The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-09-13
|FOOLING THE
TAFT MEN
Fine Demonstration in Maine
Election
HAINES WOULD BE ALL RIGHT
Was Promised-New Triumph For Prac-
teal Bull Moose--Valentine VAL
liable Man for the Third
Termers.
HAINES WOULD BE ALL RIGHT

New York, Sept. l3.-When it comes
to politics, the armies at Armageddor
battling for the Lord can say with thu
late f. H. Hartman and the very mucl
alive Theodore Roosevelt: eve are prac
teal men, The detection of the new
~ elected governor of Maine to the Bull
indirect but regarded as none the less
reliable reached the managers of Presi
dent Taft's campaign that Haines would
be "all right once the election was
over; for this reason the Taft people
consented not to insist upon the intro
duction of national issues in the Maine
campaign, believing that Republican
victory in Maine would be followed by
general declaration on the part of the
successful candidates of their determine
ton to support the Republican nation.
al ticket. The party leaders in Maine
urged this course upon Chairman Hilles
the reason given being thereby to get
the vote of the third term followers for
their state officers
President Taft promptly sent a cor
dial telegram eongratulating the new
governor upon the victory in redeem
ing" the state, adding the remark that
it was significant" victory. Now
comes Colonel Roosevelt in a speech at
Tacoma, declaring that he had assur-
ances long ago from Mr.. Haines that
Haines was for the third term candidate
but preferred not to declare himself UNI
til after the election. The obvious pur-
pose was to enable the third party to
get full control of the machinery of thu
Maine state government, placing the en-
tire patronage of the state at their dis
posal The scheme has worked well
and only the Republican managers of
the national campaign appear to have
been hoodwinked. 1t is to date as ''prac-
teal" piece of politics as has been seen
in this campaign but the declaration OF
the governor for Roosevelt is hailed by
the third-termers as a great victory for
"human Justice Friends of President
Taft continue to express the wish that
his own campaign would take a more
practical turn that would save him from
the humiliating experience of telegraph
ing congratulation to a governor who
is at the time preparing to declare his
remuneration of the Republican party.
Equally practical and to the point is
the court which the Roosevelt adherents
in the government service appear to be
following. Instead of resigning in a
bunch Immediately after the Chicago
convention in June as they We're inclined
to do, the story goes that they were adj
vised to 90 about it deliberately. thus
stringng out their designations over II
considerable period. In this way it is
hoped to have sensation every week
from now until election day, unless his
managers prevail upon President Taft
to anticipate a few of these designations
by requests that they be made immedi-
ately
Back OF the resignation of Robert G.
Valentine as commissioner of Indian af-
fairs is an interesting story. In getting
Valentine. the Bull Moose are to be con-
graduated on obtaining the assistance
of government official who has made
an excellent record; he has during his
of the Indian office prae-
tically completed the work of Francis
F. Leupp in divorcing that office from
politics and has introduced many re-
forms in the service of his own devils
inc