The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-07-27
WILL TRAIL ROOSEVELT.
Bryan and LaFoIette To Camp On
His Every Trail.

His Every Trail.
Sea Girt, n. j., July Ex-senator
Gore of Oklahoma answered a ques-
ton last week this way:
"Oh, Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt will
be taken care of after the campaign
opens
it became known today what the
senator had in mind when he spoke.
Mr.. Roosevelt is 10 be taken of by
William Jennings Bryan, on behalf of
the Democratic party and in all like
lihood by Senator Robert NJ LaFol)
lette on general principles
Just how the Wisconsin man is to
operate this year and in whose behalf
is not known at Sea Girt, but word
has come through some very good
friends of his that he will take the
stump and he will have a great deal
to say about the promises and per
formances of the. Chief Bull Moose.
He may be ostensibly for President
Taft; some very optimistic persons
hope he may be for Wilson, but the
majority believe he will be playing
a lone hand, paying little attention
to anything or anybody but the man
from Oyster Bay. All are agreed that
he hates Roosevelt with a hate that
has no limit.
There need be no such doubt about
Mr. Bryan, according to information
received here unofficially from his
friends. He is going to take the trail
just behind the colonel He is going
to start about the time of the sortie
from Long Island. He is going where
the third term nominee goes, and he
is going to keep it up as long as that
hard working individual keeps it up.
1t is understood that the colonel is
going to start right after August ..
Mr.. Bryan will be ready.
The Roosevelt progressives, accord
ing to Mr. Bryans friends, will be
honey on the lips of the Lincoln
statesmen, and he will roll it around
like a sweet morsel.
He will start with a progressive
ness that made the late +. II. Harri-
man very friendly for practical pur-
poses, that permitted the absorption
of the Tennessee Coal and Iron com
pany, that made the United States
Steel and the International Harvester
company George W. Perkins, Frank
Munsey and few other devoted fol
lowers. and then he will have some
thing to say about the present day
vote catching by bull moose plat
forms.
If he were talking today he would
be able to say that in no third term
local platform has there yet appeared
any suggestion of a tariff reduction,
except upon the basis of difference
in the cost of production at home and
abroad" and he would also say that
in none of these platforms is there
any attempt to deal with what appears
to be vital to the Democratic party
this year-the problem of the high
cost of living
Executive committeeman and Dem
ocratic leaders who have been down
at Sea Girt during the last week say
that when the two men get after the
third, and the three of them get to
going strong, it will come near being
about the most interesting incident
to a presidential campaign it will be
possible to imagine.
The Colonel is known as a great
traveller, but as far as covering miles
in this country is concerned he has
no advantage over Mr. Bryan. Both
can speak two score times a day and
finish strong Both thrive on rough
sleep well. eat heartily
and both have iron threats.
Senator LaFollettes abilities in this
direction are not so well known, but
as he is much more nervous than
either of the other men. he may not
be able to put up the gruelling long
distance fight.
There is no doubt that Mr. Bryan
can count upon the hearty and whole
souled assistance of the executive
committee in his plans. II was said
at the start that he was to do what
he wanted to do this camgaign. in
the way he wanted to do it,