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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 21, 22 May 1912, Page 6

[)]-. Jean Charcot, to whom the Cullum gold medal war- presented recently in Paris, on behalf of the American Geographical Society of New \ one, is an Antarctic explorer whose work has been of inestimable value to the scientific world. Yet another Royal exile is to take shelter beneath the folds of the Union Jack, and raise him in England a little Court—a pale reflection of varnished glories' The latest dethroned monarch to seek Rritain’s shores is Mohammed Ali, one-time Shah of Persia, who has definitely decided to give ii]> his present campaign in the Land of the Lion, and take up his residence in England. Well supplied with money, the ex-Shah will undoubtedly find that the life of an exile in the capital of the world is worth far more than that of a despotic _ Sovereign lolling on silken cushions in the rose gardens of benighted Teheran. Mr. Roosevelt’s campaign to secure nomination for the Presidency cf the United States is not prospering, but he has still, says “The Times” correspondent, at any rate, the power of amusing and bolding audiences. At Chicago, for instance, discussing the bugbear of his possible dictatorship, hdaid : “I like the Kings I have met, but I do not want to be one, because the function of those Kings expressed in terms of democracy would be the nosition of Vice-President for life, with leadership of the Four Hundred thrown in.” Mr. Roosevelt’s attacks on the President and his despairing cries of fraud, says the “Morning Post” correspondent., do not profoundly impress the public, which likes to sec a defeated candidate take bis defeat manfully. Of more importance is a revolt in Mr. Roosevelt’s own camp. The President lias learned on unimpeachable authority that some of Mr. Roosevelt’s strongest supporters have remonstrated with him against his attacks on the President, and have pointed out to him that this course not only makes his own nomination impossible, hut threatens to cause the defeat of the Republican Party next November. Even some of the Western politicians are beginning to fear that they put their money on the wrong horse when they hacked Mr. Roosevelt. This marked change of sentiment strengthens the belief that Mr. Roosevelt'may ho induced to retire from the contest before the Convention meets.