The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-09-24
WALL STREET IS
ON THE WAR PATH
Admits That Roosevelt viii Control
State Convention Next Week at
Saratoga--A Political
Panic.

New York. Sept. "a Theodore Roose.
welt viii control the Republican state
convention which assemblies at Saratoga
next Tuesday. The effort to break his
prestige viii now be turned toward the
candidate whom that convention nom
mates. Never before were the business
interests popularity and somewhat care
lessly designated as "Wall street" so
aroused to the necessity Of getting
busy IN politics a. now They are in
a state Of panic over Roosevelt and the
possibilities Of his future The press
81 this city, always hostile to MIN. has
Of late displayed degree Of bitterness
that has infamed 10 unprecedented
heat All who come within It's sphere Of
influence The peculiar conditions Of
his victory over Vice President sher-
man, nearly unanimously acknowledged
yesterday. have given the conservative
classes Of this city something akin to
a fright.
They declared yesterday afternoon,
with emphasis which leaves no doubt as
to the sincere determination OF their
purpose that the Saratoga candidate
must at al hazards be defeated. Party
lines within the Wall street district
have vanished. Hearst, who eabled
Roosevelt to come back and drive out
the bosses, will undoubtedly be with
the ex-president in the coming cam
paign, and particularly furious will be
his fight and that Of the remnants Of
his Independence league in case the
Democrats at Rochester next Thursday
should nominate Gaynor, as now seems
likely.
The qualifications Of this new alliance
are many and curious. Newspapers
which have been crying out against
Caynors acceptance Of the gubenato-
rial nomination as a desertion of his
real post Of duty, are now moderately
willing to nave him do so, because Of
the opportunity which it would afford
for clear cut show down Of the Roose-
velt-Hearst strength on one side against
that of conservative people on the 9TH
Ell. 1t Is assumed that the old guard
Republicans whose control of the party
Is now terminating, will quietly aid the
Democratic candidate, virtually saying
to the ex.president: "You have nom
mated your man, now let us see you
elect him. After you have found out
how weak You are. perhaps You and
the deluded faction of the party under
your influence will come back to get
our help"
The money that viii be poured into
this campaign to defeat the Roosevelt
candidate will bear evidence of the gen.
4iineness OF the alarm which the new
nationalism has created. Mark Hanna
in the heyday Of his fame would have
been enyious of the resources which
will be at the disposal Of any half-de-
cent standard bearer who sets out to
compass the defeat of the Roosevelt
ran who is candidate.
One United States senator in this city |
\ Yesterday, always allied with the con /
sentative interests, tells the writer that |
the majority which this state is pre-
pairing to pile up against the candi- |
date of the Roosevelt convention viii /
make ballot counting merely a pastime |
on the evening Of Nov. s. The business
believe the time has come to
break Roosevelt's reputation as war
rior. They wonder that with his reput /
ed astuteness, he mas afforded then.
such felicitous opportunity to do up 4
the job in grand style. But in all this
discussion. there arises one extraor-
binary but What if he should carry
the state in q year that every other
Republican in debatable territory was
losingg That but is worth hundred
thousand dollars to the Democratic cam
pa;gn committee. Roosevelts party (
which is now closing, admits this abutp
to the category of possibilities worth
discussing, and to the extent that II
Is 10 rated the business mems alarm
grows