Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1912-04-11
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TAFT CAMPAIGN
ON THE VERGE
OF COLLAPSE
ReactionaTy Leaders Now Ad-
NIT He Gould Not Be
Elected II Nominated.
new YORK SUN TELLS TRUTH

Nv SaToIuby TTSpoT0o HIs'Sse 'Hs
Representative Of the Interests That
Are Supporting Taft Frankly De-
clarss That His denomination Means
Defeat In tho November Election.
The Secret Scheme Uncovered.
That President Taft cannot be elect
ed IL nominated is conceded by the
New York Sun In carefully prepared
article published Sunday. March 81,
and sent by the Sun for simultaneous
publication in all the newspapers
throughout the country which sub
scribe to the Sun news service.
The undeniable Importance of this
statement by the Sun Is due to the
Suns attitude Of opposition to all pro
gressives and to Theodore Roosevelt
I'm particular, as well as to the recogni-
ton given II as a representative and
spokesman Of the great business In
terests which center In New York and
Of the political organization In New
York which recently manipulated the
fraudulent and farcical primaries held
In the state.
II adds TO the significance Of the
Suns statement that its article, al
though ostensibly the result Of careful
investigation, was withheld until aft
er the organization bosses had put
through the fraudulent primary cleo
ton Of delegates, in which they care
fully refralned from instructing sim
gle one OF the men they claim to have
elected for Taft.
The investigation upon which the
article Is based had been completed
and the article actually prepared be
fore the primaries were held. showing
apparently that at the time the New
York bosses were engaged in sitting
public sentiment In order to prevent
the election Of Roosevelt delegates
there was what the Sun declares to be
q general agreement among the reac-
tionary political leaders that Mr..
Taft's candidacy had become virtual
impossibility.
1t is now apparent that the sole pur-
pose Of the machine bosses and the
special privilege interests. to whom
Mr.. Taft is looking for denomination,
have abandoned all idea OF supporting
him and that their only purpose Is to
prevent the nomination Of Roosevelt,
so that compromise candidate favor
able to the special privilege interests
and In harmony with machine pur-
poses may be selected at Chicago.
Although still friendly to Taft, the
Sun declares that the time has arrived
when the possibility Of electing a can
didate has become Subject for seri-
Gus consideration on the part Of Re-
publicans who believe their party to be
Of vastly more Importance than any
man in il, no matter how exalted his
station, and who place party loyalty
above personal fsslty. Those Repub-
lieans declare that they will take any
reasonable step which would seem to
insure their party's victory at the polls
in November next.
THE Republicans who expressed
these views" the Sun says, ARE be-
levers In season and out of season In
the policies Of their party. Among
this class Of Republicans are mer-
chants. importers, business men gen.
orally and professional men and the
rank and Ale Of small Republican
shopkeepers and workingmen."
The Sun then says:
Several r,onths ago influential Re-
publicans. some Of them very close to
President Taft, declared beneath their
breath that the president IL rsnomi-
mated could not be re- elected. While
expressing this opinion they hadn't the
remotest shadow OF doubt that the
president. through the power OF fed
eral patronage. could force his own re-
nomination"
why President Taft cannot be reflect
ed the Payne-Aldrich law is cited as or
greatest imp1rtance. Respecting this
the Sun says
THE Republican national platform OF
1908 called for an immediate extraor-
binary session of congress In the event
OF Taft's election to revise the tariff.
In obedience 10 his party's platform
President Taft called the extraordinary
session Of congress, which produced
the Aldrich-Payne law, and the presi-
dents troubles and his party's compli-
cations have grown and become more
entangled from the day he signed that
law. That law gave the progressives
substantial footing for their opposition
TO the Taft administration and afford
ed them grounds to go before the peo-
pie on the question. In addition there
have been myriad other troublesome
complications. all intended to weaken
the president and to bring about bitter
discord In the ranks Of his party.
1T has been this discord, these CON-
plications. that have led Republicans
entirely friendly to the president to de
clare that. while no could force HE own
denomination, il was exceedingly
doubtful IL he could be re- elected"
The Sun adds:
with thu assembling Of congress IN
Washington in December last the dec
Iarations that the president could not
be reelected IL rsnonjsstsd took on Q
more emphatic tone"