Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-10-18
POLITICAL .JUGGLERY AT TT
 MOST DIFFICULT.

: 'fafts campaign has some very cur
 ious features
 In the East those who hate Mr
 Roosevelt most cordially favor the
 election of his candidate, on the sfonnd that the two men are inher-
 ently different. It is simply not in
 the present Republican nominee, say
 such people, to act rashly or with an eye mainly for helping out a pose
 He is d man of judicial temperament and training, a judge and adminstra- tive official of fine mental poise and proven reliability To the Roosevelt type he stands the antitype. There is nothing of the actor, the eXhorter Of the picturesque popular figure about him. He would never prove q bull in the china shop of business. In every way, it is urged, Mr. Taft re- sembles Mr Roosevelt far less than Mr. Bryan does. So those who. like The New York Sun. strongly resent MT. Roosevelt $ disturbing influence upon business and those who, like The New York Evening Post. strong ly resent the same Mr Roosevelt's all-around strenuousness, agree in preierrin2 Alr. Taft Their choice. to be sure. is merely the best they can make under unwelcome circumstances. Alr. Taft and A1r. Bryan both claim heirship to the Roosevelt policies;" most of those who favor Mir Taft as the less Rooseveltian of the two are a natural conservative, would pro- ceed with more care and more regard for possibly injurious consequences ! Others ohiecting to Mr. Roosevelt be- 1 cause they dislike his general style | and frankly de(est him as man and President, consider Mr. Taft so much less the type than Mr. Bryan that even Roosevelt sponsorship may properly be forgiven. The result follows na- turally. II is declared in the extreme anti-Roosevelt quarters that the way
 
 veltism is to vote for Taft. And among those taking this position We find some who are not Republican stalwarts and Whu are certainly not actuatcd to any great extent by merely partisan con- alterations.
 A&alnSt such recommendation ill the East the Republican campaign man a2ers doubtless entertain no partieu lar objection. There it may easily do moro good than harm. Perhaps they eN"n. coVertly. of course help it along The situation out West, how ever, is quite another matter. in the ! West, where NJ. Roosevelt was aI- ways strongest, his popularity does not seem 10 have been Very greatly i lessened by recent events So little 1 love has the West for the East tAat it's sectional consciousness is aroused
 n his favor when lie becomes tar get of Eastern denunctations No ! numerous SCI of Westerners is look ing for the least Rooscveltian candi- date or the least Rooseveltian poli- cies. In the West dissociation ot Mr
 Taft from Mr Roosevelt would be- yond question result fatally. Thus l far the Republican candidate has ] been holding forth entirely in the Western and Central States. It is easy to imagine that d good many Of his Eastern supporters would be considerably embarrassed il he should come among them with his stcond- fiddle Rooseveltsm. and it is easier still to imagine that the West would rise against him if he preached diff fereat doctrines East and West
 Much of the support given Mr. Taft
 in New York and whereabouts is not such as to help him in the country at large, anyhow. Party manaGers ar strongly suspected of collecting poodle rom sources the same old which enjoy no favor what ever with Rooseyeltian Taftijes in the West and very little favor with many anti-Rooseveltian TafJites i'll the t,lSt. So the Republicans have aWk- i wardiy different situations to reckon with| in different sections and must also Nsteer carefully between the seyHa of no great corruption fund for the flrst time in many years and the Chary bdis Of exposed pretence of