UNITED STATES' PRESIDENCY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3259, 3 July 1911, Page 3

UNITED STATES' PRESIDENCY.

' WHAT OF THE COM INC. CAMPAIGN.

BREAK UP' OE OLD PARTY LINES

According' to an American correspondent each nngnt even, say each week —yields ever plainer signs of a breaking-up in the Presidential campaign next year of the old party lines. It would, be “bad politics" for the Roosevelt following to push their .chief again to the front alter a mere four years’ interval between terms; but in troubled, times the masses of the people turn to men they know; and, in order to shut off any sudden imperious popular wave of this sort, the announcement is new made that Colonel Roosevelt is booked for another long big-game hunt—not in the tropics, but in the Labrador and Greenland. The elephants and rhinoceruses saved him from tue heart-burnings and resentments caused by the substitution of Taft men for Roosevelt men; Taft got all the blame for removals, and during the party split that ensued Roosevelt was too far away to be forced to take sides. _ And now polar bears and walruses will, if need be, give him a like opportunity to avoid entanglement in the shifting hazards of faction fighting within one or both of the parties. ■ Still, as a test of his present strength, he lias just made a tour through the West, and has been everywhere very enthusiastically received. Mr. Taft, too, as tacit confession that without the sunport of the Roosevelt people he could not bo re-elected, even if renominated, has turned out from his Cabinet Mr. Ballinger and taken in as bis successor an out-and-out friend of Roosevelt and Pinchot, a comparatively young attorney named Fisher. who, in Chicago, as a reformer, lias already succeeded in sending some notorious political rascals to gaol. It was because of Ballinger that Roosevelt at the inauguration of Mr. Taft refused bo stay for the usual! luncheon at the White House; and he lias never since met Mr. Taft in private, and without, witnesses although in the last November campaign he was careful to say only kind words about him. In a transition epoch, when the lines between parties are blurred and indistinct, the key to the situation is this changing interplay of relations between those leaders around whose banners voters rallv, regardless of party regularity; and this is none the Jess true even if importance as leaders depends only noon the fact that they represent the wishes and aspirations of the people.