The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-04-05
WASHINGTON.
Legislative and Gem
eral Topics from
the CapitaI.>
Special Correspondence to the Citizen.l
Washington. April |. 1912.

Washington, April l, 1912.
AT last the people are taking the meas
ure OF Theodore Roosevelt. | have
studied hun at close quarters for the last
fifteen years and have been cussed out
] by hero worShipers a number OF times be-
cause | have said in print over my own
signature that he was a iakir, a four-l
! ilusher and side-stepper The people
are now beginning to find out that my es-
| innate of him was correct In his latest
! speech in New York he proved every
thing that have ever said about him to
! be absolutely correct. He. made Mr..
| Taft President OF the United States, and 3
/ in that speech he took back everything
! that he had ever said about Taft and be-
meaned HIM and his admins ration in q
every way he possibly could and said
worse things about him than any Demo-
| crat has ever attempted to say. The
truth IS becoming apparent. AS | said
| III this correspondence not long ago.
| Roosevelt will become the most thor
oughy discredited man in the United
! States. He is angry, not SO much at Mr..
! Taft as at the fact that he sees his popu-
| larity is sim 1lv noise and nothing else.
| His condition now is like that of a rattle
snake in the month of August when he is
blind and striking at everything he hears.
IhS will do Taft no harm but will hurt
Roosevelt with the thinking people of
this country, no matter what their opinion
OF him has been previously He has
been bowling tor preferential primaries
on vote fol President and he got one
the other day in North Dakota for Taft
really was not running, and when the
| only real progressive Republican was
| T. in, fbr, ,f I 81.
who beat him TO fragile. He now sees
where he stands and knows that he has to
beat La Toilette in all the States that con
tain progressive Republicans instead OF
TAFT and that he has no more show fol
the nomination at Chicago than a one
legged man al a kicking match This al
makes the Democratic leaders here r
Washington smile broad smile and pa
themselves affeCtiOnatelV because
means a split in the Republican ranks
that cannot tie healed during the cam
palgn after the conventions are held
therefore, means a Democratic President
The political leaders in Washington
are gossiping considerably anent the lat
est phase IN the Honorable Chamt
Clark's candidacy for the President OF
the Democratic ticket for the reason tina
he has struck key note that affects thu
Western people and accounts largely fol
his popularity in that section of the coun
try.
During Rooseveit's administration tn,
taddStS began howl that the public do
main was being squandered and takeI
away from poSterty and that posterib
would have nothing it all the lands were
settled up in this generation. The Hon
orable Champ Clark has been advocating
Strenuous he NplXt 70 81,
emigration OF the farmers of this country I'd
Canada, was to open up all public land
to settlement by people now on earth. Ii
the language of the Irishman What tn,
dWil has posterity ever done for us"
The truth Of the matter is that the Hon
orabe Champ Clark is a constructive
statesmen of today and is absolutely cor
rect when he says the public lands shout,
be opened up for settlers and stop the ex
GduS of farmers to Canada, which will
prove one OF the factors in reducing ths
cost of living. He believes, as does ever
man who is a statesman and looks aheac
that this is the only way to check the re
moval to the cities and the congestio
therein of all the immigration to thi
country from foreign lands and give Their
an opportunity to seek homes on publ
lands and enhance the farming lands {
the country to help feed the masses.
The friends OF Speaker Clark seem Il
be very much elated over the fact thu
the Republican politicians i'll Washington
are beginning to dig up his record for tn
reason that they believe that he is tn
man they have got to beat next Novem
Der, therefore, preSaging his nominatio
at Baltimore.
Manager Fred T. Dubois, of the Clar
hAaH0nartar fOrr1ar Sanufor from Idahf
says he is very glad that the Republican,
are digging up Mr.. Clark's record III
says if they had waited few days, h
would have furnished them with M
Clark'S record free of any cost to then
inasmuch as he is having that record pre-
pared to send out all over the countr,
He believes that it is the proper thing
do and that every candidate for Pres
dent whether on the Democratic or Re
publican ticket, ought to have his recor
spread before the people so that the pee
pie may Judge of the man who is cand
date and tell by his record whether or nc
he is worthy of confidence.
Mr. Dubois wants every Democrat VIII
is running, to have his record spread bs
fore the people, that the people ma
judge of the kind Of man who is presen
ing his name for their SURFACES, an
whether or not he is the man TO whom
they may give their preference. He say
he believes that any man who is a cand
date for President. who is unwilling Ii
stand on his record as a Democrat an.
who is not willing to have it scannel
thoroughly by the people of this country
is not good man for the people to volt
for. He says their is no intention on TIL
part of Speaker Clark, or his friends, Il
dodce this issue and he sincerely hone
that every man whose name has bed
mentioned as possible candidate for tn
Presidency on the Democratic ticket, wi
insist that his past,record as Democrat
be spread before the people and feels thu
his man, the Honorable Champ ClarI
will lose nothing in the comparison.
CFAs. A. EDWARDS.