The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-06-14
WASHINGTON.
Legislative and Gem
eral Topics from
the Capital.
Special Correspondence to the Citizen)
Washington, June 10. 1912.

Washington, June 10, 1912.
Before this letter is read the people OF
the country probably will know whether
the Republican Convention at Chicago
! will be controlled by the Republican ele-
| phant or the Teddy bear You can wager
! your last dollar that Roosevelt is going to
make one red hot fight to capture that
nomination, and although he says he is
not going TO Chicago it is a safe bet that
he will be on the ground directing his
own cohorts and instilling into them some
of his own pugnacious qualities as a po.
liliCal scrapper.
1t is general belief here that there will
! be no dark horse at Chicago and that the
National Committee will ride rough shod
over nearly every Roosevelt contest and
| give those delegates to Taft. If they do
and Taft can hold his Southern delegates,
! IT means Taft'S nomination on the first
| ballot because if it ever goes beyond the
| first ballot Alr. Taft is gone fawn skin.
| That will be the que for the bolt of the
! Roosevelt delegates and rump conven-
| ton that will nominate Roosevelt and
pass a set of resolutions that will set
! forth a Crv of fraud which will give them
| the occasion and the excuse for splitting
| the Republican party and handing the
| election over to the Democrats Demo-
Gratis are very complacent over the situa-
ton and it makes no difference whether
| TAFT or Roosevelt is nominated, it spells
| disaster and defeat for the Republican
party. II the Roosevelt following should
| bulldoze or Caiole enough Republican
| delegates to take the nomination away
| from Taft there will be no bolt on the
part of the Taft people but a sullen de-
sire and intention on their part 10 go
| home and stick knife between the fifth
| rib OF Mr.. Roosevelt on election day next
| November.
There are two million German Repub-
liCans in the United States who will abso-
! lutely refuse to support any man for a
| third term and who will either vote the
Democratic ticket or stay at home. Be
| sides these there are a million business
| men who will do the same thing.
II Mr.. Roosevelt should be nominated
by the regular Republican convention. he
| will be the worst licked man for Presi-
| dent next November since Horace Gree
ley IN 1872. This is the intention of the
old line Republicans who do not intend
to turn over their party to this moutebank
Roosevelt and his following OF populistc
Republicans.
The race for the Democratic nomina-
ton for President is very much the same
as it was this time last week. Before this
week is over. however, and before this
letter is read, all the States will have held
their conventions or primary elections
and each candidate will then be able to
figure on the strength with which he will
enter the convention.
1t looks very much now that the Hon
orable Champ Clark will enter the Con-
vention with nearly 500 votes and will be
not less than I5ovotes ahead of any other
candidate in the race on the first ballot,
provided he does not get any OF the un-
instructed delegates that have been elect
ed. II he does, it will only add to his
big lead now and make him stronger
than conservative figures are willing to
record him.
Mr.. Clark strength in the Convention
that will appeal to the uninstruCted dele
gates, will in the showing he has made
and the success he has won in States that
are doubtful or have hitherto been Re
publican and which by carrying them by
tremendous majorities in the primaries,
indicates that he can carry them IN the
general election He has carried States
like Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois,
Maryland and Massachusetts that are all
needed in the electoral college for a Dem
ocrat to win and no other man in the race
has carried any State that is not already
a Democrat State or which is not abso-
lutey Republican in general election
For instance Governor Wilson has car
ried Texas which certainly will never go
any other way except Democratic for any
candidate and he has carried Pennsyva-
MIA which certainly will not go any way
but Republican no matter who is noml-
mated. In other words, he has carried a
State which Is not solidly Republican tor
any Republican candidate and not solidly
Democratic for any Democratic candi-
date.
Mr.. Clark has carried doubtful States
and those we need IN our business to win
an election. Another point in favor of
Mr.. Clark is the fact that he will have the
delegations from 20 States out OF 81
States and Territories. That means that
he will organize the Convention. Every
delegation to a member of every commit
Zee including the Committee on Creden-
tlalS, Committee on Resolutions, Com
mittee on Rules and the Committee on
Permanent Organization. That means
that Mr.. Clark's friends will name the
permanent chairman of that Convention
and also decide any contests in favor of
Mr.. Clark; also that the platform will be
platform of his own choosing and will
not be a radical platform that will scare
business men and sensible men away
from The party. These are facts for the
delegates already elected and unnstruct-
ed to put in their pipe and smoke and it
would suggest that if they want to do any
band wagon climbing they would better
hunt for Mr. Clark'S band wagon and
ride on something that is going to con
troll the organization of the Convention.
CHAs. A. EDWARDS.
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