The Washington times., 1912-05-24
CONSERVATIVES
NOW DESERVING
+ TAFT STANDARD
Little Group of Disappoint.
i. ed Insiders Willing to
- Wreck Party.
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ever means may be necessary. The de-
sertion of Crane had broken the faitli
of the extremists, and the weakening
or Penrose has accentuated their wor-
rtes There Is left, to urge this eX-
treme program, only the little element
OF extreme Tories who would rather
/ see the Republican party wrecked than
TO see Roosevelt nominated and elected.
This element is still going ahad in its
,enort to control the national commit
tee and pull off the big job.
Has Votes to Control
It's final decision will depend on two
things. If President Taft, after New
Jersey, is willing to be party to the
| program, and II a revised poll of the
! national committee justified hope that
1t can be controlled for such a purpose
then the plan will be pushed along, at
: least until utter collapse is made GER
tain.
The Roosevelt people are not worl ed
about such measures. They insist that
they have the votes to contI oil. and 1t is
the general belief of even those anti
Roosevelt men who are disposed to ac-
cept anything like an honest determin-
alton that this Is true. All uncertainty
about the Roosevelt control of the Ohio
! state convention is at an end, while
I the enthusiasm of Roosevelt's reception
In New Jersey is taken as tantamount
10 assurance that he will capture prac-
tically solid delegation. In that case.
the Roosevelt people say, the national
should go over to the Mckinley side
! and adopt his extreme tactics, to DOM
mate the Chicago gathering.
How President Taft managers to
prosecute" the trusts and still hold the
loyal support of their organizers and
officers, is again being illustrated in
New Jersey. as 1t was in Massachusetts.
In the Bay State the United Shoe Ma
Sidnew Winslow, perhaps the wealthiest
man in New England, supported Taft
with great ardor. Yet the United was
awaiting trial as a trust and the Of
ficers as conspirators therein!
The explanation commonly given was
= that combinations of this sort are
pleased to be prosecuted under the new
| procedure and precedents established in
cause the DEGREES of the court in those
I cases, accepted by the Administration
amounted to. legalizing of the COM
binations, vastly increased the value OF
| holdings in them. and did nobody ex-
! cept the public any good.
Barbour Taft Candidate.
The Shoe Machinery group is repre-
, sented in Jersey by William Barbour
! of Paterson, head of the Thread trust
and a director in the United Shoe
Paterson is under indictment, but is a
! Taft candidate for delegate from New
Jersey
Likewise, c. Edward Murray, of Tren
ton, candidate for delegate, is one O
the men who were indicted and tried II
connection with the wire pool, beins
convicted. he was let off with an insig
nificant fine by Judge Archbold, whom
Taft thereupon promoted to the Cour
! of Commerce, and who is now being in
vestigated by the House Judiciary Com
mittee for maintaining improper busi
mess relations with railroads that hac
cases in his court
Finally, Taft's campaign in Atlantic
City is in charge of Louis Kuehnle, fol
many years the boss of the town, re-
Gently indicted, convicted and sentenced
! to prison for contract graft. While ht
Is out under bond pending appeal
| Kuehnlc finds time to look after Taft't
political interests in his part of Jersey.
! Indication at the present stage of the
! Jersey campaign are that Colone
Roosevelt will make 1t pretty nearl!
unanimous. The ascending scale o.
Roosevelt victories went steadily or
| from Illinois to Ohio, and New Jersey
has been seized with an enthusiasm
which is suggested by the fact that las
! night the colonel addressed three meet
! ings of 10000 people each in the singl,
| city of Newark A noonday meeting
brought 5000 people in to an armory a