The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-27
GREAT BATTLE
Of 1872 LOOMS
UP ON HORIZON
Already Well Settled That
President Taft VIII Be
Renominated by the
Republican Party.
WILSON OR HARMON
BY THE DEMOCRATS
Roosevelt and Bryan Fail to
Figure in Next Years
Equation; Gossip on the
Political Situation.
WILSON OR HARMON
BY THE DEMOCRATS
BY EDWARD MARSHALL.
Noted War Correspondent and Author

BY EDWARD MARSHALL,
Noted War Correspondent and Author
BY Leased Wire to The Tribune.
TEW YORK, Aug. 26.-With the
mi adjournment of congress, the
V first real attempt to line up for
the great political battle of
1912 begins and the prospects of an
extremely interesting political occa-
sion in November, 1912, and in the
months preceding it, seem fine.
Among the Democrats life, for
time, sweet battle, real wonder of
battle; aud. while there seems to
be no likelihood of any really close
fighting among the Republicans, still
one or two small details of that sit
uatiou arc quito warlike.
The shadow (or the glory, as YOU
please; / have no choice) of the plump
man in the White House seems now
10 rest upon most members of the
party. Prophets say that all Taft has
to do is to swing his club and send
the ball, with ono stroke, straight into
the nine hole, He is about to make
detailed study of the national links in
his impending journey, which will in
clude most of those portions Of the
course winch threaten difficulties.
Party Content With Taft.
And he will find no lack of caddies
There is no. doubt that large part OF
his party is content with him. He
nnnnnnce6 fGHuV tha saf
tai at Beverly that he would take the
people into his confidence on the
tariff, reciprocity, the recall of judges
and other points at issue, and that he
will carry war into the districts OF
those who are fighting MIN. His
friends are confident he will carry the
people with him. Still, there are
many who believe his nomination will
deposit him in hole from which cs-
cape and the long drive to the goal of
another White. House term will be
task requiring skill.
1 returned recently from the south
west and brought inf ormatlon back
with me. The southwest weeps with
disappoin tment over Roosevelt. 1t
cannot understand how any one can
criticise its idol. There are many
others that feel likewise. but none is
bold enough to hope that he will be
candidate.
That Taft is, however, stronger than
he was few months ago with many
is undoubted. Just what effects the
tariff complications and the Canadian
reciprocity affair will have upon his
prospects it is really too soon to even
guess. Even the wise prophets in
New York refuse to make predictions.
Farmers, are Proverbially slow in max
ing their announcements.
Wilson or Harmon.
New York opinion sees to a certainty
either Educator Wilson or Judge Har-
mon as the Democratic standard bearer
Tho frankness with which both men
are striving for the honor is refresh
ing. Harmon S ear is pressed tight to
the ground with logged earnestness-
There is no doubt that it is catching
,rumblings now and then which il finds
satisfactory; but il must ring unpleas-
antly at some Champ Clark rumhlings
loud roar reaches 1t from Jersey
II is the first time, is it not, that
two ex-college presidents have been In
opposition for the Democratic nomina-
tionf Where, by the way, were two
such ex.college presidents ever found
before-Wilson and Champ Clark-two
widely differing types Of men That
lnamp tlaTR ever WAS colIeGe pfeSl-
dent there nre thousands who are ig-
norant. An interesting tendency OBJ
tains among the newspapers, even those
of his own party, to make of him n
rough and ready person, a backwoods-
man. genius of the wilds. Some pa
pers have printed interviews with him
which quote him from the first word
to the last as if he spoke a woozy-
Ozark dialect But, really. he has given
much of his extremely busy life 10
definite scholastic work beginning it
in the same Kentucky schools in which
he got the firm foundation of his own
wide education before he entered
Bethany college, and the Cincinnati
law school. and ending it as president
of Marshall college,
There are even those who think
American education lost an important
force when Clark entered politics.
Interesting Battle Certain.
Both Clark and Wilson promise to
provide an interesting battle for the
nomination with. perhaps. shade more
Of energy apparent in The Jersey than
The Missouri mans tactics
And should DR., Wilson finally bu
named, there may be novelties in his
Gradually the country is arousing TO
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