The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-06-05
Is Not Borne Out by the
Present Outlook.
THOUSANDS OF HIS OWN PARTY
Would Oppose Him On Ac-
count of Notorious Third
Term Idea.
TEDDY AND TAFT FIGHT DIRTY

tician who is dead. That is the def
milton of a statesman that wa
given by the late Thomas B. Reed
of Maine, who was one of thu
smartest men | ever knew in my
| life. Whilst that may be true in 6
general sense, l want to say thai
there are a few statesmen in the
National Capital at this day who
are not dead. l have talked not
only with those statemen, both Re.
publicans and Democrats, but with
politicians in Congress on both
sides OF the political fence and they
all express the same opinion that
this fight in the Republican party
for the nomination for President
between Taft and Roosevelt is the
most pitiable, execrable and dis
graceful exhibition that has ever
been seen in American politics.
They all have come to the conclu-
sion. regardless of party, that Meth
er one of these men can be elected
to the Presidency if he is nomi-
mated at Chicago.
There are a lot of Democrats in
this country who affect to believe,
whether they do or not, that Roose-
welt would be absolutely invincible
as the Republican candidate for
President and that no Democrat
could defeat him. Those men are
merely superficial observers. They
have not dug under the surface suf-
fciently far to find that in every
Presidential primary less than 80
per cent Of the Republican vote in
that State has been polled for both
him and Taft. What became of the
other so per cent? They stayed at
home, where they will continue 10
stay IL Roosevelt should be .nomi-
mated, but regardless of that fact
there is another that is evry signif-
icant. With what little political
experience I have had, l made the
assertion a few days ago when some
Democrat said we could not defeat
Roosevelt, that there we're two mil
lion patriotic Republicans in the
United States who would refuse to
support any man for a third term.
Almost as in corroboration of my
statement, the next mornings pa
pers announced in a telegram from
ST. Louis that Judge Rombauer had
organized, a Republican anti-third
term club and that he had obtained
the signatures of nearly one thous-
and leading Republicans in st.
Louis the very first day he started
out. '
A lot of newspapers in this coun-
try, whose editorial writers know
nothing of Missouri or Missouri
politics, Immediately laughed at the
idea. Well, happen to have lived
in st. Louis a long time, and l
know that Judge Rombauer is not
only one of the ablest lawyers in
St. Louis but one of the leading Re-
publicans in the State of Missouri.
He is, perhaps, the strongest man
intellectually in st. Louis in the Re-
publican party. He announces that
this is only a starter and that he
will have over three million sign
ers and members of his anti-third
term club before he is through with
it. Aside from that, the most infiu-
entail and ablest German newspa-
per in the United States is the
Westliche Post, which has announc-
ed that If Roosevelt is nominated,
it will support the Democratic
nominee. That means that one
hundred thousand German Repub-
licans in Illinois and Missouri will
vote just as the Westliche Post tells
them.
This whole campaign between
Roosevelt and Taft has alien
.ated hundreds of thousands OF
good Republicans from the Repub-
lican party because they believe
that the elimination and recrimi-
nation between Taft and Roosevelt
has proved absolutely that the Re-
publican party is rotten and abso-
lutely unfit to administer the at
fairs of this Government in the In
terest OF the people. They have
not only concluded to stay at home
In these primaries, but concluded
to vote for a Democrat at the next
election. provided that Democrat II
sure enough Democrat who in
spires their confidence in his abili-
ty. his integrity. his manhood and
his American patriotism. 4t
A good many OF US have stood on
: the cliffs that border the ocean and
have seen TIE mighty waves lash
themselves into fury and dash