The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-10-10

he had elected - his successor In tno
White House. What tho Progressive
party hopes to get from this peerless
publicity agent is permanent founda-
tion. With this in their possession.
Colonel Roosevelt. 10 TO be thrown into
| the discards. and real deliverer from
all the Ills that we are heir to Sc
lected In 1911 to lead the new party
into the promised land. While we
would not take issue with the Pro-
, eressives in their estimate OF Colonei
Roosevelt's qualifications as "A publicity
expert. we are inclined to believe that
they have made tactical mistake. if
the third-termer succeeds in floating
the cause Of economic and social jus
tice," according to all pase signs. when
the shareholders meet he will have
not only the underwriting commissions
but a majority of the stock. and the
Bull Moose party. il it be promoted at
all. will. i'm reality, be Theodore
Roosevelt Unlimited" Otherwise. it
will pass into political oblivion.
At any rate, il has been very an
noying to President Taft. The Pro-
sressivcs placed a cruel handicap upon
him when they started the third-termer
upon the road as their publicity agent.
Nature has not endowed the President
with those physical characteristics
which appear to advantage in politi-
cal cartoon. Neither is 1t possible for
him to ride a Western broncho. climb
into the cab of the locomotive engineer
and run his train. put on the gloves
with the elite of the prize ring. or en-
gage in similar diversions which are
the necessary condition to column
reading notice in the daily press. The
best that President Taft can do alons
this line is to make himself conspi-
cuous at the ball games. And SO. to
offset the Progressive publicity game
the Republican managers have found
it necessary to purchase full pages
Of advertising in some Of our leading
periodicals The former secretary to
the President, and now the manager
Of his campaign. together with
former member OF the Presidents
Tariff Board. who abandoned his nom
partisan and scientific study Of cost OF
production at home and abroad to be-
come secretary Of the Republican Ma
tional Committee. are the clever ad-
vertisins agents OF the administra-
tion. By heavy-leaded type and bold
headlines in our magazine advertising
sections they are having heart to heart
talks with the voters. They feel sure
that no one believes that there was
a steam roller at the first Chicago con-
vention and they know that the reader
will spurn the insulting statement that
any delegates were stolen or improp-
erly secured. II the voter is at all
doubtful about these points, he is told
that the Republican committee Will
send him a pamphlet which Will ex-
plain away all his misgivings. And
then the artful advertisers warn us
to beware Of doing away with pros
peri,y by voting against President
Taft. It seems that the fertility OF
the soil and its yield per acre, favor
able rainfall and the increase In the
number Of cattle upon. our ranges. as
we'll as the traffic upon our railroads.
and the output OF our mills and rae
tories, arc directly. dependent upon
whether or not President Taft obtains
a majority Of the electoral votes In
It also appears that the
Republican party must have yielded
to the temptation Of large campaign
contributions in their attitude towards
banking and currency questions In 1870
and 1900, for we now read from their
extensive Advertisements a contraoic-
ton Of their past record in the state
ment that the advance in prices and
cost OF living have not been due 10
that sacred Republican institution, the
protective tariff. but to an increase In
the worlds supply Of gold. After this
deliverance there is usually para
xraph or two OF archaic and worn
out buncombe relative TO the Wilson
tariff law and the panic Of 1893. The
remainder OF the advertising talk IS
then as a rule devoted to a minute eS-
position Of some OF the before-un-
known blessings Of President Ta'ts
administration
Blu. the Republican pamphleteers
have woefully underestimate the
common sense Of the American voter
Wilson's election will not guarantee
good crops. bu. It certainly will not
produce a panic or take one cent out
OF the pockets already emptied by
Republican tariff. And II the Dem
ocrats only keep up a vigorous cam
psign both the Republican and Pro-
sressives will be beaten. VIII the Dem
ocra;s keep ID. That is the question
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