Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-05-30
IS DISCRACEFUL
EXHIBITION
The President and Ex-Pres-
ident of United States
Both Unfit
JUDGED BY OWN STORIES
Less Than Fifty Per Cent Of:
Republicans Vote at Pre-
ferential Primaries

Special Correspondence of the Herald
WASHINGTON, d. C. May PA
statesman is a successful politician
who is dead. That is the defination
of statesman that was given by the
late Thomas b. Reed of Maine, who
was one of the smartest men | ever
knew in my life. Whilst that may be
true in a general sense, ] want to
say that there are few statesmen
in the National Capital at this day
who are not dead. have talked not
only with those statesmen, both re-
publicans and democrats but with po-
liticans in congress on both sides of
the political fence and they all ex-
press the same opinion that this fight
in the republican party for the NOM
inatiOn for president between Taft
and Roosevelt is the most pitiable,
execrable and disgraceful exhibition
that has ever been seen in American
politics. They all have come to the
conclusion, regardless of party, that
neither one of these men can be elect
ed to the presidency if they are nom-
mated at Chicago.
Whilst this conclusion is very graft.
flying to the democrats, it is cores
pondingly distasteful and worrying
to the republicans. They are all hop
ing, that is the republicans, that a
deadlock in the Chicago convention
will ensue and that neither of them
will be nominated and that dark
horse, without regard to any parti-
cular individual, may be the republi
can nominee and thus cut the Gordian
knot in the republican party contro-
versy
With all these conflicting opinions
from the leaders in both parties to
whom I have talked, I hesitate before
the republican national convention to
predict anything. However, it seems
to me as an old fashioned politician
and political writer and locker on in
Vienna, so to speak. that it makes no
difference who carries that State of
New Jersey and this letter is writ
ten before the New Jersey primaries,
as to the final outcome of the cam
paign. My opinion is that if the Taft
leaders and the members of the Ma
tional republican committee have a
sufficiently stronghold on their own
delegates, that Mr. Taft probably
will have enough votes on the first
ballot to nominate him. If they have
nut that hold and the delegates re-
! volt to Roosevelt, he may be the
nominee on the first ballot. If the
former condition should prevail in
! the convention and the Roosevelt
leaders know that it is inevitable that
| Mr.. Taft is going to be naminated,
they will bolt the convention, hold
convention of their own and nomin-
ate Roosevelt on the plea that he has
been swindled out of the nomination
| by the steam roller process of the
present administration. 1t makes no
difference, whatever, which end Of
the bag the republican party holds in
the next campaign.
| There is going to be democratic
victory and democratic president in
the White house after the 4th of next
March. If there is not. then Thomas
| Jefferson's opinion of the honesty of
the people of this country who vote
at the polls, will have been declared
fallacy that the American elector.
| ate is not worthy of the ballot; that
they do not understand republican in
| stitutions. are unfit to govern them
| selves and the sooner we have an
empire the better off will be the peo-
pie. l honestly believe that is Roose-
velt's idea and that he understands
the idiocy of a whole lot of people
in this country because they continue
to support him in the face of all of
the infamous lies he told and all of
the sculduggery he has practiced, not
only in this campaign but while he
was president of the United States.
There are lot of democrats in this
country who affect to believe whether
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