Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-02-07 | Page 4 | An Acrobatic Organ

jj AN AOROBATIC ORGAN. i! .;.. H' Here' is a laugh for any one who has the sense of humor in him: 1 ' . Those supporters "of Colonel Roosevelt who declare H " their belief that he will be the Republican nominee for ; i g. President probably do not mean to insult him, but their H3 .' utterances practically amount to nothing less. Numbering HL! ' every American among the admirers of his brilliant attain- 2 ments, his unswerving honesty, his energy and activity. j with a lively recollection of his great services to tlv nation, Hh Colonel Roosevelt will think long before he breaks the H.; solemn pledge given the people in November, 1904. - Were William Howard Taft. by some combination H; of circumstances to withdraw from the race for the nomin- H ation, the Republican party would gladly follow Theodore H Roosevelt, and might find ample warrant in doing so inthe H t fact that he was but once elected President. That he is n H j great executive, that his acts and desires were all in the H interest of the people, is certain, but Mr. Taft is first H I choice of the party and will be nominated. H i The above, it goes without saying, is from that squirming, pre- H I posterous journal, the Salt Lake Herald-Republican. Hj Briefly stated, the Herald-Republican declares that a high H I) crime and misdemeanor would be eontmittcd, if Roosevelt were H nominated by an admiring people while Taft still held to the opinion HNj that his own rcnomination was a party duty, but if Taft were out Hl j of the way, then to nominate the Colonel would be the gracious Hj j thing to'do. Oh, these standpat organs; what a dreadful state of K j mind they do disclose; what contradictious their mental bias in- H j JQicts on their. suffering readers.