St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 31, 1912

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_8T. LOUIS > ae s tt SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 31, 1912. > * s* ee ere iF ef ¢ $43 é ee ; a = ye te oe ie pag i am | ‘ Seo ee fe OR e x _y. > > — & a 4 e Z : ? » = An : 4 i ae eet oe . ' BF sg ity . at r i ‘ Pie, iS : ect ek ‘en . . 5 . Pie = a oF adie . Te ey a a > 6 a " i ” > > ¥ 5 alll ere Yad . > * iis IRROR of PUBLIC OPINION: POST~DISPAT ~A NEW DEPARTMENT OF THE SUNDAY TCH PRESENTING THE BEST | INFORMATION ON IMPORTANT PUBLIC QUESTIONS: “2 44 fA - a 7 ; , Ly Ah , Y ‘ , ¢ FROM THE CLEVELAND LEADER. Apa =" - ah Ud Oop . rp PRESIDEN" {THEODORE ROS d ADVOCATE OF Wy ‘ i Vy ‘ip k A CLOV AE I tthe ae / Of inher’ oj? : a] f pa’ FROM THE PHILADELPHIA iInQuiRER, FROM THE NEW YORK HERALD. fl ii ith “COME ON.FELLERS, WE CAN HAVE ALL THE FUN WE LIME |" ROOSEVELT’S DEFEAT IN NEW YORK AND NORTH DAKOTA Overwhelming Triumph of Taft in the Empire State Charged by the Colonel to Fraud—Result in Indiana Complicated by Rival Conventions—The Campaign in Other States as Viewe by Editors of Leading Newspapers. : ing victory in North Dakota was followed by Roosevelt’s complete defeat and Taft's overwhelming victory in New York. In Indiana Roosevelt and Taft conventions have been held, each electing delegates to Chicago. Mr. Roose- velt said in his Chicago, speech: The election machinery was used (in New York) as unscrupulously as in the days of Tweed. Names of Roosevelt delegates were left off the ballots. Ballots were misprinted, were folded in such a way as to feaze voters and in numerous instances were not delivered to. polling piaces until four or five hours after the polls had opened. What ‘was done in New York is substantially what was done in Indiana and in Colorado. We carried the (Indiana) State convention handsome- ly; and then, by fraudulent action, which can only be called brutal. in its utter defiance of decency, nearly 200 delegates were thrown out. The same thing was done in Colorado by the Guggenheim-Evans machine. Outside of Denver, in spite of every species of attempted trickery and foul play, we carried a majority of the dele- gates, but we were beaten by the most outrageous methods in Denver itself. In Missouri we have overwhelmingly carried three districts, and yet in each district a bolting convention has been organized. | T. R’S NEW YORK DEFEAT ‘New York Globe: There is no doubt that in Manhatten and the Bronx, where nearly half the énrolled Republicans got their votes recorded in the primaries, a very decided leaning to President Taft was shown. This disclosure is not supris- ing. What it signifies regarding the great mass of the voters here is not clear. Furthermore, Republican delegates from New York have not often agreed with a majority of delegates from the rest of the country when it has come to pick- ing the most available among the candidates in the field. New York Mail: A President of the United States who finds reason to congratulate himself on the results of such a primary as was held in this city Tuesday is welcome io all the comfort that can be had out of a candidacy backed by fraud as contrasted with a popular estimation guch as was made by the people of North Dakota last week. The “primary election” held in this city and State Tuesday evening was, so far as the Republican voters were concerned, a lockout pure and simple. The condition of things. in Indiana proves the same thing. The Roosevelt @elegates, not the Taft delegates, will sit and -ycete in the Republican national convention im Chicago, because the Republican party will neve stand for such methods, The New York Press: The malign fate which throughout his campaign for a renomination has worked so much mischief for Mr. Taft. was busy again at the New York primaries, where the “Taft bad luck” was in emphatic evidence. The absence of primary ballots at so many places and ‘the inextricable confusion where ballots were to be had, will make all the Roosevelt faction surely and probably some of the general public refuse to accept the result as either a true or an honest test of the strength or weakness of the President, a8 measured against the Colonel. In the nature of things this must prove more unfortunate for Mr. Taft than for Mr. Roosevelt. New Yerk Tribune: Col. Roosevelt’s campaign “Managers fail to appreciate the fact that the “American public