The Nome daily nugget., 1912-05-23

almost merge one into the other. All the able politicians are commencing to realize this fact and are trimming their sails accordingly to catch favor able winds.
 Free trade is no longer demo- cratic slogan; ultra protection no longer appeals to the republicans. for they attribute much of the trust evil to this factor of the republican party. In both parties there is a growing demand to take the tarlm out of poll ties. and to deal with this great source of revenue producing feature If our government in a scientific and business like manner. as it should be dealt with.
 Again both republicans and demo- crats alike admit that today there Is no party loyalty in the sense known in the preceding generation. other wise it would have been impossible for Roosevelt 10 defeat Taft in his own state. We are a progressive na- ton and new conditions are springing up constantly that have 10 be met with acts and thoughts fully as ad- vanced as the nation Is Itself making. No doubt II Is these conditions which have been d!sintegrating the two great parties. which have destroyed party loyalty. and which have pro duced factions within the parties. We see. or read of these factions daily. and they are important ones that have to be met fairly and square ly by what k termed the give and take policy.
 IL needs only the spark of leader ship to fire the movements running counter to each other. and between man and man, Judging by local as well as outside reports and acts. We will let our many readers decide the candl- date possessing thls spark of lead ership.
 Then again t may resolve itself into d compromise candidate. and neither Roosevelt nor Taft may re- celve the party endorsement at the Chicago convention for there Is wide chasm to be brldged. a wide gap made during the fight tG secure the nomination on the part of both Taft ID nr to face with the following stone wall. that must be surmounted before the party can hope 10 be upon the high road Go success. Ii President Taft is renominated will the men who have been fighting for other principeis sub- merge their views. take of their coats and light for the common good 1 and success of the C. c. r. VIII Teddy himself get into the harness and put as much zeal into the cam l paign to help his successor in office as he did to try and wrest the nom l ination from him?
 If Theodore Roosevelt is nomin- stcd, and 1t now commences to look as fl he certainly will. provided the people arc 10 have any say in the mat men who have been fighting in be- half of Taft. forego their convictions for the sake of the party and work. in unison? Will William Howard Taft slip his head into the yoke and work just as hard 10 elect his old friend Teddy. as the colonel in turn worked to elect him four years ago? Will the executive open the throttle of the huge machinery Of government under his command and send the full force of its power into the channels that will help secure the election of the man who more than any other one person, or association Of persons. was respon- | sible for his election as the head of the nation?
 These questions Will have to be solved between now and the 18th day of June. the time set for the calling together of the delegates at the Chi cago convention.
 At first blush it now looks like Roosevelt. then again It may be Taft with the delegates he now has. com bined with the solid Southern vote. And again 1t may be a dark horse. such as Charles Hughes. Beveridge or Some other strong man who has re- mained in the background and com mands the friendship of both faction, and would be able to span the gap uniting the Roosevelt and Taft sup porters Into one solid hand working for the common good of the grand old party.