Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-04-05
FRIDAY, APRIL S, 1912.
ON VERGE OF COLLAPSE.
Reeetisnary Leaders Now Admit
TAFT Could Not BE Elected
" Nom In sted.


ed If nominated is conceded by the
New York Sun In a 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
Hressives and to Theodore Roosevelt
in particular, as well as to the recogni
ton given 1t as a representative and
spokesman Of the great business In
tcrests 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.
1t adds to the Significance Of the
though ostensibly the result Of careful
investigation, was withheld until aft.
er the organization bosses had put
through the fraudulent primary cleo
don of delegates, in which they care
fully RETAINED 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 sitting
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-
tonary political leaders that Mr..
Taft's candidacy had become a 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 a 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-
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 it, no matter how exalted his
station, and who place party loyalty
above personal feaIty. These Repub-
Leans declare that they will take any
reasonable step which would seem to
insure their party's victory at tho 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 file of small Republican
shopkeepers and workingmen."
The Sun then says:
Several months ago influential Re-
publicans, some of Thorn very close to
President Taft, declared beneath their
mated could not BIO reelected. 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"
Among the reasons given by the Sun
why President Taft cannot be reflect
ed the Payne-Aldrich law is cited as OF
greatest Importance. Respecting this
the Sun says:
1.-THE Republican national platform of
1908 called for an immediate extraor-
binary session of congress in the event
of Tafts 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 compi-
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 lne uueSlloh. III duulllOn tueIe
have been a myriad other troublesome
complications, all intended to weaken
the president and to bring about bitter
aiscord in the ranks Of his party.
at has been this discord these com
plications, that have led Republicans
entirely friendly to the president to de
clare that, while he could force his own
denomination, il was exceedingly
doubtful if he could DO reelected"
The Sun adds
with the assembling Of congress in
Washington in December last the dec
Iarations that the president could NOT
be reelected If renominatsd took on q
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