Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — END OF REPUBLICAN PARTY [ARTICLE]

END OF REPUBLICAN PARTY

Leaders, in Their Mad Struggle for Office, Urging It Toward the Abyss of Oblivion. No party has ever been so indicted by its leaders as the Republican party Is today. No other party leaders were ever driven to the consideration of such extremes as the Taft managers now have under advisement. They are frankly debating the wisdom of placing an independent ticket of Taft electors in states where electors running on the regular ticket, with Taft at the head, have announced their Intention of voting for Roosevelt ia the electoral college. The fantastic possibility of Taft running in some states only on the regular party ticket, in other states on the regular and on an independent ticket. In still others on an independent ticket, his right to appear on the regular ticket having been forfeited. Is before us. And with Roosevelt approximately duplicating this unprecedented performance, the confusion, of course, becomes worse confounded. It is not a mere party struggle. It is a riot of office-mad politicians. To the people as a whole, regardless of party lines, it is a loathsome exhibition, The Republicans are demonstrating what happens to a party when the foundations of personal good faith underlying all political actlvitjr la shattered. —St. Louis Republic. •