The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-06-03
WHERE 7. R. GETS
SOME OF HIS FUNDS
Crane, Of Chicago, Spends $3.50,
900 TO Defeat Tail for
Revenge
lBy Alfred Horny LewIsl

tBy Altfeu henry beNlSl
Washington, y. c., June 81 have
definite information that President
Taft's name will not appear before the
convention.
That much was decided last even.
ing and decided by TAFT himself.
This will be emphatically denied
for few days in the hope Of finding q
hew man on whom standpatters can
combine to beat Roosevelt. But there
is no such man.
Fairly speaking, and putting it the
Msoftest way Tor Taft, he has been
Whipped aud beaten from the field.
he news from New Jersey came as
last feather to the cameis back of his
resolution which had begun bending
with Illinois and Massachusetts and
has been showing increased signs of
breaking ever since.
Goethe once wrote the Sorrows
OF Werther." Some American Goethe
ought to write the "Troubles Of Taft.
He went into the White House three
years ago belted about by those
whom he thought were his friends.
They have turned out TO he only a
beaming host of political bread liners,
with eXpectant hearts and hands out
stretched
Cannot Find Friends
With a Search Warrant.
They used him-and now they de-
sert him. Where once they had trou
BILE seeing him. and pushed and Jock
eyed and iostled for the privilege he
now has even more trouble IN seeing
them
Such as Cannon, Hale, Root, Sherm-
an and others Of similar selfish
feather, he is in this his hour OF
gloom and mourning unable to find
with a search warrant
What comes bitterest to one Of
Taft's soft.baked and defenseless tenn
perament Is that he receives more or
less sympathy. Cannon makes no Sc
cret Of his satisfaction at the dis
asters which have overtaken Taft Tie
says that Taft never should have put
MacNeagh and Fisher in his cabinet.
Illinois did not want them. they
wern't Republicans Their portfolios
were slap in the face Of an oldtimc /
Ilnois RepubIicansm which has
borne the heat and the burden Of the
party
"UncIc joe Cannon Is
Old, Hard And Wise
Cannon is old and hard and wise. +
Observing the soft Weaknesses of |
Taft he feels, and has felt, only con /
tempt for those Weaknesses Whilo /
studying 10 take advantage Of them |
There Is no soaring such as Cannon |
end so he goes about openly in the |
clearing that it WAS Taft's own in /
constituencies and ngratitudes and |
general want of fighting courage !
which digged the pit into which he /
has fallen
Roosevelt called us his enemies
said Cannon, aud smotc MS in front /
Taft assumed that he aud we were
friends, but as We turned our backs |
TO go he kicked us from behind"
Cranes Put Up
S450,o0o For Teddy
There was a certain rich old gentle. |
man named Crane in Chicago His |
son was appointed ambassador to I
China. Japan put in private kick I
Taft, who is diplomatic C?p-with the |
diplomacy which, resenting nothing /
rever fights ordered the recall of /
Young Crane before he had reached /
bis post in Pekin. It was done 10 /
placate Japan, although as a basis for !
the recall it was pretended that /
Joung Crane had said something or
done something unbecoming an am I
bassador and a diplomat
These cats have long tails. The I
Continued on Rage 81