The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1912-02-29
A WIDE SPLIT
is PREDICTED
Result Of Roossvslfs Announce.
m,nl Of His Ca,d dacy
TAFT HAS NO DIRECT REPLY
ris ppiiiiesi Managers viii wage
con,tt, FER Delegates with Al Re.
sources ~ the AeminittrailcH---
Issue viii Be Drawn sharply Be
tween ossencera Of Constitution ano
itt Essallsnis---s Convention Issue

Washington. Feh u The one
fact that stands out clearly above Ri
others IN the present politics siiua,
iiun u that The Is Toilette. Roose-
v,lt and Tafi candidates. have hope.
lcsaly divided the Republican party
The belief Of many politicians that the
Roosevelt men, " defeated, VIII bolt
the chicago oonyenll1n and demand
that the colonel shall run as the can
didate Of The progressives Of both
parties persists. although many men
Of both camps say that Roosevelt Is
too loyal a party man to encourage
any such idea
The prophets OF the Dol, are point
ting 20 the last lines OF the oolonefs
announcement as constituting a chal-
ienge Of tho present system OF elect
ing delegates and are deducing from IL
On intimation that II the work OF the
machine delegates "a not satisfae.
tory 10 the progressiVes they viii not
ho.l themselves bound by either the
platform or The nominees OF the con
vention.
No bolt may develop, nevertheless
both sides have abandoned the twad-
die that the nomination OF Taft or OF
Roosevelt would unite the Republl-
can party
President TAFT viii have no direct
answer TO the announcement from
Roosevelt prior TO the Ohio speeches,
according TO statements from official
sources
The presidents blood is up and the
battle will be waged without quarter,
except that Taft viii permit no resort
to personal attacks on Roosevelt. The
contest for delegates win be waged
with all the. resources OF the admin
lstration by the political managers.
while the president himself win take
the field in a series OF speeches whose
dates and places are yet TO be an
nounced,
Viewing the Republican national
situation It Is believed here that the
Issue Will be drawn sharply and
clearly between the defenders Of the
constitution and Its assailants,
While an effort is made by the
Roosevelt men to make II appear that
the colonels utterances on the Judi
clary are not essentially radical when
closely analysed. the lawyers are re-
plying that his doctrine in It's practical
application would place II In the power
OF the voters OF any state to nullify
the federal constitution as far as that
state Is concerned; hence, they say,
should his scheme be accepted IT
would ultimately array the states
against each other.
In the opinion of many prominent
men. event the third-term issue will
cut little figure IN the campaign COM
pared with the dlstrust OF the peo-
pie over such an attack upon the In
tegrlty OF constitutional government
as is implied In the address OF Roose-
welt 10 the ohio constitutional con-
yention.
A hard platform fight is expected in
the Chicago convention along this
line, and II is understood to be the
purpose OF the Taft men TO insist upon
declaration favoring constitutional
Integrity as unequivocal as that for
The gold standard adopted by the Re
publican national convention at st.
Louis in 1896
Indeed, as one Republican senator
put IL, the country had Bryan and
free silver in 1896, and now II has
Roosevelt and the breaking down OF
the constitution. The result will be
the same In each case"