The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-03-20
Want 4 new PARTY.
TEDDY TRYING TO BREAK Up THE
REPUBLICAN GANG
this Seems HIS GAME

Should Taft and Roosevelt Both Be
Beaten the Republicans Would Go
to Pieces and Then Roosevelt
Z! Would Start New Party OF His
Own and Try to Be Elected.
eyes, he's in bad. He played the
wrong card. Nothing doin' this year
for Teddy"
The speaker was an intelligent
looking man OF perhaps so, on an
elevator in the Munsey building at
Washington, where the Roosevelt
committee has it's Washington head
quarters
"No, I guess he won't do much, :"
said the man addressed, of about the
same age and bearing. t'I don't
think he can get the nomination"
"Oh, I hope he does. I hope he
does" said the other. "I'd be de-
lighted to see him get it, for it would
help US more than anything else the
Republican party could do.''
At this point newspaper CORE
spondent remarked: 81 perceive that
you are a Democrat"
"You bet your Efe," said the first
speaker. "And I'd just love to see
'em nominate Teddy. He would just
have the earth wiped up with him
self. It would be fine thing for the
Democrats.
Others in the car smiled assent to
the remarks of the Democrat who
was anxious to see Teddy nominated.
"But there's one thing about it.
After it's all over, Teddy can sit back
and laugh in his sleeve over one
thing. That is this: He broke up
the Republican party. Yes, sir; that's
what he is doing, and he wiz finish
the job.
"But that isn't all. He will be
beaten, and Taft will be beaten, and
the Republican party will be practi-
caIly annihilated. But about eight
or twelve years from now, Roosevelt
will bob up at the head Of new
party, it will nominate him for the
presidency, and he will be elected.
We are young enough to see it, IN
less We drop of before our time.
Now you just mark my words
And then the door of the building
was reached, and the party Of ele-
vator companions went their several
ways into the streets.
There are people in Washington
who believe that this will be the final
game OF Theodore Roosevelt. They
cannot see how he can possibly de-
feat Taft for the Republican nomi-
nation, but, if this should occur, it
is hard to see how, with the Taft fol-
lowing and the LaFollette following,
and other factions of the Republican
party alienated, he can be elected.
His nomination, they declare, will be
a calamity for the Republican party,
and he will go down with 1t.
With this view in mind, it is re-
called that very recently Mr.. Roose-
veit declared that he would not be
candidate in 1912. and that Mr. La
Toilette declares that Mr.. Roosevelt
assured him that he would not be
candidate. It is generally believed
that LaFollette is telling the truth
when he says that Roosevelt assured
him that he (LaFollette) was the
proper man to lead the progressives,
AMI that no one else could make so
sood a showing; and added that his
influence and good wishes were with
the Wisconsin senator
The opinion among those who hold
these views is that Mr.. Roosevelt
meant what he said to LaFollette,
but that he discovered that LaFol-
lette was gaining ground so rapidly
that there was danger of his nomina-
ton. This the colonel had never an
ticipated, and he was not willing that
anyone else should be the progress
sive nominee. His plan was to wait
until the end Of Taft's second admin
istration, and then, taking the pro-
gressive party which LaFollette had
formed and led, to secure its non1-
nation for the presidency, and thus
so down in history as the successful
leader of a great third party, built
upon the ruins OF the Republican
rarty In this way he would take
rank in history as Of a mould with
Lincoln, the first great Republican
leader.
But LaFollette was about to over
throy the Taft administration in
1912, and it became necessary for
tie great third party leader to take
care that his plan was not taken over
bv LaFollette. This had to be pre-
vented by getting the nomination
himself, or at least preventing La
Toilette from mixing things by get
ting it too soon. So be jumped in,
and is in the fight to finish, either
to get the nomination now, or to see
that no other progressive gets it over
him,