The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY MONDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 1910. UNITED STATES POLITICS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 September 1910, Page 2

The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY MONDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 1910. UNITED STATES POLITICS.

I'oLiTKs and clamour have been an inseparable pair in the United States of America for a very long time. Tho "stage management" of politics in those far-away States includes such expensive movements as the bringing of people from long distances, by special trains, to shout "Long Live Braggins," or "We "Won't Have Brown," at opportune times for which appointed leaders give the signeh Everything is on "the grand scale." Some such state of organised barracking! must have been evident at the New York Conservation Congress last Friday, when tho Taftitos nnd the llooseveltians succeeded, by turns, in eliminating the names of their respective champions from tine list.

After the brilliant speeches and Missive criticisms made by Mr Roosevelt on Mr Taft's behalf, when the last Presidential election cam-

paign wa.s in progress, it comes as ■i. shock to find these erstwhile friends fixed in opposite camps within the pale of a single party. Tho occurrence gfles to prove once again that political friendships arc based on sand, and that republicans would do better to "put their trust in princes" instead of in each other. To New Zealand, at this long distance from the distracting political scene, it can in,titer very litle whether "Crxllin" Taft or "Short" Roosevelt finally wins out as the accredited representative of the party; but there can ! bc no doubt that Roosevelt's is the moic striking personality of the two now seekin >r suffrages, and that in all probability ho is likely to be the one chosen to con test the Presidency. During Mr Roosevelt's recent tomr of Europe and Great Britain he showed a disposition towards what his fellow ire-puiblicans call "high fain tin," and a further proneness to "lecture" men and nations, which antagonised a. good many 'people. Nevertheless, ho possesses a bed-rock stratum of uncompromising (honesty, and we confess to feeling a friendliness towards him in his present candidature. A downright pronouncement against "graft," and against dishonest politicians and bribers, such as he is reported to have made last week when he refused to sit at a banquet with Senator Lorimer, will strengthen his chances of success very materially with the emotional Americans. A great deal of theatrical fanfaronade accompanies all American political campaigns, and much of tlie general protestation is only half real, but the fact remains that the basic turmoil of the people's feelings .is true and deep-founded,

When theso conditions obtain, tlio candidate who proclaims liis honesty convincingly and also melodramatically gains' the largfest following. Roosevelt is that man; and Roosevelt will "win out."!