Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-04-08
TAFT SUPPORTERS
AID La TOILETTE?


La Toilette; it will be there in the In
terest of Taft
How can any sincere Progressive
think he is aiding the Progressive
cause by dividing the Progressive vote
There are no grounds whatever for
charging the New Jersey ProgressiVes
/ with b9d faith toward La Toilette,
Nearly all We're in favor of him before
there was no doubt that Roosevelt
woul1 be the strongest candidate in
| Now Jersey If he would run. EEaer
/ Roosevelt or La Toilette was satisfac-
| tory to practically all of our leaders
We were anxious only to have all the
Pro gEeSSives united on the strongest
| Progressive candidate.
when 1t seemed likely that Roosevelt
would yield to the demand that he pc
candidate the Progressives of Essex
county indorsed him. But the Progress
sives of Hudson, Passaic and Bergen
counties had previously indorseo Ia Fol
, lette, and they stuck to him Loyalty: A
split in the Progressive ranks seemed IN
evitable. The Roosevelt men regarded the
La Toilette candidacy in New Jersey a as
Blauvelt and their followers were deter
mined to stand by La Toilette as long
as he stayed IN the race, rst; Plans ns eI1 Tor
under way when La Follette'5 collapse oc-
Cured at Philadelphia. That was a few
days before the Progressive dollar dinner
at Jersey City when La Toilette was TO
have been the chief speaker. His inti-
mate friend and supporter, Senator Clapp,
spoke in his place.
La Follette's manager, called Mr., Record
on the telephone from Washington and
read to him the statement which La Fol
lette gave out in the newspapers the next
morning. Houser told Record whom he
knew very well, that La Toilette was
very i'll and that his campaign was prae-
tically at an end and that he called him
at this time in order that Record might
make such an announcement as he thought
best at the dinner. Senator Clapp, who
had just come from Washington. con-
firmed Housers statement. Upon receiV-
ing Mr.. Records announcement those pres
ent at the dinner unanimously indorsed
Roosevelt Houser's message to Record
clearly meant that Record and the other
La Toilette supporters in New Jersey
were free to do what they thought best
1.-THE Progressive Republicans of New
Jersey are supporting Roosevelt not on
personal grounds but because he Is the
strongest Progressive candidate. He
Progressive principle. He is Just as ad-
vanced as La Toilette in demanding that
the control OF, government by big bust
shall actually rule.
1--WE are not against La Follette-we
are for Roosevelt because he has chance
to win and La Toilette has no..
I'VE hope La Toilette will not run in
New Jersey, but If he does he will not
get many votes for all real Progressives
are going to understand that a vote for
La Toilette in New Jersey is hah a vote
for Taft--and no Progressive who knows
Progressive principles and knows Taft is
going to cast any fraction of vote for
Taft at this primary.
'The claim that Taft is Progressive
is best answered by his own supporters
he is just the sort of Progressive that the
bosses want and that Senator's Lorimer
and Stephenson and Smoot and Penrose
and Crane and Guggenheim want-and he
Is opposed by everyone of the national
leaders of the Progressive Republican
movement-that is the kind of a Progress
sive Taft is.