Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-09-16
INSPIRATION FOUND IN MAINE
Republican Turn Gives Encoure
ment to Taft Followers.
COLORADO STAYS BY PAlSs-
History of Third Party Movements is
Told in the Personnel OF Dis
grutled and Disappointed
Politicians.
BY CHARLES #. SCOTT.
Director OF the Western Literary Bureau

BY CHARLES #. SCOTT.
Director OF the Western Literary Bureau
Republican National Committee
CHICAGO, Sept. 14.-(Special) )-"As
Maine goes, 50 goes the Union"
II the old adage holds good this year.
the election in November will be a
sweeping republican victory.
For there is no doubt that Maine has
gone republican The state which gave
James G. Blaine, Thomas B. Reed. Nell
son Dingley and other great republican
leaders to the nation has returned 10 the
republican column. The victory was
both decisive and significant. Two years
ago Maine elected a democratic COVER
nor by plurality of nearly 5000. This
year, with the governor seeking re-elec-
ton, Maine elected republican COVER
nor by a plurality Of between 5000 and
1000. This, too, despite of the fact that
the third termers obeyed instructions
| and voted for the democratic ticket in
order to defeat the republican candidate,
If possible, and thus give Mr.. Roose-
velt an opportunity to do some more
shouting.
Turning from Democrats.
The result of the Maine election has
given inspiration and courage to the Taft
organization throughout the middle west.
1t is evident that the trend toward democ-
racy has been checked. Two years
ago the democrats swept the country,
but since that time two important facts
have developed. The first is that the
democrats are determined to force their
free trade policy upon the country. The
tariff bills which they favored in the
house indicated what the country might
expect and the outlook does not please
the people. In the second place, the
long, fruitless and expensive session Of
congress has given the country an OBJ
ject lesson Of democratic incompetency
and incapacity In government. Above
all, as election day approaches. farm
ers, workingmen, business men and peo-
Pile In all walks Of life are coming more
and more to realize that a democratic
administration will certainly plunge the
country into the depths Of despair ex-
perienced between 1892 and 1898. Nobody
wants blight to fall upon the pros
perity which now spreads it's happiness
over the land and that such blight
would come With democratic victory Is
only to say that history repeats itself.
Colorado's Answer.
Second only to the significance of the
Maine returns is the result Of the Colo
RADIO primary, where the regular re-
publicans show d long lead over the
followers OF the Bull Moose 1t may
be remembered that when Colorado sent
a solid delegation for Taft to the ma
tionaf convention last spring, Colonel
Roosevelt cried out with loud voice
that the state had been stolen from him
by machine methods and that a state
wide primary would have shown an en-
tirely different result The statewide
primary has now been held and the re-
suit is the same. It is perfectly ap-
parent that the Centennial state is not
yet ready to throw the republican party
into the discard.
Third Party Bosses.
Those who are familiar with the poll
tical history of the past half century will
remember that it has been the evil fate
Of every third party movement to at
tract to itself, on the one hand, the
broken-down bosses and disappointed
outcasts from other parties, and on the
other hand, the sky-scraping reform
ers" of so radical and extreme type
as to be wholly impracticable. That
the new third party is not to escape the
bane of its predecessors Is already be-
coming apparent. Not only is 1t suf-
fering from the attachment Of the Bill
Flynn type of EXPOSES, but in Illinois
at least the organization has fallen into
the hands Of extremists who are driving
away from 1t the sincere. but level
headed advocates Of reform.
The most notable detection here In
Chicago Is that Of Mr.. Ralph c., Otis,
representative business man Of the city,
who was the head and front Of the
Roosevelt movement in its earlier stages.
He was president OF the original Roose-
welt league, chairman Of the third term
party's national convention committee,
and one of the most liberal contributors
to the campaign fund There was con-
sternation in the new party camp there
fore when he announced the other day
that he wodld no longer be identified
with the movement. IT am through"
declared Mr.. Otis. 1--WE started out on
conservative lines and were accomplish
ing lot Of good. But now the radi-
calls and impracticals have taken over