of influence to lead the Roosevelt third term movement, unless Mir. Roosevelt leads 1t himself.
 "If he returned from abroad deter.
 minded to be a candidate for Presi. dent again at any cost. eager to be- tray his friend Taft and ready to manage his own campaign he might be able to split the Republican party; but even MT. Roosevelt's worst enem- les think better of him that that"
 Journey "sagaciOusly Planned"
 Now let The Courier-Journal mora lize lick or two.
 Men like Theodore Roosevelt do not do something for nothing. He Is a most astute practical politician. He is but just turned fifty. in the very middle and high noon of life. What is an ex-President to do but die or get drunk? dictum which used to be aseribed to one of them does not ap- ply to Theodore Roosevelt. His Af- riean journey was sagaciously plann' ed. It Is systematically achieved.
 The reception which awaits the hero will beggar anything of the ,triumphal kind the world has ever known In Berlin and London and Paris. not tc mention Rome, they are waiting for him: the Kaiser and the kings, for their cousinEermans the people be- I R~~ tag- Irf eru