The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-10-15
LIVELY ATTACKS ON HIS
SARATOGA PERFORMANCE
Lodge Will Be Beaten II Lion
Hunter Stalks MasSa-
chusetts

Chicago. Oct. l5.--Politiciane who
DRIFT in and out Of the two congress
slonal committee headquarters In this
city say that the forthcoming NeYem-
ber election will do much to elimin-
ate Theodore Roosevelt as an newt
able president OF the United States.
They believe a story which Is whisper.
ed here and there that Roosevelt up
en- his return from the Western trip
slt down at Oyster Bay with pencu
aud paper and figured OF the states in
which he can defeat the Federal adj
ministraton for delegates In the 1912
convention The story gees thar
roosevelt decided that he can secure
tle nomination without any great diff
&, hty that Oh his Westoin trip he
canvassed that teiritor. shat his
present Southern trip i hdy with
intimations the delegates that Pest
master General Frank Hitchcock and
his predecessors as chairmcn of the
Republican national committee have
been accustomed TO buy with money
and Jobs.
Roosevelt say those observers. as
snrcd that he has the next presidency
In his grasp and ready 70 placate
Pre- ident Talt with cnief justice
ship OF tde supreme cour.. the rea
Taft ambition. faces danger only in
tho triumph of The Democratic party
IN November.
Trouble in MASSACHUSETTS.
A distinguished Massachusetts pdh-
licist here TODAY supported this view
4 He was commenting upon the ngh.
4 which Congressman Rutler Ames is
! making in that state 10 defeat United
/ states Senator Henry Cabot Ledge,
/ friend of Roosevelt
My close friends IN the various
+ Massachusetts counties" said this
man, assure me that if Roosevelt.
speaks Tor Lodge Amcs will win 50-
100 new votes Tho people. oppress-
/ ed by tariff are disgus.ed with The
! Rooscyelt-bossed Saratoga platform
/ indiana IN the Balance
IN Indiana The Republicans all pro-
Tess to believe that Roosevelt will be
successful in reconciling Beverdge's
iariff insurgency with The Saratoga
platform and his own Osawatomie
speech with the New York platform
ana with Beycridgc, How this legerde
main is to he accomplished the de-
/ pOnenls do not say. But they are
convinced that il will work ont So
( The nonpartsans and the Democrats
as we as observers at Republican
headquarters here. are certain that
Roosevelt, can only help himself by
! Iu.tiuss nnVpt.flUa aul ,.faa ,.araa a,,d
they are convinced that his speech
( will do much to help defeat the Grand
/ Young Man. who already is balancing
along fences in a manner dizzying to
behold
In New York the word comes ont
here that John D. Dix and the Demo
cratic ticket will be elected and that
from ten to fifSen congressman will
change over to the Democrats. Roose-
We himself is making the fight in
that state, and the defeat there would
be unmistakahle personal
So, as usual the lion hunter CON
tinues TO agitate the brains and the
tongues OF all interested in American
politics. They agree that he has made
( himself an issue in several states this
year. but they hold--these observers
that for the first time the people
are willing to listen to criticism OF
the man who iirsurged' at Osawat-
/ cnlie and stood pat a. Saratoga He
! downed the boss. il Is true they poin.
out but they declare that Roosevelt
himself Is as Thoroughbred a boss
as was William Barnes. Jr.