Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-04-06
TAFT CAMPAIGN
IS COLLAPS|NC
Reactionary Leaders Looking
for a Compromise Candidate

New York Sun in a carefully prepared
article published Sunday, March 81,
and sent by the Sun for simultaneous
publication in all the newspapers
throughout the country which sub
scribe to the Sun news service.
The undeniable importance OF this
statement by the Sun Is due to the
Suns attitude Of opposition 10 all pro
gresslves and to Theodore Roosevelt
In particular, as we'll as to the ~recogni-
ton given it az a representative and
spokesman of he great business in
terests which center in New York and
of the political organization In New
York which recently manipulated the
fraudulent and farcicaI primaries held
In the state.
1t adds to the significance Of the
Suns statement that its article, al
though ostensibly the result of careful
Investigation, was withheld until aft
er the organization bosses had put
through the fraudulent primary cleo
ton of delegates, In which they care
IhIIy IflIul2bd lIOLu IuSlI lClljlB u SIN
gle one of the men they claim to have
elected for Taft.
The Investigation upon which the
article is based had been completed
and the article actually prepared be-
fore the primaries were held, showing
apparently that at the time the New
York bosses were engaged in sitting
public sentiment In order to prevent
the election of Roosevelt delegates
there was what the Sun declares to be
a general agreement among the reac-
tionary political leaders that Mr..
Taft's candidacy had become q virtual
impossibllity.
1t is now apparent that the sole pur-
pose of the machine bosses and the
special privilege interests, to whom
Mr.. Taft is looking for a denomination,
have abandoned all idea of supporting
him and that their only purpose Is to
prevent the nomination Of Roosevelt,
so that a compromise candidate favor
able 10 the special privilege interests
and In harmony with machine pur-
poses may be selected at Chicago.
Although still friendly to Taft, the
Sun declares that the time has arrived
when the possibility Of electing a can
didate has become a Subject fer seri-
Gus consideration on the part Of Re-
publicans who believe their party to be
Of vastly more Importance than any
man in II, no matter how exalted his
station, snd who place party loyalty
above personal fsalty. Those Rspub-
ilcans declare that they will lake any
reasonable stop which would seen to
insure their party's victory at the polls
in November noxt.
THE Republicans who expressed
these views" the Sun says, "are be-
levers In season and out Of season In
the policies of their party. Among
! this class~at Republicans are mer-
chants, importers business ne .ssaS
orally and professional men and the
rank and file of small Republican
shopkeepers and ~workingmen."
The Sun then says:
Several months ago influential Re-
p~ub!icans, some Of them very close to
President Taft, declared beneath their
breath that the president if renomi-
mated could not be reelected. While
expressing this opinion they hadn't the
remotcst shadow of n doubt that the
president, through the power of fed
eral patronage, could force his own re
nomination"
Among the reasons given by the Sun
why President Taft cannot be reflect
ed the Payne~Aldrich law is cited as OF
greatest importance. Respecting thiS
the u says:
"Thc Republican national platform Of
1903 called for an immediate extraor-
binary session of congress in the event
Of 1aft's election to revise the tariff.
In obedience TO his party's platform
President Taft called the extraordinary
session of congress, which produced
the Aldrtch-Payne law, and the presi-
dents troubles and his party's compli-
cations have grown and become more
~entangled from the day he signed that
law. That law gave the progressives
substantial footing for their opposition
to the Taft administration and afford
ed them grounds to go before the peo-
pie on the question. In addition there
have been a myriad other troublesome
complications, all intended to weaken
the president and to bring about bitter
discord IN the ranks of his party.
at has been this dIscord, these com
pllcations, that have led Republicans
entirely friendly to the president to de-
clare that, while he could force his own
denomination, It was exceedingly
doubtful if he could be re-elscted."
The Sun adds;
with the assembling of congress in
Washington in December last tho dec
larations that tho president could not
be reelected if renominated took on .
more emphatic tone."
The Sun declares that leading Repub-
leans, by which the Sun obviously
means leading reactionaries, frankly
admit that they do not know and have
n means of knowing the full extent
Of the Roosevelt strength in he diff
ferent states. The same leaders, the
Sun says, express doubt If Mr.. Roose-
welt himself could persuade his fol
lowers to support Taft.
1t Is known that what the Sun points
out with such clearness Is the real be-
lief of all the reactionary leaders both
IN Washington and those throughout
the country.
The fight has ceased to be one for