The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-20
TRACES TREND
TO TEDDY
Boom-Rough Rider Picked for c. O. P.

New York. Feb. 2O-Naming Theo- dore Roosevelt as the strongest candi- date the Republicans can nominate.
 what is styled ''candid and cold
 blcoded survey of the present political
 situa ton" was today widely circulated from this city in a pamphlet entitled "A Democrat, LaFollette, Taft or
 Roosevet t. While the author refuses
 to reveal his name, on the ground
 that he can anonymously be most frank and fair concerning the candi-
 dates, of whom he personally knows
 nearly all-some of them very we'll,
 he is believed to be a leading member
 oH the bar, who was one of the nov
 ing spirits in the ouposftion to a third
 term for General Grant in 1876. Poli-
 ticians, who are speculati ting with in-
 terest on the source or this myster-
 ious screed, are inclined to believe
 that it indicates a rising Roosevelt sentiment among professional ard bus
 ines men Eere, who are generally en-
 dorsing it's opinions and appear not
 ilt0gethe in the dark as to it's au-
 That the American people, "disap-
 pointed, jaded and exasperated by the exhortatiors, the denunciations and
 the legal turmoil of the last eight
 years, would embrace, from sheer
 weariness. any nominee the Demo-
 cratic party was likely to offer them. y
 is asserted s the mea ming 0f the preV-
 alent prophecy by Republicans that the next Preside will be "A Demo crat" It is noted that most Re publicans feel that they have no easy tacb to win the next e ection ard that they must present theiF@strongest can didate to be successful" 70"
 LaFo1ette, Taft and Roosevelt are set down in this pamrhlet Survey" as ''ind isDutahIv the only three Pe" e"sOr g generally considered as possible candi 6otcs for the Fe0uNEcan party" Tn former is characterized as havine much which passes for e'oquence ir f k17.a-T aT-1yea ha that he does not know the WISconsi . Senator and that those who do, say he is "a much more sober and power fut person, and has actually accom- plished more valuable things thar l he had supposed to be the case. He adds that he cannot see how LaFol- l Iette can possibly be nominated o1 elected by the Repub fcan party.
 l Pres dent Taft is the natural candi- | date of his party ard has been a con
 scientious President. it is stated afte~ 2 review of his administrative acts
 That the President does not ''seem | to be sure of that fact himself' and
 has been travelling or campaigning | agein all over the country exUlaining l defending and almost aDologizinS for what he has done, winding up by ex- pressing a doubt as to Ilis own cleo | ton" is set down as the main d'H1-
 cu'ty. Taft has the respect but not
 Quoting Lord Coleridge on Clad | stone tlSe new pan1DH' ct applies to | Roosevelt the foTIowire: ''T have been | long aware Of his faults-in geological l phTa se- which run thrOueh the stra,+ a ! of his character. He is one of the | greatest and, at the same time, one 1 of the s+rargest men ever knew- l full of genius. lSpowledge, eloduence ] mower, hioh-mind dedness of a sort Tut little wisdom, and very rt+le judg- ! n1e1lt, esrecia'l ly in men: but now a1d ! theu-onIy now and then-he sta r+les
 you rv an observation showing the
 keenest insi@ht irto chara cter. Fe Is
 not reaIIv overbeari at all; but he i: 1 so in1retuous, so fright fully i0 carr est
 so strong in talk. that 1t ree6s very stro-g man to stand up to him: and | though he to1e~ates Cfo~ he is. at bot l tom. thorou,-hIy magma nirnous), he
 does roth like strong r7en, and, l'ke many kings of men, he is a little the worst for fattery."
 1 After as cold -bloo' cd a. survey as
 am able to give it" corcludes the writer of this pamphlet, "I am con- ! vinced that MT. Roosevelt is the 1 stron rest candidate the Rerublicans 1 ran nominate. and therefore that it is l his duty-if he thinks that party has l under arw circumstances a claim uDor
 his services in return for the honors | it has given him-to say that If re is
 nominated, he vii accent. He is l hound in justice to MT. Taft ard tC 1 his friends, so to declare himself, O. 1 else he must go into exile or some sort | Of Imprisonment, for only so can his
 position be made resistlessly plain.