The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-04-11
TAFT CAsspAIGN
ON THE VERGE
or COLLAPSE
R0aGIIO13ry Leaders Now Ad-
mil He Could Hot Be
Elected If Nominated.
New YORK sun Tells TRUTH


Representative of the interests That
Are Supporting Tart Frankly De-
clares That His denomination Means
Defeat In the November Election.
The Secret Scheme Uncovered.
That President Taft cannot be elect
ed if nominated is conceded by the
New York Sun in a carefully prepared
article published Sunday, March 81,
AID sent by the Sun for simultaneous
7 blication in all the newspapers
throughout the country which sub
scribe to the Sun news service
The undeniable Importance of this
statement by the Sun is due to the
Suns attitude Of opposition to all pro.
gressives and to Theodore Roosevelt
in particular, as well as to the recogni,
ton given it rs Il representative and
spokesman of the great business in
terests which center in New York and
of the po.iti:ai org2 nization in New
York which recently manipulated the
fraudulent and farcical primaries held
in the state.
1t adds to the significance Of the
Suns statement that its article, al
though ostensibly the result Of careful
investigation, was withheld until aft
er the organization bosses had put
through the fraudulent primary elec
ton of delegates. i'll which they care
fully refrained from instructing a sin
gle one Of the men they claim to have
elected for Taft.
The investigation upon which the
article is based had been completed
and the article actually prepared be
fore the primaries were held, showing
apparently that at the time the New
York bosses were engaged in sitting
public sentiment in order to prevent
the election of Roosevelt delegates
there was what the Sun declares to be
general agreement among the reac-
,ionary political leaders that Mr..
Tafts candidacy had become Il virtual
impossibiity.
1t IS now apparent that the sole pur-
pose of the machine bosses and the
special privilege interests, 10 whom
MI Taft is looking for Il denomination,
have abandoned all idea of supporting
him and that their only purpose is to
prevent the nomination of Roosevelt,
so that q compromise candidate favor
able to the special privilege interests
and in harmony with machine pur-
poses may be selected at Chicago.
Although still friendly to Taft, the
Sun declares that the time has arrived
when the possibility Of eIecting a can
didate has become a Subject for seri-
Gus consideration on the part of Re-
pubIicans who believe their party to be
of vastly more Importance than any
man in it, no matter how exalted his
station. and who place party loyalty
above personal feaIty. These Repub-
Leans declare that they will take any
reasonable step which would seem tc
insure their party's victory at the polls
in November next.
The Republicans who expressed
these views" the sun says, ARE be-
levers in season and out of season in
the policies of their party. Among
this class of Republicans are mer-
chants. importers, business men gen
orally and professional men and the
rank and file of small Republican
shopkeepers and workingmen'
The sun then says:
"SeveraI r,onths ago influential Re-
pubiicans, some Of them very close &c
President Taft. declared beneath their
breath that the president if renomi-
mated could not be re- elected. While
expressing this opinion they hadn't the
ramotest shadow of doubt that the
president. through the power of fed
eral patronage, could force his own re-
nomination.
Among the reasons given by the Sur
why President Taft cannot be re-elect~
ed the Payne Aldrich law is cited as OF
greatest Importance Respecting this
the sun says:
The Republican national platform or
1905 called for an immediate eXtraor-
binary session of congress i'll the event
of Tafts election to revise the tariff.
In obedience TO his party's platform
President Taft called the extraordinary
session of congress, which produced
the Aldrich- Payne law, and the preSi-
dents troubles and his party's compli-
cations have grown and become more
sntangled from the day he signed that
law. That law gave the proeressives
substantial footing for their opposition
TO the Taft administration and afford
ed them grounds to go before the peo-
pie on the question. In addition there
have been myriad other troublesome
complications, all Intended to weaken
the president and to bring about bitter
discord in the ranks OF his party.
1T has been this diScOrd. these com
plications, that have led Republicans
entirely friendly to the president to de
clare that. while he could force his own
denomination, il was exceedingly
doubtful if he could be reelected"
The Sun adds:
with the assembling of congress in
Washington in December last the dec
Iarat;ons that the president could not
be reelected if renomnated took on a
more emphatic tone"