Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-06-29
By WILLIS J. ABBOT.

1imber-A Lie That Failed.
By WILLIS J. ABBOT.
The heavy hand Of the administra-
ton was laid upon the Republican ma
tional committee in order to force it to
do the Roosevelt will in determining
contests for delegates to Chicago.
Really it was little raw" as the po-
iitical phrase goes. for Mr.. Hitchcock.
who managed the Taft campaign,
to appear in the committee with a
proxy for himself and with proxies for
two salared Taft employees. The stu
alton was somewhat reminiscent of a
convention Of Mr.. Hearst's Independ-
sence league in which all the independ-
cent statesmen present were on the pay
roll of the Hearst newspapers.
After tho Convention, What?
or course the first trick in the ma
sional political game Is to get nomi-
mated, but Secretary Taft Is likely to
find out that the first trick Is not the
whole game. The heavy hand with
which his nomination has been prac-
tically forced has left it's black and
blue spots on the body Of the Re-
publican party. and the sufferers are
not likely soon to forget them. When
the earnest advocates Of such lifelong
Republicans as Speaker Cannon, Sena-
tor Knox. Senator La Toilette and Vice
President Fairbanks withdraw from a
meeting of the Republican national
committee with the statement that the
committee was packed and was not
gathered to do justice to all factions,
but merely to force one candidate upon
the party, It portends evil and disaster
for that candidate. That was the out
come of the first two sessions of the
Republican national committee.
Given a fight within the organization
of his own party. with the bitter hos
rility of organized labor. which has
exceeded in extent anything which two
months ago any one could have sus-
Dected; with the negro vote. which in
the tier Of states north of the Ohio
River almost holds the balance Of pow
ssr, and with the revolt Of the old
soldier element due to his almost in
credible folly In attacking General
Grant in an grafton delivered at
Grants tomb and in the presence OF
Grants son, Secretary Taft will face
some political troubles after the con-
vention which he and Roosevelt con-
troll shall have nominated him.
The Democratic Outlook.
So far as the Denver convention Is
concerned its outcome has ceased to
Y1n in Nyh Hp
Bryan will be nominated on the first
ballot, will dominate the convention
and therefore will be able to avert
the time honored practice of those who
desire to commit treachery of writing
al platform upon which the candidate
cannot stand. The most bitter news
paper opponent Of Mr.. Bryan comedies
to him enough votes to bring him with
in seventy-two necessary to nomina-
zion up to June 7. L am quoting from
the New York World. But the World
puts Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and
Connecticut In the uninstructed and
the hostile column. Out of those states,
no one Of which adopted the unit rule,
Mr.. Bryan will not get less than sixty
votes. 1t describes the six votes Of the
District Of Columbia as contested. The
contest Is the veriest farce, and in all
probability the contesting delegation
will never go to Denver.
Two Possible Vice Presidents.
The talk Of the nomination Of John
Mitchell for vice president does not
down. If he were really seeking it
or IL friends were seeking 1t for him
with any sort of concerted effort he
would, in my Judgment be nominated.
But there Is a concerted effort In ILL
saois u secure his nomination for gov
ernor OF that state. The argument is
made that with Mitchell for governor
In the state in which he was brought
mp and In which the coal miners are