Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-28
WAKELEE SCENTS
BULL MOOSE FAKE
Republican Chairman Resents
Reiterated Claim "Taft Can't
Be Reelected"
LIE REPEATED TAKES ON
SEMBLANCE OF TRUTH
Declares chicanery and I'M
posture Permeate Tactics
of Roosevelt Men.

Somewhat incensed by the state
ment of the adherents of the third
party that Taft cannot be reelecte-
d." Edmund w. Wakelee, chairman
of the State Republican Committee,
in an interview today charges that
the Bull Moose party from it's in
ception has been ~permeated with
chicanery and imposture. The sin
certify of the Roosevelt followers
may be gagged. he says, from the
statements made by them prior to
the Chicago convention, which they
sen broadcast. claiming a majority
of the delegates.
He likens the present state of af-
fairs to those of the campaign 81
1904. when predictions were made
everywhere that Roosevelt could not
be returned to the White House
Concluding. he says hat the Repub
lican reliance in this, as 1t has been
In every other election, is on the
thinking people of the country.
Lies Repeated Plausible.
when a statement whose falsits
is apparent on its first utterance Is
repeated a sufficient number OF
times" continued MIR. Wakele. 1T
takes on an air of FEASIBILITY, and
through familiarity comes TO be ac-
cepted as true by incident thinkers.
Fol- this reason it seems adviSabl,
to refer to the statment so frequent
ly repeated by the s~elf-styled Pro-
eressives tina Taft cannot be re-
elected. At best this could only be
a guess. think it is a wild one.
I'm 1904. at the stage of that cam
paign that corresponds to the pres
emit. all the Democratic papers anu
orators We're confident, that Roose-
Welt could not be returned to the
White House, At q similar stage in
the 1908 campaign Bryan, according
TO himself and his friends, had Taft
beaten to a ~frazzGe. Bryan al then
making a wonderful campaign, fillec
with magnetic. forcible talks. quit
unlike the milk and water outpour-
ings of Wilson. Great crowds as
sembled everywhere to listen to his
imprisoned e%loquence. They were
friendly. too, and many Of them
Sttiiith w bV " OQN tiptti NtNN'
for Taft to give him a plurality Of
over 4 million and a quarter.
Questions Their sincerity.
$50 far as the sincerity of the third
party assertion is concerned, that
may be gagged by the fact hat they
repeated over and over before the
Chicago convention ahat they had a
majority of the delegates. After the
convention Frank A. Munsey and
other Roosevelt lieutenants unDlush-
ing1y admitted that they had faxed
up a lot of claims to seats in the
convention in order to try and bluff
their candidate through. From its
inception the Progressive party has
been permeated with chicanery and
imposture.
1T must be remembered also that
the Roosevelt movement must differ
In it's result on party fortunes from
the Mugwump detection of 8 s and
1892. In those years every vote lost
to the Republican candidates was
added to the Democratic candidates,
counted two IN the fnal tally. A
Republican who votes for Roosevelt
this year costs the party but one
vote. on the other hand, there is no
doubt hat Roosevelt win have the
Populist vote, which has always gone
to Bryan. This will take more than
100, 900 votes from Wilson, and prob
ably more than offset the loss of in
surgent Republican votes.
In this election, as in others. the
Republican reliance is on the think
- AA@ - Nla try. r-bA ly,aa ~
that public affairs are best conducted
by Republicans and that President
Taft has been the most successful adj
ministrator the country has ever
had.