ROOSEVELT TERRORISM.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1451, 28 May 1912, Page 5

ROOSEVELT TERRORISM.

TAFT PARTY'S ALLEGATIONS. By Telcsraph-T-Presß' A : 3sdciation-(3opTri|(ht (Bee. 'May 27, 9.20' p.m.) Washington, May 27. The fight between Mr. Taft and Mr. Roosevelt for the Republican nomination for the Presidency is becoming more bitter daily. Mr. M'Kiuley, Mr. Taft's campaign manager, has issued a statement accusing Mr. Roosevelt and his followers of being guilty of every known method of terrorism in order to secure the nomination. PRESIDENTIAL OUTLOOK, ME. ROOSEVELT AND A LIFE TENURE. That Mr. Roosevelt's victory in a State of such confirmed I'epublican regularity as Pennsylvania brings President Taft's nomination into grave doubt is admitted by more than one pro-Taft paper (says the "Literary Digest" of April 2i). Thus the Pittsburg "Gazette-Times" (Rep.), while frankly disappointed with the verdict of the primaries, declares that "it is impossible to question its meaning, and not difficult to measure its ultimate effect," and the Philadelphia "Press" (Rep.) remarks: "So the nomination, which a week ago seemed to bo almost certainly assured for Taft, must now bo conceded to be in doubt." Tho tidal wave which swept Illinois and Pennsylvania, according to thu samo paper, is evidence of a widespread and umliscrimmating discontent, u protest against "things as they are." Consequently, "anything may happen, mid even so good a President as William H. Taft, who becomes unjustly identified with the olijects of this discontent, has a harder fight before him than wan anticipated or than he ought to have to make.' The unexpected result in Pennsylvania, concedes the Washington "Star" (Intl.), "gives substance, hitherto lacking, to the threat of a populistic platform and a third-term Presidential candidate as results of the Chicago convention." That the psychology of the campaign has turned against tho President is "a fact that cannot bo blin'ied," says tlio New York "Evening Post" (Ind.), an antiRoosevelt paper, which agrees with the Philadelphia "Press" us to the essential injustice of this fact. Conceding the President's numerical advantage in the matter of delegates, the "Evening Post" remarks that "it has become not a question of figures so much as of feeline." But it adds: "This is not saying that Eoosevelt can be nominated." Turning from praise of the President to criticism of his opponent, we find the New York "Sun" interpreting the results in Illinois and Pennsylvania to mean that "the greatest danger which has confronted the nation since the Civil War for disruption is not yet averted," and the Boston "Transcript" (Ind. Rep) declaring that "a Roosevelt platform for the Republican party would be a complete surrender of the Constitution to the Executive." Even more alarming are the possibilities denicted by the Philadelphia "Telegraph" (Rep.): , "The ereatesf menace lies not in the probability of Theodore Roosevelt as a civil magistrate of the first rank, but in the possibility of Theodore Roosevelt as commander-in-chief of the military force? of the United States. To confer upon him tho=i> executive duties thnt are oxer-t-iied only in (imp of pence, after feeding his vanity bv a Ihird election, would be a blunder, no doubt; to put n sword in hi' hand mid pliiee every soldier in the land siibordiiiu'e to his impetuous will would be n crime. . . . "Does nnv ?ano person believe tint il Theodore Roosevelt is nominated at Chicago and elected in November, he will ever quit the Presidency—alive? No tliincr ran be more certain than that ar election in 1912 will be equivalent to an election for life: and (lie same nrgumeni In favour of a life tenure onnld be made and would lie made, in favour of heredi taw succession." To the Roosevelt papers, on the othei hand, the verdict of the rpcent primaries is conclusive proof that Theodore Roiw. velt is the candidate whom the Rppnbli can voters wnnt, and whom, wlionevei fI, P bo«<"= foil In gaT diem, they insisl upon linvins. The Pennsvlvnnm vote says the Billimore "News" (Ind.), is "m unmistakable. mnmMe In the Eepublirai nntionn! convention : and.in the K->nsa : City "Time.'." one of H>" i"ief intliipp tial Roosevelt organs in (lie Middle West "Taft will lie backed off the lm.-mls be fore the Chicago convention. TTis man agers mav bluff a bit about n com pro mi«e candidate. Then they will stnm petle. The Republican linminntion i wftlerl. And everywhere the question Mv bflmoemts .t'» considering Is: Wlio cai boat Roosevelt?"