The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-02-12
TALK OF COCKTAILS
RUMoRS THAT PANAMA CANAL
BUILDER WILL BE CANDIDATE
FOR PRESIDENT.
SAID TO BE A PROGRESSIVE
Wilson May Announce Adherence to
One Term PrincipIe-senator 6orah
Is In the Running for the Re-
publican Nomination.
Rx GEORGE CLINTON.

Washington.-Some of the Demo
cratic members of congress, hard
headed politicians a good many of
them, Think it is not by any means
certain that President Wilson will not
announce at some later time that he
is pledged to the principle Of one
term that was announced in the Demo-
cratic platform. 1t will be remem-
bered that the Democrats at Mr..
Bryan's suggestion put into the plat
form the declaration and we pledge
the candidate of this convention to
this principle" the principle being the
one-term principle.
Now the political rumor has it that
all the men, including, of course, Mr..
Wilson, who think that he has a show
of being nominated by the Democrats
next time are beginning to fear that
he may have George w. Goethals, the
chief engineer of the Panama canal
and now the zones governor, as an
opponent In the next campaign. Re-
publican leaders from time to time
have whispered the name Goethals in
their conferences. 1t is perfectly true
that even some of the members OF
the standpat faction in the Republican
party still seem to have some kind OF
a hope that means will be found to
endorse Theodore Roosevelt for the
nomination, without compelling the
old party to give over the name Re-
publican.
The old party chieftains seem to
think that they will be obliged to
nominate somebody with strong per
sonal appeal if there is to be any
hope of success, because there has
been thus far no sharp evidences that
the Democrats are going to make
mess of things and undo themselves.
Think Goethals Has Ambitions.
1t has been intimated here and
there in Washington that men who
know the governor of the Panama
canal zone think he has shown some
signs of an awakening ambition to be
president. Colonel Goethals, judging
by what he has done, probably has
his share of wisdom and while army
and navy officers VIGOROUSLY have
been f1ounderers when they have en-
tered the swamp of politics, Cocktails
probably might prove to be an excep-
ton. Everybody remembers Admiral
Dewey's troubles as soon as he
showed a disposition of willingness to
think on high civil honors.
While the Republicans have been
whispering about Goethals and the
possibility of nominating him and
trusting to his supposed great per-
sonal popularity to pull through. 1t
has been told to them also in whis-
pers that the zones governor is a
Progressive. In the present frame of
mind Of the Republican leaders the
fact that Goethais may be a Progress
sive perhaps makes little difference,
for all they will have to do will be-
to knock the capital out, spell progress
sive with a small letter and add Re
publican with a capital after an in
serted hyphen.
The Republican leaders are still up
set more or less over the action Of
their national committee. The com
mitteemen in their desire not to lose
their own jobs refused to go anywhere
near so far as their non-committee
brethren think they should have gone
in recognizing the demands Of pro-
gressivism. The leaders say, however,
that in the face of what the commit
tee did the only chance of salvation
for the party In the next national
campaign will rest on a base of an
nounced progressiyism,