Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-05

states of equal population. under or
binary circumstances the southern dele
gates would control the balance Of power
in the national convention. TIL Sc or
CARNATIONS controlled by officeholders ara
mainly Interested in the distribution of
the patronage and the naming of dele
gates to conventions.
1T is not to the interest of these
congressman or to bring about party
growth and party success. which would
mean curtailment or loss Of the control
of the patronage"
Especia attention is ca led to President
Taft's speech at Greensboro, n. c., July
o. 1903. when he said:
1.-The question which should address it
self to the great business interests of the
south is how much longer the specter OF
things past is to hold them to an allie
eiance that does them no good in ma
tional politics and deprives their COM
munities of the inestimable benefit o.
two parties. each of which. If 1t does
wrong. has real chance Of being pun
shed for its misconduct.
1.-The struggle for the federal Offices
producing as it does jealousies and s,rifes
and disappointments. paralyzes united eff
Fort to make the party strong at the
polls and worthy of success.
LAS long as the republican party In the
southern states shall represent little save
factional chase for federal offices in
which business men and men Of substance
in the community have no desire to enter
we may expect the present political con-
ditions Of the south to continue"
A New York Ohiceholder.
OF William Barnes, jr., the Albany
county leader. the report says:
I'm Albany the surveyor of the port is
William Barnes, jr.. the recognized re-
pub lean boss OF Albany county. and a
member of the republican state commit
tee. He is proprietor of the Albany Jour
nal. and the position of surveyor is ad-
mitted by his friends to be a sinecure.
During the last year he has been no
toriously active in opposing Gov. Hughes
especially in the matter of race track
legislation and in the last state conven-
ton he led the opposition to the renomi-
nation of the governor.
THE north is full of similar examples
of a large degree of absorption in politics.
and whenever the interests of the patron
of any officeholder require it his work at
once becomes open and aggressive"
In regard to the charges of coercion of
officeholders to obtain the nomination of
a particular candidate, 1t was said that
evidence was wholly lacking
The list OF appointments made by Mr..
Roosevelt was examined for a consider
able period. with his permission. From
these, the committee says, 1t was found
tndt pTcSiuSulidi appointments were Hiduc
prior to the cow ~ntion in the usua man.
ner on the recommendation of senators
or representatives who claimed the pa
tronage Of the offices.
oficeholders in Convention.
OF the republican national convention
delegates the report says:
1.-The official roll of delegates to the re-
publican national convention at Chicago
was compared with the latest government
Blue Book. 1t was found that of the
delegates to the Chicago convention fed
eral officeholders constituted one in ten
and of the delegations from the southern
states nearly one in three. and of some
southern states more than half.
These officehOlders were political, that
Is, outside Of the jurisdiction Of the civil