Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-10-18

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l Bismarck Tribune WaBhlnxton bureau.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-THE po'
litical situation is gradually gettins
clearer, with the advocates OF Presi
dent Taft ardently wishing that cleo
ton day could be postponed for a.
least a couple Of months longer. His
friends agree that he Is gaining or
both Roosevelt and Wilson, but MOI
at such a gait as will assure his sue
| cess on November 5, unless the Roosc
veltian strength dwindles more rapid
|ly. The Wilsonites confidently claim
! that tho Princetonian professor car
be elected without the aid Of New
Jersey, New York, Illinois, Ohio OF
Indiana, basing their assertion on the
moral certainty" that California
| South Dakota, Kansas and Nebraska
hitherto solidly republican states
| will cast their ballots In his favor.
That assertion opens up q queer and
! decidedly unfair condition, SO far az
President Taft and the republican
| party are concerned. Taft republic
| ans cannot vote for their party's
choice In California, as the courts de-
cision there turned over the republic
an emblem to the Roosevelt electors,
and as q natural consequence. the
republicans Of that commonwealth re
fused to ask for q place by petition un.
der an independent emblem. Thus,
hundreds of thousands of republican
voters, both men and women, Will be
DISTINGUISHED unless they vote Tor
Wilson--for under no circumstances
will they vote for R~ooseveltian cleo
tors. So as to wipe up the floor with
tho "owdacious third.termer' they'll
vote a democratic ticket for the first
time in their lives.
That unsatisfactory condition also
obtains In South Dakota and Nebras-
ka, whilst in Bleeding Kansas, which
has regular republican electors, there
is an evident feeling among regular
republicans in favor OF voting for
Wilson, SO that the Bull Moose shall
have no chance Of securing Its cleo
tors. .s .. E..
"Those who are not %conversant with
the deep disgust in the states where
Rooseveltian electors have persisted
in masquerading under the regular re-
publican emblem, a imagine says
Frank Codrington, n Of the keenest
political observers in Washington,
"thc bitterness Of the feeling against
the third.party candidate. There are
thousands of republicans who look
upon him as q party Wrecker, and
they are determined that if the crash
comes, he shall find nothing to lay
as a fiattering JUNCTION to his soul"
There Is q singular coincidence IN
the undeniable fact that the ugly ana
vengeful bitterness shown by the Bull
Moose towards his former friend,
President Taft, is equally as strongly
reciprocated by Taft republicans TO-
ward Truthful Teddy, whose foul cpl.
thets Of 'liar" and "thief" directed
at men and women above reproach are
quoted all ovcr the land, undoubtedly
to the Would-be third.termer's disad.
vantage. His latest assault on Gov
n Deneen. whom he characteristic.
ally styles liar" and "scoundrel,"
leaves few Of his former friends and
associates unscathed by his choice bill
lingsgate.
The mechanics and manufacturers,
especially the makers of machine
tools. are, strange, to say, just tum'
bling to the fact that many of their
products arc menaced by the free
traders ideas, and that, for instance,
the products of the tool manufacturers
have been placed on the free trade
list. So, too. have the products Of the
boot and shoe manufacturers, and, as
a result they are all kicking vigorous
ly; but, they didn't kick worth a con.
tinental cent until they ascertatned
that they were in the soup themselves.
So long as somebody else's OK was
being gored they didn't bother them
selves. Now, they're making frantic
appeals for campaign orators and
campaign literature, and they are des-
perately afraid that Roosevelt and
Wilson have made inroads which they
cannot overcome.
The farming element is alive to the
widespread prosperity in which 1t
shares, and, pointing TO the conditions
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