Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-16
PRESIDENTS ADVISERS MAD BE-
CAUSE he WILL NOT LIsTEN
TO WARNINGS.
ovER.coNFIpENr OF RESULT
OF NOVEMBER ELECTION
Self Assurance Turns Many Friends
whose Advice Hs Ignores Away
From His suppert-suppertsrs Of
Administration Fear RoessvsIt and
His Whiri~ind Campaign.
Especial Correspondence!

Washington, Aug. 1S.-The politicians
who want to be active in the TAFT
campaign are at their wits end trying
to find some way to make the president
get into the political game. At the
present writing, they are saying, not
for publication, that the president 70
taking about as much real part In the
political performance as II ne were
sitting unmoved in the bleachers or
were on the outside Of the grounds en-
tirely.
Unless the lieutenants Of the presi-
dent can find some way to poke him
up and make him lit the ball vigorous
ly they viii be in despair. Already, a
good many Of them are sore and weary
and Disguised.
Not Open to Suggestions.
Every day, some politician from the
the provinces comes to Washington and
heads for the White House fretghted
with q suggestion or two as to how II
would be possible in his bailiwick 70
lasso the bull moose or to put the XII
bosh on the democrats. The president.
so the politicians aver, Is not showing
proper interest in such suggestions. II
has happened, in fact, that gentlemen
coming along Of late with pertectiy
good ideas on what to do in the cam
paign have found themselves unable 70
gain admission to the presence OF the
chief executive. The inevitable result
follows. They go away mad ana sore
and declaring line TAFT cause can go
to thunder fer all Of them.
Taft ovar. Confident.
The president is commonly reputed
TO have a strange amount OF confidence
in his own reelection. None OF ms
political lieutenants has. They wouio
like, however, to see the Taft ticket
make a fair showing. They want this
for reasons OF the future appertain>ns
to control of the organization and the
like. And in order to make 1t, they
want the president to get busy ano go
into the business Of lambasting the
enemy at every turn. They want MN
to take a shot at the bull moose every
morning before breakfast and to jump
IN Woodrow Wilson for dessert every
time he eats dinner.
Taf.'s Friends Fear Roosevelt.
Unless something Of this sort is done.
say the political wiseacres who want
to give the president counsel, the OUT
come in November IS likely to be amaz-
ingly, humiliatingly disastrous. The men
around the president, or some OF them,
fear that when Roosevelt gets fairly
turned loose. and begins his real cam
paign on the stump. he will stir up the
common folks like swarms OF bees ana
that Roosevelt will carry states where
now this is deemed entirely unlikely.
Moreover, the lieutenants Of the presi-
dent have a wholesome respect for the
speaking proclivities Of Woodrow VIII
son.
Politicians Exaggerated.
But the president is not paying much
attention to talk of this sort. He Is
taking the situation easily. This Is by
no means the first time that the poll
tical advisers Of the president have
been exasperated by his Indifference &c
politics or his failure to grasp political
conditions. Before the Chicago con-
vention. in the preconyention primaries
the president was long urged to go ou'
and strike sledgehammer blows. he mac
no relish for the job. He finally die
| try to do this. when 1t was seen thai
Roosevelt was sweeping things befor<
| him in every state where he made
real campaign. How successful thu
president was is seen in the primary
| results in his own state. in New Jerse!
land elsewhere. The outcome was 81
disastrous that the president does no
| have much heart to try 1t again or II
fact, to make any kind Of an attempt t.
engage in hard, rough and tumble poll
tics