The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-15
rALisISG TOO MUCH.

TAKING TOO MUCH.
The Christian Science Monitor, which
takes an impartial and wholly disinter-
ested view OF political questions and con
ditions, raps Mir. Taft for seeming hot
ard cold toward big business. con
servative and radical in his state
ments regarding it's regulation and
prosecution, accordingly as he has
found himself in conservative or rad
zeal districts or communities" but
President by Woodrow Wilson for
his wabbly course. The Monitor says:
''Viewed with relation TO previous ut
tcranoes OF Mr. Wilson since coming
snto practical politics, 1t viii be diff
I cult, for fair-minded people to see
whorein with regard 10 some very i'm
portant things he is less wabbly than
MIR. Taft" All that The Monitor cares
about 1t Is that its readers shall bear
in mind closely the past and present
relation to the great questions of the
hour. and then sec how their future ut
terances square with 1t. 1t is about
time,'' The Monitor concludes that
sincerity in politics was being weighed
for its worth"
That looks like n fair proposition:
but when men talk as much as Mr..
Taft and DR.. Wilson. and to as many
different audiences. how can they be
expected to remember all that they
have said and exactly how they said
It? AS they say in Texas, at amt in
human nature" that candidates can
talk all the time without appearing
70 be inconsistent or sprung, In their
Joints. Every day or SO some new
estimate Is given by some newspaper
or other about the standing of the
several candidates for President. There
as general agreement that Mr.. Taft
VIII be renominated by the Republi-
cans, but there is much doubt as to
who Will get the Democratic nomi-
nation. Dr. Wilson has been the most
active of the Democratic candidates,
shat Is TO say, he has talked about
himself and been more talked about
by others than any of his rivals, and
he seems TO be in the lead lust now.
1t Will be eight or nine months. how
ever, before any delegates will be
chosen for the Democratic nominating
convention, and great many things
can happen in eight or nine months.
So far not single State has actually
declared It's preference for President,
and 1t would be in the interest of
Domocratic harmony-the very thing
Mr.. Bryan does not want and will not
have II he can help tiff ali the States
should send uninstructed delegations
TO the convention men of intelligence
ana courage. to name the best man
for President when the convention as
scmbies aftef there has been a careful
study OF the whole held, and with the
one object in view of naming as the
leader OF the party the man who can
set-the most votes in the most States
II It should DO found that Mr. Bryan
would make the best fight, we would
have the convention name him, if DIR.
Wilson we should name him, II Gov
ernor Harmon VIC should name him,
and SO on through the entire list Of
sNailabilities. Straw candidates. ex-
oep, in Norfolk County, newspaper es-
. Inmates. selected tavorites should all
N,await the action OF the Convention.
We want to win this time and we can
9 win and will win II we shall only
aseop the old Democratic snip on an
even keel, Leas, OF all should we en-
courage animosiiies in the family
which would plague us when the real
fight is on