The sun., 1918-07-20
ROOSEVELT DANGER
HALTS DEMOCRATS
Wagner Stops Making Plat.
form Draft Until Uncer-
tainty Is Cleared.
TAMMANY MEN WORRIED
Howell Urges Government
Ownership Of Utilities for
Party Action.

DEVELOPMENTS in the unofficial Repup-
ticnn convention at Saratoga nave kept
local members Of the Democratic ma
chine more or less on the anxious seat.
They are as much concerned as most
Republicans over the possibility Of Col.
Roosevelt being a candidate for Gov
ernor.
Democratic State Chairman Edwin s.
Harris and state Senator Robert r.
| Wagner. who have been engaged IN
drafting a tentative platform for SUD
mission to the Democratic convention
that opens in Saratoga on Tuesday night
on the heels of the Republicans meet
ing, were more per:urbed yesterday over
the Roosevelt possibility than anything
| else.
| Senator Wagner. who is filling his old
| role as a platform drafter-the actual
| form in the platform to be approved Dy
Charles F.. Murphy of Fourteenth street
and Good Ground, quit his labors yester-
day and went uptown pending some re-
liable news as to what the Colonel might
do. The Tammany crowd has inquired
all along that Gov. Whitman would De
the man they would have to beat ana al
ideas in regard to the platform nave
news from the Republican camp that
the leaders were hopeful Of persuading
the Colonel to lead the fight has knocked
all their plans galley west and may
require a whole revamping OF the tenta-
Tive platform and reconstruction OF
their plans for the great offensive
SIN in Dark About Hearst.
In other words. isstead Of one un-
1 tzh tn
Democratic steerers yesterday had TWO
They are admittedly in the dark as 70
what William Randolph Hearst Is COINS
. ! to do. and they are only guessing as 10
Col Rosevelt's attitude toward a NOM
nation which they believe he can nave
: for the saying so.
Col Roosevelt returned to New 1orR
, from Saratoga late Thursday night ne
/, declined to talk politics upon his ar
: rival and went at once to Join Mrs
|, Roosevelt at the Langdon Hotel Ht
. was equally reticent about his politica
plans yesterday morning. although M
met Newspaper men at the hotel shor1
,, time before he left for Oyster Bay.
, The uncertainty Of the fate OF Quentin
. was preying on the Coloneis m'no; ane
while he exhibited a natural pride II
the heroic career Of his aviator son III
|, did not attempt to conceal from news
i paper men who have known him a.
9 Governed and President the great grie
u under which he was suffering.
Nothing to say. boys. nothing at all
. You know what Is foremost in my m,h'
u now. have only one Thought ana an
NOT interested in politics just now
The Colonel left with Ms Rooseve.
for oyster Bay Just before noon, and n
!. further statement was made by hin
'. during the day.
v-Apa- Tired.
Among the various suggestions In re
- gard to party platform that nav
p been submitted to Senator Wagner yes
e terday were the following from JOSEF
n ] Howell, Mayor Hylan's COMMISSIONS
l. OF Weights and Measures, on behalf c
e the Public Ownership League. OF whic
e he Is director:
= Government ownership and opera
d ton OF the telegraphs and telephones !
Al connection with our postal service, ioN
ernment ownership Of the railroads an
such essential means OF transportato
Of troops and goods. and the creation {
e a Government owned merchant marin
g IA develop our commerce in time
e neace and TO supplement our navy
| time of war,
8, Permanent Government ownership an
ADEQUATE development OF all needed ma
D ural resources now in the possession
&c the Government.
10 Government acquisition of coal mine
y oil wells, munition planta and sue
natural and industrial resources In sun
10 Gent numbers to furnish the Cover
81 ment with full and permanent supple
o. of required material at proper cost
= government control OF the industri
D. activities OF the nation TO insure
% this branch of national effort the grea
IN est productivity under proper condition
~ and at prices fair to the producer al
the consumer.
Universal enactment into municips
!" State and Federal law Of the initiatiN
nc the referendum and the recall.