The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-21

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welt to be beyond doubt the strong.
est man before the people. in the popu.
lar sense, Of any man In any party
who measures up to the presidential
size;" and the Battle Greek Enquirer
deplores his bid for a denomination,
(which the party can not in fairness
and good business policy give"
In Wisconsin there is considerable
evidence of resentment against Mr..
Roosevelt on the part of Progressive
newspapers that supported Senator La
Toilette. The Milwaukee Journal re-
marks that had Roosevelt been Pro
gressive enough and unselhsh enough
to have gone into the fight openly for
La Toilette only a few weeks ago,
Progressive Republicanism would have
had leadership that would not have
been doubtful" To the Milwaukee
News the Roosevelt candidacy seems
to go far toward assuring Democratic
success. The Milwaukee Sentinel ex.
presses sentiments unfriendly to Mr.
Roosevelt as well as to Mr.. Taft. The
Free Press Of the same city is stanchly
pro-Taft, and says that the Taft ad-
ministration has recorded more con-
structive legislation and administra-
tive progress along the lines of popu-
larly desired reform than the two
Roosevelt administrations. It regards
Roosevelt in the role of a third-term
candidate as the most pathetic figure
which American politics has offered in
many a day" The Evening Wisconsin
sees in the Roosevelt views if adopt
ed the end of the constitution and the
rule of demagogues,
The Sioux City Tribune conceives
that a situation might arise at Chica-
go where neither Taft nor Roosevelt
would be nominated, and the conven-
ton might turn to Iowa's favorite son,
TSenator Cummins, whose availability
is greater than that of either Taft or
Roosevelt, and whose devotion to the
Progressive cause has been tested in
a hundred battles" But as between
Taft and Roosevelt it's choice would
be Taft. The Burlington Hawkeye
pities Mr.. Roosevelt and rebukes him
for having broken his word.
Minnesota, another insurgent strong
hold, through the voice of the Duluth
News-Tribune, approves the Roosevelt
tian doctrine of recalling judicial de-
cisions by popular vote, but the same
newspaper can "see no present eXigen-
cy demanding" the candidacy of Mr..
Roosevelt to whom it prefers Mr.. Taft.
The Duluth Herald foresees that it will
be no easy matter to nominate Mr..
Roosevelt. To the Minneapolis Jour
nal the failures of the Taft admins
tration are clear, but its successes
have been so great as to outweigh its
failures. The st. Paul Pioneer Press
sums up its views by describing Mr.
' Roosevelt "as easily the most radical
Republican President the country has
: had, and President Taft as perhaps the
most conservative"
In lnsurgent Territory.
n In the insurgent dominions of Gov
@ ernors Hadley and Stubs, of the st
Louis newspapers the Globe-Democrat
o thinks that Mr.. Roosevelts candidacy
i is direct help to the Democratic par
q ty and the Times denounces him fol
, his faithlessness as a friend and poll
o tician. To Colonel William R. Nelson
o of the Kansas City Star Mr.. Roose
: welt is the one leader of the "plair
, people" since Lincoln. IF there il
d any man in the United States, sayI
D. the Star, through whom the peopl,
o can triumph without direct primaries
e. it is Theodore Roosevelt" The Kan
b. sas City Journal says that the chances
It are altogether against Roosevelt be
r. ing the Republican nominee"
lie "The Revolution" says the Topek
h Capital, was fought out on the Dec
e. laration, not on the Constitution.
Is the Constitution is property's Bible
Of the Declaration is the common man
lie Bible. And because Roosevelt is 10
m the Declaration when it comes in COZ
10 fiict with the Constitution, so the con
e. mon man is for Roosevelt"
at The Topeka State Journal hold
m that Mr.. Tafts record is one that ell
as titles him to the support of all Repul
licans disposed to be fair and min
NJ mics the strength of the Progressiv
al element for whom the seven Govern
&C. ors acted as spokesman.
~ The Nebraska State Journal of Lii
nc coin says that Surface indication
VI point to the success of Roosevelt
81 every part of the West where the pa
10 ty machinery is under popular COZ
=. troll" but it will require "a groun
" movement of the masses of the vo
- ers" throughout the country to elec
Roosevelt after the nomination
made. The Omaha Journal declare
y that Mr.. Taft has a right to ask fC