The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-08-01
LANDSLIDE FOR The
BALTIMORE OUTPUT
Beveridge viii Be Moose Nominee For
Governor Of Hoosiers, But Defeat is
Certain-South Sending Its Young
Men To The Senate.
(By Walter Cain.)

Special to The Neios.
Washington, D. c., Aug. 1.-Mr. Taft,
with no show whatever of disposi-
tion to look backward or go forward,
has placed the management of his
campaign in the hands of Chas. Hilles,
VIM. E. Barnes, Harry New, Murray
Crane, Victor Rosewater and Boies
Penrose. Mr.. Roosevelt, with a cor,
responding acrimonious disposition
has chosen to put his preliminary cam
paign manager, Mr. Dixon, in charge
of his forthcoming essay and will as
sociate with him Bill Finn of Penn
sylvania, George W, Perkins, Hiram
Johnson, Francis j. Heney and others
who we're similarly conspicuous in the
Chicago affair. Both candidates are
hardening to dootl which the con-
tact of such irreconcilables is sure
to foregathor The bitterHess engen-
dered during - long drawn out con-
vention embroglio cannot now be
soothed. Neither side II wiling to
make one single conceecio. q tAe 9Th
er. Mr.. Taft stands by the ellis.
saries who never failed him at Chi
| cago and the relentless wielder of his
own lariat gnashes his teeth and
continues to proclaim his former ad-
herents to be worthy unquestioned
leadership. There is no sign of weak
enihg ON the part of either, though
both recognize and appreciate the dire
inevitableness Of utter demolition at
the November polls.
Standing the two punches up
side by side, and the Taft
galaxy show worst before the
people. There is to its members no
semblance of political respectability
They are brigands by practice and
practically by confession. They see
the plank ahead of them and in their
intense hatred of everything Roose-
veltian are ready with grim despera-
tion to walk it. Ohio is the state that
is now giving them most apparent un-
rest. When Judge Dillon, their nomi-
nee for governor, and about their most
respectable Ohio asset, declined posi-
lively and stubbornly to accept the
nomination, he fairly took their bad
breath away. He virtually turned the
state over to the democrats and Taft
and Hilles, Barnes and Crane, all
know it. Roosevelt will have a can
didate and a successor to Dillon as
the Taft champion must be selected.
Either candidate will be beaten and
neither is expected to more than serve
as a nucleus around which his adher-
ents may rally. In Indiana, Roose-
welt will have the gifted Beveridge as
his nominee for governor. It is not
certain that the Taft following will
make a nomination. 1t Is certain,
however, that such as it is, it will new
er prove loyal enough to the old party
to vote for Beveridge. Indiana, with
the republicans in normal condition
is always a doubtful state. Divided
as it is sure to be and with Wilson
the democratic candidate for president
and Marshall forcing the fighting as
the nominee for vice-president, there
is no republican of either faction so
recklessly bold as to figure anything
save landslide for the Baltimore out.
put. Ohio and Indiana are big too in
electoral strength and count as much
as does the Empire State of New
York. Add their vote to the electoral
vote that is conceded to Wilson and
see how easy it is to figure from
Maine, New York, New Jersey, Mary
land, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Illinois
and dozen others promisingly Ger.
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