REPUBLICAN SPLIT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 102, 29 April 1912, Page 5

REPUBLICAN SPLIT.

POLITICS AND THE COURTS. KOOSEVELTISM'S TREND. (By Cable —Press Association —Copjrisht.) | I LONDON, April 27. The "Times."" in commenting upon the American Presidential contest, slates that there is no difference between the Republicans and the Democrats that is so sharply marked as that between the Republican party's two wings. The question, says the "Times." is: Will the Republican party appeal to the country as a radical or a conservative fore* , ? Mr. Roosevelt's nomination would imply a Radical-Republican platform, and it is almost a certain consequence that there will be a Conservative-Demo- - cratic candidate. On the other hand Mr. Taft's nomination is almost certain to produce a Radical as a Democratic antagonist. The difference between Mr. Roosev 'It and Mr. Taft, the article goes on to say, is manifested most acutely in connection with tho Powers of the State courts. The discussion raises the gravest issues. If the political power which the State courts derive from their present rights of interpreting law be an offence against Democracy, will not, the paper asks, the time come when the political power conferred upon th<" Supreme Court by the Federal Constitution also seem an of- : fence ? Mr. Roosevelt's policy, the "Times" adds, is calculated to raise these speculations. THE RIVAL REPUBLICANS. ; CHARGES AGAINST MR. TAFT. j _________ t NEW YORK, April 28. j Mr. Roosevelt, in replying to Mr. Taft, ' said that the latter was giving way to | the bosses and other privileged interests. | Mr. Tuft, he added, was disloyal to ; past friendship, and also disloyal to ordi- j nary decency and fair dealing. Mr. Roosevelt alleged that Mr. Taft ! was guilty of crooked deaJings because i of his misrepresentations on his (Mr. i Roosevelt's) attitude on the trust ques- j tion.