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"In the Wireless House," the best story Arthur Train has ever written, begins in the June McClure's-out May 24th

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The Forces Behind Taft

Alliance

George Kibbe Turner and

Although an actual voting majority of the Republican party does not. Arthur Wallace Dunn

apparently, want to renominate President Taft, he will almost cer-
tainly be renominated and may be reelected. This article explains
the apparent impossibility and shows the powerful forces that are
backing the Taft campaign

Princes and Plumbers. A Story

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Philip Curtiss

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A playwright's prescription for getting his plays produced. Inciden-
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A City of 4,000,000 Cats

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Edward Locke

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Edwin Tenney Brewster

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Imported Crime

A year ago MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE sent Mr. Train to Italy to study
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Jeffery Farnol

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Arthur Train

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From all present indications, an actual voting majority of President Taft's own party does not
want him renominated.

Taft will almost certainly be renominated. He may be reëlected.

The following article aims to explain this apparent impossibility, and to show the master man-
ipulators who are framing Taft's campaign, and his appeal to the support of the gigantic forces of
conservatism which have in the past created our Presidents.

IN

N 1908 Taft was Roosevelt in the popular
imagination; he was elected solely for
that reason. And Roosevelt, to the American
public, represented the great popular cause
the Individual against the Corporation, the
Progressive against the Conservative.

nated; he may be reëlected. If he is, it will be
because he represents exactly the opposite forces
in the community to those he was thought to
represent in 1908. Four years ago the general
public was behind him. To-day the Corpora-
tion is behind him and the general public
In 1912 Taft will undoubtedly be renomi- against him.
Copyright, 1912, by The McClure Publications. Inc. All rights reserved.

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The United States is now the one great country in the civilized world where the sentiment of the majority is unable to express itself directly on the main issue of modern politics. There is only one, as everybody knows; newspapers, legislation, private conversation, all fasten upon it to the exclusion of everything else. It is the fight of the Individual against the Corporation. Everywhere in Europe men can vote directly on this issue by party division. In the United States, party division is based upon the Slavery issue and the Civil Warboth issues obsolete for fifty years. The split on the main issue is inside the two parties the Republican, the party of the North, and the Democratic, the party of the South in the Civil War.

Now, the Corporation influence in the United States never lost control of the Presidency until the election of Roosevelt. And Roosevelt, as most people know, was made President purely by accident.

In 1900 the Republican party was controlled, in the interest of the Corporation, by Senator Mark Hanna. In that year state politicians, desiring to get Roosevelt out of their way, forced Hanna to nominate Roosevelt as Vice-President. Hanna was almost frantic with ap-prehension.

"Do you know what you're doing?" he said in his conferences before the Philadelphia Republican Convention. "Do you realize that there is only one life between that man and the Presidency?"

Hanna's worst fear became fact. McKinley was killed, and finally, by the untoward catastrophe of murder, through a risk which should never have been taken, the Corporation influences lost the Presidency.

In 1908 Roosevelt, retiring, presented Taft to the country as his successor. As President, Roosevelt had sat in his Cabinet between two remarkable minds Elihu Root and William H. Taft. He had dragged all his problems before them. They had taken them and pulled them to pieces and looked at them. They seemed to Roosevelt the most remarkable political minds he knew, and he wanted one of them to succeed him. Root the acuter mindwas impossible. He had for years, as a lawyer, been one of the most valuable instruments of the Corporation in America. Taft was finally nominated, and the country elected him, in the belief that he was Roosevelt. They had no other way, under our present party division, of estimating him on the main matter of political importance. They knew nothing about him, really. Neither did Roosevelt. All he had observed was the action of a big sedentary mind, working along day by day on the intellectual problems brought to it operation as dispassionate and accurate as the ticking of an excellent clock.

Copyright, Clinedinst, Washington, D. C,
THE FORMER "GENERAL MAN-
AGER OF THE UNITED
STATES"

Staging a National Illusion

an

In the meanwhile no pains had been spared to develop this public estimate of Taft. The idea had, to begin with, the great publicity which followed everything connected with the Roosevelt administration. Taft was brilliantly staged by his work in the Philippines, by his trip around the world. And