Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-06-27
Robert M, McWade,

Robert M. McWade.
Bismarck Tribune Washington Bureau.
WASHINGTON, June 27.-When
these dispatches stated over one
month ago that there would be two
republican national conventions in
Chicago, one of them a bolter; that
Taft would be the choice OF the regu-
lar republicans in convention; that
Roosevelt would kick against regu-
larity, and refuse any compromise OF
the boilers there were not few sap
lent editors who snickered and sheer
ed at my predictions. Who is snick-
ering now?
Added to thorough reliability, know
ledge of man and affairs are the best
assets of Washington newspaper
correspondent.
My statements respecting the re-
suit of the Baltimore convention seem
also to hew close to the line-judg-
ing by the present trend of events.
If champ Clark, the near President"
as he pleasantly styled himself in
conversation with me few days ago,
does not come in first under the line
good winner, l am badly out in my
view of the situation. Woodrow Will
son the Princeton professor, has big
following, especially among the COL
lege students and political amateurs,
but he has not the solid support of him
of the New Jersey delegation behind
him, and that fact almost invariably
counts for something in national
convention. He will, however, make
good account of himself when the
tallies are called OUT. So too, will
Oscar Underwood, the suaye and vi
rifle leader of the House majority.
Underwood will make the running
hard and difficult for all competitors,
and will be the main cause of Will
sons turn down. AS for Harmon and
Marshall, they are not formidable so
for as delegates are concerned. The
only dark horse of any ability to give
concern to the candidates is Mayor
Gaynor who has Tammany at his back
and it's astute leader, Charles F. Muir
ply, who knows more about manipu-
lating State delegations at national
and other political conventions than
the majority of the so-called leaders
from William Jennings Bryan up to
Alton Parker, and the latter is one
of the first to assert that when ques-
tion of leadership comes up he is not
to be considered even among the pop.
pins.
The Rooseveltian party, or as they
style themselves, the National Repub-
lican Progressives, do not appear to
md much if any, favor among the
old warehouses Of either the Democrat
ic, or the Republican party at the
National Capital. They recall the men
who, during the free silver craze,
bolted in 1896 at st. Louis, and speak
with reminiscent sadness of what be-
came of them, politically and other
wise. That Roosevelt and his adher-
ents, who have burned their bridges
behind them, will have a better fate,
not one of them believes within the
bounds of human possibility. They
laugh at the suggestion of one OF the
Roosevelt writer's brigade that ut
would not be fair to call the Roose-
welt convention bolt 1t was pro-
test, designed to make record and
yet leave every man untainted of &C.
tual disloyalty.
"Untainted of actual disloyalty,"
they eXclaim. Eyes, of the untainted
disloyalty of the soldier who answers
the roll call one minute and in the
next minute deserts to the enemy
The deserters from the Republican
national convention were sent there
to vote for either Taft or Roosevelt
1t was their well-known and widely
recognized duty to vote steadily and
Loyalty for the man of their choice,
and, if defeated to bow manfully and
honestly to the will of the majority
IS expressed by the votes on the roll
call. Teddy may experience the fate
of Horace Greedy when the latter led
the Liberal Republicans to inglorious
disaster, and then as now, he may
contend that the defeat was not
Roosevelts but that of the people be-
hind him. That was the way he talk
ed after he and his man Beveridge
were swamped in the Indiana flood;
that was the way he Dragged when
New York State wiped up the earth
with him and his chosen candidate
Stimson"
That projected international con-
gress on hygiene and demo-
graphy which is to be held in Wash
ington in September next, will cost
Uncle Sam a pretty penny, and in ad-
dition to his share, which is placed
at 100000, the common people" are
expected to furnish the remainder,
$4,000. That's a fairly comfortable
sum for a big health gathering: but,
the indications are that the common
folks will do their share generously.
for it is stated by the Department of
State that such men as Col. Higgin-
son, of Boston, Cyrus Mccormick, of
Chicago, Jacob Blumenthal, of New
York, Andrew Carnegie, of Shibo Cas-.
tie. and John D. Rockefeller, of most
anywhere. have broken into their
bank rolls and given $4,000 apiece;
so, too, has the Russell Sage Founda-
ton. Mrs. E. H. Hartman has con.
tributed $4,000, while Jacob Schiff, of
New York. and James H. Patten of
Chicago, have each donated $1,000,
and an anonymous donor adds piq-
uancy to the occasion by dis (or her)