IN FAVOUR OF TAFT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 75, 28 March 1912, Page 7

IN FAVOUR OF TAFT

UNITED STATES PRESIDENCY. PRIMARIES HELD. NEW YORK STATE AND THE PRESDDENT. By Telegraph*— Press Asfiociation.— Copyright. (Received March 28, 11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, 27tb March. Primaries were held throughout this State for the appointment of Republican delegates to the Chicago Convention. They resulted overwhelmingly in President Taft'i? favour. New York State was regarded as the Rooeeveltian stronghold. [The primaries in United Statee politics are the party meetings held in districts to select delegates to the convention, at iwhieh the party's Presidential candidate is chosen. Mr. Roosevelt's declairation of his intentionmay be taken to have opened the Presidential campaign, which will terminate in November. When he parted company with his successor in office, he gave as his reason that President Tart had not proved faithful to the Eoobevelt policies, and had not made himself popular with "the man in the car." At the same time, the Republican Party, split over tariff matters, and while it was not then foreseen that the Insurgents would have an opportunity of rallying under Mr. Roosevelt — their leader was Senator La Follette, who wa» apeaking seriously of contesting the Presidency — it is certain that emissaries from that section were constantly in touch with Mr. .Roosevelt from the moment that he declared himself in terms which were capable of being interpreted to mean, that he had not finally resolved to adhere to the " third term " tradition with regard to the Presidency. When the agitation in | favour of Mr. Roosevelt was at its height . a few weeks ago, it was stated in the Outlook, of which the former President | is an editor, that if ever elected again, "ifc will nob be because h.% seeks or wants the office, but because the country wamts him to perform a certain job. ' "What job?" asked the New York World, and then it proceeded to review Mr. Roosevelt's two terms of office. The journal concluded that he had not enforced the Sherman anti-trust law half so well as President Taft had ; he had not lifted a finger to lighten the burden of extortionate Protection ; he had licensed the absorption of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company by the Steel Trust; he had invited the head of the great Harriman railway -combine to White House; and the great industrial achievement of hie administration was a panic that threw 2,000,000 men out of work. "What then?" asks the World, "does the country need him for? " To rant and rail and denounce and froth at the mouth? To make government the football of demagogism for four years more? We do not deny that if the' country needs Mr. Roosevelt ifc ought to have him. We are merely trying to find out why ,it needs him, to discover what this • certain job ' iff thafc the Outlook talks so tenderly about. We are quite willing to be saved by Mr. Roosevelt, bufc we should like to know what we are to be sa*ved from." In addition to President Taft and Mr. Roosevelt, name» t mentioned , to date in connection with the Presidential campaign' are Mr. Woodrpw Wilson (Governor of New Jersey), Mr. Harmon (Governor of Ohio), Mr. W. R. Hearst (the wealthy newspaper proprietor), Mr. Gaynor (Mayor of New York City), Mr. Oscar Underwood (Democratic leader in the House of Representatives), Mr. Champ Clark (Speaker of the House of Representatives), Mr. W. J. Bryan (who has contested previous elections), and Senator La Follette.]