The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-11-09
NO AGREEMENT
SAYSITHEODORE

BINGHAMTON. N. Y, Nov. t.
came up here to see how T. r. is
getting along with his New York
lions, says ellison Gardner in the
Portland News.
One of the questions was: "Why
In the name of common sense are
you going to make speeches in
Ohio?"
Another was: "Why do the papers
continually refer to a perfect I'M
Outstanding between President Taft
and ex-President Roosevelt looking
to Tafts nomination in 1922
Beginning with the last question,
/ might say that the answer was
substantially as follows:
ut is one of many published lies"
AS to the speeches in Ohio, the an
ser was:
'I shall ask that my action in go
ing to Ohio be judged by what l say
in Ohio"
but it is assumed that you go
there to indorse the state platform
and candidate for governor
II can only say that I go to Ohio
on my own terms, and that my ac-
ton must be judged by what 1 say
to Ohio people,
Which disposes, for the present. of
that question.
How T. r. is getting along with his
New York campaign is more COM
plicated matter.
He seemed to me a bit discourag-
q prpnI
to a perfectly damned opera house
on the evening of my arrival; but he
alluded in his speech to the POSSIBLE
ity of defeat, and promised that the
fight should go on.
I found plenty of reason for his
pessimistic feeling in the men
around him. The old guard repub-
licans, with whom he is trying to
work, are diligently spreading the
idea that failure is written in the
stars. In their case the wish is faith
er to the thought. They have no
more use for Roosevelt than a
schoolboy has for a birch stick, and
the one dream which now lightens
their existence is that Roosevelt will
be canned" once and for always.
of corporation contributions, race
tracks, graft and all the incidents Of
the Odell Platt-W Woodruff order of
things.
Then there is with T. r. a car
load of newspaper correspondents,
representing the New York papers
and press associations. Most of
them represent offices which are vio-
lently antagonistic, and all are croak-
ing like jock of ravens.
But l found one man who shed
CLEAN He said he had been hang
ing around the Waldorf reading the
New York dailies, and talking to the
guests of the hotel until he came to
the conclusion that Nobody was
for Roosevelt Not a chance on
earth"
One day he met a wise politician.
you say you have talked to the
people about the hotel?' the old
man asked.
yes
"Have you interviewed the help?"
well no; but l will"
And he did; and this was his re-
port:
practically every man jack of
them crazy for Roosevelt lot of
'em Tammany people too. But
every one going to vote for Roose-
welt"
Which to me Eliminates the sit
uation Talk with the stock brokers
and the big business folk who come
to dine or live at the gilded hotel,
and they unanimously oppose Roose-
welt, being willing to take Dix o
Charley Murphy himself as an alter
native. Get the opinion of the wage
worker. and the sentiment is quite
different.
OF course, Roosevelt isn't a can
didate One Stmson is the candidate.
But it is useless to talk about Slim
son. The public eye is on Roosevelt,
and when election day comes, nine
out of ten of the voters in New York
city will think Roosevelt is on the
ticket. Big business will vote for the
Tammany outfit because it is OPP
posed to Roosevelt, and the man al
the bottom will vote the republican
ticket because big business has in
dorsed the Tammany ticket.
But just where the dividing line
will come between business and hui
man beings remains to be seen. Lots
of human beings will, as usual be
fooled.