Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-09-24
Purpose of Leader Made Plain by
His Public Action.
WHY HE tanned ON HIS PARTY
Defeated Ambition and Perfidy to
Taft Mark Course.
CHAIRMAN HILLES ON OUTLOOK
Charges That Roosevelt Would Have
Found Everything. Lovely IL the
Chicago Convention Had
Made Him Candidate.

DETROIT Sept. 2S.-(Special Tele-
gram.)--Charles d. Hilles, republican ma
tional chairman. after several hours de-
voted to conferences on the political situ-
alton, left tonight of New Yark, where he
will meet President Taft and detail
him the satisfactory progress of the cam.
palgn for his reelection.
There is no longer much talk to the
effect that republicans will vote for Will
son to assure the defeat Of Roosevelt,
he said. There has been, talk Of that
character. but the ptiful showing thus
far made by the third term candidate
has emphasized his weakness and clearly
indicated his position in the race as
bad third. The only real danger is in
those states In which the republican ma
jorty is small, where Colonel Roosevelt
hopes to attract enough support to him
self to deprive the republican ticket Of
majority. He entered the flghI with no
other thought or purpose. 1t is evident
from letters written by gentIement whose
authority to speak for him Is undisputed
that Mr.. Roosevelt never expected to do
went into the campaign for revenge, re-
taliation and reprisal because of the
mention In the papers filed In connection
with the steel trust suit of his part In
the absorption by that corporation of its
only real rival. His spectacular perform
ances are all timed and staged In the in
terest and for the benefit OF the free
pan oFN ha NoeTy
The betrayal Of President Taft's
friendship by Theodore Roosevelt was an
act OF perfidy which the American peo-
Pile resent For thirty years Colonel
Roosevelt was identified with the party
which he has now deserted. For thirty
years It had crowned him with honors.
But It is party that stands for consti-
tutional government, >aud when he en-
deavored to lay the ak at the root OF
Its institutions, when he endeavored to
discard the tradition that allows no man
more than two terms at the White
House, when he demanded that the faith
full services Of william Howard Taft
and the splendid achievements of his
administration be ungratefully dlsre-
garded In order that his own vauftlng
ambition might be given fuller play, the
party rebelled. And, because 1t rebelled,
he raised the cry of stop thief when he
himself had been caoght with his hands
in anotef mans pocket.
Why Roosevelt is Weak.
AT the Chicago convention he and his
personal representatives framed op CON
tests for delegates which were without
rnarit and absolutely fraudulent, and
Colonel Roosevelt himself smillngly ad-
mitted It, And yet, when these contests
were decided against him, as they should
have been. he showed himself to be an
advocate not of the square deal, but of
the loud squeal, and, on the pretense
that the national committee had robbed
him, he left the party at time when
1t had become more responsive to popular
opinion than at any other period during
the three decades of his membership in
1t. The republican party has never put
forth so progressive platform as that
on which Mr.. Taft stands for reelection.
Record of the BulI Moose.
The republican party was good enough
for Mr.. Roosevelt as far back as 1882,
when he wanted to go to the New York
assembly. 1t was good enough for him In
1884, when James G. Blaine was It's candi-
date. 1t was good enough for him in
1885, when the bosses. whom he now de-
cries, but with whom he constantly oper-