Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-05-09
National Capital Gossip on
the Political Spectacle
Now Going on
DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS
Both Candidates Are Supply
ing Democrats With Unlim-
tied Campaign Material

WAoHlNGION, ID. e., May o.
(SpeciaD OF course, the only topic
of conversation amongst politicians
in the City of Washington is the
Roosevelt and Taft scrapping match.
was thoroughly satisfied it would
come sooner or later and that Mr..
Tafts friends would rib him up to
the sticking point and make him go
after Roosevelt in the same manner
that Roosevelt has been going after
him.
There never has been a spectacle
in the United States from a political
standpoint that is now being pre-
sented to the voters of this country,
President and an EX-President both
stumping the country for nomination
for the Presidency on the Republican
ticket and hurting epithets at one an
other like the wives of lot of fish
mongers in White Chapel market in
London. 1t positively is disgraceful
but the Democrats have all broad
smiles and the Republicans have got
the dry grins. They know that the
Democrats are clipping from the
press of the country every utterance
of both these Republican leaders and
will use them in the next. campaign,
whichever should be nominated.
AS l have previously remarked in
this correspondence, whether Rod.
erigo kill Cassie or Cassie kill Rod
erigo" it all makes for Democratic
success. The Democrats have an i'm.
mortal cinch in the election of a
President next November, it makes
no difference who is nominated With
all Of this elimination and recrimina-
ton between the two leading factors
in the Republican party, the voters
of this country will come to the con-
cluson that neither of them is wor-
thy to be President of the United
States and in going to the polls next
November they will say in the Ian
guage of Mercutio, "a plague on both
your houses"
The truth of the matter is that
Colonel Henry Watterson is correct
in saying that Roosevelt is crazy.
have known he was crazy for fifteen
years. and he has been made crazer
by his selfish ambition and an insane
desire for the lime-light. He can ex-
list no better out Of the lime light
nf hn ,11t 1n
than can a fish on land 1t is the
breath of his nostrils and he is not
much to be blamed for getting into
this fight because it is absolutely his
natural condition and he can no more
help it than he can help breathing.
AS the late Senator Carmack of Ten.
nessee once said to me, "Roosevelt's
natural gait is running away"
The trouble with President Taft
is that he has a backbone made of
chocolate eclair and every interested
politician of the stanpat variety has
been able to work his fingers in him
and make him do things against the
interest of the people and in the in
terest of big business. So far as that
is concerned, they used Roosevelt in
the same way and he has been trying
to cover it up and denying it but
chickens always come home to roost.
The fact of the business is that
Roosevelt is a fakr and a fraud try
ing to hoodwink the people of this
country again and that Taft is
wabbling politician who can be hand
led at any time and is trying to get
back into the Presidency to be hand
led by the same gang OF political free
hooters who have been looting the
Treasury under the guse of protective
tariff
At last the people have got their
eyes open and they will at the polls
next November, unless am the rank
est prophet that ever prophesied,
swat them one eternal swat that will
put the kibosh on the Republican par
ty for many years to come.
CHAS. A. EDWARDS.