The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-11
FLocKING TO TArr.

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FLocKISG TO TAFT.
Republican insurgency in the sen
ate is on the rocks" we are told BY tn,
Washington correspondent Of III.
Baltimore American Originally on
posed to every important measure al
rocated by the President and opp osec
bitterly, therefore, TO his renomina ton
'he Progressives have disagreed. ane
most OF them are now nocking on III.
ia1t pand wagon, following the lead O,
senator Cummins. Five and possibl,
even SIX Of the Progressives who started
OUT IN Mr.. Bourne's Progressive Repub.
llcan League wagon have already ouiet.
~ dropped over the tailboard and haue
notiiied the Hon. Robert La Toilette, o,
w Wisconsin. that they Will no longer
be party to his personal ambitions.
The indications are that when the mex,
Republican National Convention meets
there will be only one name mentioned
LOT the Presidency. and that will be
the name of Mr.. Taft This is as IL
should be. The most respectable and
most responsible of all the Republi-
cans who have filled the office OF Presi :
dent In the last forty years, he Is en-
titled to the support of his party, and
to the respect of TIL, country without
regard to party. His denomination is
now generally conceded, even by those
of his own political household who
have been most active and vicious In
their opposition to him and his policies.
Much that he has accomplished has
been accomplished through the patrio-
tic support he has received from the
Democratic members OF the House and
Senate. who were big enough md broad
enough to esteem the interests of the
country of larger Importance than the
possible achievement of purely local
and partisan purp oses. Mr.. Taft Is
deeply sensible of the assistance he has
received ia tho larger questions Of his
administration from his political on.
ponents. and 1t is all the more TO their
credit that they have been able to diff
ferentiate between service to the coun-
try and advantage to the party.
The practical certainty of AIR,
Tafts denomination makes 1t ali the
more important that the Democra IS
should get together" in support of a
candidate who represents conservative
thought, who has not wandered off
Into the Wilderness after new para
mount issues who holds to the funda :
mentals of the Democratic faith, who
believes that no substantial or lasting
success Is to be obtained BY folloWing
after the empires of this day who
ciinss TO the simple faith of the ia
ers a s set forth in the Declaration OF
lnde pendence and the Constitution OF
the United States. We had hoped thai
Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey. would
be the: man who should be chosen TO
Lead the Democratic party in the next
great National contest and we hope
still, in spite of his recent vagarious-
ness. that when the time comes for
the selection OF o candidate he will
have recovered his footing. and viii
stand fast for the things which are es-
sential in the control of the affairs Of
this great country.
Our first choice. of course, for the
Presidency, If the nomination is. to go
TO the inventor OF fables, is the great
Nebfaskan; but If the party have de-
termined that 1t Will hereafter be
Democratic in platform and perform
hnce. we shall be compelled to look be-
yond Our Candidate for safe and sue
cessful leadership. The denomination
Of Mr. Taft viii make the struggle fol-
the Democratic party all the harder
and III the Democracy is 10 win. as we
hope with all our heart It shall win
it must be through the nomination OF
a wise, conservative candidate. who
thinks only in a straight line and de-
splses the tricks which have been
adopted TO the despair Of the people