Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-04-13
TAFT CAMPAIGN
ON The VERGE
OF COLLAPSE
Reactionary Leaders Now Ad-
init He Could Not Be
Elected II Nominated.
NEW YORK sun TELLS TRUTH

IN q Carefully Prepared ArtieIs This
Representative Of the interests That
Are Supporting Taft Frankly De-
'cIsrss That His denomination Means
Defeat In the November Election.
The Secret Scheme Uncovered.
That President Taft cannot be elect
ed IL nominated is conceded by the
New York Sun in a carefully prepared
article published Sunday, March 81,
aud sent by the Sun for simultaneous
publication In all the newspapers
throughout the country which sub
scribe to the Sun news service.
The undeniable importance OF this
statement by the Sum is due TO the
Suns attitude OF opposition to alb pro-
gressiyes and to Theodore Roosevelt
IN particular, as we'll as to the recogni-
ton given it as a representative and
spokesman of the great business in
terests which center In New York and
of the political organization in New
York. which recently manipulated the
fraudulent and farcisai primaries held
In the state
1t adds to- the Significance OF the
Suns statement that its article, al
though ostensibly the result Of careful
investigation, was withheld untn aft
er the organization bosses had put
through the fraudulent primary cleo
ton Of delegates, in which they care
ExxIt inc tcfS oil
gle one OF the men they claim TO have
elected for Taft.
The investigation upon which the
article is based had been, completed
and the article actually prepared be-
fore the primaries were held, showing
apparently that at the time the New
York bosses were engaged in sitting
public sentiment I'm order to- prevent
the election of Roosevelt Delegates
there was what the Sun declares 10 be
a general agreement among the neac-
tionary political leaders that Mr.
Taft's candidacy had beconae a virtuaf
impossibility.
1t Is now appareEk that the sole pur-
pose of the machine bosses and the
special privilege interests to whom
Mr. Taft is locking for denomination
have abandoned all idea of supporting
him. and that their only purpose Is to
prevent the nomination of Roosevelt.
so that compromise candidate favor
able. to the special privilege interests
and in harmony with machine Dur
poses may be selected at Chicago.
Although still friendly to- Taft, the
Sun: declares that the time has arrived
when the possibility of elecing oan-
didate has become q "subject for seri-
Gus consideration on the part of Re
pubiicans who believe their party to be
of vastly more Importance than any
man in il, no matter how exaltecis his
station, and who place party loyalty
abows personal feaity. These Repub-
licans declare that they will take, any
reasonable step which would seem to
insure their party,s victory, at the, pals
in November next.
1.-The Republicans who expressed
these views" the Sun says. "are be-
LEVERS in season and out of season in
the policies of their party. Among
this class of Republicans are mer-
chants. importers. business men gen
orally and professional men and the
rank and file of small Republican
shopkeepers and workingmen"
The Sun then says:
"Several n,Snths ago influential Re
puhIicans. some of then, very close to
President TAFT, declared beneath their
breath that the president il reaonai-
mated could not be ra-elected. While
expressing this opinion they hadn't the
rernotest shadow of a doubk that the
president. through the power of fed
eral patronage. cGul0 force his OWN re-
nomination"
Among the reasons given by the Sun
why President Taft cannot be re-elect-
ed the ayne-Aldrich law is cited as of
greatest Importance. Respecting this
the Sun says:
THE Republican national platform of
| 1908 called for an immediate extraor-
binary session OF congress in the evena
| of Taet's election to revise the tariff.
! In obedience TO his party's platform
| President Taft called the extraordinary
! session of congress, which produced
| the Aldrich-P Payne law, and the pfesi-
dents troubles. and his party's compli-
cations have grown and become more
| entangled from the day he signed that
law. That law gave the progressives
substantial footing for their opposition
10 the Taft administration and afford
ed them grounds to go before the peo-
pie on the question. In addition there
have been a myriad other troublesome
complications, all intended 10 weaken
the president and to bring about bitter
diseord in the rauks OF his party.
'It has been this discord, these com
plications. that have led Republicans
entirely friendly to the president to de-
clare that while he could force his owr
denomination. il was exeeedln9l,
doubtful if he could be reelected"
The Sun adds:
with the assembling of congress IN
Washington in December last the dec
larations that the president could mo-
be re elected il renominated took on 1
,uors annhatic tone"