The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-12-16
TEDDY is SOME MIXER.

1t was stated recently by one OF
them that Colonel Roosevelts friends
knew perfectly well what the former
president meant when he said he
wasn't bothering about the president
ial nomination of the republican party
next year and was not candidate for
1t himself, and that no further assur-
ances were needed by them as to his
Intentions than those he mad already
given. Well if these understanding
friends were about Washington during
the session of the republican national
committee yesterday they made it
very clear to pretty much everybody
else as well what those intentions are.
for they concealed nothing of their in
terest in a movement to bring about
the colonels nomination by the con
vention that is to be called for next
June and which, by all the.rules of the
game, should name President Taft to
succeed himself as the "tituIar head"
Of the republican party, and the wist-
full candidate of the party for the
presidency to which he was promoted
chiefly by the colonel himself. It is
said that there were some very ac-
tive gentlemen scouting around to
find out how the national committee
men and other high lights of the re-
publican party felt about the idea of
putting Roosevelt forward once more
for white house honors. OF course,
they may not have been friends of
Colonel Roosevelt. If they got no
encouragement for their pains they
will be very generously and effectively
repudiated by that gentleman. OF so
much we may be sure. If they make
sufficient progress to pull off the game
In June-which we shall know only
after it has all come about-and if
NHS pNNplS VI tHNSe ChAVCu OIdtSS dlO
still under the peculiar delusion that
held them for some seven years or
so, we shall see something of these
good fellows around the white house
in the four years following March,
1913, and then we shall know what
was what at this particular time.
For the present it is all pure specu-
lation, and the Taft people seem to
be doing most of that.
The fact seems to be fairly well
fixed, however, that the colonel is
pretty busy mixer in political affairs
still, and that he isn't mixing any
cooling draughts for his old friend
William Taft. The two of them
haven't exactly drawn their good
swords and had at each other but they
are pretty well away from the happy
days of yore when they chummed
about so merrily and tickled each
others fancy and fortune. And that
raises the question as to what has
come of the wager laid by Col. Wat
terson and the New York World as
to the relations between these two
friends and brothers in politics. The
colonel he held that by the date of
the opening of the regular session of
the Sixty second congress in Deem
Der of 1911 William and Theodore
would be at each others throats, and
The World, just for the sake of the
sporting idea that every sprightly
mind cherishes, it held that nothing
of The sort would be. Was not Uncle
Joe Cannon to be the umpire? Well,
the time is at hand, and it would be
relieving to the country to have
decision rendered by some competent
authority, whether Joe Cannon or
otherwise. Certainly, the meeting of
the national committee of the repub-
lican party at Washington this week
ought, in the light of things that are
reported of its session, to give some
enlightening evidence on the whole
subject. There be not a few who are
persuaded that the colonel and the
president are rivals for the favor of
their once grand old party. Couldn't
a judicial determination of the mat
ter be made by some competent tri-
buna!.