The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-02-15
SAYS MUST ON
FIRST BALLOT OR TEDDY
WILL Be NOMINATED SURE
Robt. rockingham, Advertising
Manager of "Everybody's,"
Sizes Up Situation
WILSON is STRONG MAN
Race Between Jersey Governor
and Roosevelt Would Be
Pretty Contest

IF Taft Is not nominated on the
first ballot. and do not think that IS
POSSIBLE, Theodore Roosevelt vii be
the Republican nominee for the presl-
cency this year; he is not a cand'-
date In the sense that he is seeking
the office, hut | believe he will accept
fit Is evident that-the situation
quires him." said Robert Frothipgh
OF New York, advertising mana ger of
tho Butterick Trio and Eyerybody's
Magazine. who is visitor TO Detroit.
"Roosevelt's attitude toward the
present situation Is like his attitude In
the fight against Barnes In 1910. On
his return from Africa, where he went
more in order not to embarrass the
Taft administration than he did IT,
hunt, 1t was his intention to retire to
dignified private life. Blu: he saw,
Gs every good Republican, could not
help seeing, that Republican politics
in New York state was as rotten IN
ger Barnes as II ever was under the
regime OF Plat, and he undertook To
clean up the mess.
He considered II as job for man
to do. big job. and he went ahead
and did 1t. He dominated the conven-
ton and forced the Republican ma
chine to clean up. or course, Us soon
as he left the field there were a LOT
OF white livers who let things drift
back under the domination Of Barnes,
but that was not Roosevelt's fault.
Roosevelt had absolutely nothing
to gain in that fight and great deal
to lose. IL he had any thought for
the future 1t would have been clear
at a glance that ii was bad politics,
but he went ahead and did 1t, because
he saw that ii needed to be done. 1t
was done purely as a public service
without regard for personal con-
sequences.
IL believe that his attitude on the
nomination is much the
same as his attitude In the Barnes af-
lair. III he believes that there is a
job to be done, and that he Is the
only man whom the people will trust
to do it, he will accept the nomina-
ton, in my opiliIorfe
Taft is apparently impossible.
believesthat sthe ,deicea atoms Instruct
ed for him WI east their vote for
him on the first ballot, and then with
a feeling that their duty Is accom-
plished, get down to the real business
of making nomination. | believe
that Roosevelt will have the New
York delegation solid, for New York
business men are sick and tired of
Taft.
Woodrow Wilson seems to be the
only man in the running for the DEM
ocratic nomination, and unless Roose-
Welt is nominated, Wilson Is sure Win
ner. He has made a wonderful i'm
preston on his audiences in New
York and would draw large portion
OF the Republican vote from any can
didate with the exception of Roose-
welt. 1t would be a pretty race be-
tween Roosevelt and Wilson.
Wilson made a profound impress
sion at the famous publishers ban
quet in Philadelphia where LaFollette
talked himself out of the race. He
was clear and forceful, and he had
his audience with him. LaFollette
mad, a lamentable spectacle of him
self. 1t was stated that some believ-
ed that he had been stricken with
aphasia from his rambling, incoher-
ent remarks.
Wilson has been gaining strength
rapidly in the east. Wherever he
goes he makes strong appeal to his
hearers and he is much admired In
New York as a public man even by
those who belong to the Republican
party. He has demonstrated his ef-
ficiency as a practical politician, too,
In the work that he has done in New
ersey. He knew that he would have
to face the charge of .ngratitude for
turning down Smith and Nugent, but
he fought them because he thought
they ought TO be beaten"