Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-12-12
REPUBLICAN, PARTY
SURE To NOMINATE J
ROOSEVELT AGAIN?
Western Republican Senator
Declares Ex-President Is
Certain to Be Put in the Race.
by Next Convention
Especial Dispatch to The Journai.)

Especial Dispatch to The Journal.)
WASHINGTON, Dec 9.-Congress 10
teeming with Roosevelt talk. Most of Il
comes from west of the Mississippi river
but there is surprising amount Of e
in New York and New England Pregi-
dent Taft's friends are worried. and
LaFollette's are mystifled 1t Is evident
that unless there is a more explicit de-
nunciation from Roosevelt, his boom win
soon be under way In the west.
A western Republican senator prepared
the following statement OF the situatto1
for The Journal correspondent:
Roosevelt win be nominated for pres
ident by the Republican convention next
year" said this senator. whose name haa
been mentioned for Taft's cabinet. "It Il
entirely proper to say that Colonel
Roosevelt is not a candidate for the
presidency. I do not think, either, as 81
so aften intimated, that he would in any
wise connive at his nomination. '
rs POPULAR, IDOL" ~
But this does not mean that his name
will not be presented to the conventions
or that he will not be nominated ANY,
one who has travelled among the people
generally in the last 30 days will not be-
able to deny that he has more strength
than any other man mentioned in any.
party. He is a popular idol venture
the assertion that you can call meeting
OF 5000 people In any part of the ccun-
try. OF all classes and occupation. and
the Roosevelt sentiment viii overwhelm~
ingly rule the assembIage, and the more
they assail him the frmer is his grip
apparently, on the thousanda A
You know the story Is told that =
friend or Mr.. Llncoln's came down from
Springfield to washington at the begiu~
ming of 1868 and said to Thad Stevens.
I'm Interested In Mr.. Lincoin's nomina-
ton / wish you would INTRODUCES ma
to his real friends IN the house. So
PEOPLE WANT HIM."
Stevens took him over and introduced
him TO one member. and then said. II
he has another friend in this house DO
not know who he is e'.d it is . noted
fact that IL the leadgBs OF the Republican
party had been consulted alone. Mr.. LIN
coin would not have been renominated.
His strength. which was incomprehensi
BILE to them, came from the people, and
that Is the situation now with reference
to Roosevelt
1.-The leaders think that by assailinE
him they are injuring him, and observa~N
ton shows me that 1t strengthens hiu.l
They feel their friend is being assailed.
In addition to this, II you will ash
any of the so-called leaders. most o.
whom are now out of job. who can We
elect. IL the I6@QOnQ&nL IL III SUI
ficieutly private place he viii tell you
Roosevelt. although he may 60 up to
the White House next day and say 20 the
newspaper boys that the real friends Of
Colonel Roosevelt are for Taft.
CAMPAIGN is ON.
There Is. as q matter Of fact, q very
active campaign going on all the time
for Mr.. Roosevelt, although It has no
headquarters and no organization.
-
the country from citizen to citizen and
local leader TO local leader are far more
effective than any other campaign that
Is going on. They are saying, he Is the
one man we can nominate and elect
This Is the kind of a campaign which
neither Colonel Roosevelt nor anyone
else can stop. You cannot stop thing
which neither Colonel Roosevelt nor
anyone else can stop. You cannot stop
thing which seven men out OF ten want
to see 60. II you watch the country
west OF the Alleghenies to the Pacific
slope for the next few months you will
see. in my Judgment, . remarkable DEM
onstration. Give them a presidential prI-
mary and the only surprise you would
have would be his strength.
1.-The Republican party Is rather prac-
teal organization. 1t experimental with
Harrison, it viii not thus experiment
again. f
''Will this party, which has man
with whom the vast majority Of Its menu
bers believe 4unquestionably they can
won. decline to nominate him? VIII thu
loyal Republicans in the United States
who have failed In their own party turn
over the whole machinery OF government
to a party whose policies they do not
accept and that win, as they believe
bring business depression and loss whsu
there is a means at hand by which -
win?"