Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-24

can party and will not divide the
Democracy.
The Parker incident was" for the
time dropped as of less Importance
than the chance to take advantage
of the party discontinue of the Re-
pub1icans. 1t was a common remark
all day that the two conventions
were Complementary of each other
and that the Baltimore convention
would be responsive to the demands
neglected at Chicago.
Jacob M. Dickinson. MI. Taft's first
secretary of war and now the govern
ment counsel who is prosecuting the
suit against the United States Steel
Company, was one of the jubilant
one. AS a member of a Republican
administration and a lifelong Demo-
crat MI. Dickinson has had oppor-
tunity to judge acutely of passing
events.
"I think two things happened at
Chicago" said Mr.. Dickinson. First,
it seems sure that Taft cannot be
elected. Few have any doubt about
that. The vents of the campaign
before the primaries and the events
of the convention from day to day
are enough to show what is ahead
for the regular Republican party.
Whether Roosevelt Is to sweep the
country is another matter. l don't
believe he will do anything of the
kind. He seems to have accomplished
about all he can, and the enthusiasm
of a possibly large group of strong
and ardent personal friends will not
IN ln him far g., fIA noaI Io aN1 fhA.y
have chosen to travel.
THE Democratic party has not had
in a century such a chance to win a
great victory as 1t now has"
ct am not inclined" said Congress
man Henry T.. Rainier, of Illinois, ito
underrate the effect Of the Roosevelt
bolt In my own State. l expect that
the new party will have as much of
a start there as in any State. We
hear that Illinois millionaires, who
have contributed generously with
other millionaires elsewhere to pro-
mote Mr.. Roosevelts campaign, have
reached the limit and have refused
to go on with him. / do not take
stock in that; pride will impel them
to go on. The Chicago Tribune, as
we all have seen, is a persistent
piece of machinery, and l suppose 1t
is a fair guess hat that paper will
be the Western organ of the new
party"
IF Roosevelt is to hold his
wi anywhere" said Congressman
Hughes, of New Jersey, sit will be
in my good old State of New Jersey.
I think that in all probability his
friends there, such as Record and
Blauvelt. are responsible for the
lengths to which he went in the cam
paign and at the convention. They
out-Roosevelted him in their efforts
to set the country on fire. But the
split Is just what we want to get rid
of two evils-the reactionary element
of the Republican party. as exempli-
fed by Taft, and the heterogeneous
and unthinking progressiveism of
Roosevelt. 1t is not easy to decide
which Is the most dangerous to the
country, and we shallohe fortunate to
lay them both to rest as promptly as
possible.
THE confident thing among Demo-
crats-you cannot have failed to oh
serve it's the nomination here at
this convention of a progressive and
the adoption of a strong and
sive platform. The split at Chicago
Is good news for New Jersey and for
the whole country, too, l firmly be-
lieve."
Indiana Strong for Colonel.
I'm Indiana said Tom Taggart,
national committeeman from that
State, there will surely be a disposi-
ton among progressive Republicans
to stay by Roosevelt. The resent
ment at the steam-roller methods at
Chicago is nowhere any stronger than
in Indiana, and there will be an at
tempt there to control the organiza-
ton for Roosevelt. But, after all, 1t
is a split, and there will be a large
part of the Republican party there
that will stand by Taft and try to