The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-02-28
MORE NOISE THAN FROGS.


the Roosevelt supporters in his favor
up 10 the time Of his announced can
didscy, might have supposed that all
that was necessary to assure immedi-
ate popular acclaim that would sweep
all others from the field. was for him
TO announce that he would take the
nomination. The woods, the hills, the
plains, were full of Roosevelt noise
And yet his announced candidacy has
in fact. fallen flat. No one is partic
ularly disturbed by it, a good many
who were supposed 10 he for Roosevelt
are found to bo against him, aud even
in Iowa the chances are that Taft viii
get the delegation, while. as between
Taft and Roosevelt, Taft would prob
ably get the delegation even from
Wisconsin. For there is DO mistake
about the bitter resentment which the
La Toilette men show against Roose-
welt. They find that the Roosevelt
gang used la Toilette simply for their
own purposes and deserted him right
In the crisis Of his campaign, Just when
their support would be effective for
his Presidential boom. SO far from
it being so, however, P,nchot prides
himself upon tho fact that he prevent
ed the Ohio progressives from declar-
ing for La Toilette, putting it on the
assumed high ground that he was for
principle and not for men, when, as a
matter of fact, he was for Roosevelt
all the time, and was betraying La
Toilette to the best of his trcacherous
ability.
The situation reminds the Boston
News Bureau of All old story, which
it dresses up in new form as fol.
lows:
n. Y.-"who's going to get the Re-
publican nomination.? asked a member
OF an important private banking house.
VIII Taft Orwell. the Colonel?" That's
the question which will solve business
improvement and in a measure relieve
the present uncertainty, which is caus-
ing business 10 so entirely on a hand-to-
mouth basis
1T reminds me of The frog story An
up-stater came to the city and offered TO
sell n dealer a carload OF frogs. The
contract was arranged, and the frogs
were To be delivered on certain date.
The time came and the up-statcr walked
In with brown paper parcel under his
arm. He unwraPpcd it slowly and re-
yealed a single frog. The thunderstruck
where's the carload you promised
mc?'
We'll sir so much noise was made in
a pond near my home that 7 thought
there must be several carloads Of frogs.
! searched and searched, but All could
find was one frog. Here II is
The Roosevelt noise has certainly sub
sided since the announcement of the
Roosevelt candidacy. and in place of
the country being full Of Roosevelt
supporters. there is a marked falling off
In those who had been counted upon 80
support him. Senator Lodge Of Massa-
chusetts has been the special Roosevelt
man Of the New England States. but
since the anarchisLic speech that
Roosevelt delivered TO the Ohio Con.
stitutioual convention Lodge with
draws his support and announces that
he Will take no part in the campaign
AT the very time that Roosevelt was
making his speech in favor Of over.
turning the judiciary and constitution
so that "the people, could DO as they
liked without restraint, Senator Lodge
was making 4. speech in which he bit
terly assailed all of those demagogic
propositions which Roosevelt was spc-
cially defending, This made the sit
uation impossible as between the two.
and they have parted company. Ana
the same in many other quarters; SO
that the Roosevelt noise is found to
have been like that in the frog case.
mostly noise with very little substance
TO it.