The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-03
ALFRED HENERY
LEWIS ON TAFT
Noted Newspaper Man Talks
About Inside of Present
Administration.

New York. June 3.-President Will
liam H. Taft's name will not go be-
fore the republican national conven-
ton in Chicago. This is the statement
made by Alfred Henry Lewis. In the
New York American today. Lewis
not be questioned as to its autllenticity
and that he is assured of his remark
able statement.
The article, sent by Lewis from
Washington follows in part
II have definite information that
President Tafts name will not appear
before the Chicago convention.
This will be emphatiCally denied
for a few days in the hope of finding
new man on whom standpaters can
combine to beat Roosevelt. But there
| Is no such man.
Fairly speaking and putting it the
softest way for Taft. he has been
whipped and beaten from the field.
The news from New Jersey came as a
last feather to the camel's back of his
resolution. which had begun bending,
with Illinois and Massachusetts. and
has been showing increased and in
creasing signs of lorea king ever since.
Goethe once wrote the Sorrows of
Werther.' Some American Goethe
ought to write the Troubles of the
Man in the White House. three years
ago belted about by those whom he
thought were his friends. They have
of political breadliners. with expect
ant hearts and hands outstretched.
They used him and now they desert
him
Where once they had trouble seeing
him and pushed and jockeyed and jos
i tied for the privilege. he now has even
more trouble in seeing them such as
"N sl,z
man and others of a similar selfish
feather he is in this, his hour Of gloon,
/ and mourning. unable to find with a
search warrant.
What comes bitterest to one of
Taft's soft-baked and defenseless tenn
permanent is that he receives little or
less sympathy Cannon makes no
secret of his satisfaction at the disas-
tiers which have overtaken Taft. He
put MacFeagh and Fisher in his abi-
net. Illinois didn't want them, they
weren't republicans: that their port
folios We're a slap in the face to an
old-time Illinois republcanism, which
had borne the heat and burden Of the
party day. The Illinois republicans
slapped back, and Cannon would have
mankind understand that he, at least.
is losing no sleep over it.
Roosevelt called US his enemies.
said Cannon. and smote us in front.
Taft assumed that he and we were
friends. but as we turned our backs to
go he kicked us from behind
"Vice President Sherman is even
more chortingly gleeful than Cannon
at the overthrow of the Taft fortune.
There was a time when Taft in the in
nocence of his ignorance and lost in
that fog OF lies with which the men,
dacity of courtiers and parasites ever
invests a white house. canvaSsed how
far Sherman would be d drag to the
ticket If named for his present place
as vice president.
Taft never once doubted his own
nomination. and thinking only of the
polls coldly considered Sherman as to
whether he would hurt more than he
would help. Now that matters are
upside down with Taft. Sherman is
not displeased at primary returns.
which prove that 1t was Taft, not he.
who destroyed the administration.
Cabinet Disrupted.
Even the cabinet is in no sense 4
sympathetic unit There has been
complaint for some time that Wicker
sham was me real cabinet, and that
Knox and Stimson and Hitchcock and