Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-03
LA TOILETTE is TAFT'S
HOPE TO BEAT COLONEL
AT CHICAGO, SAYS LEWIS
By Altered HENRY LEWIS.

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WASHINGTON. June 3.-The Taft
management is busily seeking ways
and means TO extricate its beaten
principal from it's present uncomforta-
BILE position The Cranes and the Nc
Kinleys want to withdraw Taft and
az the same time save his presidential
dignity.
This is not so easy. The Taft peo-
pie, while only too willing to beat
whirl of things but one chance to do
so. Also that chance is exceedingly
narrow and unpromising.
The one chance to beat Roosevelt
nov that the thunderbolt of the prima-
ries has hammered Taft to a standstill,
Is LaFollette, who now hates Roose-
Welt With this in view and pressed
upon by the dire necessity of finding
some way out for Taft himself Sena-
Mckinley, have been and still are in
confab with Gronna, senator from
North Dakota with the thought of
turning the Taft strength over to La
Toilette
LaFoIlette Man For Chairman.
Root probably will not be finally Of
fered as temporary chairman. Crane
and Mckinley, powwowing with Gron-
ma, want the LaF'ollette people to Sc
lect a man for temporary chairman
one of LaFollette's own people.
The Taft. or rather the anti Roose-
welt forces on the national committee,
will propose the LaF'ollette selection in
place Of Root, who is eager to get out.
LaFollette, with all the help which
Taft can give him, would then be left
to fight for conventional control, his
won delegates being reinforced by
Taft's army of Federal of1ceholders.
1t was published that Roosevelt him
self would not go to Chicago. 1t is
now understood both he and LaFollette
will be there, Roosevelt with seat
among the delegates. The latter. it is
predicted, will manage his own war.
Taft. gloom in his heart and black
ness on his brow, will remain in Wash
ington, where his late flights about the
country have left him plenty in the
presidential sense to do
ask OF transfer NOI Easy
The task of transferring the Taft
strength to LaF'ollette is felt to be a
ticklish one. Those recent orders to
the Ohio people in the name of Taft
to Eight to the last ditch" and as we'll,
similar fulminations to Taft delega-
tions in the South, are intended to hold
the Taft delegates together for the time
being. That is good politics. But it
will be a ticklish Job.
Two thirds of Taft's delegates are of
the office-hoping, office holding type of
patriots Moved not by principle, but
interest, such are actuated only by a
mad ambition to be for and with the
winner Most of Tafts delegates are
with Taft, like so many animals in
cages, and are yearning hungrily to get
out and escape across to Roosevelt.
That condition of uneasiness and
uncertainty is what makes the transfer
of Taft's delegates to LaFollette so diff
fioult 1t is feared that in the process
of moving them from the Taft cage to
the LaFollette cage many will dodge
between the legs of the Cranes and Nc
Klnleys and run away to the enemy.
The Taft people as this is written are
writing and wiring hither and yon in
an earnest effort to closeherd as much
as may be the Taft strength for con-
vention delivery tot LaFollette.
Dubois on CIark's Chances.
Leaving the Republicans, where all is
strike and angry disunion for the Dem
ocrats, where at least optimism and
partial peace prevail, Dubois, general
manager for Clark, is again in town
This week he will go to New York to
talk things over with Boss Murphy and
learn what the New York delegation in
tends TO do. had quite a talk with
Dubois.
why" I asked, do 50 many of the
big papers oppose the nomination of
Clark"
For the same reason that Bryan
never got their support. With rare ex-
ceptions the big papers of the country
are sympathetic with the big interests.