has little respect for a bad loser. -Americans favor a fair fight and do not like to have the weaker contestant taken advantage of: but they want to see a man who is palpably beat- em take his defeat with grit and good nature. No reat amount of sympathy can be aroused by “pleading the baby.” Tuesday's vote was thor- oughly ‘representative of the sentiment of the ‘@brolled Republicans of this county. The Roose- Velt forces did as well as there was any reason- @ble expectation that they would do. 3 *'New York Sun: To Theodore Roosevelt, so ‘Tong the spoiled child of good fortune, much has seemed to be forgiven; and now the ruthless Superman instead of gaining the end for which he has overridden antique fllusions of the weak, Such as friendship and honor, sprawls in the mire, phaking his fist and howling his rage, a “Spectacle to mankind. Here is Theodore Roose- eit—less than two years ago the most honored American citizens—the most powerful in a gitimate and honorable way, if he had respected nself and his career and the affection of so of his fellow citizens. Deliberately he : his greatness away. Here he is, baffled. aten, howling “Fraud” like an energumen, his gnity stripped from him by his own hands, a vulgarily comic, : few York Times: Nobody can say how much Rite victory defeat and La Follette’s sweep- 2 ue heeper Col. Roosevelt would have been buried if & reasonable delivery of ballots ( Tuesday. i he has the exceeding bad grace to rail against the accident that tempéred his humthHation. The be- lief is growing that Mr. Roosevelt, so far from giving loyal Support to the candidate of the Chi- cago convention; is already laying his plans to organize a “bolt.” His fury and his recklessness indicate that he would not hesitate at such a step, although his managers have proclaimed that he. is out to lead the Republican party to one of its old-time victories. LA FOLLETTE’S VICTORY. Philadelphia Record: La Follette’s victory in the North Dakota primaries is a most serious set- back for Theodore Roosevelt. We. have been hearing nothing but the cry of primaries from Roosevelt. Give him primaries and he would sweep the country before him. Well, he has had his primaries, and in'a State devoted to radical- ism and insurgency, too. New York Sum: Col. Roosevelt’s manager in North Dakota, Mr. John F. Bass, charges’ the wicked Democrats with humiliating the Colonel in the primaries by voting for Senator La Follette. But will such an explanation hold water? In 1904 Mr. Roosevelt ran like a prairie fire in North Da- kota, getting a plurality of 38,322 in a total vote of 70,175. In counties in which there was a land- slide for Senator La Follette there was little more than a corporal’s guard of Democrats who op- posed Mr. Roosevelt in 1904, a minority scarcely worth counting. Chicago Record-Herald: Why did La Follette poll about 30,000, Roosevelt about 20,000 and Taft only about 2,000 votes in the North Dakota presi- oe, Bee \FOLLETTE “eo , Y ae he. fey Fy nO fiat Sd BRO STING ‘ CONTEST a Kk vm tel My ; j ng 4 ikl rp ij T, / Pj TOM PB dana y mf TET Hite dif, Fa rs s i 4 / Py») A, FROM THE CHICAGO NEWS. A TENDERFOOT'S VIEW. aye dential primary? There are as many explanations as there are candidates, of course, but it is stated as a fact that feeling over the Canadian recipro- city question played a large part in the campaign preceding the primary. The farmers of the State were opposed to the reciprocity treaty. Baltimore Sum: Senator La Follette may be pardoned if he uses the primary election in North Dakota to refute the assertion of the Roosevelt leaders that the course of events has taken him out of the race St. Paul Piloneer-Press: from a viewpoint serenely unprejudiced, it must be conceded that the North Dakota verdict has done little to clarify the general situation. Be- yond the single result of keeping La Follette in a race from which many of his friends had be- gun to think him disqualified nothing has de- veloped that may be regarded as conclusive at this time. Before the emtry of Roosevelt North Dakota was conceded to La Follette. San Francisco Call: La Follette’s victory in North Dakota probably means the elimination of Theodore Roosevelt from the presidential vas. If he is not strong in the northwest, where insurgency is rampant, it is not clear where he ean expect to make a showing. It may even prove that La Follette would have made a strong- er candidate. In the very