Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-04-27
PRESIDENT KEEPS
EYE ON SYRACUSE
Refuses, However. to Com
ment on Barnes-RooseveIt
Legal Encounter.
MANY DEMOCRATS SEE
POSSIBILITY OF GAIN
"They Have Our Blessing" Says One
Reelection Of Mr.. Wilson
Is Predicted.

Just watching what Is going on. with
no comments to make, is the attitude or
President Wilson toward the Barnes
Roosevelt legal and political hsticuh IN
New York President Wilson smiled
rather broadly today when he was asked
II he would say anything. but he refrained
with silent emphasis This does not mean,
though. that thu President is not reading
he Is not as much interested as any other
American citizen in the developments at
Syracuse. All democrats connected with
the administration are interested, and
have opinions. too.
They have our blessing" was tho terse
comment Of prominent democrat. In
talking about the Barnes Roosevelt affair.
Not Helping g. o. P, Is Belief.
1t was the practically unanimous con-
clusion of prominent democrats today.
some of them mighty close to the Pres
ldent. that the Syracuse developments
are not helping Boss Barnes. Col
Roosevelt or the republicans generally,
and there Is no concealment OF dis
tinct citation over the whacks that the
Barnesites are now giving Col. Roose-
welt.
THE events at Syracuse" said an Of
fetal of high position today. will
carry to the people the lesson that
while leading republicans are washing
their soiled linen in the public view
President Wilson is sitting tight on his
job. doing all he can to prevent en-
broilment In a great foreign war and
promoting to the fullest extent a res
toration to prosperity which the great
business men Of the country now pre-
dict will exceed anything in the history
OF the world inside of a year.
Wilson for Another Four Years.
1.-The republicans can scheme all they
want to. but am as confident today as
ever was of anything in the world that
President Wilson will be renomina ted
| without opposition and that he will be
, reelected by an overwhelming vote
| There will be so much prosperity in this
country next year that the republicans
will not dare talk tariff. or If they do the
people will laugh in their faces, and the
country will not stand for a change in the
administration. Republican newspapers
are already warning their followers that
they had better be looking for some other
issue than prosperity II they expect tc
have any real hope next year.
Democratic opinion today was that Col
| Roosevelt has not been benefited by the
publication of his numerous letters to the
republican bosses in New York and his
admission that he kept on good terms
pretty well. 1t was declared that the in:
dependent vote that has followed Col
Roosevelt In many campaigns will be
shocked at the reveal lions OF his intima
cies with Senate Platt and other bosses
and his efforts to please them as often as
possible. To MANY Of these voters IT will
not be the same Roosevelt in the future
was the prediction.
| Possible Good Is Seen.
| As opposed to this view. though, wa!
one that the colonel will make as man,
friends as he loses by his frank acknowl
edgment that the bosses are not SO bat
after all and that he believes in organl
zation. 1t is pointed out that next yea
the republicans will want a man who will
recognize the organization. and indicate
his purpose to look after the party work.
ers if he is put in the White House VIVA
the colonel loses among Independents h,
may make up among the small bosses ant
the organization followers generally. Hi
greatest difficulty will be with the bi,
bosses and the big men of the party, no
one Of whom will approve his possibl,
nomination to head the republican ticket
1t is positively known. for instance, tina
the recent coming together of Taft ant
Roosevelt was purely formal and tina
there is no political significance to be at
tached or likely to attach to the occasion
| They will speak when they meet in tn,
future. but neither will politically embra c,
the other. Uncle" Joe Cannon will no
soften up to the Oyster Bay statesnla n
and throughout the list Of big republican
lit is about the same