Show ROOSEVEL TS SUCCESSOR there are some sidelights gats to the campaign now on against theodore roosevelt that have not biot been made public wm W smith in bi his political letter from washington says that after the harriman roosevelt letters had been made public the president called a number of the newspaper men to the white house and discussed with the greatest freedom the combination which was organized to defeat him for the presidential nomination in 1904 at that time the interests would have rallied around the late senator hanna big death left them without on ma available candidate and tho the rene returned to the th reservation and promised toed to bo be good this made deop elf alt up aad and take notice and the next day the president dont went at it again this time ume he gave out the information thit a cabal was now being formed to trot out favorite soun the delegations to be swung in line at the proper time for an anu booso volt candidate the Fresi president dont haa has thue thus Vly ly outlined the issue between himself and his policies on one elde bide and trusts and corporate In interests teresta on tho the other 1 I think I 1 will have the people with roe me he cald and certainly he has grounds tor for the belief no man in the history ot of the country ever had bad the people so solidly at his big back as has b been ben en proven by the widis widespread spread and almost universal endors endorsement emerit of his policies the danger lies in his announced determination to retire from the field and leav leave his mantle to his successor whom ho he frankly desires to select no one but secretary tatt taft appears to fill the bill and not all tho the specification fit the genial secretary of war mr tatt taft Is a great roan man of his big capacity for tor work of his ability his fairness astuteness incorruptibility and his general fitness for the highest office no one can speak too highly but mr tatt taft lacks one cue quality predominant in mr roosevelt namely aggressiveness his ills bent beat of mind Is not in that direction and yet it is that quality in roosevelt which ahil eb appeals most strongly atron gly to the american people they realize that with the handicaps he has had bad it has been v a tremendous task to accomplish what ho he has and that the results have been due almost a entirely to his re restless relent lees less activities he has infused the officials of his administration from top iop to bottom with a resistless desire to prose prosecute cuto offenders against tho the existing laws and to design other laws and write them in tho the statute books to further restrain the encroachments encroach ments of aggregated and predatory wealth inow now with hia task only fairly well begun he sincerely wishes to relinquish the reins to a P newcomer new comer and retire to a well earned rest all indications point however to such an insistent demand on the part of t the he people that mr roosevelt shall continue at the head of affairs that the shrewdest observers believe he will be forced to take the nomination no man can resist the call which they believe will bo be made on him in 1908 A nomination tendered as a sort of compliment or ono one in which there was a contest might be declined but not they say one spontaneously of fored by a devoted constituency this sentiment is becoming becom lne more and more pronounced senator burkett of nebraska says tho the sentiment in his state Is pronouncedly senator gamble of south dakota says ht his state will hear of no one else ex senator morion marion 0 3 butler of north carolina once the great leader of the populist movement ment now a roosevelt man au declares that in his state no one but roosevelt rosevelt will do hundreds of others are talking the same way and with great popular feeling to back them in these declarations there Is no effort to discredit mr Roosevel Roosevelt ts 8 stati statement I 1 that he does not wish vish the nomination and will not accept it is the first time the people have differed from him on any subject but hero here they ata stand nd apart he is determined not to th be a candidate they are slowly making up their minds that he must and the will of the people as mr roosevelt knows will ultimately prevail so go much remains to be done in the way of regulating corporations po rations As the president has said the good corporations have nothing to fear but the bad onea ones are as strongly opposed to his we poli policies cles today as ever to curb them to secure a continuance ti nuance of legislation in this direction of defending the common people against their operations indeed to guarantee the vigorous enforcement of existing laws needs a strong hand at the holm helm of affairs and that hand appears to be Roosevel ts |