Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-21
POLITICS DAY BY DAY

Ill VIII ! NV II.
After all the fuss and feathers and OPP
| position of the Changers to Canadian
reciprocity it remained for Past Grand
Master Bachelor of the National Grange
to introduce President Taft at Concord,
n. H., Tuesday.
| And he referred to President Taft as
| the greatest American CITIZEN
Representative Bartholdt of Missouri,
who returned from st. Louis yesterday,
| said:
! In my best Judgment President Taft
will get two-thirds of the delegates from
| the sixteen districts and also the four
delegates at large. Every one in ST.
Louis tells me that the President is max
ing friends daily, as the truth concern
ing the opposition to his denomination
sits throughout the state and as the
people begin to appreciate what Roose-
welt stands for.
Republicans who are such by sincere
conviction feel that the nomination of
Roosevelt for a third term would mean
the practical humiliation of the republic
can party. In view of what the party
has accomplished in the history of the
country. having champ:oned all the great
valuable measures of recent years and
being justified in claiming credit for the
progress made in that period, there is
no reason why it's members should turn
to new idols. That seems now to be the
sentiment not only of the business men
of my state, but also OF the people gen.
orally.
..There was undoubtedly considerable
dissatisfaction with President Taft among
the farmers on account of reciprocity,
but since they have learned that ROose-
welt advocated the reciprocity pact as
strongly as did Taft, and as they become
more familiar with the achievements OF
the Taft administration, they are de-
claring their adherence to the President
and to the old party in constantly IN
creaSing numbers.
A statement given out at Taft head
quarters last night says of the Missouri
situation:
There is no state in the great middle
west where the Roosevelt leaders have
been making more confident claims OF
sweeping success than in Missouri. Their
optimism with respect to the result in
this commonwealth of the selection of
delegates to the Chicago national con-
vention appears to be based on the fol-
lowing:
First That Gov Hadley, Missouri's
first republican governor in forty years,
who commands. considerable strength for
this reason, ifv for no other. has been
WOrklnS openly anu NISOIOuSlS " SCCuiC
Roosevelt delegates, and has thrown the
weight of his personal influence and the
power of the state machine into the con-
f1ict.
Second. That the state has been
blanketed by literature from the various
Roosevelt headquarters opposing the re-
nomination of President Taft and severe
~ criticising him for his advocacy OF
Canadian reciprocity. while naturally
emitting all mention of the fact that Col.
PnnSay-p1t &c y, record with unUuallned
Endorsement of the reciprocity pact, and
of the Presidents efforts in its hebelf.
Third. That poStmaSterS and other
federal officeholders appointed by Presi-
dent Taft are observing the letter and
spirit of the strict order of some months
ago warning them against political &C
tivity, and are taking no part in the
spirited contests in the various districts,
while such as are holdovers from the
Roosevelt regime are openly and avowed-
ly working in the interest of third
term for the former President
Jacob Gould Schurman. president of
Cornell University. has written an arti-
Gle in a current magazine on the repub-
lican presidential nomination which is
being circulated by the Taft bureau. In
the course of the article DR.. Schurman
said:
THE country had not recovered from
the shock of the radical program of new
nationalism' when Mr.. Roosevelt launched
a still more radical proposal The history
of civilization shows that when the courts
are subordinated to the sovereign
whether the sovereign be monarch or
the people in their entirety-justice dis
appears from states and the rights OF
individuals and minOrities are trampled
under foot. The independence Of the jul
dietary is the first principle of free gov
eminent. Mr.. Roosevelt now proposes
to have court decisions reversed by pop
Nj not v-sn6 1fcx1
it is revolutionary radicalism. And it has
given a painful shock to millions of citi-
Zens and alienated hosts of republicans
who formerly voted for Mr.. Roosevelt.
The meaning and consequences of this
| proposal. which is at once revolutionary
and reactionary, have been admirably
discussed by President Taft in his re-
| cent speech at Toledo-a speech that
covers the whole ground with great abil-
| ity. with Irresistible, convincing power
| and with unusual fervor and animation.
1t is safe to say that if anything else
had been needed to secure President
Taft's denomination for the presidency it
has been furnished by Mr.. Roosevelt's
attack on the independence of the jul
dietary"
| At Bristol Va, yesterday the democrats
| of the ninth district nominated Gen.
Rufus A. Ayers of Big Stone Gap for
| Congress to oppose Representative Slemp
Adams county, the first county in Col
orado to select delegates to the demo-
cratic state convention, yesterday chose
| fourteen Champ Clark men.
Conventions, primaries and caucuSes SO
| far held in Iowa give Taft 80 delegates
| in the state convention; Cummins 1871,
| and Roosevelt, "A. AS there are 1.4S1 del
egates in the state convention, this means
| that President Taft has 1924 per cent of
| the total delegation of 30 per cent of the
necessary number to control
Taft won two delegates yesterday in the
| first Iowa district, giving him eight ma
tional delegates in Iowa to Cummins' two.
| Col Roosevelt's itinerary for his west
ern trip has been partially arranged as
| follows:
Tuesday, March &c, leave New York, 5
pm.
Wednesday, March q. arrive at Chica-
go, pm. Leave Chicago IL AS pm.
| Thursday, March %, arrive St. Louis,