Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-05-27
THE OUTLOOK
AT WASHINGTON
Herald Correspondent Main
tains that Taft Will Be
Nominated at Chicago
CLARK AT BALTIMORE
Is Lifelong Democrat, But
Not Socialistic Radical
--- Good Harmonizer

WASHINGTON, D. c., May %. (Spe-
cial Correspondence of the Herald. y
There has been good deal of talk
about the adjournment of congress
before the conventions are held so
that every politician in congress can
not only get busy at the conventions
but get home early to look after his
own fences in every state and congress
sional district The chances are there
will be no early adjournment of con-
gress and that congress will be in
session until the first or maybe the
middle of August The republican
senate seems to be in no hurry to
take up and pass or kill the democrat
ic measures and the so-called progress
sives or republican reformers in the
senate have absolutely refused to COM
bne with the democrats and pass this
legislation inaugurated by a demo.
cratic house in the interest of the
taxpayers of this country. That sini-
ply shows that the democratic con-
tention is correct, that the repub-
lican party is welded to its idols and
stands for nothing except protection
and the robber tariff in the interest
Of the manufacturers Of this country
to the detriment of the consumers.
Well, we have got campaign COM
ing on and chickens will come home
to rOOst.
The presidential campaign for the
nomination on both tickets is rapidly
reaching a climax. So far as the re-
publican situation is concerned, the
fight between Taft and Roosevelt is
becoming hotter every day, and there
are many predictions amongst polit.
ical prognosticators that my phophecy
concerning Taft being nominee of the
republican party is going to come a
cropper and that Roosevelt is going
to be nominated. l still do not be-
lieve that Roosevelt will be nominal
ed. but nevertheless and notwith
standing, if he should be nominated
and Taft defeated, it will make no
difference in the democratic program.
If Taft is nominated. my prediction is
that Roosevelt will run Independent
on the plea that the people have been
swindled out of the nomination and
that he was the choice of the people
in the republican party.
If Roosevelt should be nominated
by the Taft people getting into a pan
ic. and their managers unable to con-
troll the delegates chosen for Taft
We will not see any Taft third party
or La Toilette third party. but We
will see not less than two million
patriotic republicans in this coun-
try refusing to support any man on
the face of the earth for third
term. They will not bolt the nom-
ination. but they will simply stay
at home and not vote. This is in
dicated by the returns from every
state that has held a Presidential
preferential primary. 1t is a fact
that not thirty per cent of the repub-
lican vote in the state of Illinois was
polled for Taft and Roosevelt COM
bned. and that Champ Clark receiv-
ed more Democratic votes in that
state than both of them. The same
thing was true in the state of Mary
land where only 80 per cent of the
white republicans voted for Roose-
welt and Taft and yet so per cent of
the negro vote in that state was
polled. The democrats polled more
than 20 per cent of the total vote OF
the state and Champ Clark carried
the state. There is a likelihood that
there may be a jam at the Chicago
convention and that if such should
be the case, the republicans would
say to one another, A plague on both
your houses" we will nominate
third man and we will take such a
man as Senator Cummins of Iowa. If
such should be the case, there is no
doubt that the Democrats have got a
hattie in front of them instead of q
walkover and it behooves them to
mt up the strongest man they can
select at Baltimore. Whilst Cummins