Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-16
Bismarck Tribune Washington Bureau.
Robert NJ. McWads.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.--The TOUR.
cornered fight for the presidency Is
now about to be inaugurated, with the
usual idea predominating that the
prohibition candidate, Eugene Chain,
is not in the running, although at the
National Capital as Is very many 9th
err parts of the country, the alleged
prCnibitionlsts are butting in and
making their influence felt, so far as
local, state and national legislation
Is concerned. OF all the candidates.
that of Theodore Roosevelt Is by long
odds the most aggressive and strange
t add. By far the best fixed financiat
ly. The Bull Moose, the Boss OF all
the Bosses, has undoubtedly at his
disposition an exceedingly large and
practically unlimited campaign fund
and, in the experience of politicians
who follow the business Of delivering
the votes of their respective precincts
wards, etc, it is the money that
counts for results in many sections
on election day. The funds at the
disposal Of William Howard Taft are
not either big or generous, and there
is a strong possibility that John Wan
amaker, of Philadelphia, New York,
Paris and London, may feel called on
to pass his hat among his friends and
business and other acquaintances. 1t
Is stated that a steady stream Of gold
en- dollars is continuously pouring in
to te choffers of Woodrow Wilson,
and that the avowed intention of the
southern democracy to raise half a
m..liOn dollars as it's share Of the
War Chest has stiffened the spinal
column of many hesitating northern
to such an extent that they
are no longer backward at coming for
ward with the sineWs of war.
In almost every other direction and
phase of the national political situa.
ton the approaching campaign brist-
les with interesting and exciting con
ditions, not the least absorbing Of
which will be the desperate attempt
of the Silent Clam of Oyster Bay to
wipe off the face of the earth his old
time friend President Taft, against
whom he appears to entertain an al
most insane hatred. At the same time
he is credited by his followers with
the intention of settling up old scores
with William Jennings Bryan in his
Enthusiastically vigorous fashion,
just as soon as he gets his oratorical
guns trained on the alleged perfidious
Nebraskan and shows up the latter
in his alleged Judas Iscariot-like treat
ment of Champ Clark and his aborted
attempt to corral the presidential
nomination at the Baltimore conven.
ton. 1t is intimated that the Silent
Clam will also show up the Princeton
school-masters antipathies to alien
immigrants and the descendants of
alien immigration in such and unfa.
vorable light as will turn away from
Wilson the votes of thousands
Upon thousands of citizens of foreign
descent in every section of the United
Another thing, the labor vote
8 claimed by the Bull Moose to be
with Theodore Roosevelt; and
IN proof of that claim they point out
fact that John Mitchell is mighty
to their ambitious chieftain, for
yetful of the equally, if not more
important fact that Samuel Gompers
md lots Of the leaders of the Amer
can federation of labor are in almost
intimate touch with Woodrow Wilson
md ~forgetful, too, of the incontrovert
be fact that Taft has secured a great
leal of national and state legisltion
If undoubtedly practical benefit to
he working classes, both men and
yome1l, and that the child labor laws
argely owe their existence to his sa-
initiative. Again, in his
promised whirlwind campaign tour of
orty out of the fo%rty-eight states of
he Union, Roosevelt's boosters forget
hat in some of those states he will
meet really progressive men who
we're %staunchly in favor of Robert
IaFollette, Of Wisconsin, and that
hey are every bit as much disgust !
ID with his treacherous treatment of
IaFollette as are the democratic SUP |
of Champ Clark with the foul
reachery which defeated that splend- |
d old Missourian at Baltimore.
At this writing, it is extremely diff
icult to predict what the Taft lieu