strongholds of insur- gency the Wisconsin man is giving Roosevelt the fight of his life. Washington Poat: No doubt the Roosevelt bu- reau will explain this black eye in several plausi- ‘ ble ways. It will ask the gullible public to ada up the La Follette and Roosevelt figures, and contrast them with the Taft figures, as showing } the relative strength of the progressives and reg- ular forces. _ Chfeage Inter-Ocean: The Montana Republican State Committee on Saturday indorsed Mr, Taft ODL ote tinge org oh gael. ee; ie 2, Sa ‘ % . & * - | prising. ‘ misrule. } Wisconsin is not for him. for the presidential nomination. . Looking at the result / can- | HOW ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN. HOW IN THE WORLT) IND YOu CET 17 ? >» =o oo”. = > 2 PROGRESS' SURPRISE PARTIES. for renomination, 29 to 10. Several of the ten Said they voted against the resolution only out of personal regard for Senator Dixon, the national manager of the Roosevelt Third Term campaign. When we consider the variegated and explosive history of Montana politics, and how such a varie- Sated and explosive candidate as Mr. Roosevelt must appeal to the makers of such a political his- tory, the news from Montana is not merely sur- It is positively stunning. New York Post: Wisconsin joins the roll of ) Western States where the voters believe that Mr. Roosevelt is mot the one man who can rescue the ceuntry from its present condition of oligarchical The shrinkege of the great Roosevelt West has reached the point where statistics be- eccme interesting. North Dakota is not for him. Iowa is not for him. Indiana is not for him. Colorado ts not for him. Utah is not for him. Nebraska is one-half for him and one-half for La Follette. New Mexico is three-quarters for Taft. WILL HE BOLT ? Indianapolis Newst Mr. Roosevelt’s devotion to principle has never been so great as to take him out of his party. The man of “inspired idealism” and “burning soul” always manages to keep reg - ular. A youthful believer in free trade, he re. signed from a free trade organization saying ths: ‘ he was “a Republican first, and a free trader aft- erward.” So we look for no bolt in spite of the fact that his recent speech really commits him to it. He may not give the President any active as- sistance, may sulk in his tent, but our guess is that he will “vote right.” Cleveland Plaindealer: Theodore’ Roosevelt's New York speech is being held up by the Taft forces as a direct threat of a third party. There is, however, nothing in the Colonel's record to in- dicate that for revenge or from any other motive he would sever party ties or enter upon an as- suredly losing fight. The martyrdom of third- partyism. can scafcely possess any lure for the man whose greatest joy is the plaudits of the crowd. Philadelphia Inquirer: There are those who think that Colonel Roosevelt is getting ready to bolt the Republican convention after President Taft has been renominated. Of course, the Colonel has declared that he would abide by the decision of the convention, but those who fancy that they see indications of a third party move- ment decline to take his words at their face value. COAL SIRIKES 66 ITH only a few days remaining be. W fore the expiration of the agree. ments between the miners and the operators in this country, it seems incredible that both sides can remain indifferent to the hard- ‘ships which a strike will inflict upon the gen- ' era) public,” says the Philadelphia Record. will be nothing less than monstrous if, with the example of the sufferings brought upon millions ‘of innocent people by the English strike before their eyes, both sides retain their stand-off at. titude, each refusing to make any advance for ' SHALL THE FAMINE WOLF GE LOOSED ? / cROM THe CHICAGO RD HERALD nvm HEY ‘THERE! QuIT J16GGLinG THAT wine! i* , yin id Le ’ : ni FROM THE CHICAGO OAILY JOURNAL. afl BOUNCING BILL , THE SLACK-WIRE WIZARD. ACQUITTAL OF THE TEN FTER many years’ pursuit of the Chicago A beef packing combination the Government was defeated last week by a jury verdict acquitting the ten packers tried under the crimi- nal clause of the Sherman anti-trust act. The verdict was a great surprise to the Government and to the public and has excited much comment. Chicago Tribune: The Government has shown itself free to push to the end the trial of its most powerful citizens. The Federal courts have demonstrated that they can penetrate the most astute