The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-04-11
Sentiment In Favor Of Ex-
President Grows Daily.
OLD GUARD CANNOT FORGET
Assert That 100000 Republicans OPP
pose Colonel Because He Brought De-
feat to Republican Party Four Years
Ago-Young Men stanch Supporters.
Uncle Joe as a Conservationist.
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.


Washington, April 10.-[Special. +
Three million Republicans believe
that Theodore Roosevelt was respon-
sible for the defeat of the R%epublica1.
party In 1912. They are not going to
consent to rewardIng Roosevelt with
the presidency. That Is the reason
why the Republicans will not nomi-
nate him"
Substantially that is what one hears
from men who do not want Roosevelt
nominated and from Democrats who
do not want him elected IL nominated.
At the same time the nearer the time
approaches for making the nomination
there is more and more insistence upon
Roosevelt among a certain class of
Republicans, some Of them who were
opposed to Roosevelt during the last
part of his term and others who fought
him with bitterness in 1912.
Will Try TO Put Him Over.
Whether Roosevelt Is playing the
game-and he is the shrewdest poll
tician the country has known or
whether he Is letting matters drift his
way is not quite certain, but there Is
no doubt that a great effort will be
made to put him over mt Chicago. The
fellows who are going to rally to his
support will not only be the men who
were for him four years ago, but there
will he quite n number of old regulars
who want n strong, vigorous candi-
date, one who will inspire the fighting
blood OF the party.
Another thing that Is working for
Roosevelt is the admiration OF the
younger men. 1t has always been as
serted that there were enough first
voters in every presidential election to
carry the country, and It is claimed
that a great preponderance of these
first voters will be for Roosevelt.
Uncle Joe, Conservationist.
81 am a conservationist," declared
Uncle Joe Cannon, much to the sur
prise of the house. II am tired of Sec
ing the forests of this country cut down
and converted into print paper on
which to print many newspapers and
magazines and the recollections of peo-
pie and statistics and reports here and
there. We have got to stop Ii or the
country will be deprived of Its forests"
Uncle Joe has occupied about as
much space on print paper as any 9th
er man-with only one exception, the
universal exception to all rules.
When II Comes to Pork.
When ii III to the distribution of
pork there Ii no difference between Re
publicans and Democrats. On this
subject one day Jim Mann told the
knows, but you Democrats are n lit
tie worse"
There had been under discussion a
proposition to turn owe to the South
Carolina naval militia an Immigrant
station at Charleston. During the de
bate 1t %transpired that the station had
lever been opened; that no immigrants
went to Charleston, and that the sta
ton was n of several that We're built
Mt a time when New York and Phila-
delphia secured improved facilities.
But it should be remembered that
the people Of a congressional district
usually measure a mans usefulness by
his ability TO extract money from the
federal treasury to be expended I'm his
district.
Names In the First Census.
Former Speaker Cannon introduced
into the immigration debate the matter
of names In the first census OF the
country. He had been delving into
those old musty records and came up
with the fact that there are 1875 mem
bers Of congress whose family names
were not In the census. which he as
serted was the Almanac de Gotha'' of
the United States. What he was set.
ting out to prove was that most OF
our people are descendants Of immi-
grants since the Revolution. He was
opposing the literacy test I'm the immi-
grafton bill and also was opposed 10
the restriction Of immigration.
Suggestions About Health.
The United States public health serv-
Ice issues bulletins and information
about health conditions from time To
time. Some Of them contain sharp and
short suggestions, as, for instance, the
following:
"Sags in roof cutters may act as
mosquito breeding places"
Americas most valuable crop Is ba-
bfes."
"The public cigar cutter is a health
nuisance"
1.-THE typhoid rete measures accurate
" community intelligence"
Practical GaIlinger.
During a speech by Senator Under.
wood, the author of the present tariff
law, Senator Gallinger took this prac.
tical view OF present conditions. 1.-THE
senate spent an hour discussing the
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