The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-14
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pretty comfortable, thank you, for the international banker.
 Ray Stannard Baker, progressive e and radical. in his article in the American Magazine this month, sizes up the Colonel like the banker in saying: As for Roosevelt, he be- lieves in trusting the people. provided he is around to tell them what to do"
 Why do the 'big interests, so many of them at least, at heart pre- dent? A Pittsburgh correspondent of the Saturday financial supplement of the New York Evening Post says: "In view of the expressed opinions of Colonel Roosevelt on the antitrust suits in general, it-Mould surprise mo- body in the steel trade here if the suit (against the Steel trust) were dropped immediately after the first court decision, provided it were against the government and also pro- vided the former president were. to be the next executive" There you have it. Both the Steel and liar vester trust people desire Roosevelt's the life of those monopolistic combin- ations. He saved them before; they cling to their savior now.
 why Wall street leans toward Roosevelt" is the headline of a dis patch from the Washington corres- pOnO0nC OI IH0 NeW IOIh JOuIudI of Commerce. Why, indeed! be- cause. Taft got out an injunction against the proposed advance in rail- road rates two years ago, because Taft has prosecuted the trusts as no President ever did before,.. because Taft dealt blow at "the Money trust" by forcing. the separation of York from it's subsidiary, the Nation al City Company. Taft's bite is worse than his bark.
 Why does Wall street begin to look more favorably on Roosevelt than upon any Democrat? Because Wall street has learned that Roosevelt pro- Steel Trust and remains just as ''prac- ticaf' as when he got Hartman to raise his campaign money. A Den1- ocrat might be like Taft and have a. bite worse than his bark. Roose- fleets Wall street, sizing up it's chan ces.
 No one need have the slightest doubt that, with Roosevelt safely nom mated at Chicago, the George w. Perkins following in Wall street will suddenly become a great, powerful and enthusiastic body of Teddy shout CTS. The money to compass his cleo tion will be subscribed even more lib- orally than was the money to com pass his nomination. Wall street wants the radicals controlled" checked, thwarted. It knows the man for the job.
 The mockery of it all! Roosevelt has not swept the primary states" because he is a radical. Everyone realizes that La Toilette or Cummfns could not have boiled the primary vote the Colonel has against Taft, but they are the truer radicals by far. They would trust the people, even if they were not around to direct them what to do. Why did many radicals, so-called, desert La Toilette? As MT. Baker says in his article: They deserted La Toilette and went over to Roosevelt, not because they believ- ed him to be more nearly right, but because they thought he was the only man who could win against Taft. And winning, with the ordinary political leader. is the primary requirement." What are principles compared with winner?
 Wall street is not without fairly clear vision, because it's business is to see clearly the tendencies of the time and to estimate public men correct ly. When the test comes, Mir. Roose- welt never lacks Wall street support. For the true, sincere radicals who flock to his standard are to be con trolled," kept out of mischief, smoth- cred in the Rooseveltian urn of in- cense. What a prospect and what fate!-Springfield Republican.