The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-04-22
BULL MOOSE MAY
INSIST ON 7. R.
Republicans Fear ProgreSsives
Will Support No Other.
SITUATION NOW SERIOUS.


Wa Deprived of Honor Four Years
Ago by Manipulation of Delegates,
According to Them.
BY ARTHUR W.. DUNN.
Washington, April 22.-tSpeciall /
Some of the Republican leaders are be
ginning to wonder what chance the
party will have this year if the Pro
gresslves have a ticket In the field
with Roosevelt the nominee. They are
beginning to take stock OF the situa-
ton with that possibility looming.
Some of the Progressives have been
rather bold In their statements and
made IL look as If they win have Roose-
welt as the Republican nominee or they
will run him as a Progressive. A few
of them say that one reason why
Roosevelt should be nominated Is he
cause he was deprived of the nomina-
ton four years ago by the m%anipula-
ton of the national committee In deal
ing with contested delegates. The sit
utiltOH mas btNOIit So Sti lONlS lIut hG
publicans have begun to worry.
What Hughes Thinks.
There is said to be In the possession
OF a friend of Justice Hughes a letter
which tells what the Justice thinks on
several OF the great issues of the pres
ent time. This letter may be used ut
the proper time TO meet the demand
of Roosevelt and his friends that
Hughes must declare HIMSELF mean
ing that his position ON the subject of
Americanism must be understood be
fore he al be accorded the support of
Roosevelt. Just what the letter says
IL known only to those who intend to
make use OF Ii.
DARK Horse Talk.
There Is talk about dark horses,
about the nomination Of men who have
not been candidates, who have not
been presented as favorite sons. One
OF these is Senator Wadsworth OF New
York, and the other is James II. Mann
of Illinois. Both Wadsworth and Mann
fill the demand OF Colonel Roosevelt on
the matter of national preparedness.
-Four years < Mann was inclined to-
ward Roosevelt and cannot come under
the ban placed upon several other can
didates, which is that they took part
In robbing Roosevelt of his delegates.
Rival of the Weather Bureau.
The weather bureau did not escape
its annual scoring when the agricul-
tural appropriation bin was considered
in the house. Congressman Howard
OF Georgia led in the attack. Howard
has a rival bureau down In Georgia.
1t consists of a man named Snyder,
and this what Howard said Of him:
"All he has got I'm the world that l
know anything about is that he goes
into the woods and gets n sourwood
stick that has a fork, and he makes
his representations with that forked
stick. The weather bureau Is costing
81, 100000 a year. and Snyder has given
the weather bureau cards and spades
by his representations and Is far I'm
the lead. In other words. he hits 1t
twice where the weather bureau
misses 1t three times"
Nelson Reminiscent
Senator Nelson told the senate how
he appointed an adjutant general when
he was governor of Minnesota. They
wanted him to name a social favorite
and dilettante sort of man, but he
discovered an officer of the civil war.
"He was an old German aud n fine
old fellow" said Nelson. land you
ought to have heard what those fine
officers of the guard had to say. Why
they said, you could not expect any
thing better from a Norwegian gov
ernor than TO appoint an old beer
drinking Dutchman as adjutant gen
eral.'"
Nelson said that he was not IA beer
drinking man, but he proved to be a
most efficient officer.
Curious Oratory.
Once In awhile the house has a field
day. There was one when the bill was
passed incorporating the American
Academy OF Arts and Sciences, COM
posed of fifty prominent American citi-
zens, including Theodore Roosevelt
and Woodrow Wilson. The curious
part Of 1t was the many queer things
that were said. Dies of Texas poked
fun at Roosevelt as an author and more
fun at Woodrow Wilson, Of whom he
said that his greatest writings were
useless now because Wilson had com
pletely changed his views and was re-
pudiating his most important works.
The lack Of knowledge among some of
the speakers also contributed a curios-
ity to the discussion.
Successor Of Esperanto.
Advocates of Esperanto as the uni
versal language having failed to make
much Roadway, particularly In regard
to getting government sanction of the
plan, a new scheme has been devised.
1t is called the universal alphabet
and it first made its appearance in an