The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-12
WOODROW WILSON WILL
WIN SWEEPING VICTORY
Speech Of Acceptance, Deliverance Of
Man Who Resorts to no Tantrums-
No One Sign of Discord in the Vast
Throng Which Attended Ceremonies.
(By Walter Cain.)
.Special to The NeloS.

Washington, D. c., Aug. 12.-The
preliminaries in the presidential con- |
test have now all been gone through |
and the race is on to a finish. 1t was
snappy affair the Bull Moose party
pulled off over in Chicago. Bever-
idge, who is sincere in his political
progressiveness, and one of the ma
tons most brilliant orators, made a
thrilling speech in accepting the chair
manship of the new party convention
and of course T. R. was right there
with the goods which he delivered in
characteristic STYLE Had he and
johnson been nominated on their plat
form by the convention, which steam
rollered Taft and Sherman into place,
Wilson and Marshall would have faced
situation far more perplexing and
harassing than now besets them. But
the blunder was made Taft has on
the garb of party regularity and Roose-
welt comes after the Baltimore con-
vention had given the country what
was wanted. However, there will be
no sparing of effort on the part of the
new organization to win support and
1t will likely secure for its nominees
more popular votes than the old liners
can muster. At that, it is somewhat
badly handicapped. Such men as
Beveridge, Jimmy Garfield, and Clifford
Pinchot give it tone and strength but,
when it comes to bosses, who is going
to insist that Bill Finn of Pennsyl-
vania has any stamp of respectability
that sets him high above Penrose or
that some of the others are any truer
to the code of political morality than
Elihu Root? And recurring to the lat
ter with whose services to his profess
sion and party dealt in my last let
ter, what guilt did Roosevelt ever find
ir him prior to his stand for Mr.. Taft?
Root was paragon Of untainted re-
spectability, all through the former
Presidents seven years in the White
House, holding highest posts of honor
and speaking on many occasions for
the administration of which he was a
distinguished part. When the then
powerful Roosevelt was looking about
him for successor, it is no open
secret that he very much wanted Root.
Shrewd in politics, however, he knew
that the voters would not stand for a
fragrant disregard of their wishes and
so he selected Taft instead. Yet Root
was then the same that he is today.
He has changed in none of his spots.
Behind him is the same long and very
ugly record. He was then the same
friend of bad interests that he has
been since he entered the Senate with
the Roosevelt Endorsement. AS the
champion of the Taft administration,
he is no worse than had he declared
for his former admirer, and the same
of Knox. Mr. Roosevelt recently con.
temptuously referred to the Secretary
of State as "Penrose's Cabinet Off.
GER" Yet Knox was in the Roosevelt
Cabinet and was then most lovingly
regarded. When he entered the Sen.
ate he was heartily congratulated by
Roosevelt and President Taft was later
as warmly congratulated upon extract
ing him from the Senate to make him
the Premier of the Cabinet. 1t looks
like there is lack of sincerity in the
bellowings of the antlered monarch oi
the political forest.
The new party's platform promises
many good things. 1t promises pretty
nearly everything that any man dis
satisfied with present conditions may
want by way of change or a remedy
And Teddy, with his hand upon his
heart, pledges himself and his immac
ulates to keep the covenant with the
people. 1t is difficult to figure a re
mote chance even for the third ticket
yet in many judgments 1t is the only
fighting factor in this years contes