The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-06-11
Last Ditch Fight Before the
Committee
LARGE BARREL TO BE TAPPED
To Influence Delegations--Strong Press
ure to Break Southern Loyalty
Rockefeller Forces Said to Be for
Third Term Candidate.

Chicago, June ll.-0nly the power OF
Wall street money used with a lavish
ness which would put all preceding per-
formances to blush, will nominate Roose-
welt as a candidate for president of the
| United States, is the opinion of men
who are trying impartially to estimate
the chances in the unprecedented contest
just nearing its last days. This is re-
markable statement to make of great
party and great moralist candidate,
but the fiereeness of the contest cannot
be appreciated on the outside, and men
who are close to the heart of things
are talking plainly. Word has reached
Chicago that already two strangers
from the north" with unlimited credit,
are operating in one of the large south
ern states, every one Of whose delegates
is definitely instructed by regular and
| legal convention to vote to renominate
| President Taft. Pressure of the most
extraordinary character has been brought
to bear on every man who seemed like
ly to yield in his loyalty to the presi-
dent. The use of money is the last re-
| sort, and is invariably confession of
weakness and at the same time an in
dication that the contest is so close and
its outcome so doubtful that money
would not be wasted in an effort to
change few votes.
The stability of the Republican ma
tional committee in the face of attack
has been the feature OF the week, and
has forced a resort to extreme tactics.
The steady gains of the president, as
sisted by remarkable change in pub
lie opinion outside of Chicago, has dis
posed OF the pretensions of Senator Dix
on that Roosevelt is as good as nom
mated now. No man is "as good as
nominated" not even Taft, although the
chances, to-day strongly favor the presi-
dent. That the Taft men are appre-
hensive, knowing the power Of the fl
nancial influences against them, cannot
be denied The Wall Street journal
editorially charges that the Rockefeller
influence is being used directly in ia
vor of Roosevelt. The United States
Steel corporation for months has been
doing its best to defeat the president,
ana Inc JOuIudi - dutuOiibf iot tire
statement that Roosevelt has assured
the railroad interests that if elected he
will permit slight increase of railroad
rates to enable the railroads to meet
the steadily increasing charges of opera
ton which have been forced upon them.
This assertion, however, overlooks the
important fact that the president of
the United States has no more control
over railroad rates than the chairman
of the civil service commission, that
function being lodged exclusively in the
interstate commerce commission.
But that the colonel is not slow at
making promises was demonstrated
afresh yesterday when his managers in
Chicago gave out four-page letter writ |
ten by him June 8, 1912, to L. s. Lake |
of Tennessee, in which. after stating !
that the recent floods afford proof pos.
tive that the levee system can no long |
err be relied on to protect the lands along |
the lower Mississippi, the colonel de- |
clares that, "In the event of my election |
to the presidency | shall proceed with |
out delay to have made a comprehensive |
study of the whole Mississippi water |
shed with view to the immediate in
crease of the usefulness of this |
wonderful river to the people. |
A more direct bid for the |
southern delegate vote, coming, as it |
does, at this psychological moment,
could not be conceived in the mind of
man. The colonel also seeks to encour-
age southern political unanimity in his
favor by complimenting the bill for the
of the Mississippi. intro
duced by Democratic Senator Newlands
of Nevada. "The machinery and the
trained force brought together for the
Panama canal would be ready and avail
able for this work." he says.
Comment yesterday ran strongly upon
the two great political mistakes made
by Roosevelt within two weeks, the first
his antagonism of Elihu Root, whom he
attacked as a creature of boss Barnes
of New York, and his second in personal
ly sending to Chicago boss Flynn of
and thus placing himself
as positively under boss leadership as
he has charged Root with being. With
in the last twenty-four hours the Roose-
Welt managers have sent out hurry calls
to their delegates and other leading
men in every state in the I'M
on. and the incoming doubtful delegate
will be met at the portals of Chicago
by the personages in his community
most powerful to influence his Judgment
N the voting during the convention.
This influence will expand into an army
1v the middle of next week, and it is
his army which Roosevelt proposes to
1lace under command of William Flynn.
hus virtually supplanting an able and
aithful manager who publicly refused
% "stultify" himself by accepting the
rational committee proxy, which Mr..
Flynn had no objection" to using, and {
Who, moreover, as a candidate for re- q