TAFT IN THE LEAD.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1414, 15 April 1912, Page 5

TAFT IN THE LEAD.

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.

By Telegraali-Prcss Associatinn-Gopyrlsht (Rec. April 15, 0.20 a.m.) New York, April 11. Mr. Roosevelt has carried almost twothirds of the 7(1 delegates of the Pennsylvania Slate Republican Convention. Mr. Woodrow Wilson has secured most of the Democratic support for nomination as that party's candidate. Tho total number of delegates supporling Mr. Tuft is 1110, and Mr. Roosevelt 100. "INSINCERE DEM AGOG FES." New York, April 12. President Taft, in replying to Mr. Roosevelt, stigmatised those advocating (he recall of judges or judges' decisions as insincere demagogues acting on an insufficient knowledge of the Constitution. When (hey realised that impious hands were likely to be laid on the Ark of the Covenant, all sober-thinking people would protest. SUFFRAGETTES INTERVENE. (Rec. April 15, 0.20 a.m.) New York, April 11. Suffragettes at Chicago are bitterly opposing Sir. Roosevelt's candidature in con. sequence of his attitude towards women's suffrage, against which he spoke during tho Illinois State election campaign. A JUDGE ON MR. ROOSEVELT. It is evident already (states the New York correspondent of the London "Tele graph") that the Presidential election this year will be conspicuous for violent language. "With the nomination of the candidates months away, w(, have already enough invectives exchanged to. stock a big dictionary. It is hardly likely that a man of Mr. Tnl't's philosophical temperament will lose his head, but nobody can control a man's followers when the fray waxes warm, and there are already many signs of heat. Justice Howard, of the Supreme Couvt of tho United States, recently described Mr. Roosevelt's platform as* follows:— "Let all things he decided first by tho State Courts, then by the, Federal Court, ind finally by the mob." Tho latter is nil illusion to Mr. Roosevelt's declaration in favour of giving the people power to ••■ecall Judges. Such power, it is argued, would deter some Judges from giving an unpopular decision, and is tho most dangerous part of Mr. Roosevelt's programme. Justice Howard describes Mr. Rc.osevelt as: "A genius, who has the daring of a madman and the instinct of a beast, with tho lixcd determination that neither the fame of Caesar nor tho renown of Napoleon shall eclipse him. He ignores all obstacles, enemies, scruples, principles, promises, friends, criticism, commendation, pledges, and the danger of disgrace. Ho is a stranger to cowardice; in battle he is ruthless. Opposition whets his ferocity; the hardest blows only make him grin. He is cunning, like au Indian; v.-ise, like a wizard; tonacious, like a bulldog; magnetic, versatile, tireless, fearless, restless, relentless. And this is the man that Taft—gentle, honest, safe, good-natural—must rcckon with—Taft and the American people." If. it is asked, such denunciation proceeds from America's highest judicial tri-

junnl, what can you oxpoct a little later, vlien the battle commences, from tlio •auk and file?