Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1912 — TAFT ADHERENTS SEEM CONFIDENT [ARTICLE]

TAFT ADHERENTS SEEM CONFIDENT

Think President Will Be Renominated in June.

EXPECT OPPOSITION TO FAIL Senators from Massachusetts, Minnesota, Utah, Vermont, Connecticut and Nebraska Assure Him of Full Taft Delegations. Washington, Jan. 6. —As far as the Taft situation is concerned, the atmosphere hereabouts has been clarified by the president’s declaration tlyat he is in the nomination fight till the death and that he will go into the convention if he has but one Vote at his back. v The supporters of the president are firmly convinced now that in the end the convention will be compelled to accept Taft for the reason that the policies of a Republican national administration are on trial and that the head of that administration is the proper candidate to represent these policies. There are also Taft supporters who tell you that the opposition to his renomination will crumble and be utterly shattered by the time the Republicans assemble in Chicago in June next The president had a number of visitors, including Senators Crane, Ntilson, Smoot, Dillingham, Brandegee, and Brown of Nebraska, and they told the president that he could stand pat with the certain knowledge that the delegations of their respective states would be for him tfs the end. Other Influential Republicans who visited at the White House congratulated the president on his firm stand in the present situation If is ttie opinion of friends of Cob one! Roosevelt, on the other hand, that opposition to the president’s renomination Will not crumble before convention time, but the Roosevelt men already have outlined their plan of battle. 1 There are many old supporters of Roosevelt who believe they can injure President Taft through his reciprocity measure.