The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-11-14
TAFT is A LOAD
REPUBLICANS FEAR TO GO INTO
NEXT ELECTION.
President to Be Side-tracked and
Hughes to Be Made Candidate Is

the Story From Washington.
4 big potent silent influences with
in tho Republican party are organic
ing a movement to displace President
Taft 40 tho party's presidential cali
didate, and to substantiato for him
no less person than Supreme Court
Justice Charles 3. Hughes. says Jud-
son C. Welliver. In The Washington
Times.
The Hughes proposal is not boom
and it is not intended to be boom.
1t is being kept just as quiet as pos
sible. More 10 talked and known
about it in New York than anywhere
else, yet it gets no publicity in New
York. In New England 1t Is recog-
nized as a we'll developed propagan-
da. yet the public prints know it not.
In political circles in the Middle
West it is talked, but quietly and un-
der the rose. The time is not come
to give it notoriety. That time may
never come; but the people operat
eAaIeq seoIAep 5u!lJ!qs-eueos 9Ql 9uI
they will be able before three more
months to turn the calcium suddenly
OF the center OF the stage and re-
veal a new figure there.
Fearing that Mr.. Taft cannot be
elected If nominated, and that Mr..
Wilson's nomination can not be pre-
vented, the conservative interests in
politics, which in general are non
partisan, are casting about for a
means to secure control through the
nomination of different Republican.
A year ago the conservative plan
was to let Mr.. Taft be nominated, and
then be defeated by Mr.. Harmon.
That plan has been spoiled by the
rise of Mr.. Wilson. Mr.. Wilson is
regarded by the old-time Republi-
cans and the Parker sort of Demo-
Gratis as no better than Mr.. Bryan.
So it has become necessary to trans
fer allegiance back to the Republican
party, in the hope of displacing Mr..
Taft by some man whom it will be
safe to support as against Mr.. Wilson.
Justice Hughes, all things consid-
cred, has appealed as the man most
likely to win at both convention and
pals. 1t Is calculated that Mr.. Taft
is now so far broken down under the
assaults OF the Progressive schism
should develop in the East, be would
seen be forced out Of serious consid-
Grafton. And Justice Hughes is the
man now being tried out in the larger
considerations Of strategy and tao
tics. ..-- -
Can Justice Hughes be induced to
permit the use of his name? That
is the big question at this moment.
The people who are engineering the
deaf for him don't care, they would
not ask him; they would go ahead
and put over their plan and feel Sc
cure in the conviction that no man
is going to refuse his party's nomi-
nation for president.
There isr however, a disturbing re-
port that when Mr.. Justice Hughes
was named for the supreme bench,
he is in substance pledged himself
not to interfere with the future Of
Mr.. Taft. The story-and it Is re-
lated on such high authority that it
will not be denied with a show OF
confrmatory documents-that when
Mr.. Hughes was rendered the judicial
post he now holds, it was through a
letter which in substance said:
Having heard that you intend to
withdraw entirely from political &C
tivlties, the president would be
pleased to know whether tender Of
a position on the supreme bench. "
ETC., etc.
That, it Is declared by people who
assume to have learned the substan-
tial contents of the letter, amounted
to a commitment of Mr.. Hughes to
keep out of politics. Accepting the
proffer on that condition, MT.
Hughes it is maintained, is now
estopped, in honor, from violating
the implied pledge to withdraw en-
tirery from political activities"
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