legal sophistries and compel the trial of criminal suits upon thetr merits. Men of wealth have discovered that jufies will try their case free from the prejudice and animosity which they have hitherto supposed existed. Louisville Post: This verdict seems for the moment a triumph of this combination. It {8 another event that will awaken the people to the necessity for so perfecting their laws that the privileges of the money powers may be with- drawn and the influence illegally secured may be scattered. Detroit Free Press: The verdict reached in Chicago confirms the report of Commissioner Garfield but gives its findings a standing that could not have been conferred by any other means. It has always seemed untenable ground that a combination must be adjudged inimical to the public interests which conducts the essential UNDERWOOD COOMER. HUGHES BOOMER LA EOLLETTE BOOMER BOOMER = FROMTHE CLEVELAND pain DBALER. ABOUT TIME FOR SOMEONE TO START SOMETHING, — — ee nn ee) fear that it will be treated as a confession of weakness by the other.” Syracuse Post-Standard: An all summer coal strike would entail results which few political managers would welcome. Washington Post: With the possible exception of a few men who may be willing to profit from the’ sufferings of others, there is no one in the United States who wants to see another strike in the coal regions. Omaha World-Herald: The promise was made that the loot obtained by the tariff tax would be divided with the men who mined the coal. The miners are going to fight for their share of the loot and they ought to have it. New York World: “He who remains still drifts down stream.” Isn't it high time that the mine workers were addressing themselves seriously to the task of averting a calamity by preventing a Strike in the anthracite fields? Boston Globe: Declaring that the Government must protect Great Britain by every resource within its power, in case the Minimum Wage bill failed, Sir Edward Gray plainly intimated that social rights must have supremacy over personal rights. Apparently that is a threat of Govern- ment ownership of the coal mines In England— the country where a generation ago very few persons dreamed that politics and economics would ever be merged. New York Sun: The British coal strike, if it ends now, really settles nothing. The @ilure of the miners to obtain orly a failure in detail, England has still to dispose of the problem of a national boycott and a labor trust which has once effectually para- lyzed its national and industrial life and pointed a way which, it must be feared, will find only too many followers in the near fyture, oo lb he: their extreme demands is} the case another cOmmerce in meat on the narrow margin of prof- it which the beef packers have shown to be theirs, Chicago News: The Daily News has frequent- ly protested against any unnecessary harassing by the Government of business men, big or little. It is glad to know that the heads of Chicago's enormous packing concerns, as the result of a fair and ably conducted trial, are found not to have committed criminal acts under the Federal law. Indianapolis Sun: A Chicago jury has found the beef packers not guilty of a violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. Well, then, who did do it? Indianapolis News: Though guilt is personal {it is not always easy to prove in such a case as that of the packers. Nor can we see that a change in the law would greatly help. The dif- ficulty Hes in the complexity of the evidence. “I am certain,” said one of the jurors, “I did not grasp the complicated mass of figures, and I do not believe any of the jurors did.” New York World: This has been the first great action under the criminal clause of the Sherman anti-trust law to sift corporate guilt down to personal guilt. It might have been the first great demonstration under that law that men may not by acting together merge their individual personal guilt into a nebulosity which may be punished by fine, but not by imprisonment. But corporate guilt still remains personal. The Sherman law still stands as a criminal statute, and its enforcément as such is not to be dis. couraged by the outcome of this case. Denver Recky Mountain News: There is no use crying over epilt milk. Even ‘had the Armours and Swifts been convicted, they would have turned } leose a& new herde of rehearings and appeals and continuances and demurrers, and to the P : My i yy 7 thes & to set about the securement of some that will stop ten-year trials and do the present advantage possessed by inals, Chicago Record Herald: What is the of the verdict thoughtfully and ber reached by such a “peopleized” jury? It tap questionably, this—that while “guilt ts peg men are too sane, reasonable and fair te ¥ vict under the criminal sections of the Sie act those who have done nothing tagurioumiy restrain trade and eliminate competition. #9)” Pittsburg Leader: The judgment of WiiiieaE Travers Jerome has been sustained in 2. trust trial. Jerome seid that in criminal rac no man worth $100,000 or more is ever @ He just can’t be. There is no doubt fn the’ of the Government lawyers, or, in the the Beef Trust and tts Jawyers, in some 965,000,000 of other folks, that the is guilty as charged. Pittsburg Gasette-Fimes: The verdict ably be received by the public with a What ever the opinion of the consumers no redress, The arrogant and contemptux ings of some of the defendants will not assuring to the public. It is not imp | the packers have learned a severe lesson, | they do not come to regard public opin) of more account it will be strange. ey go unwhipt, but their garments are by no means spot. less. 3 eae Cleveland Plaim- Dealer: The _ G nen loses an important case in the acquittal ft ten packers. It may lead to renewed dem that more teeth be given the Sherman ia echo of the Chicago verdict is to be expe Congress. The campaign orators may up. It is an important development { much discussed statute however one vie New Orteans Picayune: There is no impugn the honesty of the jury or to the prosecution was carried on with es the reputation and sanctity of the courts "ms be preserved, but such great corporations gas the ablest counsel and being thus fortified tm the beginning, it is not easy to overthrow | in the courts, But they will come when the} judices and impatience of the masses of he t , ple will grow to such a degree that they Wi rise up in revolutionary violence and Lk -up the courts the vengeance which those t who are so actively demanding recall for” judges and the annulment of judicial deg ton by the mob are seeking to precipitate, 0&5 | Philadelphia Ledger: Suppose we haé te re call in Illinois. What would the voters 45 wil Judge Carpenter for permitting the jury im 1 . beef packers case to acquit them of crimimay ee spiracy? And what would they do with representatives of “The Peepul” who der the verdict? “Guilt is personal” saith the ge ets of insurgency, and a penalty must be exmg either from the accused or the judge or juryy & it is written. a Philadelphia Record: If the Olicago | , had only known that they were going t@ acquitted they would have allowed mee! to be tried ten years ago. They must be @iggy ed at all the time and money they have eA fighting the prosecution. a Boston Post: Again has the Sherman - proved a failure so far as making gullt pers@ and punishing it as such is concerned. It ig) that the Government attorneys wholly make out a case. They proved many what the average citizen would call of trade and price commissiong. Und | ters showed practices that have made the # squirm. There is no use to disguise the | that it is a great victory for trust magnates all kinds. ie New York Hernid: On the Taft administeall the blow will fall heavily. The party in pom is always blamed for failures, and in this 4 | although everything appears to have nn to establish a verdict of guilty, all the . forces of the administration, Repub +. Democratic, will be lampooning the e the Department of Justice. In this case, af} there will be no demand for the all « Judge, but rather, perhaps, for the ree juries. ae New York Press: It occurs to us thal first important prosecution undér the clause of the Sherman law was In ree. Attorney-General who has never been an as sive upholder of the principle thet guilt in Cases is always personal, . ey New York Times: It is one thing to 6a trusts irresponsibly on. the street corner, | another thing to give verdicts on the testi under oath. The business world # ai x > more than confidence, and ft is # — confidence can grow in the fear of Jail. of conduct prevailing among the 1 ; merchants. This fear is now dissips assurance, however, is restricted to | meaning trusts demeaning themae Ps bts ” ~ “Ss ' rea Te STAT By =~ % Re ¥ s nee £2, MES ee ee Se oy Zo bAangeaect Ma thy t

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