The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-12-15
They Hope With T. X. and La
Toilette Running Ranks
Will Be Disrupted.
WILL TAFT WITHDRAWN
Looks Like Roosevelt is Leaning
ing More Every Day to Wis
consin Mans Candidacy.
BY gibson GARDNER


WASHINGTON. Dec. f5Thaf
PRESIDENT Taft canno; be renominated
was the big political fact made cleas
az the meeting OF the Republican ria-
tonal committee.
or the AZ committeeman present
there were only three who in private
conversation did not admit that TAFT
is out of H.
Who will be nominatedP Thar ro-
NAMED to be seen. There was tha
Roosevelt talk. bu, Just think OF
Roosevelt talk in the Republican ma
tional committees, Remember this ig
the committee that eight years aao
was plotting TO nominate Mark Han
ma instead of Roosevelt. aud four
years ago was conspiring with ..the
allies" seeking TO prevent Roosevelt
from securing Taft's nominations.
The Roosevelt talk. so far as the
| old standpat committeeman was con-
! cerneh was gun held AT The presi-.
! oefIrs neau TO compel him 10 slif-
render To the Old Guard the control
of the preliminaries and arrange
4 ments for the national conventions
That is "A tremendous power for 10
gives TO the standpatters the officials.
the seating arrangements, the tickets.
the patronage and. indeed, the control
of the convention right up TO the point
of the balloting.
Four years ago Roosevelt, backing
Frank Hitchcock and using, all the
federal job holders, ''stearn-roIled''y
the old guard out OF power in the corl-
mittee and made Hitchcock chair
man. ousting Harry New. OF Indiana,
Mark Hanna's old standby. This year
the old guard compelled Taft TO oust
Hitchcock and reinstate New. The
old guard captured the committee and
the control of the party machinery.
In return they stopled the Roose-
welt talk
The Roosevelt talk was not from
the friends of Roosevelt. but from his.
enemies. Men who hate him and heyo
fought him politically. They hope
with both Roosevelt and LaFollette ~
the running. 10 split the progressive
vote and TO start discord among the
insurgents. Then with Taft remain
ling In the field with the southern post
master delegates as his tenth legion
ia deadlock would malie possible the
slipping over of compromise candi-
date.
The LaFollette people knew they
bad nothing TO bope for from the old
4 guard who compose the committee.
SO they lay low. They concealed
their strength and their plans and
! that worried the guardsters. They.
! concede. privately. that Laisollette. IL
the lineup remained as Il was. would
control the delegates from all but
three states west of the Mississippi, a
: majority from OhiQ.Snf a fair sDrink-
! ling from half de3cn eastern states.
That meant that Taft was not the
man to stop tho LaFollette advance
F, So they threw Taft down and hurled
( the Roosevelt boom across the path
/ 10 divide the progressive strength aud
confuse insurgent leaders.
/ 1t IS a desperate e2pcdient. Roose-
tyelt has steadily refused TO become
la candidate The old Guard hopes to
! persuade him TO change bis mind.
( From Washington the committeeman
have all gone trooping TO New York
/ i'm the hope OF seeing Roosevelt rs
soon as he returns from Boston. VI
( the committee members get the same
i treply that Roosevelt former visitors
have had, that he is not candidate
aud will not permit the use OF his
name. they will be in worse position
I that before With Ia eliminated and
/ Roosevelts strength behind ,,aFol
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