The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-12-01
TAFT MANAGERS
PLAN TO SEW UP
THE DEL EGATES
WILL NOT TAKE AND CHANCES
AT THE NEXT CONVEN-
TON.
ktAL MICRO IN THE hOODPIlt

Must Be Explict-A Charm Provid-
ed Against the Evil Spirit of Oys-
ter Bay.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.-As Clys-
ses bound his sailors to the masts,
lest passing the Isles Of the Sirens,
they might throw themselves into the
sea, so the Presidents friends intend
to secure his delegates to the next
National convention against the
charms of Theodore Roosevelt The
word went out to the Taft managers
in the various States from the White
House today that all delegates in
structed for Ii e President must be
instructed in such a way as to make
them stick to Mr.. Taft even through
d Roosevelt stampede. No perfume
tory orders will be permitted. The
wording of each delegates bond must
be explicit and insure his allegiance
to the Presidents interests as long
as the name O. William Howard Taft
is before the convention.
For, since The Outlook editorial
was published, emphasizing the heak
between the Roosevelt administration
and the present one, and since the
Colonel's name set Youngstown, O.,
last night into surges of enthusiasm,
the Taft managers have seen fear
full specter dancing about on the lolit-
ical moors. It's huge eyesockets
shine with terrible CLEANS; its tightly
closed teeth glisten in the moonlight;
on it's head is sombrero and along
side one of its ghostly legs bangles
sword. Seeing several months into
the future, those in charge Of the
Presidents campaign for re-nomina-
ton, fear that during the next con-
yention, this ghost may appear before
the frightened delegates, quite swal-
lowing an inofiensiye spirit with a
pompadour and Wisconsin badge,
and scare them instructi0nless.
The apparitiCn may drive from the
minds of the administration dele
gates those mild and gentle instruc-
lions that are usually given in State
so Postmaster General
anu Secretary Hilles plan
ned today to provide a charm against
the evil spirit Of Oyster Bay. This
charm will be in the form of words
so clear, direcr and uncompromising
that not delegate pledged to Taft
can break his allegiance on any bal
lot. In this way the friends of the
President expect to make his nomina-
ton safe and speedy.
Few in Washington had realized I'M
Ill today in what direction lies the
Presidents fear. On the eighth floor
of the Evans building, the officials in
the LaFollette headquarters have
been saying that the stocky-built little
Senator from Wisconsin is the man
that is worrying Taft. But now the
truth is out and it is discovered that
the real menace, in the eyes of Hitch
cock and Hilles, is the former Pres
ldent whose persistent sponsorship |
was in a great measure responsible |
for the selection of Mr. Taft as the
Republican candidate to succeed him.
When the administration in it's suit |
to dissolve the Steel Trust, asserted |
that Col. Roosevelt had been duped
by the magnates and fooled into per-
hitting the Tennessee Coal and Iron |
gobble, a wide break was evident |
And when the Colonel replied in The
building for himself a new
trust regulation platform, the friends
Of Taft decided that they face a |
Roosevelt for President movement in |
1912, whence the news of today that /
all delegates must be branded with |
he brand that won't come off.
The Taft newspapers are assert
ng that the Colonel will indorse the
President for denomination, "at the
proper time"
1t can be stated that this proper
line" will be when Mr.. Taft has re-
'eived the nomination at the hands
Of the convention next year and not
before.