Catoctin clarion., 1912-04-11
TAFT CAMPAIGN
ON THE VERGE
OF COLLAPSE
Reaet|oaary Leaders New Ad-
init He Gould Not De
Elected i Nominated.
new YORK sun Tells TRUTH

In q Carefully Prepared Article This
Representative Of the Interests That
Are Supporting Taft Frankly De-
clares That His denomination Means
Defeat In the November Election.
The Secret Scheme Uncovered.
That President Taft cannot be e.cct-
ed if 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
in particular, as well as to the recogni-
tion given 1t as a representative ana
spokesman Of the great business in'
terests which center In New York ana
York which recently manipulated the
fraudulent and farcical primaries held
In the state.
1t 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
tion Of delegates. In which they care
fully refrained from instructing SIN
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 sti6ing
public sentiment In order to prevent
the election of Roosevelt delegates
there was what the Sun declares to be
a general agreement among the reac-
tionary political leaders that Mr..
Taft's candidacy had become virtual
impossibllity.
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 can
didate has become a Subject for seri
Gus consideration on the part of Re-
pubIicans who believe their party to be
of vastly more Importance than any
man in it, no matter how exalted his
station, and who place party loyalty
ebove personal fealty. These Repub-
iicans 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
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 file Of small Republican
shopkeepers and workingmen.
The Sun then says:
Several months ago influential Re-
publicans, some Of them very close to
President Taft, declared beneath their
breath that the president II renoni-
mated could not be re elected. While
expressing this opinion they hadn't the
remotest shadow of n doubt that the
president. through the power Of fed
eral patronage, could force his own re
nomination"
Among the reasons given by the Sun
why President Taft cannot be re-elect-
ed the Payne Aldrich law Is cited as Of
greatest importance. Respecting this
the Sun says:
',rhe Republican national platform Of
1903 called for an immediate eytraor.
dinary session of congress In the event
of Taft's election to revise the tariff
In obedience to 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
entanged 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.
ut has been this discord. these com
plications, that have led Republicans
entirely friendly to the president to dc
clare that, while hs could force his own
denomination, il was exceedin Iy
doubtful II no could be re e-eIscted."
The Sun adds:
with the assembling Of congress in
Washington in December last the dec
iarations that tho president could no.
be re- elected If renominated took on :
moro emphatic tome"
The Sun declares that leading Repub
leans. by which the Sun obviously
means leading reactionaries, frankly
admit that they do not know and have
no means Of knowing the full extent
of the Roosevelt strength In the diff
ferent states. The same leaders. the
Sun says, express doubt II Mr.. Roose'
welt himself could persuade his fol
lowers to support Taft.
1t Is known that what the Sun points
out with such clearness Is the real be