The Alaska citizen., 1912-11-11

President of the United States for a third term. This vas his un- doing.
 It Was he who built up the Re publican machine that rolled him out of the Republican convention last June IL was he who per fected that machine to the point where he had no difficulty in uomin. ating Taft in 1908. nothwithstandinG the fact that Taft vas practically the choice of no one but Roosevelt in the Republican convention that year.
 After Roosevelt had succeeded in nominating and electing Taft. he turned the machine over to Taft. and then made his hunting trip to Afri- ca. While in Africa a new move ment sprung up in the old Republi- can party. under the leadership of
 Senator I.aFollette. known as Pro gressive Repuhlicanism. and upon his return from his hunt he was con
 fronted by the two factions of his
 party who were al war with each other His championship vas sought hy both factions but he waited and
 watched with his car 10 the ground and when the state elections of 1910 came along cast his lot with
 Taft and the standpat Republicans He easily got control of the entire Republican machine of the state of New York and got absolute control of the New York state convention. and personally wrote the platform for it. In that platform he positively hubbled over in his endorsement of the Taft administration. and declar ed that the Payne-Aldridge tariff was
 the best law upon the subject Of
 tariff that was ever written--in
 fact was ideal
 At the time of that convention it was a part of his program that Taft he reelected. and he was clear ing the ground for the coming cleo
 ton. hut lo and behold. he con
 ceiyed the notion in 1911 that ltI
 would be an easy matter for him to
 be elected to succeed Taft Then it was that he broke loose from his own creature. and Taft his pet at once hename his enemy. From that time on Taft and the Tariff looked altogether different to him The pro zressire movement condemned by
 him in his New York platform, was coming 10 the front with gigantic strides. and presto he appeared with bright lights and in thunder
 ing tones proclaimed himself the only original progressive RePubli-
 an. and the only author of every progressive doctrine. and his fol
 lowers believed him.
 He declared himself a candidate
 for President subject to the action Of
 the Republican convention. and ran m against the machine that he had operated four years before and had | could not alter one iota of it's work ing machinery and. the machine roll,
 ed him out of the convention Here came the first suggestion of his subsequent name for he hollered
 Bull" He believed that he could
 kill the party that gave him every
 honor he ever had. and build up
 party all his own, capture the White House, and retain possession thereof for the rest of his natural life Here is where he assumed
 the appropriate name of Bull
 Moose" appropriate for the reason
 that it is known to be absolutely selfish, as having no regard what ever for it's kind-always aband oning them in times of danger to save it's own precious hide
 Theodore the Moose. succeeded in wrecking the Republican party be yond hope of repair, and winning from his former idolators the credit of destroying the party that made him President of the United States two terms, and the pride of his coun- trymen
 And thus he passes from the
 stage. Exit the Bull Moose, sick
 and battered but over the dead body
 of his benefactor-and like the Bull
 Moose, he sulks, neither game nor Sniriied dying d miserable death