Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1912 — REPUBLICAN PARTY IN PANIC [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICAN PARTY IN PANIC

True Reason for Support Which ExPresident Roosevelt Is Receiving in Many States. Colonel Roosevelt’s managers have a strange misconception of the reasons why the Republicans of certain states rush to the support of the ex-president . They think the movement shows supreme confidence ‘in his election if nominated, but we cannot agree with them. The fact is that the Republican party is in a panic. It is running from itself, from its record and from its leaders. It is crazy with fear. It dare not make a stand on anything that it has said or done for 20 years past. I Mr. Taft Is in disfavor becaqie, as the responsible leader of the 'organization, he is forced to defend its performances. Mr Roosevelt is favored because at a time of rout and disaster he appears with a lot of novel remedies for a situation that all concerned, if in a normal state _of mind would know Is hopeless. Both are prophets of despair. One is courageous and consistent. The other is timid and shifty

Viewed calmly from the Democratic position the condition of Republican ism will be desperate in any event. Neither Tait nor Roosevelt nor a dark horse has a ghost of a show. The part y is in fragments. The two arch! teds of its ruin are fighting over the remains. As in every other stampede some people stand by the man- who sticks to his post and others rush off madly under the leadership of a man who holds out a fantastic hope of betterment.: . . FV.

It will not be possible to bring these ents together again. They' have los -faith in each other and in them selves? They do not expect to elect a preside:.’ thi. year. They are running only with the idea that they mayescape the judgment.