Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-21

jaw as granite-hard as ever. He is
your true hawk of battle to his final
feather; no one may impeach his
gameness. Had the pulpy Taft pos
sessed but one-tenth the Roosevelt
courage, with his advantages In po-
sition and precedent, he would have
won this fight in one-half a round.
AS IL stands, while R~oosevelt's hold
has broken, Tafts final chance of
ever signing himself President after
March 4 has been put to sleep for
the count.
Roosevelt when he goes to the peo-
pie will find himself, as stated, not
greatly sympathized with. Conven-
lions and stolen seats and steam
roller robberies are soon forgotten.
Roosevelt will remember them, but
the public will not. Or. remembering
them, the public will not care-at
least to any vote-changing extent.
Aside from this Roosevelt will be
met by the third-term tradition. 1t
is stronger, deeper in its roots of SEN
timent than the machine-made poll
tician thinks. The huge, quiet, hard
working. ill-used majority in this land
of the free which holds no office,
hopes to hold no office, is prone to re-
gard as sacred the two-term example
of the fathers.
Case of Grant Cited.
Say what he will, pose as he may.
Roosevelt will find himself running
not alone against what candidates the
parties and factions have placed in
the field, but against Washington,
Jefferson and the great ones of the
past. Can he defeat them? Can he
overpower and set at naught this
example? Who of his flaming day
was better loved than the silent
Grant?
Grant had been the victorious
figure of a mighty war. He had rode
with a million and a half men at his
horses tail. Men believed in him, re-
vered him. And yet he could not get
his party's nomination. Men sat in
the convention and wept while they
voted against him. And shall 1t now,
a third of a century later, be said
that a sentiment then so profoundly
alive Is dead?
Roosevelt was elected to the White
House out onoe. Had he called HIM
self a one-term President the COM
mon feeling might have supported
him. But he chose otherwise. 1t
was he himself who named his elect
ed term mis- Second term" and the
thing from that moment became res
adjudioata.
1t is too late now to try the issue
and In his seeking after another term
Roosevelt Is bound to confess that he
is seeking a third term. In my opin-
ion hat alone would beat him were
there nothing else.
Tariff and Trusts Important.
But there is something else, much
else. There is tariff and the trusts.
In his recent stump conflicts with
Taft he was silent with a great
silence concerning trusts and tariffs.
Silence was easy, since no n less
than Taft desired to talk of trusts
and tariff. But from now the situa-
ton changes. Trusts must be dealt
with. Tariff and the higher cost of
living must be met.
How will Roosevelt meet them?
What record has he that will come
to his relief? He was President
seven years, he selected his successor.
And tariff today is a bigger swindle
than ever, while the trusts bite even
deeper than before. His own seven
wears in the White House and tho
-four of his hand-picked successor
must be regarded as a water haul so
far as they brought the people re-
lief, and against all this failure of
performance he can bring only fresh
promises.
Says Democrats VIII Win.
Roosevelt will be beaten. He is
popular, but his popularity will not
save him. White Houses are not but
ton-hoie bouquets and, with trusts
advancing, not r~eceding, and the price
of beef going up, the people will hard
ly give one even to a Roosevelt as a
mere evidence of favor. This will be
a battle, not Of personalities, but par
ties. The Republicans, who have lied
for forty years, will lose, and that,
too, whether rump or regular. The
Democrats will win. 1t is their year
to win; they ought to win.
Roosevelt will be defeated. bat not
disposed of. Taft will disappear
vanish like a fat shadow cast for the
moment by the lamp of purest chance
upon the curtain of politics. Roose-
welt will not disappear. In place or
out, he will remain q force to be
accounted with until the hour the
doomsday sods. are laid upon his
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