Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1912 — Is Taft Going? [ARTICLE]

Is Taft Going?

President Taft clearly presents the spectacle' of the man who tried to be with both sides toppling over Into the chasm. He may be renominated by the power of public patronage, but at this time the prospect of the seoond coming of Mr. Taft Is very dim. By aligning himself with the standpatters on the tariff and in the personal recognition of their leaders the president first alienated the "progressives,’’ and later/by the chaotic enforcelnent of the Sherman law, he has disappointed so-called “big business." All present signs Indicate that the Republican nominee of 1»12 will be someone other than William Howard Taft. - f Among our wool friends we observe great apprehension that a reduction of the wool duty would be followed by a diminution of the flocks. But in the past ten years, with al! the duties of the Dingley and the PayneAldrich laws, the, number of sheep of shearing age decreased more than 400,000. In the Rocky Mountain region ,the number of sheep Increased even under free wool and with busli nesg depression. In the rest of the country the number cannot be kept up by prosperity and duties Which prohibit the importation of any wool except those of the least shrinkage.