Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-05-30

no democrat could defeat him. Those
men are merely superficial Observers
| They have not dug under the surface
| sufficiently far to find that in every
state Roosevelt has carried in d
| presidential primary less than 30 per
| cent of the republican vote in that
state has been pOlled for both him
and Taft. What became of the other
where they will continue to stay if
Roosevelt should be nominated. but
regardless of that fact there is an
other that is very significant. With
what little political experience have
had ! made the assertion a few days
ago when some Democrat said we
could not defeat Roosevelt, that there
were two million patriotic republicans
in the United States who would re-
fuse to support any man for third
term. Almost as in confederation of
my statement the next mornings pa
pers announced in telegram from
st. Louis that Judge Rombauer had
organized republican anti-third
term club and that he had obtained
the signatures of nearly one thou
sand leading republicans in ST Louis
the very first day he started out.
A lot of newspapers in this coun-
nothing of Missouri or Missouri poll
tics, Immediately laughed at the idea
Wen, | happen to have lived in St,
Louis long time, and | know that
Judge Rombauer is not only one Of
the ablest lawyers in St. Louis but
one of the leading republicans in the
state of Missouri. He is, perhaps, the
strongest man intellectually in St
Louis in the republican party. He an
nounces that this is only starter and
that he will have over three million
signers and members of his ant%
with it. Aside from that the most
influential and ablest German news
paper in the United States is the
Westliche Post which has announced
that if Roosevelt is nominated, they
will support the democratic nominee.
That means that one hundred thou.
sand German republicans in Illinois
and Missouri will vote just as the
Westliche Post tells them.
This whole campaign between
Roosevelt and Taft and the aliena
ton of hundreds of thousands of good
republicans from the republican par
ty because they believe that the Grim
ination and recrimination between
Taft and Roosevelt has proved abso-
lutely that the republican party is
rotton and absolutely unfit to admin
lister the affairs of this government
in the interest of the people, they
have not only concluded to stay at
home in these primaries, but con
cluded to vote for a democrat at the
next election, provided that Demo
crat is a sure enough Democrat who
inspires their confidence in his abili-
ty. his integrity. his manhood and
his American patriotism. This sort
of a thought has also come to the mil
lions of democrats in this country
and they have been doing their own
thinking. They have sized up the
tempestuous and tumultuous cam
paign of some of the candidates on
the democratic ticket, also the quiet
and transformations campaign made by
Champ Clark Who has been sticking
job while other candidates We're gal
avanting all over the country, har-
arguing the people in the interest
of their own nomination as we'll as
the mendaciOus statements sent out
from their headquarters.
A good many of us have stood on
the cliffs that border the ocean and
have seen the mighty waves lash
themselves into fury and dash against
the cliffs with mighty force 1t is
an awe inspiring spectacle but We
must remember that all terrestrial
heights and depths are measured
from the calm level of the sea and
not from pillows. Thus, it seems that
the verdict Of the people is being
made by the calm fresides of sens
lble citizens of this nation and not
in political meetings where they
are being harangued and told every
thing in the interest of some one
man. They have been thinking.
That's why Champ Clark has been
winning delegates while attending to
his duties and others have been los.
ing delegates by spending money for
special trains and appealing to the peo-
pie on the rostrum.
1t looks from this distance that
Champ Clark is going into the con-
vention with more votes than any