The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-01-29
CAMP AIGN GOSSIP
ON ROOSEVELT
APPEARANCE
Nomination No Credit to TAFT
if Roosevelt Refuses
ROOSEVELT UNDECIDED
Doesn't Really Care for the Nomlna-
ton but Likes to Be In Command
ing Position

Washington, Jan. 29.--As the move
ment grows to nominate Col Roose-
welt at Chicago, republicans are be-
ginning to ask what will the nomina-
ton be worth to Mr. Taft. if after
toying with it and soiling it, the col
onel losses it to one side, saying
there Taft, If you want the dirty
old thing you can have it. ! am
through with it?" 1t is everywhere
admitted here that it is hard to un-
derstand the colonel He seems not
to want to be a candidate and yet
likes to toy with the nomination, as
does the cat with a mouse; also he
does not want to place himself in a
position making him appear unheed-
full and ungracious to the "call OF
the people" Furthermore it is being
accepted that he does not want Mr..
Taft to have the nomination. To
whom else, than Mr.. Taft can the
nomination go if the tree chopper of
Oyster Bay does not want it? II Is
recognized that the Roosevelt men
ton is a most disquieting cause max
ing ii harder for the party to get to-
gether after the convention and i'm
periling the November results. If
present conditions continue, in so far
as Roosevelt is concerned, no matter
who runs. it is even feared the cleo
tions will be so overwhelmingly
against the republicans that there
may not be enough republicans re-
turned to the House as seeds for fu-
ture republican Houses
Many republicans say that If the
party is to be defeated, they would
like to see it administered under the
leadership of Col. Roosevelt. While,
to be sure, It is true that general con-
ditions in the country are producing
brittleness in the republican party,
splitting off large chunks OF voters
with every jar, nevertheless 1t Is felt
that Col. Roosevelt is no mean orig
mating cause of the trouble and is
now a live secondary cause, and that
upon him ought to be Visited the pun
ishment due from the causes let
loose. II is regarded a pity that the
president, with his splendid admins
tration, should be called upon TO bear
the burden of the unrest Of the times
and the dissatisfaction resulting and
meet seemingly, unless there is a
return to sanity and reason, with the
political disaster which such condit-
ions imply. 1t is Roosevelt who
should get 1t in the neck" II is con-
tended and moreover, thereby, he and
the third term issue would be finish
ed for good.
To this end the colonel would have
the support of many republicans. a
malicious support to be sure, were II
not that it is held that the man who
deserves the nomination. as a com
pliment, is Mr.. Taft His admins
tration is accepted as one any party
could feel proud of and treasure as
great asset He thus deserves TO
be rewarded and not to nominate
him would be humiliation, to which
he ought not to be called upon to
submit. The republican party has
always renominated its deserving
presidents where a denomination was
sought. and to refuse this would
mean a hiatus in history, placing Mr.
Taft in a most disadvantageous pos
ition. SO in justice 1t is declared
the president ought to have a renom'
nation, even though II may not prove
equivalent to an election.