The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-06-07
No. 81

! Roosevelt wlll be nominated and if he is
nominated, 1t will make me out bad
| prophet because | have said all along in
this correspondence that Mr. Taft would
| be nominated. Now then. TAFT NAV not
be able to hold all of his delegates that
have been instructed or pledged to him
and the Roosevelt forces. adopting the
| aame strong arm methods used by their
chief, they NAV 80 to Chicago and bull
doze through the nomination of Roose-
welt, but do not believe it,
The leaders OF the Republican party.
that is the old-fashioned Republican lead
erS, who are still IN control of the Ma
tionai Committee, do not intend to allow
Theodore Roosevelt and a handful of
Republican insurgents to take control of
the Republican party so long as they can
help it and | believe they can. They
pass on all these contests between Taft
a3d Roosevelt and il is a safe bet that
they will run the steam roller over every
contesting Roosevelt delegation that
comes before him. That means that the
TAFT people will control the temporary
organization OF that convention and that
temporary organization will appoint the
committee on Credentials and that COM
mlttec will follow the National commit
tees recommendations aud seat the same
delegates, thereby giving Taft the nomi-
nation on the first ballot That means
further, that Roosevelt's people will cry
fraud, withdraw from the Convention.
hold a convention of their own. nominate
Roosevelt on an independent ticket on
the ground that he has been wilfully de.
irauded of the nomination after he was
the peoples choice.
The Republican leaders are firmly CON
vlnced that this will happen. also that
this spells defeat for the Republican tick
ct next November Nevertheless and
notwithstanding, they prefer defeat and
Democratic success to the success of
Roosevelt which means anarchy and dis
integrauon Of the Republican party.
They would rather take defeat at the
hands of patriotic Democrat than sue
cess with Roosevelt under the name of
the Republican party which does not
mean the Republican party as they have
been taught and believed all their lives
because the Republican party they be-
lieve in is the Republican party of plum
der through protective tariff
The talk of third man or a dark horse
winning the nomination is SubSiding very
materially. The reason is there is no
able or self-reSpecting Republican willing
to take the nomination with the condl-
tions facing them after this campaign of
vituperarion between Taft and Roosevelt.
They know they would be defeated and
they are not hankering to become a vi
carious sacrifices simply to pull the chest
nuts OF few Standpat Republicans out of
the fire. So it does not make any differ
ence to the Democrats of this country
UhO Dnr1iuatAd on tba
ticket, they will beat that candidate to a
frazzle.
There is so much difference in the cam
pagn being made by the Democratic as
prants for the Presidential nomination
and that of the Republicans that it is al
most sacrllege to mention both contests
in the same letter Nearly everybody in
the political world in Washington is con-
trasting the decency and dignity OF the
Democratic candidates with that of the
Republicans. When any patriotic citizen
sits down quietly and figures on the vitu-
peratlvc, disgusting and abhorent cam
palgn made by the Republicans and the
quiet, decent and statesmanlike attitude
OF such men as Champ Clark and Oscar
Underwood, they can but come to one
conclusion; that is. there is not Demo
cratic candidate who would not make a
better President than either of the candi-
dates on the Republican ticket So far as
the Democratic candidates are concerned
the Honorable Champ Clark is still way
III the lead. He has been carrying State
after State with only brief campaign over
other candidates who have been busy
since way last fall
There is Just now lot of unfounded
gossip about Colonel William I. BRYAN
getting in the fight once more at Balti-
more and having his friends attempt to
stampede that Convention to him. That
is not going to happen. No man in this
country can now take away from him the
pledged delegates to Mr. Clark 1t is
only human nature that those delegates
controlled by Governor Harmon. will
never go to Mr. Bryan because Mr.. Brvau
has attempted to do all he can to defeat
Governor Harmon.
1t is also natural that if Mr.. Underwood
and his friends see that he cannot be
nominated, they should ask that all his
delegates be thrown to Mr.. Clark. Mr..
Clark and Mr.. Underwood are the closest
kind of friends. They understand one
another thoroughly and il is to them and
their work that is due the harmony and
team work of the Democrats in the
House of Representatives
Mr.. Underwood knows thoroughly and
well that if Mr.. Clark is nominated he
will be elected President. In that case it
means Democratic House of Represen-
tatives also and that means Underwood
for Speaker of the next House That is
the biggest job in this country except the E
Presidency and with the kind of record
Underwood would make as Speaker, he
would succeed Mr.. Clark as President be-
cause he is still young man and can af-
ford to wait a few wears. Take it alto
gether it looks like the Honorable Champ
Clark would be named on the second
ballot or not later than the third as the
standard bearer of the Democratic party
at Baltimore the last of this month.
CHAS. A. EDWARDS.