Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-06
This YEAR Brings ONE Of GREATEST
POLITICAL BATTLES IN OUR HISTORY
Both Parties are Greatly Divided Between Conservatives
and Radicals

Washington, D c., January 5.-Po-
litically the year 1912 will be one oe
the most important within the mem
ory of the men who direct the desti-
MES of the two great parties.
Besides choosing a president, the
electorate of the nation will select a
new house of representatives, which
national and international problems,
and the voters of the various com
monwealths win choose 81 new gov
ernors and the legislature, which
will have to select 30 new United
States senators.
Not in generation have the vo+
ers of the country been called upon to
eprform more solemn duty. There
is every indication that the battle for
the presidency will be one of the most
titanic struggles in the history or
the present dominant parties, and
that it will be marked by campaigns
the like of which have not been known
in generation. Already the lines
are shaping. The democrats, full OF
enthusiasm AMI confidence that VIC
tory has already perched upon their
banner. The republicans, discourag-
ed in spots, are preparing for
desperate contest, the result of which,
they assert, will be the reelection Of
President Taft
No one within the inner ranks Of
the democratic party will make a
prediction as to whom their standard
bearer will be. The general impress
sion prevails that it es between Gov.
Harmon, of Ohio. ant Gov. Wilson, Of
New Jersey, with the former a favor
ite at this time and the chances good
for deadlock and the nomination Gf
some man like Oscar w. Underwood,
of Alabama; Champ Clark, of Mis-
souri,; Gov. Foss, of Massachusetts,;
Gov. Marshall, of Indiana; Mayor
Gaynor, of New York, or Gov Bald
win, of Connecticut.
Some members of the New York
democracy express the belief that
Gov. Dix may land the prize, but
this talk is not taken with any degree
of seriousness outside of New York.
On the republican side, it is gen.
orally believed that President Tart
will be re-nominated. In fact, per-
sons who have watched the various
moves in the national game say that
nothing, not even the avowed canlf-
dacy of Theodore Roosevelt, can pre-
vent the denomination of the presi-
dent 1t is expected in many quar-
ters that Mr.. Roosevelt, while not ana
nouncing himself as a candidate,
would be glad to run if the conven-
tion nominated him. Not even the
most enthusiastic republicans believe,
however, that he would make any
thing like the run he made in 1901,
when he swept the country by an al
most unprecedented majority over
Judge Alton B. Parker.
The republican national convention
will be held in the coliseum in Chi
cago, on June 18. Only four men
have been mentioned in connection
with the nOmination-Preside Taft,
Theodore Roosevelt, Justice Charles
E. Hughes and Senator LaFollette.
The latter is at the present time
campaign for delegates in
the middle west, and will continue to
stump" the country up almost to the
eve of the convention. q
Justice Hughes is talked of as a
compromise candidate in case there
is deadlock between the President
and Mr.. Roosevelt. BY those who
have watched the developments most
closely, however, it is believed that
the president will, without question,
be re-nominated, though an effort win
be made to stampede the convention
for Mr.. Roosevelt
The democratic convention will be
held probably during the first week
in July. New York, Chicago, st. Louis
and Baltimore are all making efforts
to otain it. While New York is put
ting up formidable fight, it is ex-
pected by the democratic leaders that
the assemblage will be either in st.
Louis or Baltimore.
From the day the nominations are
made the battle will be on, and both
republicans and democrats expect It
will be one of the most picturesque
and important presidential struggles
in the recent history of the country.
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