The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-04-26
WASHINGTON.
Legislative and Gem
eral Topics from
the Capital.
Especial Correspondence to the Citzen.)
Washington. April % 1912.

Washington, April ,22 1912.
Political Washington has been doing al
the stunts appertaning to emotional in
sanity on account of the returns from the
Primary election in the State of Illinois
The sweeping victory for Roosevelt over
Taft has set the quIdnuncs to work ano
they are predicting that the Republican
National Convention in Chicago will very
much resemble a bear garden which
means a scrap to finish.
There are very few people here who
believe that Roosevelt will bolt the Con-
vention. but it is absolutely certain that
all the things he has said in this campaign
and all the attacks upon the Republican
adm niStration. of which Taft is the head,
will be brought home to rooSt and that
the Democratic campaign book aud that
the Democratic speakers all over this
country, during the campaign, will not
neglect TO use every word that Roosevelt
has uttered in damnlng the Taft admins
tration
SO far as the returns from the Illinois
primary concerns the Democratic Situa-
tiou ii begins to look very much like the
Honorable Champ Clark than ever it did
before.
The overwhelming defeat of Governor
Wilson in a State like Illinois, which is
one of the pivotal States in a National
election has confirmed the opinion OF
many men here in Washington, whose
business it is to keep their fingers upon
the public purse that Governor Wilson is
now on the toboggan slide and that he
has no more chance TO win than a one
cd NJ l. -iyl-t
ing to their opinions, it also shows the
strength of Champ Clark as vote getter
and his friends all say that that is exactly
what the Democrats need in a National
election.
The Illinois returns indicate that
Champ Clark as vote getter, can carry
the State as against Taft and nasmuch as
there is no chance for Roosevelt to be
nominated and carry the State, they
| claim that Champ Clark's nomination
would absolutely cinch the Democratic
| electors in the State of Illinois next No
vember
The Clark people say that their man
has been endorsed by the voters in this
country in the States that are the nearest
neighbors to his nome State and they in
| clude in this the States of Arkansas and
Iowa, therefore making their candidate a
man loved by those who know him best,
| which is very good recommendation for
any man any time in this world
This is the most picturesque campaign
before the Conventions are held, that it
has been my lot to witness since 500 and
from my experience in watching political
campaigns, | can give it as my honest
Judgment that the Democrats are going
to win next November and that nothing
can stop the nomination of Honorable
Champ Clark as the Democratic nominee
unless the Democrats ir Congress, o.
which he is the leader, make some fata
mistake or do something absolutely alb
horrent to the wishes and the desires oI
the people of this country.
The primary election in PENNSYLVANIA
has caused another furry among the pol.
lticianS in Washington. 1t is the univer.
sal opinion here that although Roosevelt
carried that State, as he did Illinois, il
will make no difference in the outcome OF
the Chicago Convention.
OF course, a few of the progressive Re-
publicans who are out and out Roosevelt
men. differ with this opinion but it is ev
dent to all men who listen to them anC
their op nion that Roosevelt is going tc
be nominated, that the wish is father tC
the thought
As far as the Democrats are concern
ed, the outcome in Pennsylvania has
added materially to Governor Wilson's
list OF delegates and who probably will be
the recipient OF greater portion of the
delegates but will not have solid dele.
cation because the unit does not hole
choose. The Clark people will have egh
teen or twenty of those delegates out o
seventy-siX, and few Will go to Gov
ernor Harmon of Ohio
CHAs. A. EDWARDS.