Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-11

ana 80 IL mlgnt-lT tncTc were uO
Wilson or no Taft IN the field; but
the chances favor the sage from Oys-
ter Bay.
California and Oregon are assured
ly also among the doubtful ones, al
though the Roosevelt element may not
pan out as strongly against the reg.
ular party nominee as Governor
Johnson anticipates. In California
the women add also another factor,
which has to be taken into consider.
alton, for, in the enthus asm Of their
new privilege they may toss to the
winds any and all claims or demands
for party regularity Then, too, the
Roosevelt 'progressives' are in con-
troll of the party machinery, and there
Is every reason to feel that they will
try to force the electors on the reg
ular' ticket to vote for Teddy, even
in face OF the fact that that ticket
will be denominated Republican
Despite the positive assurances OF
Tammany Leader Murphy, the friends
of Taft are marking New York in their
column, first, because he carried 1t
! at the primaries over Roosevelt; Sec
ond, because it went solidly Repub-
lican even against Alton B. Parker in
1904: and third, because Taft carried
it in 1908 by considerably w 5000
majority. Another thing. they are
banking on the resentment caused by
| Bryan's vitriolic attacks in the Demo-
cratic national convention on Thomas
Fortune Ryan, on Tammany, and on
Murphy himself, as we'll az on the
Democrats of the whole Empire State.
Although Iowa is reckoned a pro-
gressive State and has given Senator
Kenyon, one of the strongest insur-
gents in the Senate, a clean bill of
political health, it is not altogether a
Roosevelt stronghold, and, some folks
say that unless the coming campaign
should develop along lines that will
simplify the contest between Taft and
Wilson, in a square fight between the
New Jerseyman and the poftly OhlOan
the latter ought to carry the State.
Roosevelt will split yet more wide
" the Republican factions in Mime
sofa and Michigan, thus leaving the
chances to favor Wilson in the former,
with q possibility Of his winning out
in the wolverine State, if Governor
Chas. Osborn, the baDbling brook Of
Michigan, still adheres to his pub
lished decision to l~d disaffectedl
Republicans in their bolt for Wilson.
II, however, he stands true to his al
legged progressive programme he may
pull through the Atectors for Roose.
welt. His candidacy for denomination
as Governor ought to add lots of spice
to the campaign, provided he consents
to throw his hat into the ring.
Lodge and Crane will have to do
some tall hustling If they wish Mas
sachusetts to keep in the Republican
column, for Governor Foss is appar-
emily solid for Wilson, and the ugly
Republican split will require some
skillful handling to be Strengthened
out and at the same time so strength
ened as ~ meet the aggressive De-
m0cracy with a united front.
There's a curious condition in H.
linois. There, the Democrats voted
overwhelmingly in the primaries for
Speaker Clark-and they got Wilson.
On the other hand, the Republicans
wanted the Silent Clam from Oyster
Bay-and they got Taft. On all sides
there is bitterness and some disgust,
leaving the situation a bit of a puzzle,
simpllied' a little, however. by Gov
ernor Deneen, a candidate for renom.
ination, coming out for Taft and de-
clarinig his intention to work determ-
inedly for the success Of the Repub-
lican ticket" Still, If there's any
trading done on election day Taft may
be snapped for Deneen-and in that
connection, pray remember the old
saying about the frost and the p0ta-
toes.
'Tom Marshall's nomination for
Vice-President will help to sweep the
Hoosier State for Wilson, for the fight
between the Roosevelt faction, headed
by the nervy Beverage, and the Taft
regulars, commanded by ex.Vice Pres
ident Fairbanks and ex-COngressman
Jim Watson, will be fought to a finish
unless the regulars convince the pro
gressives that both sides will have to
get together if they wish to regain the
seats lost at the last Congressional
election. Indiana is not 80 very pro
Roosevelt as Teddy himself ought to
know through the Fred Lands Con-
gressional episode.
"The keystone State is b%othering
the Taft and Wilson people, for they
are in the same boat with Roosevelt.
who is wondering If 1t "will stay put"
Rarely does Pennsylvania wander far
from it's oldtime stalwart Republican
mornings; but when it does, some n
high in politics gets a terrific jolt, and
a swat in the back Of his neck that
scares his seven sences into a tangle,
from which he only RECEIVERS after
undergoing a course Of political
sprouts. That's the condition Of Boies
Penrose, the erstwhile ruler of the
State and residuary 1egatee of Matt.
Quay. When Boies was Boss Of the
State. of Pennsylvania, he worked
things so that Teddy got a majority
of over 500, 900, and in those days
everything that Penrose did was "Bul-
ly";; but, tempora mutantur ct nos
mutamus cum ills" for all that 10
forgotten by Roosevelt. Penrose, like