The Nome daily nugget., 1912-03-19
WHY THEY TRY TO MAKE aoose
 WELT RUN.

The presidential situation is now exactly az forecasted a year ago by careful students of the American nr!t- tical game in the last decide. o's business and ambition are in sore straits Big business has been forced t' an uncomfortable realization of he difference between talk ari acr ym- phshment. Ambition is pai'fIily learning that its own consu ..t1s seS,r IS not contagious
 Big business knows no part. Its fealty is 10 its pocketbook. IL Is striving desperately to protect "sslf in the enjoyment of the privileges thst have heretofore been subject to little more than ortatoricsl attack Ii has found In President Taft the states man who did things to It while others talked.
 Virtually hopeless of defeating the nomination of President Taft big business has devoted itself sntil re- gently 10 the development of a demo cratic candidate who might be the beneficiary of another Harrison cam, palgn
 The failure of the LaFollette move ment Tn the republican party has re- suited in the inevitable renewal of the attempt to force Roosevelt into the field. The effort 10 make Roosevelt a candidate almost at the inception Of the affirmative side of the LaFol- lette campaign will do little 10 allay the hatred for Roosevelt which the Wisconsin senator has always cher ished
 For years Roosevelt has stood in the way of LaFollette's ambitions. As president Roosevelt took the most vigorous measures to discourage and defeat LaFollette's plans to make him self factor in the national repub- lican party Many persons Including Senator I.aFollette. have not forgot ten that Roosevelt pitched LaFOllsttc and his Wisconsin delegation out os the 1901 convention. LaFollette na not forgotten what Roosevelt and his steam roller did to the blanks LaF lette whittled for the 1908 platform o' the republican party. His unt 'nelv obscuration in the Roosevelt dust must he gall for I.aFollette'J bitter Cup.
 Roosevelt silent is a big fact in tho presidential situation-perhA2s b eger factor than he would be II hc E'oke his silence at this time. With ord he could wipe cut the as' yes tige of the LaFollet.e movement ils1' Iar as that mov sme IS relat ed to 'he republican convea.ion to he hci" ia Chicago next June.
 LaFollette Is only more definitely out Of the running than he was when his publicity agents gave him paper claim 10 a sufficient number of delega tions 10 make him a figure In the con vention There never was a til3e when he could reasonably hope to have more than s5 delegates in co1- ventlon of nearly HOO members. Now the Roosevelt talk has clouded his title to the major portion of that hy- potheticai s5.
 The republican situation. then. B reduced to the candidacy of President Taft. backed up by a record of ex- fraordinary accomplishment. and the effort to create a stampedfng public sentiment for Roosevelt.
 The democratic situation Is 1 riss iI clover puzzle. which may or may not be solved by the master a aud Of Williams Jennings Bryan The Com moner has placed himself in open and .torous opposition to Harn"n ani Underwood Governor Harmon is ora f the white hopes" Of big Duslse1s. Underwood has made himself strong. not only with the democrats of the South. but with the democrats Of :le nation. The boom for Professor VII son has shown marked symptoms of cancellation. The democratic conven- ton works under a two-t thirds ma. Jority nomination rule. Indiana and Missouri have favorite son candidates. The boss of that convention will be sort of button button. who's got the buttono" hero.
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