Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1908 — NEITHER HAS A CINCH. [ARTICLE]

NEITHER HAS A CINCH.

It would seem that the two men whose names recur th.ese days with persistent iteration in the newspapers fni in the conversation of average men as the banner bearers of the two bis political parties in the coming nanal election have been "overtrained” by their friends, and each, to une another sporting word, is likely to be "stale” when he comes to start in the presidential race. It is Just eight weeks till the Republican convention is called to order in Chicago. The Taft men must work hard indeed in the intervening days to get within calling distance on the first ballot of proving the claims they have boon so prodigal in shouting during the past two months. It really does appear now that the mass of the Republican electorate Is weary of reading them, and the tired feeling may Infect their national delegates. Indiana has a name to present, and it Is that of a man the state delegates should stand by to the last. He has not been touted all over the land by federal officers prompted by other officers higher up In the federal service, but his friends and admirers are not confined to this state and on “’form,” regardless of the “dope” disseminated by the Taft “touters,” keeping to sporting “patter,” he Is as good to back as any entry In the presidential stakes. Then, there is Bryan. We regret to note that he and his friends are having their troubles, for his nomination this year would assure Republican victory, Even If our Democratic friends In Indiana shrould realize their hope of carrying the state in November, the fact would not affect the inauguration of a new president next March. It is very doubtful indeed if Mr. Bryan can carry this year a single state in the Union he failed to win in 1896. The Democratic party is in a dilemma, and Impalement on either horn will be fatal to its success on November 3 next. If Mr. Bryan be nominated many thousands of Democrats will not vote for him. If another be chosen, Mr. Bryan and his friends will knife him, as they did Judge Parker, four years ago, and this year Missouri may not be the only old rock-ribbed Democratic state to go Republican on members of the electoral college. It is none of our funeral, but this time-dis-tance away from the Denver convention, that is how it looks to us.