Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-05-05
THE G. 0. P.
SITS AMID
DEEP GLOOM
THEODORE is WRECKING IT
May Turn 10 Hughes as the
Coming Moses

Washington, D. c., May A blacl
fog of gloom and depression envelops
republicans of all factions in congress
and most of them admit they can't SET
CLEAN of clear light anywhere or
the horizon. Never before in the his.
tory of the party, the old timers sad
ly confess, has the party been in such
desperate and hopeless Generalization
The depression of the Pennsylvania
| republicans with scarcely an exception
is peculiarly acute, for in addition tc
the wreck of party lines throughout tht
nation they are called on to contem-
plate the ditching of the Penrose or
ganization to which most of them look
ed for help in their COMPRESSION con-
tests.
AS to the national situation, even
the progressive or insurgent republi-
cans, supposed to be for Roosevelt, are
not at all buoyant and serene as might
be expected. The bitterness that has
been developed between the president
and his leading rival for tn nomina-
ton has got on tn nerves of the in
surgents. They realize that if Mr.
Roosevelt wins under present circum.
stances, carrying off the nomination
it will mean that hundreds of thous-
ands of republicans in the East and
Middle West will either vote for the
democratic nominee or stay at home
on election day, insuring republican
defeat in either case.
Well as the insurgents like fight
the present one has grown too relent-
less for them to relish, knowing as
they do it is engendering passions that
it will take years to soothe, and that
meanwhile republican success in the
nation and in congress will be out of
the question. They tactitly admit that
Roosevelt has become too desperate
and reckless for them in his method
of campaigning and that they feel d
great mistake was made in not stand
ing by the leadership of Senator La
Toilette to the end, even if there was
little or no hope of winning with him
in this years campaign. In thai
event the progressive cause would
not have become entangled with the
dangerous third term issue and the
personal issues that have been drag
ged in because of the Roosevelt can
didacy.
Among many republicans who have
heretofore been genuine supporters OF
President Taft the opinion is now ex-
pressed that the extreme viciousness
of tn fight between him and Roosevelt
will make it necessary to drop both
of them and turn to a new man who
ave not mixed in the destructive strife
and who, if he cannot win this fall
will at least begin the work of re-
habilitating the organization by gath
ering behind him the moderates from
both factions.
But the fear is expressed thai
Roosevelt has grown so ravenous
his hunger for renewed power that he
will not abide by the action of tn
Chicago convention if he fails to Sc
cure the nomination there and will
run independently on the allegation
that he was cheated out of his dues
It is regarded as practically certain
he will do this if Taft is the nomi-
Lee. This prospect cause many re,
publicans in congress to say tina
Taft's nomination would be worse thar
political suicide, and that the evils
manifestly in store for the party il
any event can be best minimized BY
taking as the Chicago nominee SOM
man of the type of Justice Hughes
he Justices name always comes tt
the lips of republicans who are crop.
ing around for way out of the des.
perate mess into which the party has
been plunged by Tafts hating lead
ership and the third term ambition o.
| the former president