Notes of the Day.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3495, 10 April 1912, Page 4

Notes of the Day.

“MY HAT’S IN THE RING.” The conflict'between President Taft ami ex-President Roosevelt promises to d eve ho ]i into a conflict of unparalleled! bitterness. Behind the opposition to the latter is. os has already been explained, the charge that he i* endeavoring to break the umvntten rule against a third term. M fi av3 in reply is that m 1904 and 190/, when lie said he would not accent nomination for a y -third teim JIK T, any circumstanced, he meant a thiHl consecutive tepfi of rmice Hescrihinw the bitterness that has arisen over the matter, a San Francisco corresnondenir savs:—"No two men in \inerioaif public life have been more doselyXisociated or have spoken more ini ghl y of one another. It has a 1 been ‘Will’ and Jheodoie wlji they have met. As member of R#serclt’.s Cabinet To it was the Jght-hand man selected for all the Arduous tasks. It w,as unqvicotionfably through the efforts of Roosevelt that Taft** was placed in the I resident’s chair. And rwr they are m;vls It is true that several tin.-■* Ance his .announcement that he would accept the nomination Ropseyclt . distinctly said that he will■ cend i t tlie campaign m no pei»onal qmt, that he will not attack the I resident, and that the fight is one or principle w pure and simple. It is a.so true President Taft himself is not the sort of man who would descend to mudslinging. Nevertheless, though the rivals will not call eaeli other names, a greater degree of anger and bitterness has already been engendered than in anv Presidential contest in recent years. Republican newspapers attached to the daft cause aie attacking Roosevelt in such unmeasured fashion that it is difficult to perceive how they can possihlv fall into line behind him should he he nominated by the party convention. -Roosevelt. the pledge-breaker,’ is -a term commonly applied to him. ‘Rdosevelt now stands unmasked berore the American people,’ says one Repub.ieau paper, which proceeds to attac.v him for had faith, disloyalty, and selfish ambition.” .As showing how feeling is strained in the matter, it is pointed out that in California the campaign of President Taft is being managed by C- M. Hammond, who is a brother-in-law of Mr. Roosevelt. Nicholas Long worth, Mr. Roosevelt s son-in-law, who has been a Taft supporter, savs now he will take no part in the contest. Senator Lodge, lifelong friend of Mr. Roosevelt, but to whom the principles of the “cliarter of democracy” are repugnant, win also stand aside.