Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-11
TRY TO SAVE FACES
Taft Men Assail Roosevelt
ians' Compromise Talk. q:
BOLT Is NOT FEARED
Third Party Talk Il Declared to Be
Buncombe.
CAUSTIC STATEMENT ISSUED
mo Real Winner Ever Howls," In
Declaration Issued at Pred- o..
dents Headquarters. -
BOLT is NOT FEARED
CAUsTIc STATEMENT ISSUED

Taft headquarters today issued q state.
ment declaring that ''the talk Of q com.
promise candidate Is . Roosevelt offer to
save their faces'"
The statement follows:
When the Roosevelt forces were de-
feated In Indiana, Mr.. Roosevelt ana
Senator Dixon charged fraud
When Mr.. Roosevelt got only seven
out OF ninety delegates In New York he
denounced the result as "a criminal
farce"
When Senator La Toilette trimmed
MT Roosevelt in North Dakota. the
Roosevelt manager in that state COM
planned that democrats voted against
u.s.
when the Taft forces won an over
whelming victory in kentucky, Senator
Dixon. playing his usual role OF chief
bowler for the under dog made charges
which have been denounced as false
hoods. and the Roosevelt manager has
been challenged to prove or withdraw
his charges
When the Roosevelt followers were
defeated In Vermont, Senator Dixon an
to prevent further 'man-burglary' In
reply he received a singing retort from
the chairman Of the republican state
committee. and Mr. Roosevelt was called
upon to stop the insults to American
citizenship which Senator Dixon has In
discriminatory handed out during the
campaign.
When the Roosevelt crowd lost in
Michigan, In pursuance to their usual
tactics, they bolted the convention in
Wayne county and set UP a howl OF
steam roller Now they find they vio-
lated a ruling Of the courts and have no
standing anywhere.
Cried Fraud and Bolted.
when the Roosevelt ring in Missouri.
composed Of state officeholders, lost in
two Missouri districts they raised the
usual cry Of fraud and 'bolted.' but
when they ran a primary in Kansas
City which was a 'frame-up' pure and
simple. they defended the latter proceed
ing as a model Of its kind-which il was.
but one which no decent man would care
to emulate.
when the Roosevelt following In Okla
homa carried the state Mr.. Roosevelt
himself pointed with pride to the result
OF this genuine primary whereas. as a
matter Of plain, ordinary truth, no pri-
mary at all wa SHIELD.
when the Roosevelt forces won in Hi.
nois they had no objection to the OUT
come.
'The lesson carried by this brief sum-
mary OF political events. so far az the
Roosevelt forces are concerned to date,
is this:
when you lose, make q martyr out Of
cry about It loud and long In
to make the people be.
lieve you lost something you never had.
When you win occasionally. proclaim
the outcome from the house tops for fear
somebody win forget you are running.
'But-make q great noise all the time
ssF1IrfhaY tn vvao pa he <ap h,
Roosevelt activities to date, the folIow1no
may be said:
"fhe campaign Of the Roosevelt man.
ayers to date has the earmarks OF defeat
written all over 1t. No real winner ever
howls.
Threat Called Farce.
''The threat of the Roosevelt forces TO
contest the southern delegates now in the
Taft column is a farce. There Is nowhere
any physical evidence of any such con-
test except in Mississippi.
1.-THE threats OF the Roosevelt managers.
privately expressed. that they may bolt
at Chicago is a blum. Its purpose IL to
Brighten southern delegates and IL will
be called.
1.-THE talk Of q compromise candidate
Is q Roosevelt offer to save their faces
A loser 10 always willing to compromise.
1.-THE talk of q third party Is pure bum
combe. 1t is in line with the talk about
q bolt
THE upshot of all the Roosevelt activi-
ties Is that they are not designed to
nominate or elect Roosevelt. but to defeat
Taft.
'aThe answer will be found at Chicago
where President Taft will have more
votes on the first ballot than he had in
1905"