Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1912 — THE AWKWARD DETAILS. [ARTICLE]

THE AWKWARD DETAILS.

Roosevelt Will Have No Path of Roses to the Nomination. A national convention is a thing of rules and precedents. It Is not a lot of cowboys got together to yell, tut a gathering of delegates who must proceed under a fixed order, work through officers and committees and pass from one step to the next with due regularity. And before they nominate a President they must adopt a platform. That is as invariable as it is sensible. Convictions must be expressed before candidates are chosen. Now, w>hat is the Platform Committee at Chicago next June bound to report? On the Roosevelt supposition, the platform would have to be punctuated at the moment with denials and deadly annotations. It would be something like the following: "We 1 record our warm approval of the high-minded and patriotic administration of President Taft—and we are going to pit<£ him out of the window as soon as the Roosevelt stampede begins. I “We invite Special attention to the noble work for the peace of the

world wrought by a republican President in negotiating treaties of universal we propose to nominate the man who denounced them as reeking with hypocrisy. ■ “We are fully resolved to uphold the hands of President’ Taft in enforcing the law against'trusts —and then we will ask the country to vote for a candidate who has declared that course to be nonsensical. ' 1 ■

“We cordially and proudly approve William Howard Taft—and now tlhe party will please note the ease with which Theodore Rciosevelt will knock the stuffing out of him.” This is not purely The hard situation will be much as above set forth. Dancing on a rope over the gorge of Niagara, or swallowing swords, would be child’s play compared with what the republican convention will have • to do if it se f s out to praise the President ard then do him to death. —New York Evening Post.