The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-17
BELIEVES TAFT WILL
WIN IN CONVENTION
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signing round robin, TINS Tune one
of dissent against Republican oil pull
tactics.
Thus in advance are they giving
a reason for defeat or bolt, or both
for the terms are Synonymous,
The governors are losers and they
are not cheerful losers, either. For even
if Roosevelt should get this nomination
be has stirred up so much hate that
big detection of Republican voters
would follow.
in, and IL looks as II they would. they
VIII not forgive Theodore Roosevelt for
weakness OF their man,
ridiculous light by the strenuous colonel.
Bad for the Party.
An this shrll cry Of thievery. thief.
theft, hrieand. grand larceny, coyotes
and such. puts the whole party In bad
way before the people.
i have been In Chicago two days and
nave talked with good many prominent
men. and the most careful questioning
fails TO reveal any issue between the Taft
and Roosevelt forces.
1t is a scramble for office with all the
honors, rewards. perquisites and cmolu-
ments that go with It,
Taft certainly does not like Roosevelt,
one of which is that Roosevelt made him
president OF the United States. and we
always hate the individual that confers
on us a great favor unless we are able
to pay IL back.
The colonel made Taft his secretary
Of war; then sent him to Cuba To adjust
the insurrection; later again sent him
TO Cuba, Porto Rico Panama, Japan and
the Philippine Islands, and finally he
made him president,
And now the colonel has changed his
mind about Taft. and refers to him a
fatwitted failure. a reactionary. and be
slows on him a great many other unkind
indelicate, injudicious allusions, which, to
say Of any man who occupies the high
position OF president Of the United States
are certainly out OF place
II Taft Is all Of these weak and alb
surd things that Roosevelt says he is
then Roosevelt is certainly TO blame for
putting him Into the position that he
now occupies.
No man knew Taft as well as die
changed He Is not the kind Of man
who changes He is the same individual
who was the right hand OF Theodore
Roosevelt when Theodore Roosevelt was
president of the United States.
Granting for arguments sake, that the
present Rooseveltian estimate OF Taft Is
correct, then he Is the man TO blame
for it was he who lifted the man into
this high position.
Back From Elba.
When Theodore Roosevelt arrived In
Chicago AT o'clock Saturday it was a
most spectacular event.
What the man would say and what he
was going TO do were matters OF doubt.
There has been more or less silly talk
about Roosevelt being victim of para
nola, otherwise being balmy in the bean.
Let these things be forgotten. He is
no Ludwig Of Bavaria The man is an
individual He Is the only one of the
klnd and God knows one Is enough,
come back 10 earth.
His appetite is good. He sleeps well.
lie has an, inyincihle and most, unPar-
He! plays the words honesty and thievery
against each other indefinitely.
He is without the wit TO see that his
vociferous claims that he Is honest and
all men who disagree with him are
thieves is an assumption which only n
man with sense of humor will pardon.
His sincerity Is both his weakness and
his strength.
Theodore Roosevelt is religious man.
Roosevelt a Fanatic.
tie is exactly the type Of man who
kle-deep in human blood
Eut we must remember that we are
now living in the twentieth century.
Intelligence is widespread and power is
dffuscd.
The instruments OF death and violence
are not in the hands of any one indi
vidual.
we realize that today nations are
great through their ability to confer an
economic service and not through their
power to render an injury.
II is exactly the same with indi- !
viduals. The men who VIII receive the |
greatest 1onors in our own time arc |
those who can serve the forces Of peace. |
who stand for health happiness har- |
mony. And these men are not talking |
eternally about the misfortunes OF the |
people. Neither do they come with any
messlanic message or moteoric speCtacu-
lar flight across continent in the in |
terests Of abstract iustice-which no |
woman understands
The Rule of the People.
II Theodore Roosevelt had a rough |
rider regiment at his back. as Oliver |