THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 62, 4 September 1911, Page 5

THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

UNBRIDLED ATTACKS OX Mil. TAFT. By Cubic—Press Association—Copyright,. Xew York. September 1. Senator Ciapp. one of the leaders of the Progressive Republicans, speaking to an interviewer at Lingbeach. California, declared that President Tafl was peevish, fretful, dictatorial and bullheaded, and knew that he had 110 chance to secure the Presidency again. The party was thoroughly dissatisfied with tile President's action over the tariffs last session. Senator La Follettp's magazine attacks President Tuft's action in vetoing the wooljcn duties. Is it possible for the American citizen to set aside political bosses and. ignoring political machinery, to secure the. election of the President of (lie United States? That ex per; men t (says a New York correspondent) is to be tried next year by Mr. Woudrow Wilson. Governor i.f Xew Jersey, and former president, of Princeton, America's greatest Xoncnuformis!. University. Professional politicians. who -boss'' most tilings in the I nitcd States, from the appointment of presidents right down to municipal cross-ing-sweepers, look askance at Mr. Wilson, and predict that lie has no more chance of fulfilling- his aspirations, to become Democratic President, in place of Mr. I alt. than of flying to the moon. Xcvcrllich-?, Mr. WiUon has enlisted plenty of supporters throughout the country bv liis political pronouncements, also in- ihe denunciation of corrupt 'bo--.es. and his experiment in attempting to secure election oli' his own bat is admittedly most interesting. Mr. Wilnnn is very strong in the Southern States, and throughout the country Princeton graduates are rallying to their fill master's support, forming committers of citizens, and always ignoring tile political bosses, who have hitherto controlled the American election machinery. Mr. Wilson keen; lip the lietion that be is not running for'the ollice of Pre.-ideiil, but that "the otlice is seeking him.' it is uiidisputl'd. however, and indi.-pulablc. that the campaign to secure his election is a di recL outcome of his political ambitions, and is approved by liini. Many people, adds the correspondent. believe that the former president, of Princeton, by some strange stroke of fortune, may foci the occupant of the White' House, in which case there would iv a grtal exodus of profc—ional ollice-hohler- in the United States, and prohabiv a big installation of Unversity and professional men. who have pledged their support to Mr. Wilson. Already the southern cities are reporting Mr. Wilson's speeches verbatim. whereas exploded jiol itical volcanoes—Mr. Roosevelt, for example- -secure a mere paragraph. 111 the meantime the friends of Mr. Taft are not idle, and are slowly perfecting the steps necessary to secure his re-nomination.