The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-04-25
An Evening Echo.
Useless Use of Teddy.

Useless Use of Teddy.
The great strength shown by Col
onel Roosevelt in West Virginia indi-
Gates that there are thousands of
voters who neither understand the
man nor his history. Designing poll
iticians have taken advantage of this
to use his candidacy to install them
selves in positions OF leadership OF
the party, to which they have no
Just right and to which the voters
themselves would not elevate them
except through the unfortunate stu
alton OF their having espoused the
cause the cause the voters them
selves are befriending Colonel
Roosevelt himself doubtless depre-
Gates the fact that these men are
connected with his campaign in the
state and are to benefit therefrom.
Still, Colonel Roosevelt's fate in
the Chicago convention may wreck
their designs and ambitions as there
Is assurance that President Taft will
win the nomination. There have
been many states voting in a manner
showning that they appreciate Pres
ident Taft and are not favorably i'm
pressed with the personal ambition
of Colonel Roosevelt. Other states
thinking the same way are yet to
vote. and there will be a sad tale
for certain politicians in West Vir-
ginia to tell after the Mighty Hunter
'ai's to bag his game at the Chicago
convention. r--,rr --rrr--r-
On the contest or the nomination,
he baltimore American has a fine
editorial as follows, all should read
and ponder over:
Others are in the ring besides the
ubiquitous Roosevelt. President
Tat is there with all the power of
his personality, and he is there in
company with Republican leaders
who are becoming wearied with the
assertions of the former president,
and, much as they dislike to do any,
thing that might wicen the breach
in the party, are now coming out
with the kind of vigor and response
that Roosevelt can not stand up
against because he has nothing sub
stantial in his positions or his pre-
lenses and is thoroughly vulnerable
in his record. President Taft, with
nearly 200 more delegates to his
credit already than Roosevelt, has
therein a practical showing of the
will Of the people. The isolated vic
tories OF the former president are
heralded as wonderful by his adher-
ents, while the accessions of dele
gates to the Taft column are looked
upon as in the normal course OF
party expression. This difference
is the one that counts, for the
strength of Taft is enduring, while
that of Roosevelt is explosive
Nothing has been more damaging
TO the Roosevelt campaign than the
startling exposures of the Steel
Trust money in the furtherance of
the interests of the man who added
the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
to the assets of the trust in White
House backdoor conference, OF which
the people we're kept in ignorance.
The country is being shocked at the
disclosure of the fact that the 15,-
600 votes for Roosevelt in New York
cost on an average of $500 head.
While the investigation of the
sources Of the Roosevelt campaign
fund have been going on and vari-
Gus trusts have been brought from
their burrows. such as the Steel and
Harvester. the frenzied friends of
Roosevelt have been seeking to dis
tract attention by canards to the eff
feet that the southern instructed del
egates for Taft are DESERVING him.
This kind OF nubdub viii not work
Tho candidate who processes that