The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1912-05-16
BY ALLEN e. BEACH.


BY ALLEN E. BEACH.
Columbus. O., May 14.-(Special)--
To vote for Roosevelt the voter must
know the names of the Roosevelt
candidates for delegates and alter.
Mates to the national convention who
are pledged to him. The ballot will
not show which candidates for dele
gates are for Roosevelt and which are
not. Roosevelt's name will not be on
the ballot. nor the name Of any other
candidate for the Republican presi-
Dental nomination. The voter will
see only the names Of candidates for
national delegates. These names will
be in alphabetical order, with nothing
TO indicate whether they are for
Roosevelt, Taft or LaFolette. Your
home paper will tell you who are the
Roosevelt delegates Cut out their
names and have them in your vest
pocket when you go to the polls May
81. lest you forget.
Taft campaign managers, who got
control of the Republican state cen
tral committee by help OF the Cox
members from Cincinnati, thwarted
the purpose Of the Roosevelt state
leaders TO give the Republican voters
chance to vote their presiden
tial preferences directly. They did
not want Roosevelt's name on the
ballot. They we're unwilling to risk
having Taft's name on the ballot. To
vote for Roosevelt the voter must
learn the names Of the Roosevelt
candidates for delegates.
The final week of the pre-primary
campaign sees President Taft and
Colonel Roosevelt, each accompanied
by a galaxy OF orators of wide re-
pute, touring Ohio. This week Presi.
dent Taft crossed the state twice
His trip was without precedent.
There was witnessed the extraordi.
nary spectacle of the president of the
United States making a cart-tail cam
paign for denomination in his own
state, on his record. To many lips It
brought the question whether the
times are out OF Joint or the record
He staunchly defended that record.
At Columbus he stood by his signing
OF the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill. He
asserted the Canadian reciprocity
treaty would not have hurt the farmer
a bit, and said, 81 will not change my
opinion on reciprocity no matter how
many votes II may cost me-" He
stood by the railroad rate bill drafted
by Wickersham. which insurgent sen.
ators radically changed for the bet.
ter.
Saying "The president at Washing
ton has nothing 10 do with the crea-
tion or dethronement Of BOSSES" he
pleaded his helpless acquiescence in
the boss system.
Just before President Taft started
for Ohio, Mckinley. the Taft cam
paign manager, attacked Roosevelt,
charging that he was "an assassin" !"
In the presidents presence, Harry NJ.
Daugherty, who presided at the Co
lumbus meeting, charged Roosevelt
with anarchy, saying. concerning Taft
and Roosevelt. Between the princi.
pies of these two men there is as
great difference as there is between
the American flag and the red flag"
, More restrained, but just as vehe.
ment, President Taft said of his op.
ponent and predecessor: "He is going
about the country teaching class ha.
tired and making himself more dan.
gerous to the nation than any man
we have had for generations" and
thoughtlessly wounded the sensibii-
ties of the American public not yet
recovered from the shock of the loss
OF the Titanic, by an ironical refer
ence to the need OF Roosevets lead
ership: IF Mr., Roosevelt had gone
down in the Titanic, isn't it awful TO
think in what a condition the country
would now be without him?"
In his Columbus speech President
Taft sought to shift to congress the
responsibility for the continuance OF
the federal patronage system, in re-
plying to the charge OF Colonel Roose'
welt OF unprecedented activity in
Taft's behalf of postmasters and other
federal oiice-holders. So real an is
sue has the interference Of postmas
ters in the presidential nomination
become that their records in this
campaign are being observed anC
kept and will be turned over to tht
winner Of the nomination in ordel
that the practice may be broken up
In the states which count for Re
publican success in November, Roose
welt leads Taft in delegate strength
and exclusive of delegates whose ere
dentials are contested Roosevelt ha
a majority of all the delegates chosei
10 date.
Thirty-four Republican and doubt
ful states have 379 electoral votes
out OF which must be gained the 26
electoral votes necessary to elect
Republican president The remair
ing IA states, with 1852 electoral votes
are sucely Democratic.
The task of the convention will b