The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-06-05
RoosEVELT's IMMEDIATE PLANS


will be lin our midst again. speaking
from the national point of view, and
it is evident that he purposes taking
a hand in the game Immediately and
playing it for all there is in it.
According to The New York World,
Col Roosevelt will make a series of
political speeches during triangular
swing through the West, the North
west and the South On this tour it
is stated, he will confine himself to
one thorough and comprehensive re-
view of pending questions, the same
to be made at mass meeting in each
state through which he will pass
Georgia, by the way, is one of the
states in which it is declared the Col
onel will deliver himself.
Before he begins this tour, the Col
onel vii hold a series of conferences
with men in public life from all Sec
tons of the country. A number of
Senators and Representative in Con
gress have been invited to meet the
Colonel in New York, on specified
dates shortly following his arrival
from abroad. The invitations to these
conferences, it is stated, were not eX-
tended in personal letters, but came
from a central point. In other words
the Colonel has his bureau already set
up and in working order, even before
he arrives. He is going about the
matter in a professional way. 1t is
said that he has invited insurgents
and reactionaries impartially to meet
views of all elements. According to
report, those who have been summon
ed by Col Roosevelt have all indicat-
ed their purpose to meet him, and
their pleasure at having the oppcr-
tunity to lay their views before so
eminent an authority on matters po-
litical Probably if Col. Roosevelt
should call a special session Of the
Congress to convene in New York to
receive a message from him, the Re-
publican majority-and some of the
Democrats, would vote to obey
the summons. The slavish submis-
sion that is made to this master poll
ician by the representative of a free
people is one of the grotesqueries of
the times. The Colonel will carry off
the Republican party from under the
very nose Of Mr.. Taft, who has de-
scribed himself as the "titular head"
f that organization.
Col. Roosevelt is not going to hold
these conferences and make there
sreeches for exercise. He has, we
may be sure, definite plan and pur-
| pose, What that is mas not yet APP
peared. 1t is not at all unlikely that
he is preparing to take tAe field again
as a candidate for President. That
is the conclusion that is most natur-
ally reached, and is probably the cor
rect one. Perhaps he has not yet de
termined whether he will embark u
on such an enterprise. Possibly he
will conclude that the best thing for
him to do now is to shore up and
buttress the collapsing Taft admt lis
tration. and even to urge the ree'aa
ton of Mr. Taft, either in the eXpec-
taticn of that gentleman's defeat a.
the polls in 1912 with the consequent
turning of tie party to him four
years .afterward, or else with the par
pose of esta} fishing himself as the
lord protector OF the Re. ubican par.
ty and the pilot of the administration.
Just what the Colonel is making up
for is net yet entirely clear, but all
doubts as to his active participation
in political affairs in this count y
from the first moment of his .'etu"n
may be abandoned. He is going in
up TO his neck and he is going to Gre
ate some more than ripple.