West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-04-13
business At the Old stand

Republicans need have no misgiv-
ings about Col Roosevelt's if-you.
have-any-doubt-on- the bject-do- not
nominate-me There is only one con.
dition under which Col. Roosevelt will
not accept the Republican nomination
for President refusal OF the Re
publican national convention to nomi-
nate him
II makes no difference what the
platform is. The Colonel will take
the nomination IL he can get it. 1t
makes no difference what the record
OF the Republican party i'm Congress
is toward the protection OF American
rights against German aggression.
The Colonel will take the nomination
II he can get IT, IL makes no differ
ence whether the Republican party is
officially for peace-at-any price or war
at-any-price. The Colonel will take
the nomination II he can get Il. II
makes no difference whether the Re
publican party is under the domina-
tion of Wall Street or Kansas. wheth-
er it's motto is America First" or
"Deutchland uber Allies" The Colonel
will take the nomination II he can get
IT,
We think he will get Il. The favor
ite sons are all i'm the scrap heap
Nobody ever took them seriously. Jus
tice Hughes might have had the nom
ination. probably on the first ballot. n
he had resigned from the United
States Supreme Court two months ago
and formally announced his candi-
dacy. He has waited until IL is too
late. Roosevelt has already deait him
out OF the game
The Old Guard Republicans who
professed TO be for Hughes were new
er sincere. They did not want Hughes.
They hate him and distrust him. lie
is not the kind of man they can do
business with Some of them may
hate Roosevelt too. but they can do
business with him, and they know that
that business can always be conduct
ed on the standard basis OF $3.50.
They never had serious trouble with
Roosevelt until he tried to resume
control of the party i'm 1912 without
first making the necessary arrange
ments. This time the Colonel has at
tended TO the arrangements two
months in advance of the convention
The deal Is practically contaminated.
Nothing remains but to work out the
details, and while there will he grum-
bling and protests from organization
Republicans here and there, they will
all be shouting for Roosevelt at Chi
cago, and Wall Street will be under
writing his candidacy as II did I'm 1904.
The Progressives are going To be
sold out. OF course. but that is what
they are for distinguished South
ern clergyman wrote a book before
the Civil war to prove that the negro
was created to be sold into slavery
and thereby brought under the spirit
ual influence of Christianity That is
the status OF the Progressive party I'm
the Roosevelt scheme of things, and in
two months the Colonel will be ex-
planning TO the brethren who battled
for the Lord at Armageddo nthat their
new chains are a special badge OF hon
or. like the Iron Cross. and conferred
only upon those who never faltered
i'm the fight
At present, Roosevelt, for strategic
reasons. may pretend to fear that the
Republican party is not worthy Of him
but that is a temporary disability.
The way for party TO make itself
worthy of the Colonel is 10 nominate
him. and the Colonel is attending to
that part Of II himself. World