Salt Lake Herald | 1908-10-11 | Page 8 | Is an Eruption Imminent?

IS S AN ERUPTION IMMINENT The final stages of the presidential campaign may mayor or may not find fn the president on the stump If It I he follows his natural inclinations he will wi insist upon batting for his substitute in the final Inning While the Republicans Republicans who are supporting Taft are holding Roosevelt in check the th hero 1110 worshippers worshipers are gathering around the throne and nd pleading with wit his majesty ma cst to enter the lists with wih the big stick and bass bas drum on the ground goun that the tho defeat of or Taft would mean the repudiation l aton of or the Roosevelt administration that Taft is in danger of ot being beim beaten heaten and that the war whoop held in re reserve reserve serve erve for the jungles of or Africa should be used to awe and subdue the wicked Democrats Democrat and the grand army of dis disgruntled disgruntled Americans in general On the other hand the trusts now supporting Taft would not regard his hl election electon as an endorsement of ot my pol policies polIcies p l but insist that If this question is made the paramount issue they tho would prefer to see the Republican an ticket go down to Ignominious defeat A third consideration is the fact that the secretary of the Ananias club Mr Loeb has unofficially given it out that the president would not make speeches unless it seemed necessary to save aV the day To go on the stump under the circumstances would be tantamount to toa toa toa a confession that Taft Tart wa was in danger of ot defeat The only certainty seems to be le that Roosevelt Roosevel is fretting and fuming fuming in the White House Whether hether he will wi break breakout breakout out time alone can ean tell tel