The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-28
TAFT REALLY BOOMING ROOSE-
 WELT.

"A great deal now turns on what Roosevelt does," says a Wall street bankerD The remark is we'll founded. As is we'll known, President Roose- welt forced Taft upon the Republican party as It's Presidential nominee, and did so Knowingly; now, President Taft is forcing Roosevelt into special prominence for 1912, but without so intending. Had President Taft full filed his pledge of carrying the Roosevelt policies into effect instead of repudiating most of them, the Elk President would be, with respect to 1912. an almost negligible quantity. It is the reactionary policy of Taft which is booming Roosevelt
 Progressives and Insurgents hold that through Rooseve1t's long absence and silence and his complete separa- ton from the control of Federal patronage, the third-term prejudice s.ceases and determines They be- lieve that this popular dissatisfaction with the Taft Administration, as indi- cated by the result in the recent Massachusetts Congressional election, would result in Rooseve1t's election even though he should not receive the regular Republican nomination. Much would depend, however, upon the f&Ad1G5CLOG O1 LA0 O01uOCIdL1C hOIA1u0G
 The popular view of President Taft is very clearly expressed by "a promi- nent politician of the Middle Vest in the American Magazine, as fol- lows:
 Taft has been exactly what I ex- pected him to be. He was and is 9 conservative and reactionary and it should have been plain to everyone during the campaign last year that about the biggest bunco game was had ever been attempted. With Rooseve1t's endorsement Taft appear ed in the West as a, radical, and yet he was enthusiastically supported by every conservative, by every reaction ary, and by all the privileged inter ests- In the campaign of Taft we man who was supported by the privileged interests on the theory, peIhaps the Knowledge, that he would not carry out the promises he was making or permitting his friends and sponsors to make for him. Nothing more cynical, nothing more degrad- ing has ever been seen in American politics. And Taft is doing just what [ expected him to dos namely, serving his master, Privilege.
 President Jordan of Leland Stan ford university declares that .'the man of the West thinks that the place for the Executive is along the firing line in matters of defense. of national interests and not in the middle Of the road buttressed on every side by statutes drawn up by the exp1oiters themselves" And Banker Henry CIews expresses the opinion that ssthere is little doubt that. Mr., Roose- welt will be recalled to perform the task if Taft does not carry out the Roosevelt reforms
 The foundation reason for the Roosevelt boom is found in this sen tence, 'Taft has made friends of RooseyeIt's bitterest enenies.'' He has cultivated friendly relations with those denounced by Roosevelt as ssmalefactors of great wealth. He has surrounded himself with advisers Vtho are somewhat more than sus- Iected of sympathy with the inter ests." It is known, says Ray Stan nard Baker, that Roosevelt s'was by no means satisfied with the early acts of MT. Taft, nor with the set of men whom MT. Taft has chosen for his intimate advisers g
 But he silently went to Africa, re- xl1ained silent there and is still silent He will reach Oyster Bay after the adjournment of Congress when the action or non-action of that body will be fully known and when the Taft reactionary policies will be even more definitely established. Then, he can feel the popular pulse and govern his action accordingly. Senator Bristow of Kansas, a prominent Insurgent says: We confidently believe that MT. Roosevelt will stand with us in hEais fight
 @espite the belief of many that the
 Rd term prejudice would be abated
 Roosevelt's favor, it would un-
 tedsy cost him the support of
 voters who believe, as does Elk
 Build of Massachusetts, that
 krd term for any President
 mp1y mean that the republic
 eak that it is ready for the
 collapse