The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-29
ROOSEVELT To
BEAT SMITH,
G.O.P.HOPE
New York Leaders See Hope in
This Plan, Though Uncertain
About Colonel.
By WILLIAM HARD.

By WILLIAM HARD.
The great strategic move lying
ahead OF the Republican party is
widely thought in Washington to-
be the selection Of Republican
champion who in the State Of New
York will be able to make some;
Roadway against the great indivld-
ual aggregation Of personal pop,,.
larities and spectacular issues
known as Al Smith.
], The Republican party Is con-
! fronted with rural radicalism in
the West and with AL Smith in the
East. It believes itself to be maxi
Ing considerable progress against
rural radicalisn by appropriating the
thunder OF the farm bloc and by
claiming for the Republican party
the credit for all the numerous
pieces of radical socialistic legisla.
ton originated and pressed to pas
sage by the farm bloc combination
OF Republican and Democratic pa
tional legislators.
In the East there, is more diff
Guilty., and, in the search for a bo-
luton, the eye of the party is cast
more and more on the theory that
perhaps the Empire State can be
hypnotized back into Republican al.
legiapce by the magic Of the name
Of Theodore Roosevelt.
Communications and emissarieB
from New York have made their
way to the Navy Department In
Washington to explore this theory
through conference. written or
spoken, with the young man who
now bears that name along also
and along also with the office OF
Assistant Secretary Of the Navy,
which seems likewise to be a Roose.
veltian perQuisite.
Has this young man got It in him
to revive the Republican party Of
New York and to marshal 1t into
| fighting form to Wrest the Empire
State from it's Democratic conquer
ors? That is the question to which
the elder statesmen of the Republi-
can party now give many OF their
most serious and anxious thoughts.
They see In young Theodore
/ Roosevelt spectacle which at one
moment fills them with hope for the
party and at another moment fills
them with fear for themselves.
|
They suspect. however, that he
might also run away.
They applaud his sound views on
national defense, on the necessity
Of law and order, on the admirable
ness of the virtues and on the
| ignominy Of the vices. They be.
lieve that he will remain true to
the Ten COMMANDMENTS ana to the
| independence and sovereignty Of
the United States.
They are distressed, however, to
notice In him a certain inability to
reject a new idea simply because Of
its being new. He does not firmly
say that If a thing has never been
heard of before, 1t must be wrong.
He converses with all sorts and
conditions Of men and picks up ideas
| from them and turns those ideas
over in his mind and sometimes
adopts them even IL they have not
already been adopted by the elder
/ statesmen. His character can be
summed up in the statement that
| he is a young man with a Tory
backbone and with liberal and pro-
gressive inquisitive ears.
Denounces Bigotry.
Partly out OF Toryism and partly
| tate to go to assemblies of Protes-
tants and to denounce then and
there all outbreaks of anti Catholic
bigotry. He is outrightly committed
to free speech ana to tolerance.
Those races and creeds and political
groups, in New York which have
suffered from intolerant mobs and
from intolerant laws would find in
| him. it is admitted a leader as lib.
eral as Al Smith, himself.
| He defends freedom Of political
thought and freedom Of religious
practice as firmly as they are de-
Tended in the Constitution, but in
doing so he causes a certain un-
lican leaders who usually wish to
administer the Constitution in Sc
lected homeopathic doses. Young
Theodore Roosevelt seems to wish
| to administer the whole of 1t, it's
life and liberty sections, as well as
| it's property and police sections.
He also alarms some Of his SEN
iors by taking a strongly sympa-
thetic view Of the aspirations Of
certain parts Of the labor movement
toward an orderly participation in
the solving of problems Of produc-
ton in industry.
| his COnCepLlOH OF q happy united
| States seems to be that on both
coasts there should be long lines OF
impregnable battleships and Of In
credibly swift cruisers steaming up
and down at full speed, while in the
interior there should be great null
titudes of council tables, each sur
rounded by a continuously confer
ring chatty family of considerate
employers and loyal employees. He
is for industrial peace within and
for incessant preparedness for war
without.
Looks Like His Father.
It may be added that as time
goes on he looks more and more es-
sentially like his father, but is less
and less initiative of his fathers
mannerisms. He has got thorough.
ly adopted into the society OF his
elders in Washington and has quite
ceased in fact to be regarded here
as belonging to the political kinder
garten. He has achieved for him
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