The Saint Paul globe., 1904-09-11
ISSUE OF IMPERIALISM
OVERSHADOWS OTHERS
1t Apparently Cannot Be Superseded in the West
Different Views of the Campaign in IIIinois-Resuit
of the Election in Vermont Cuts No Figure With the
Situation i'm the State First Named

state of public feeling in Illinois, / can
believe nothing else than that Judge
Parker will receive an extraordinary
heavy vote.
I'VE have many unemployed. The
number at the present time in Chicago
alone is 10000. Industrial conditions
are such that our factories are closing
down, or running on short time. We
have estimated, from our information
as to what large employers of labor
intend to do this summer, that before
the election the number of unemployed
ARTISANS in Chicago will increase from
10000 to 10000. The Republican par
ty cannot. under such circumstances,
say very fauch about the full dinner
pail They have no issue, in fact, but
| that which has been created by the
official policies of Mr.. Roosevelt's ad-
| ministration and the adventurous
| spirit which Mr.. Roosevelt has person
| ally manifested in everything he has
DONE"
Would Not Affect Illinois
Speaking of the result of the cleo
| ton in Vermont, Mr.. Boeschenstein
| said: Vermont is so overwhelmingly
Republican that nothing is ever to be
! expected of it in presidential or any
other elections. The total vote of the
| state is only $4,000. The total vote of
Illinois is 100000. The population of
Vermont is 343,641. OF this number
( 44,747 are foreign born, 35,440 being
/ Canadians, 7,400 Irish and LOCO Ger
mans, Austrian and Bohemian. Illi-
| nois has a population of 5,000.000, over
| 100000 being foreign born. Only 50,-
| 900 are Canadians, while 114,008 are
| Irish-Americans and 100000 are Ger
man, Austrian OR Bohemian-Ameri-
cans.
| Issues that would be operative in
| Vermont would not naturally affect H.
| liois. I have no superstitions on the
4 subject at all and I do not regard the
bearing at all upon the result here in
I November.
| Six Times That Of Vermont
'What, is known as the North side
| in Chicago casts as many votes as the
whole state of Vermont. The South
side casts twice as many. The West
side casts three times as many. The
Republicans of Vermont conducted
very spirited campaign and had, as
usual, no organized opposition. The
| Democrats did not go into the cam
paign there early enough to establish
| in the minds of the voters their con-
| ception of the issues.
| Conditions in Illinois are just the
reverse. The Democrats are on the
aggressive, and the Republicans are on
| the defensive; we have fine organi-
zation and issues that will peculiarly
attract our people. and we are conf
dent that our candidates will receive
1 very large vote
Illinois Republicans do not entertain
Mr.. Boeschensteins views of the Yer
mont election. ".Fhe Democrats have
| been saying that the result of the
presidential election will be indicated
below or above 25,000,' said Secretary
| Dover, "and now that the state has
gone Republican by $4,000 it seems to
indicate an overwhelming victory for
Roosevelt and Fairbanks all over the
country" s..s,
| Congressman Tawney, of the speak
ers' bureau, at national headquarters,
said: "That state has always been an
| indicator for the way the country will
go, and surely the result of the cleo
ton is in favor of the Republicans"
Senator Hopkins said: ''The result
| in Vermont is a forerunner of what
| will happen all over the country in
| November. The Republican party is
| in better shape than ever. have been
on the stump good deal lately, and
find Democrats who will vote for
Roosevelt wherever 1 go. y Down in
4
itor of the Democratic paper told me
that he intends to support Roosevelt,
| although he will vote for his local
| Democratic ticket. My opinion is that
Judge Parker is proving a disappoint-
ing candidate to the Democrats"
Says Vermonters Are Imperialistie
EditorfaIIy the Chicago Tribune ar
gues this morning that it was the issue
of imperialism or expansion which
| gave Vermont to the Republicans by
an increased plurality. The Tribune
| says:
i.The fact that Vermont has gone
Republican by $4,000 does not certainly
forecast the result in November, but
| merely indicates the present drift of
sentiment along the northeastern sea-
board and in upstate New York, and it
is an error to assume that the political
impulses, which direct that section of
the country, will necessarily have in
f1uence in this section of the country,
or in states farther west Indeed, it
Il is well known that the same issue or
personality which attracts voters III
the East often repels them in the West
and vice versa. The leading issue in
| the Vermont campaign was that one
joyously selected by the Democrats
and thankfully accepted by the Repub-
licans-the personality of Roosevelt
He was called ON the one hand i'm
perial, arrogant, unconstitutional, war
like. and in the classic phrase of Jo-
seph Pulitzer, "a military megalo-
maniac" possessed of a mania to be-
come lord protector of the western
| hemisphere. On the other hand, he
was represented by his friends as a
patriotic. useful and courageous presi-
dent.
@All through our history the anti
imperiaIist has been most numerous
and most jealous in New England
This is perhaps natural, seeing that
the more the country expands to the
West and South the less important a
part New England becomes of the
whole If, therefore. any capital could
be made against President Roosevelt
as an imperialist it could be made
easily in New England. Vermont is
/ typical New England state. 1t abuts
| on Massachusetts. It can readily be
reached by the eontractionist press OF
both New York and Boston. In Yer
mont, if anywhere, the farewell apos-
| trophies to the constitution now being
daily delivered in New York and Bos-
ton might well be expected to move
/ and arouse the regrets and indigna-
ton of the people,"