The Washington times., 1912-04-09
BARNES BLOCKS
INSTRUCTIONS FOR
PRESIDENT TAFT
Tells Root Administration
Can Have Strongest In
dorsement, However.
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President Taft and Vice President
Sherman, urging instructions for tho
delegates-at-large, no one mas seen
ingyabout them.
E"If Taft and Sherman have actually
written such letters he said, Il
Should consider 1t indiscreet, inasmuch
as they are candidates. IL they have
written such letters, they don't know
how to- play their games"
Senator Root fatty denied he had such
letters. The story was put out in a
desperate effort to drive Barnes to
surrender to the Federal crowd.
fresolutions instructing for Taft are
Comptroller Prendergast is to shy
Roosevelts hat In the ring and tell
the convention and its bosses that Tai.
can't be elected. His speech will pre-.
and his policies by spokesmen for Taft
Joe Cannon Would Help.
When Prendergast heard of the al
legged Taft and Sherman letters. he
said: "All that is needed now is for
Joe Cannon TO pronounce the bene-
diction." "r
The fight over instructons will come
in the committee on resolutions. when
it meats this afternoon or tonight.
The Presidential crowd Eeys it has
Barnes on the run, that he Las already
wavereJ TO the extent of having CON-
scented to the uss of The word 'advise"
In indie ating the wish of the convention
Hs to the position to be assumed by
the big four at. Chicago. and that
y Is only 2 question OF hours before
dered 10 the Washington steam roller.
1T will be a bitter pill for Barnes
TO swallow. to have to go to Chicago
instructed for Taft" they are Boosting.
s1ly answer is a smile.
Tho latest threat put out blythe Pres-
dential crowd is that, i Barnes should
depoSsd as State chairman. When
Rarnes heard this. he said. ':1'hey can't
nust me. under the law, for two and q
hall years Of course. see what you
4; He was not a bit scared apparently. He
s;.id the situation was unchanged
. stated al noon Ms% 1T is s0sy easy
enough to say everybody is for Taft,
but we know Barnes and we know his
State delegation is hitched with iron.
clad instructions the President and his
friends have no assurance that Rarnes
The eomVenton % Tsna@ was openeS fSs
tig with speech by Nicholas Murray
!!utlcr,, temporary chairman. who said
Since March 4, 1897, Republican poll
scies and convietions have been repre-.
scented and voiced in the highest ex.
ecutive office under our government
We ere to ask for q renewal of popular
confidence and support. We are tc
point not only to what has been. accom-.
plished, but to what we propose to dc
II entrusted for a still longer periot
eminent OF the United States.
hat criticism Is made of the Re-
publican administration OF the nation
during the past sixteen years? There
g. fha nd fnI nx-ffN fNnie eTf
OF our opponents from whom we differ
in many matters Of fundamental poliu
cal policy, which criticism we expect
to meet and to answer before the peopit
when the issue ts Joined. This criti
cism is a natural and necessary Incl
dent in the conduct of a Republican
form of government carried on, as Il
cnly can be successfully carried on
there is criticism of new and unusua
kind 1t comes from an element which
however numerous, is certainly in ful
possession of its powers of speech, ant
rsnks of our own party and in par
, within the ranks of the Democratic
party. 1t includes the whole of thu
those whose mental condition is one o
such blissful elevation that they can
not find any political association quit,
satisfactory to them. These critics tel
us that we are behind the times; tina
1--we are, in the significant language o
1.-The gaming table, stand -patters;' tina
1--we have lost touch with the march o
iproeress; that we are out of -sympath!
} with the satisfaction of the deepes
human needs and with the alleviatioi
X OF human suffering; that we put prop
erty rights above human rights; ant
THAT some means--yiolent II possible
Ipeaceable II necessary-must be foun'
\ 10 free the Government from our para
liyzing control.
"ro one who knows the political his
tory Of the United states; to one one WI, VIII
cies OF the Republican, party, TO one VIII
realizes the overwhelming measure o
popular support and approval that thos
these charges seem strange indeed. On
wonders whether he is really listenin
TO the speech of sane men or to tn
AhGoherent rawlings of Bedlam.
What Statements Mean.
what do these extraordinary state
Rents mcan1 They appear to mean, s
far as they mean anything intelligtble
either the American people are incom
petent for self-govern;nent. or the
have crented q governmental machiner
which, while in form under popula
control Is really managed by privat
and special interests. Examine for
moment these alternatives. If tn
American people are incompetent 70
Selt-SoNernmcnt, Lnen II can Hldhe III
tie difference what program we pre-
pose or what candidates we adop'
Sooner or later 4 people incompeten
for self government will pass under tn
keel cf = ,lespot, where they bclonS
but. 1t IL said, of course We do no
mean anything so absurd as that. rh
American people are really most wis
and most competent, only they ar
tcund, hand ami foot by governments
forms and traditions. which hold thei
as in n wise II appears, or furthe
inquiry, that what is really meant
that representative government an
representative institutions are
failure. and that thoy must be sweI
aside 10 maks way for q direct demos
racy. In particular It appears that tn
!. most characteristic and beneficent {
American institutions. the independei
judiciary charged with the interpret;
lion of the law ana with the sategnar'
ing of constitutional limitations,
now regarded as Il harmful check upo
Inc peoples will an;l as an obstacle
their free ana progressive social an
political Development This brings !
within reasonable distance of somethin
that can be intelligentlv debated.
''Wken we mass from those Vag1
generalities which declaimers and sant
lot orators and perpetual oandtdat,
3 far off1Ce sn dearly love, an0 come