The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-04-18
PRESIDENTS MANAGERS RAGE
AT LOSS OF BIG STATES AND
WARN BOSSES. &C..
Failure TO Deliver
Iheir States Will Incur the Disravor
OF the White House for Other Bos-
Scs just As 1t Has for Lorimer and
i'enrose Now Cast Aside.


Washington, April 5.--President
Taft. with the obvious view of making
it unanimous has repudiated Penrose
He has also repudiated Lorimer. These
two discredited .and defeated boss IS
having failed utterly to deliver tnei,
state to Taft arc no longer in favor
at the White House.
The President has made no official
declaration of this, but, through lis
press agents, the statement is lbiish.
ed that he !cw resents deeply the
coupling Of Ills name it'll those Of
Penrose and Lorimer by Cocucl
Roosevelt. The same friends and
press agents have obtained the publi-
cation of the assertion that MI. Taf.'s
|sy:npatAies were never with Lo ne,
and that he never turned his hand
over to help Penrose.
Mr. Tart has not repudiated Senator
1u Pom. who is charged with having
obtainc his election by briber;~ AID
other corruption, but Delawara has
not yet chosen it's delegates to thu IA
t'ona! convention. Should Delaware
also .1ht csc Roosevelt delegates then
the President will probably repudiate
du Pont as another useless person who
has caused the administration embar-
rassment
The attitude the President is assum
ing respecting the temporary impro-
priety Of placing him in the same class
with Penrose and Lorimer Is doubtless
intended to have, effect, upon men like
Senator Crane, Of Massachusetts; Cal
linger, of New Hampshire; Burton, of
Oh1o, and other servants of special
privilege and manipulators Of machine
politics, who are now warned that
unless they can do better for Taft
than did either Penrose or Lorimer,
they, too, will be in danger Of repu-
diatiOn.
The Managers Show Rage.
The position the president takes ac-
cording to the information amanating
from the White House, WHERE Hilies,
secretary to the president, is the So
urce of all inspired stories. is in di-
rect conflict with that of his MANA
gers, Of whom Penrose and Lormier
are most conspicuous figures.
From the Taft headquarters today
there was issued a statement Violent
-fy attacking Theodore Roosevelt as one
who is seeking to wreck the Republ:-
cam party by attacking Penrose, Lori
mer and the other great figures who
compose, the Taft campaign comm:t-
tee.
Penrose and Lorimer are named in
this statements, and others of their
type, including Barnes, of New York;
Gallnger, of New Hampshire; Hem
enway and Keeling, of Indiana; Can.
non and his followers in Illinois and
elsewhere, and all the corrupt special
privilege interests are indicated and
the aggregate is actually spoken Vi
a. forming the Republican party.
This party, the Taft statement as
serts, Mr.. Roosevelt is breaking down:
and they want the fact understood by
IL PUBLIC, so That the real business
o. the fight may l,o understood.
The statement from Taft headuuar-
ters indicates very clearly that the
Roosevelt victory in Pennsylvania has
1trrived the Taft managers Of wEat-
ever Intelligence they may have pos
seGsed prior to that event and eft
them lot Of wild and dt5y@iring fan
aNrs ia 1,nined to exhibit to he
voters refuse to submit to the fur
thcr control by such men and meth
DDS as make UP the Taft campaign.
Mckinley statement declares that
Roosevelt's speeches have been un-
truths, and that no form Of mendac-
jty has been neglected by him. The
chief charge made against Roosevelt
by the Taft managers is that Roose-
welt accepted their support for the
presidency in 1904 and tnat he is
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I the profitable business Of money by
serving special interests in public
| Offices
Schemes Of Machine Baked.
If Roosevelt were not doing this
+ very thing the voters would not be
supporting him With such detcrmina-
, ton and enthusiasm. There would
/ be nothing to choose between Taft
and Roosevelt, and the Taft man
ayers, by making it clear that Roose