Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-13
James Garfield Former Secre- taB Bent on Bringing the Colonel Before People
 Again
FAILED AT CHICAGO
 BUT NOT CAST DOWN
The Successful Youngstown Episode After Which La Fol- lette'S AdherentS
 Awake
(By Victor Elnott)

WASHINGTON December 12;-lf Theodore Roosevelt. who is responsi ble for a decided inclination on the part of the public to dub him Theo dore the First. comes back into the political limelight as strongly as is expected, he will owe his resurrection at this time largely to the cleverness of the former secretary of the inter for. James R. Garfield. Furthermore Mir. Garfield will probably ride back to the universal popularity on the tid- al wave of sentiment which bears Roosevelt to the front having, all the while. the satisfaction of knowing that he has succeeded in executing a clever political coup. It has begun to happen already.
 On October 1st Mir. Garfield went to Chicago 10 attend the progressive republican convent on there. opposed to endorsing President Taft for the renOmination. In view Of the fact that Mir. Garfield went to the conyen- tion fresh from an interview with Coi. Roosevelt, it was commonly conceded that he appeared there as the per sonal representative of the Oyster Bay with the intention to postpone the making of an endorsement. The convention. however, overbore Mir. Garfield and as a consequence his weakened The fact that his strongly republican constituency defeated him in the last election for delegate to the state constitutional convention is traced directly to the Chicago busi. ness. With these two blows telling heavily against him. Mir. Garfield was in an embarrassing posit on and indica- tions pointed to the conclusion that he had been retired from political prominence for an indefinite period of time. It looked very much as if the former secretary and protege of Roosevelt was a dead letter in his native state.
 Garfield Comes Back
 But politicians it seemed, reckoned without Mir Garfield On the night of October 2l a big republican rally of the anti-Tafites was held in Young town, Ohio, winding up with a ban. quet Being an anti Taft affair the invited guests calculated by progress of elimination that the rally must be essentially a La Toilette affair and came with their vocal organs in tune to shout for L. Toilette But Mir Garf cid had journeyed all the way from Mexico to make it otherwise. The date of the rally was set some. what subsequent to the spreading of the Roosevelt reyiyified boom and so by clever manipulation, before the evening was over, MT. Garfield had succeeded in swing ng all the shouts around to the Roosevelt side Of the proposition, while La Toilette enthu. siasm subsided quietly into the back ground. Denunc ations were hurled against President Taft, as was expect. ed. That part of the program was carefully carried out, but Instead of the counteractiEg influence being brought to bear for Senator La Fol Iette. Col. Roosevelt reaped the whole of it's benefit.
 The trick was played with a great show Of innocence and nobody realiz- ed until the whole thing was over that an important political coup had been successfully eliminated.
 The First Move
 As nothing startling has happened since then, the politicians want to know what 1t was all about. They as' sume that Mir. Garfield was respcnsi- ble for 1t and give him the credit of putting over the biggest thing in the light for the domination of the Ohio delegation. If the success scored at Youngstown is followed up cleverly enough it is predicted that Ono will be won for Roosevelt. tO the exclu- sion to any Taft support to speak of.
 Ohio. it is claimed, is in exteremely bad shape for Mir. Taft and if he is going 10 draw much of a vote from hs home state in the convention it is agreed that he will have to take some action very soon to strengthen his support. People from up around Cleveland say that Taft has not much chance for votes there. The initiative and referendum are accum-