The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-03-06

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Ire sUbject The mes ge has Besn
Fesegred 70 by the nations leading
thinkers as the greatest and ablestl
state document ever issued in this
country.
The Congress OF the country failed
TO enact the necessary legislation to
make the treaty operative, and the
President very promtly kept his
word again, and within an hour af-I
ter the adjournment of that body at
noon Saturday. he issued call for
an extra session OF congress to open
April 4. At the special session he
Will be found fighting valiantiy for
this great measure and there is real
son to believe that the President
feels confident he will succeed, else
he would not have called the extra
session.
With his administration half over,
during which time he has won theI
confidence Of the people as a Presi-
dent able and honest, campaign
lines for the next presidential cleo
ton are beginning to form, and it is
accepted generally that Mr.. Taft will
!be the nominee of his party. His
firm attitude in several important
legislative matters in recent months
has met with the approval of his
party made certain the fact that
he is the party's choice. The
News Standard at Un1ontown, Pa,
discusses this subject in a very SEN
sfble manner. That newspaper
says:
The statement sent out from
Washington and published with a !
good deal of flourish, that President
Taft will be his party's candidate in
1912, can hardly be regarded as
news. nor can the author of the
statement be regarded as especially
keen sighted. Every one who has
looked over the field has made up
his mind that the President will be
mis- party's candidate. There is no
reason in sight, nor has there been
since his election, why he should |
not be the candidate in 1912. |
There is no one else in sight in his
party who would make as strong
candidate as the President. None
of the ultra standpatters could win
as easily as President Taft; neither
could any of the pronounced in
surgents.
The reason of the Presidents
strength are known of all men. He
is honest and capable. He has stood
squarely upon the platform upon
which he was elected. If any OF the
platform pledges have not been kept
he is not to blame. Senators and
members Of The House affiliated
with his party are responsinble for
any failures to redeem platform
pledges. The Presidents position
has been sane anu safe at all times
and the people have more conf
dence in him than In any member
of mis- party in public life. The
failure CT members Of his party in
Congress to do their duty, has en-
barrassed him somewhat, bu. the
people are not deceived as to where
he blame for failure belongs. The
President may have been a little too
patient with members of the Con-
gress who were welded to a tdo-
nothing policy, but finding they
were not TO be trusted, he has shown
sturdy resolve to go on and try tot
do things that ought to be done
without the misguided members Of
his party who have clogged the
wheels of progress, and ne win
probably succeed. The failure OF
the Republican Congress to support
all of the Presidents policies as
proclaimed in the party platform,
has handicapped the party for tne
campaign of 1912, but the people
know well that the President is the
only one who can overcome the
handicap aad there has not been,
is not now, and can not be, any seri-
Gus opposition to his denomination.