The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-18
Ebert Hubbard Talks
of Cash at Convention
incidentally He Expresses the Opinion
That Taft Will Be Nominated
on the First Ballot.

lawyer equal TO nundrcd-ooIl5r Dill.
Excepting two one hundred dollar
bills added John Parsons.
And DR.. Depew accepted the amend
mept.
Many men around the Congress hotal
now have hundred dollar bills who new
ct had them before.
These men may be pledged for either
this candidate or that. but the question
that agitatcs the impalpable ether is,
"Will they STAY put?'
Monarchy in Disguise.
Many Of the Taft delegates were ap-
pointed TO office by Theodore Roose'
welt.
And they are now being plainly told
that if Theodore Roosevelt is again
elected they will hold their positions
for life.
And that brings us UP to phase of
talk which we now hear expressed,
calmly and without apology-not loud
ly, nor with bullying bravado-but
quietly, simply aud as a matter Of
course. And that is this: If you have
good general manager Of your fac
tory, you don I turn him out at the
end of every four years and put In a
new man. Neither do You disturb your
entire business organization by bring
ployecs and consumers OF your goods
to vote on the question.
If the man is doing good service for
you as a superintendent, you keep him
indefinitely.
Why tear the country up every four
years with all this needless row and
expense and diversion of business from
Its proper and legitimate channels?
These conventions throw the country
into a semi-panic.
When we get good man, why not
keep him?
Three terms? Certainly. Three
terms Of six years each.
Every man should hold his job dur
ing good behavior, subject to the re-
call of course. Oh, yes, VIC believe in
the recall-during good behavior, but
subject to the recall.
Let the people rule-surel
Your Uncle Trusty.
So there we get new kind of talk,
and we see how the old ideas of Ben
iamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson
are being construed, SIN the light of
reason
| have Just spent an hour each IN
the La Sale, the Hotel Sherman, the
Blackstone and the Congress. Then
went over and spent an hour In the
lobby of the Coliseum
While most wise men-or fairly so
decline to make a prophecy, ] will
hazard one, and that is that President
Taft will get the nomination on the
first ballot.
But before the ballot comes there
will be a hard fight and scramble bv
the Roosevelt forces, with much
gaseous threat, eXpletlve, inyectlve and
volleys Of caloric. But let us all re-
member that threatened men live long.
And while Chicago is full of gun
men. and detectives could secure an
automobile load Of shooting irons in
the lobby Of the Congress hotel, yet
there will be no violence,
:'De chief he has came But his
coming has not changed the political
atmosphere,
The blizzard was only windstorm.
Who's to Blame.
The blame for the Roosevelt defeat
is being put on the men who manned
the stcamrollcr.
st is defeat with honor said one
Roosevelt man to me in confidence.
'We will be defeated here, but Taft
Will be defeated at the polls. There
will be four years of Democratic dem.
agoguery; then Roosevelt will come
back. welcomed by the entire couu-
try
"And when he comes back and occu,
pies the presidential chair, we will
never get him out, - T ventured, as a
fecler.
"Wcu, what Of it?' was the answer
Wouldn't that be better than this
see-saw, hammer and tongs business
every four Years9 Wasn't Mexico hap.
pier under Diaz than she now is?"
And / begged for time to think il
over,