Show ROOSEVELT WILL CONTROL According to a calculation made by bythe bythe bythe the New York World it will be very ery easy for President Roosevelt to con control control control absolutely the next Republican national convention to nominate Sec See Secretary Secretary Taft or any other presidential candidate he favors as well as to write the platform and name the can candidate candidate didato for the vice presidency This through the tha federal patronage in his hands The World has a logical method of ot arriving at Its conclusion It points out that there thero will be 92 delegates In the Ule Republican convention making 01 a majority over all ali Three hundred and of ot these dole gates will come from tho the southern states and twentysix from the terri toni territories territorIes tories a total of ot to start with From the western states the World Is of the opinion that G delegates fa Ia favorable favorable to anything Ir Roosevelt wants will be elected Here we have havea a 3 grand total of Roosevelt dele delegates delegates delegates gates or 17 more than a clear ma pm majority I The TIa southern states and the tern tories are controlled largely y the fed federal federal eral oral officeholders appointed nn an ol of bv Mr 1 Roosevelt and they will do all alI they can to elect delegates favorable to him The stumbling block Is the negro vote The negroes of the south pretend to be violently opposed to both Roosevelt and Taft and the negroes If It they stand together can defeat the white leaders lenders The Tho trouble with them though is that they will not stand s nd to together together gether gather In the end they will blindly follow the tho whites So the president can control the con convention convention convention with the aid of ot votes from states that never cast an electoral bal ballot ballot ballot lot for a Republican an presidential nomi nominee nominee nee Some of the eastern leaders in such states as New York Pennsyl Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania vania Massachusetts Ohio and else elsewhere elsewhere elsewhere where are complaining bitterly over oven the situation but they have been un unable unable unable able to locate any remedy The cus custom custom tom torn of ot allowing two delegates from each ooch congressional district and four from the state at large has prevailed for many years and will prevail next year The fact that a district does not cast castmore castmore castmore more than a handful of Republican votes does not enter Into the calculation calculation lation at all And nd some of the Demo Democratic Democratic cratic leaders are complaining about the very same condition They do not see why states that are always solidly Republican should control a Democratic tic national convention There is much Justice in I the contention too In all other political conventions the number of ot delegates from a given district dh Is governed by the number of party votes cast In that district If this rule were adopted In national politics making the number of votes to a delegate sufficiently large to pre prevent prevent prevent vent an convention It ought to work out In an entirely satisfactory manner Certainly the masses of both parties would be fairly represented |