The Washington times., 1911-12-12

now for the President; the other crowd
that four years ago dragged down the
Senator La Toilette, under the lead OF
Senator Cupmins.
National Committeeman Tom Thor
son. OF South Dakota, Is one Of the four
This isn't the crowd In which TO hear
much about the La Toilette movement.
you understand" he said this morning.
But It's coming out In the country.
A good deal of this Roosevelt talk Is
engineered with the purpose of using
Il to befog the real situation as to La
But ,ts the Ia abt
They's doing business with the
people.
Sees La Toilette Victory.
'"rhe developments in connection with
this committee meeting have Demon
strated that Mr.. Taft is beaten. Mr..
Roosevelt is not, going to he candi-
date. and that means La Toilette.
The standpatters. who oppose Mr..
Taft want to put Mr.. Roosevelt on the
n order to take votes away from la
and SQUEAK ssas ssroSsh eSs ssss %s
ticfet TICK headed VA R aS ss1s
and beat 'em hopelessly. Watch, II
20 20 before the conventiOn~weil. they
won't. and there's no use Worrying
about that; Mr.; Roosevelt isn't a cam
didate. and isn't. going. to Le. but this
sives in all the progressive States by
forcing Mr. Roosevelt on the tickets Is
going to get the ak. Do you think Mr.
Roosevelt will stand for such thing !:
out West They are not going to drop
into that sort Of trap"
Indiana's Big Switch.
And note the marvels OF political
bedfellowship in Indiana. Nowhere was
there such bitter, persistent, determined
, opposition to Taft as the old Fairbanks
round year before the Chicago con-
vention of 1903. Joe Healing. II recol-
lection is not sadly in error. resigned
a high-grade Federal job in Indiana In
order to be perfectly free to oppose the
Roosevelt Administration,s plans to
nominate Mr.. Taft. - Mr.. Healing turn
uP Fairbanks r. Gnsaso soo ns s nS 1s . fr
mated Job Of managtng he did, too.
There werQJim Watson, Senator Hem
enway, and all the old organization
aans mGns n tasor ssa fas ss
| than all the rest put together. They
were determined that anybody would
be better than Mr.. Taft.
Today they are In the front rank OF
Taftism! That's all
New Hampshire Misgivings.
The old New Hampshire regulars
typefied by General Streeter were for
Mr.. Taft four years ago. Today II you
scratch a New Hampshire regular OF
that INK. you find a man with grave
misgivings, amounting to conviction,
that it's going to be mighty dangerous
business to name Mr.. Taft again, and
that really some way ought to be found
On the other hand, Senator Gallinger
was bitterly opposed to Mr.. Taft -four
/ years ago. because he despised Mr..
Roosevelt and the sentiment was sim
Voiced. Mr. Taft wes ' Mr. Mr. 'hesesss noeaeseIts
| candidate, so there could be no good ir
him. But today Senator Gallinger feels
most kindly toward the President. Why
no. no,H Has he not been good stand
Charles r. Brooker. Of Connecticut
was q Taft supporter a quadrenniun
! lack. Now he is distributing more DIFF.
committeeman on the Taft questior
ttan ANYBODY else in the organization
He is positive that Mr.. Taft can't carr,
connsstieut scnS t,n He ,1 and Mr. Taft used e
But Charley now has a Sherman Law
indictment label, with the compliment
of the National Administration, ard, o.
course, he doesn't .eel amiable.
Change In Four Years. &C.
No single phase Of the situation hal
SO strikingly illustrated the politica
evolutions Of. four years. as the re.
versal OF form among national lead.
ers.
The people who four years ago hatet