Show WILL THE PRESIDENT GO STUMPING 1 A great deal has been said about Mr Roosevelt exerting undue influence to have Mr l Taft nominated nomi but Raymond writes to the Chicago Tribune I that if there is one thing the Democrats fear more than an any other in the present campaign it is that President Roosevelt will take the stump for Taft He says the leaders were ere hoping and praying that flint the traditions of the office would keep him at homand home hom and that his contribution to the campaign would be bein bein bein in in inthe the form of a few letters or of the exercise of personal influence with his callers but now he says the president will be forced to take the stump to defend himself against the bitter personal attacks upon his honor that have been promulgated He cites Chairman Cla Claytons Clayton's ton s 's remarks in the Denver convention that in effect he lie charged Theodore Roosevelt president of the United States with political political political ical blackmail in the last campaign in effect charged that the president through his secretary p in m inthe inthe the campaign four years ago was a blackmailer He thinks in ILl view view of this that the president really will h have ve to take the stump that everybody in Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington and even Mr Clayton Claytn himself knew that the charge was not true but that the party has openly sought to make the presidents president's personality the issue of the campaign and Raymond thinks they will get what they have been looking for It says what Mr Clayton nayton said in his speech was not an accidental declaration that it was a carefully prepared clr cl ana and that it was approved b by p the convention and if u unanswered Verea it will go into the campaign as part of the truth of history Hence Raymond thinks he president can do no less than to take the stump in his own self defense and indirectly in support of Mr l Taft That certainly would auld add to the picturesque features features features fea fea- tures of the campaign It would be entertaining if the president and the Democratic presidential nominee nom jiom- ioni inee could debate the questions before the people side by side It would be the best drawing card of any show that has been exhibited in this country in ina a gr great f in many years rears Mr l Bryan is a more plausible orator but he lie is not supported by half the facts that the president could bring to bear and a debate between between be be- tw tween n these two men would educate the people faster than perhaps they could be informed in any other way |