Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-13
POLITICS DAY. BY DAY

Col Roosevelt lost no time in coming
back at Representative Campbell in
quoting the overturning of the decision
Of Plate as an instance Of the working
of the recall. Col. Roosevelt yesterday
said:
Representative Campbelrs position is
in effect that the American people are
as unfit for self-government and as prone
to guilty excuses as the mob which
demanded the crucifixion Of the Savior.
do not think Representative Campbell
comparison is in good taste, and in any
event it needs no discussion by me-
President Taft yesterday put a toboo on
all attacks on Col. Roosevelt by those
managing the Taft denomination cam
paign. He issued instructions that the
publicity work of the bureau should be
confined to principles and policies. The
President is convinced that he will be
renominated at Chicago. and he does not
want anything done in the preliminary
work which will make for ill-feeling and
lack of harmony in the party.
Taft now has 124 delegates. Four at
large from Virginia, two each in the
third and fourth South Carolina. the
ninth Iowa and the seventh Tennessee
were elected yesterday. -
The republican state convention of
Tennessee yesterday renomnated b. W..
Hooper for governor and II. N. Cate for
judge of the court OF civic appears, and
Endorsed President Taft for renomina-
ton.
. The Michigan legislature without en-
acting any OF the ieglslauon for which 1T
was called in extra session, adopted a
resolution providing for adjournment
March 70.
At st. Paul, Mimi, yesterday Miss
ElOise l.. Callhan, who is said to be the
only woman in Minnesota who really
KNOWS practical pOiltlcs, after more tnan
ten years retirement from active politics,
took charge of the local TAFT headquar-
lerS.
yesterday addressed the constitutional
convention, taking a view opposite to tnat
of Gov. Harmon of the initiative and
referendum.
Mr.. Bryan also favored the recall, say
ing the recall is an evolution rather than
a revolution.
THE only difference between the recall
as now proposed and Impeachment as it
has been employed" said Mr.. Bryan, lis
that IN impeachments the trial is before
a body of officials while the recall places
the decision in the hands of the people.
with the recall, official terms may
with safety be made longer. And speak
ing of the length of terms, the tendency
is toward making an executive ineligible
to reelection. No one can devote his
70 he vie
is clouded by political aspirations or his
judgment perverted by personal consid-
Grafton"
The Champ Clark headquarters last
night gave out the following:
In many Of the press accounts giving
the number of delegates that have al
ready been instructed for the different
candidates it has appeared that Speaker
Clark has only five delegates from Okla
homa. This erroneous impression is PROB
ably due to the misunderstanding that
the reapportionment bill enacted by the
last session Of Congress gives Oklahoma
three additional members OF Congress
Oklahoma VIII have twenty votes in
the national convention. of which
the thirty-six from Missouri already n
structed, and the twenty Kansas dele
gates now assured. will make the speak
er's strength sixty-six instead OF sixty
Speaker Clark is continuing to grow in
the south as he has grown in the western
states Representative Robert c. WICK
life of Louisiana today declared that
Champ Clark will step from the Speaker $
chair into the White House. Mr.. Wick
life in an interview gave his reasons for
believing that Clark will be the nominee
of the Baltimore convention
CLARK. Wilson and Harmon appear to
be the three strongest candidates for the
<fol inof nd aCfinQf1
their strength in the order named said
Mr.. Wickliffe.
"Mr Underwood of Alabama is unques-
tionably a great national leader. He
possesses all the qualities necessary In
the making of an ideal candidate and
doubtless will receive many OF the south
ern delegates on the first ballot, but the
unjust plea that the time has not yet ar
rived when a southern man can be elect
ed will be strongly urged by the friends
Of some other candidates, which probably
will cause him to fail of the necessary
two-thirds vote.
I'm analyzing the situation, we must
| consider many factors and many angles
Take for instance Mr.. Bryan. However
he may be regarded in the south. no care
full student of American politics can fat
to recognize the power he Yields In the
west and middle west. There are thou
sands of democrats who believe absolute
/ ly in him, and he must be reckoned with
as one of the Warwicks in the coming
convention
| The Woodrow Wilson publicity bureau
| issued this statement last night:
THAT Gov. Woodrow Wilson has more
| than a fighting chance to capture the
| delegation in Gov. Harmon's own state
| of Ohio was the statement today OF a
democratic representative from Ohio, Rep
resentative John ]. Whitacre OF Canton
| in an interview in which he babe defiance
| to the Harmon forces.
Representative Whitacre has confined