The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-05-31
WASHINGTON.
L Legislative and Gem
eraI Topics from
the Capital.
Special Correspondence to the Citizen.l
Washington, May 27, 1912.

all my life. Whilst that may be true in
a general sense, but | want to say that
there are few statesmen in the Ma
tional Capital at this day who are not
dead have talked not only with those
statesmen, both Republicans and Demo
Gratis but with politicians in Congress on
both sides OF the political fence, and they
all express the same opinion that this
fight N the Republican party for the
nomination for President between Taft
and Roosevelt is the most pitable, ex-
creable and disgraceful exhibition that
has ever been seen in American politics.
They all have come to the conclusion,
regardless OF party, that neither one of
these men can be elected to the Presit
denCv II they are nominated in Chicago.
Whilst this conclusion Is very crafty
ing to the Democrats, it is correspond
ingly distaStetul and worrying to the
Republicans. They are all hoping. that
is the Republicans, that dead lock in
the Chicago Convention will ensue and
| that neither Of them will be nominated,
| and that 4 dark horse, without regard
to any particular individual, may be the
| Republican nominee, and thus cut the
Gordian knot in the Republican party
| controversy.
With all of these conflicting opinions
| from the leaders in both parties to whom
/ have talked, hesitate before the Ma
tional Convention to predict anything
! However. 1t seems to me. as an old
fashioned politician and political writer
| and 4 locker on in Vienna, so to speak
| that it makes no difference who carried
! the OHIO primaries. as to the hnal out
g,f .L.a &C
that if the Taft leaders and the members
OF the Republican National Committee
have sufficiently strong hold on their
own delegates. that Mr.. Taft probably
will have enough votes on the first ballot
to nominate him. II they have not that
hold and the delegates revolt TO Roose'
welt, he may be the nominee on the
first ballot If the former condition
should prevail IN the convention and the
Roosevelt leaders know that it is inev-
table that Mr.. Taft is going to be nom
mated, they will bolt the convention,
hold convention OF their own and
then nominate Roosevelt on the plea that
he has been swindled out of the nomi-
nation by the steam roller process of the
present administration. 1t makes no diff
ference whatever, which end of the bag
the Republican party holds in the next
campaign.
There is going to be a Democratic
viCtOry-and a Democratic President in
the White House after the 4th of next
| March. If there is not, then Thomas
Jefferson opinion of the honesty Of the
people Of this country who vote at the
polls. will have been declared a fallacy
that the American electorate is not wor-
! thy of the ballot; that they DO not under
stand Republican institutions are unfit
| to govern themselves and the sooner
| that we have an empire the better off will
! be the people ! honestly believe that
this is Roosevelt'S idea and that he
understands the ldocy of whole lot of
| people in this country because they con-
| tinue TO support him in the face Of all of
| the infamous lies that he has told and
! all of the sculduggery that he has praC-
| tiCed, not only while he was in this CAM
| palgn, but also while he was President
of the United States.
! There are whole lot of Democrats in
| this country who affect 10 believe
whether they do or not, that Roosevelt
! would be absolutely invinCble as the Re-
| publican candidate for President and that
no Democrat could defeat him. Those
men are merely superficial observers.
They have not dug under the surface
sufficiently far enough to find out that
in every State that Roosevelt has car
ried in Presidential primary, less than
so per cent of the Republican vote in
that State has been polled for both he
and TAFT What became of the other
so per cent? They STAYED at home where
~ l.
should be nominated, but regardless of
that fact, there is another which is very
significant. With what little political
experience have had made the asser-
ton few DAYS ago, when some Demo-
Crat said that we could not defeat RooSe-
welt, that there were two million patriotic
Republicans in the United States who
would not support him for a third term.
Almost in COrrOboration OF my state
ment the next mornings papers an
nounced in a telegram from Saint Louis
that Judge Rombauer had organized
Republican Anti-Third Term Club and
that he had obtained the signatures Of
nearly one thousand leading Republi-
cans in Saint Louis the very day that he
started out.
A lot of newspapers in this country
whose editorial writers know nothing of
Missouri or of Missouri politics. imme-
dlately laughed at the idea Well, hap
pen to have lived in Saint Louis for a
long time. and know that Judge Rom
baur Is not only one of the ablest lawyers
in the City of Saint Louis, but also one
of the leading Republicans in the State
of Missouri. He is. perhaps. the strong
est man intellectually in Saint Louis in
the Republican party He announces
that this is only starter and he says that
he will nave more than three million
signers and members of his Anti-Third
Term Club before he is through with it.
Aside from that the most influential and
ablest German newspaper in the United
States. is the HeStliche Pest which has
announced that if Roosevelt is nomi-
mated, that they will support the Demo
cratic nominee. That means that one
hundred thousand German Republicans
in Illinois and Missouri will vote lust as
the HeSfliChs Post tells them to.
This whole campaign between Roose-
welt and Taft and the alienation of hun
dredS of thousands of good Republicans
from the Republican party because they
believe that the elimination and recrim-
ination between Taft and Roosevelt has
proved absolutely that the Republican
party is rotten and absolutely unfit TO
administer the affairs of this government
in the interest of the masses of the peo-
pie, and they have not only concluded
to stay at home in these primaries, but
have also concluded to vote for Dem
ocratiC President at the election in No