The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-22

Instead of this he sank back Into petty angers and resentments, and instead of hating those who had deceived him. showered all his hate on those responsible for the expos ures It was not the treacheries and Corruptions that he resented, but the turmoil and ferment that follow ed their unCovering. So far from quitting the associations responsible for his loss of public esteem, he clung closer to them in an effort to prove that those who attacked him were in error and in false hood.
 At the present moment, his can didacy is entirely in the hands of Senator Murray Crane, Congress man w. B. Mckinley, Senator Bois Penrose. William Barnes. Jr., and Senator Reed Shoot Crane is a paper manufacturer. a heavy stock holder in all the New England pub Fe utility corporations. and perhaps the largest. individual stockholder in the American Telephone and Tel egraph company, of which J. P. Morgan is the banker. Mckinley is a multimillionaire owner of inter- urban lines in Illinois, and, politi Cally. is eX-Speaker Cannons other self Senator Penrose is the sue cessor of Boss Quay, in Pennsyl- vania. and his outrageous corrup tions have made independent voters out of the rock-ribbed Republicans of the Keystone state. Barnes is un- speakable. and as for Senator Shoot he is openly and notoriously the pol itical agent of the Mormon church. that organization which has been we'll termed half religion and half a trust"
 So entirely has MT. Taft. in his rage, committed his candidacy to these men that he has evidently al lowed them full latitude. and is al Under no other supposition can the dishonorable and discretitable ac tions of the National committee in Chicago be explained Without re gard for the common decencies these men have set aside the will of the Republican voters in many states, and practically appointed delegates committed to them and opposed to the people
 This Republican National commit tee has come to be spoken of ar the suicide club" and so it would seem. All signs point to the be lief that the enraged and humiliated Taft. backed by discredited reac down to defeat himself if only he may drag Roosevelt and the Progress sives down with him.
 There is talk that at the last mo- ment both Taft and Roosevelt will be put aside, and some compromise candidate named like Justice Hughes This is too stupid to be given cred ence, for surely the Taft leaders do not imagine that Roosevelt and the Progressives will fail to regard such action as an added insult and added treachery.
 Rather would it appear that they mean to nominate Taft willy-nilly, force a Roosevelt bolt, and drag the hated ex-presldent down in the gen eral disaster of Republicanism. This is given strength by the skillful and concerted effort now being made to capture the Democratic convention so that the inevitable victor will be a man agreeable to the forces now backing Taft. Harmon, Un- derwood and Clark are being push ed forward in every possible man. ner, and each day sees more desper- ate attack upon Governor Woodrow Wilson, who, outside of Bryan, is the one Democrat the Interests fear,
 Be that as it may, Republicanism seems to be doomed to the tragic dissolution that befell the Demo- cratic party in 1860. Taft's nomin- ation means Roosevelt bolt, and Roosevelt's nomination means Taft bolt. and the nomination of dark horse" means an increase in the general dissatisfaction that now pre- sages Democratic victory.
 As to the outcome's effect upon MT. Taft and Mir Roosevelt, no guess can be hazzarded as to the latter. His spectacular resurrections dis courage prophecy. AS to MT. Taft, however, he will retire to private l life an embittered, discredited man, for he is entirely without the Roosevelt resiliency anl indomitable self-confidence.
 There is pathos in such finish, for, after all, the humiliation that has come to him was through no de ceit of his own, but through the blind folly of Theodore Roosevelt himself. Had he been left to his own devices and desires, he would have cuddled up In some high judi cial position, lived happy and died