Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1912-05-02
Massachusetts Republicans, Not
In Big Roosevelt Wins In
West, OeFide Standpd-
tiers Who Insist On
Party Suicide.
COLONEL HAILED As
INDUSTRIAL NOSES"
Lawrence Strike Makes vjters
Think, Also Sur On pennsy|Va.
mia Victory Rank and File
In Victorious Line.

Boston. 49, Whatever the so called
Taft sentiment" might have been ten
days ago. today it is all for Roosevelt.
The conservatives In the Republican
ranks educators, lawyers, business
men, farmers. operatives, the backbone
Of New England the first to heal
the note sounded by Illinois and Penn
sylvania. then taken up by Nebraska
and Oregon, and today rock ribbed New
England Is in line for the one leader
that can lead not alone the party, but
ali the people, TO victory. The third
term" cry is today too weak to echo
1t is lost in the same ridicule that
meets Congressman Gardeners uncon
sciously humorous demand that the
colonel meet him in Joint debate
The colonel has shown so strongly as
THE man. THE leader. that all class.
es of Republican voters. assured until
now that Taft alone could win. turn
toward the misinformers and smilingly
utter Miss0uri'S unwritten motto.
or the incidental happenings that
have kindied Roosevelt sentiment to
enthusiasm none has been stronger
than the Sneering comment OF BOs'
ton newspaper that the Roosevelt vic
tory In PENNSYLVANIA was "a triumph
for professional reformers and the coal
miners" This awakened indignation
among the workers, the rank and file
of the party. who are always keenest
to detect the popular trend. The Penn.
sylvania workers knew what they
wanted and voted accordingly. Those
Of Massachusetts will do likewise on
Tuesday, April 30.
The Real Progressive.
In no state more than in Massachu-
sets have the silent voters had more
striking cause for real deliberation on
the presidential issue. and the leading
element I'm this cause has been the
spectacular Lawrence strike. What
ever individual circumstances Went to
make up that calamity, the fact re.
mains that the strike itself proved the
existence Of an industrial unrest that
could mean only one thing-namely,
that the people were dissatisfied and
demanded and would bring about II
change. Would they re-elect President
Taft: How could they re-elect him
when the demand for Il change was 50
obvious? Would they elect Demo
cratic president? Perhaps since there
must be change. But when has the
election Of a Democratic president ever
meant anything but industrial disas'
ter? Who then, was the real progress.
sive, the man Of vigor-an initiative
and a referendum in himself-the man
Of deeds, to whom all the people could
look for leadership out Of an industrial
Wilderness!
Tho Workinsmsn Answered.
The Massachusetts workingmen ask
ed this question. The candidacy VI
Theodore Roosevelt answered II i'm
mediatey. But Massachusetts, one Of
the Oldest OF states and perhaps the
most conservative, pauses to breathe
before II begins to shout, and i'll the
interim its own child, Maine, declared
with emphasis for Roosevelt-Maine
in which the need Of strong, mag
netic leader was not half so immedi-
ate as in Massachusetts. Nor was
Massachusetts deaf to the shouts OF
Illinois and Pennsylvania. In its CON
servatism perhaps the Bay State was
a little surprised at the magnitude OF
the Roosevelt victories in the west.
but they were the spoken reflections
of its own opinion rather than argu-
ments for falling into line of which
Massachusetts was already part.
All For Roosevelt.
The clamererS alone-the standpat
ting machine. backed by an almost
unanimous party press-did the prema
ture shouting. invoked the obviously
sacred name Of precedent as argu-
ment in favor Of party suicide The 81
lent voters were silent still, waiting for
the echo Of their own thoughts. They
beard 1t. not from one quarter. but
from many. and perhaps no more i'm
pressively than from the Connecticut
convention, In which the name OF Taft
was heard in silence, while that OF
Roosevelt called forth cheers that
were more than significant