The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-08
Says that the States which
Forced Taft's Nomination
Must Be Supposed to For
get Very Easy.
MANY TAFT ORGANS
NOW DESERVING HIM
In Chicago, for Instance, He
May Soon Only Have the
Lorimer Newspaper to
Fight His Big Battle.
palladium Specially

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 8.-The
Philadelphia North American, the
most progressive and independent
journal among the big newspapers of
the East, has an editorial on President
Taft's Western tour that will be read
with especial interest in the progress
sive states. The North American has
kept particularly close tab on Western
sentiment and opinion. The editorial
follows:
NOW since our convictions have
compelled us frequently to criticise
Mr.. Taft's administration, we prefer
to let his friends and admirers-who
SO little while ago were his flatterers
to speak our comment upon his pre-
sent program. For example, We find
the New York Evening Post thus warn
ing him:
New York Post Warns.
what may happen to Mr.. Taft in
Wisconsin, Iowa, or Kansas is indicat-
ed by what is happening in the hither-
to nonprogressive state of Illinois. If
the detection apparent in the Republi-
can press of Chicago is at all an index
of sentiment throughout the state.
then Illinois may soon be enemy's ter
ritory for Mr.. Taft
THE Chicago 4 ribune has come out
definitely against the President The
Daily News seems waiting for the next
example of presidential indiscretion
in order to follow the Tribune. The
Chicago Evening Post is beset with
sore doubt:
1.-THE President may soon be in the
unfortunate position of having for his
chief daily organ in Chicago the news
paper controlled by Mr. Lorimer, from
which support Mr. Taft may devoutly
beg to be delivered, as he may also
from having Lorimer join him in at
tacking the insurgents
| The New York World, which for two
years and a half exalted Mr. Taft at
the expense of Mr.. Taft's political
creator, is now running an editorial
serial entitled Has Taft Committed
Suicide?' a portion of the latest in
stallment of which is as follows;
"Mr. Taft ought to be highly graft
fed to know that Senator Lorimer op-
ened his campaign for "vindication"
in Northern Illinois Saturay with a
general attack upon the insurgent Re-
publicans.
Where the President himself as
sailed the insurgent senators for their
courage and independence on the Is
sue of tariff reform. he invited precise
| ly such support az he is receiving from
Lorimer. This means also the support
of the interests that are back of Lori
mer, the interests that are responsible
for Lorimer. the interests that raised
the money to put him over"
| 1--WE wonder what Mr. Taft thinks of
the company he is compelled to keep
by reason of his own folly.
Indiana is Doubtful.
"The twelve insurgent states repre-
sented by the thirteen insurgent SEN
ators will have ninety-nine votes in
the electoral college next year. Does
Mr.. Taft think he can afford to jeop-
ardize ninety-ninc electoral votes, with
Ohio doubtful, with Indiana doubtful,
with Illinois doubtful and with Mis-
rouri certain to swing back into the
Democratic column? If he does, he has
weird and wonderful system Of poll
tical arithmetic"
The Middle West and the South
west and the Transmontane West, re-
garded as the 'enemy's country with
the peoples ideals traduced and their
chosen leaders denounced by a Presi-
dent, and that Presidents name VIII
| liam Howard Taft!
| I'VE speak only in passing today of
the first appearance in American his
tory of President in the role not of
leader of the whole people. not even
as a leader of a party, but as cham
pion of faction of party, and that
faction one utterly repudiated by the
party and the people only lsat Novem-
ber wherever the opportunity offered.
The amazing feature of this presi-
Dental program to us is the delusion
that the memory of the American peo-
ple is so short that already thew have