The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-04-04
HUGHES MAY Be
COMPROMISE
CANDIDATE
New York Sun Indicates a
Possible. Turning to
Him from Taft.
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POSSIBILITY OF Utm%y,:s!. sss,,,,. &c.:
SUCCESS sCARES ltAu1's,s.'
Recognize the Fact that the President
Can Fbrcc His own Nomination but
His Apparent Unpopularity With
the Mssses Matter Of Grave Concern.

the Masses Matter of Grave Concern.
New York. April 4.-Much COM
ment has been caused today by the
appearance in the New York Sun, a
bitter opponent Of Colonel Roosevelt
and an ostensible champion of the
Taft administration. Of an article in
which the real fears Of the anti
Roosevelt men are plainly stated.
The article is devoted to a discuss
sion Of the possibility Of the nomina-
ton Of Supreme Court Justice Chas.
e. Hughes. who 1t stated has within
the last few days come in for more
prominent mention than ever before
as compromise candidate.
President Taft's unpopularity. with
the party's rank and file is plainly
conceded. 1t Is stated that rcpubli-
cans entirely friendly to the presi-
dent have held that while he could
force his own denomination. it was
exceedingly doubtful II he could be
reelected.
Want Winner.
The article is taken in many quar-
ters as indicating that the anti
Roosevelt crowd which is ostensibly
supporting the president would jump
candidate they think could win.
The Suns article says in part:
1t calls for little political discern
ment to perceive that there are three
republican presidential possibilities
this year. They are President Taft.
former President Theodore Roosevelt
and Associate Justice Charles Evans
Hughes. Of the supreme court of thee
the state Of New York. Only the
most sanguine Of Senator LaFollet-
tes adherents believe that he has
even the slightest chance of captur-
ing the nomination.
The situation concerning Taft.
Roosevelt and Hughes has become
more pronounced within the last few
subject for serious consideration on
the part of republicans who believe
their party to he of vastly more inn
portance than any man in it. no mat
ter.how exalted his station, and who
place party loyalty above personal
feaity.
These. republicans declare that
they will take any reasonable step
which would seem to insure their
party's victory at the polls in Novem-
ber next.
- Seek Strongest Man.
The republicans who expressed
these views are believers in season
and out of season in the policies Of
their party. Among this class of re-
publicahs are merchants. importers.
business men geenrallv. and profess
sional men and the rank and file of
small republican shopkeepers and
workingmen. Supporting their views
are thousands Of federal officeholders.
and to these may be added prospec-
tive candidates for governors Of
states. United States senator's. con-
gressmen, minor state officers, candi-
dates for municipal offices. assem-
pound keepers and all who hope to
hold public Office and who hope to
have the strongest republican NAM
ed for president for the effect he will
have on their own political fortunes
This article is built up on hundreds
of conversations with all sorts and
conditions of republicans in Wash
throughout the country. 1t is merely
intended as a pertinent reflection Of
these conversations.
II isn't intended to boom any re-
publican for the presidential nomi-
nation: neither is It intended to decry
the qualifications Of any candidate.
It is written only for the .ose Of
the exact situation today in the re-
publican national camp.
Think Taft Can't Win.
Several months ago influential re-
publicans, some of them very close to
President Taft, declared beneath
their breath that the president II re-
nominated could not be reelected.
While expressing this opinion they
hadn't the remotest shadow Of a
doubt that the president through the
power Of the federal patronage could
force his own denomination after the
fashion, OF Governor Cleveland in
1888, BENJAMIN Harrison In 1892 and
Theodore Roosevelt in his first nomi-
nation In 1904.
William McKinley's nomination in
1900 was not disputed by single re-
came to Mckinley as 'ust reward
from his party for the successful cul-
mination Of the Spanish. h.American
war and from a universal belief in
the Mckinley admfnistration's polic-
les and from q genuine affection for
the man. Taft's nomination in 1908
came largely through the use Of the
ident Roosevelt.
With the fact clearly understood
then that the president can compel
his own denomination the vital prob
lem for q number OF months. even
among republicans very close to him,
naB concerned tho CndoCe8 OF hlD re-
election.
-: Ta1iR Pitfalls.
The discussion concerning this
matter have taken many forms, the
most important OF which probably
has. related to his affirmation of the
Aldrich-Psyne tariff law.
It 10 an indisputable fact recorded
In political history. especially in our
own times. that tariff policies and
tartR laws. have been quicksands and
stumbling blocks and hazardous ex-
periments for both parties and for
presidents advocating them.
Cleveland went on the rocks in
1888 because Of his support of the
Mills tariff bill. Harrison went to
pieces in 1892 principally because of|
the Mckinley tariff law passed two
years before. Cleveland's second ad-
ministration was almost wrecked by
the Wilson tariff law. ID
Mckinley got along fairly we'll aft
or the passage Of the Dingley tariff
law, but almost with his dying
breath at Buffalo he admonished his
party that the policy Of high protec-
tfon had gone to extremes. and in|
that notable speech delivered the day
before he was shot. he called a halt.
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