Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-03-30
COMPARES
TAFT AND
ROOSEVELT
CORRESPONDENT Seems TO
HAVE BUT LITTLE FAITH IN
THE PRESIDENT-BUT is A
FIRM FRIEND OF MIR. ROOSE-
WELT.

Speculative reports and straw votes
beginning TO come In from different
parts of the country appear to show
Roosevelt man Of formidable
strength, holding his own with Taft
without an administration band to
cheer the crowd. II Roosevelt can
hold his own In the face of the pres
ent concerted attack upon him, he
stands In fair way to win the nom
ination. He is, Of course, paying for
his acts as president. Business In
terests are anxious to get rid OF him
because he is a business disturber
He is standing an attack that comes
TO every man who is In the public
eye and who tries to take the bull by
the horns and accomplish something
for the good Of the common people.
Governor West will have to go
through day Of reckoning to the
very people he is now trying to help.
All men who are willing to breast the
popular tide for the sake Of the com
mon people will find when the time
comes that the common people are
ready to desert their friend. The truth
OF the old saying ls readily observed:
The American people the always sure
10 build the triumphal arch through
which their heroes pass with bricks,
80 that they can have something to
throw at them when they march
through.
Taft gets 5000 votes out Of $4,000 in
North Dakota, LaFollette being In the
lead Kansas gives Roosevelt fifteen
TO one over Taft, Colorado gives
Roosevelt entire state, and even the
State university Of Oregon gave
Roosevelt 169 against 116 for Taft,
or a straw vote representing 35 per
cent OF the total number Of scholars,
perhaps the university vote Is the
hand OF Allan Eaton retaliatng be-
cause the 0regonlan wants Taft-or
says IL does) Reports from the big
centers are not damaging to ROose-
welt.
Judge Grosscup, IN retiring from the
federal bench, said that Taft was the
last Of the old-llne presidents ever to
sit in the presidents chair. He fore
saw the end OF the old and the dawn
ing Of the new, Taft still clings to
the old and Roosevelt has taken on
the new. What do the people want
That remains to be seen. II they want
the old style Of politics oillng the ad-
mlnlstration machinery, Taft will be
elected. II, however, the new school
which Is sweeping the country like 0
new broom, Ia strong enough numer-
ically, Roosevelt will certainly be
elected.
Az read, day after day, the dog
gerel, tho communications, the slur.
ring references and what not, about
Roosevelt's farewell and his great
breach OF political ethics" (some
thing we are such notorious (9) stick
lers for), II makes one feel a little
like recommending to most OF thes,
harpers the remedy prescribed for the
knooker: Don't waste time hittinl
him on tho head with a mallet where
his brains ought 10 be, but kick hin
whero they are, II Roosevelt Ia suct
an undesirable as some Of the news
paperB would have him appear, they
are making a terrible tempest in {
very small teapot They are exposing
their hand by their great anxiety
They are afraid the dear people
who do the voting haven't sena,
enough TO know for themselves who
they want They are quite In lin,
with Mr.. Taft's sentlients. "The peo
pie do not know enough to administer
the country, We want skilled politi
clans, learned iurlsts and professional
government managers' And here Il
all the trouble, The people have hat
enough Of this sort OF government
That they think they know who the!
want Is evidenced by the united attacl
on Roosevelt by the forces intereste,
In man who Ia not wanted. Tn,
sooner the Taft supporters drop por
sonallties for the great principle In
yolved In this change In our politIca
government, the better The pres
cannot elect Taft nor defeat Roose
welt.
A safe and sane French reyolu
ton Ia sweeping over this country
and nothing can stop H. The pres
OF France were unable TO stay N,
deluge Instead OF demanding yolc
through the censored papers, the,