The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1912-03-29
Managers of Candidates of Both
Parties Engage in Bitter
Struggle.
HISTORY WILL BE REPEATED
After Conventions Are Over Men Who
Are Now Fighting Each Other
Will Be Found Working for
Party Choice.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

Washington-Th is strife In
Washington between the forces at
tached to the different headquarters
of the various candidates of both par
| ties for the presidency of the United
! States. Mr. Taft's managers on their
part and Mr. Roosevelts managers on
their part are sending letters back ana
| forth full of bitterness, innuendo and
! other things which are not at all nice
| reading to those who think that the
| time Is come for peace on earth even
| among politicians. The same thing is
In evidence among the Democratic
managers. It must be said, however,
that until a few days ago the Demo
cratic champions of the different party
candidates managed to keep the
peace Now, however things have
changed and charges are going back
and forth. and the Republican camp
and the Democratic camp look very
much alike.
Politicians of both parties here say
that history will repeat itself and
that after the conventions are over the
men who are calling one another
names will be found shoulder TO
shoulder working on behalf OF the
nominees no matter whom they may
be and will be entirely forgetful OF
everything that they said in the days
preceding the convention. What is
the history which has repeated itself?
| Virtually It is the history of every
campaign, Democratic and Republican,
which has been put on the pages of the
| countrys record, although there have
! been admittedly one or two campaigns
In both parties In which bitterness
| lasted after the convention days.
Four years ago now the Republican
party was split just as ii is today, only
the sides" were different Men who
are championing Mr. Taft's nomina-
tic1 now We're opposed to him when
ne was seeker for the nomination
| the last time. and men who were for
him then are now against him. al
though, OF course. this is not TO be ac-
cepted IS an absolutely comprehensive
rule
Are Now With Taft.
The champions of Mr.. Cannon and
Mr.. Fairbanks and some others for
the nomination four years ago and
who did all that they could to secure
the nomination of the men to whom
their hearts were given are now do
ing what they can to put Mr.. Taft
into Office. 1t was said four years ago
that these men would carry their ant
mostly into the campaign in case Taft
were nominated. but the prophecy
proved III founded. 1t was Theodore
z. Burton OF Ohio who presented Mr..
| Taft's name to the convention Of his
party. 1t was the beginning of the
day OF harmony. and notice Mr. Bur
tons honeyed words as addressed to
the friends Of the other candidates in
the convention hall:
We welcome the friendly rivalry OF
candidates from other states-from
the great Empire State, the Keystone
state, Indiana. Illinois and Wisconsin
forming with Ohio a broad expanse ex-
tending in unbroken sweep from old
ocean to the uppermost bounds of the
greatest OF inland seas, Each of these
present a leader among leaders whose
achievements and renown are not con-
fined to the narrow limits of single
commonwealth
To-day with fervid earnestness We
wage a contest for the prize. Tomor
row united for the fray and quicken
ed by a common fiery zeal, the cham
pions OF all the candidates will go
forth with mounting enthusiasm TO
vanquish the foe"
Before and After.
At the last Democratic convention at
which n successful candidate for the
presidency WAS named, the convention
of 1892. there were New York Demo
Gratis in the convention hall to rise
one after another through the long
hours of one days session to declare
that II Grover Cleveland was the can.
didate of the party he could not and
ought not TO be elected 1t was said
that the division in the party was such
that If Mr. Cleveland were again IT'S
standard bearer that overwhelming
defeat would come from the Repub-
licans. and there were insinuations
even that the men who were protest
|
a bolt against his election.
What happened? The New York
delegation which voiced its antago-
nism to Grover Cleveland and breath
ed ont all kinds of dismal prophecies
of defeat in case he were nominated,
went back home after the nomination
had been carried against their protest,
took off their coats and worked for
Grover Cleveland and later voted for
him at the November election. When
the Republican newspapers twitted
the New York Democrats with doing
what they said they would not do, the
retort was that things are different
before and after conventions
So it is that both Republicans and
Democrats in Washington today say
that no matter how angry they may
seem to be now and no matter what