The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-06-17
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Tie Keynote" speech Of Senator
Burrows was q slap st all things
RooseVeitcu, and during the time the
famed Michigander vas delivering his
address to the opening Chicago con
venti0n. the name Of the President
was mentioned seldom. and then hur
q redly Add 10 this the fact that the
Taft banner that was to bring on the
great cheering was barely noticed and
IT requires no wise man 10 know the
actual republican states are united IN
a determination TO make the solid
southern and doubtful western states
furnish the electoral votes for Taft
The republican paY,g Is wholly
commercial. It's great, successful
leaders boast that il Is the party Of
expediency and chat the tenet OF the
faith today may be changed for the
emergencies Of the morrow. 1t will vote
free trade and reciprocity 0qe time
the next d prohibitory tarim wall. p.
der these conditions the great com
mercial states of the Uni0n-Massa
chusetts, New York, Pennsylvania
Ohio. Indiana and Illinois have been
brought into the fold Of the party,
New York being held closely between
tne two because the New World
metropolis has a million free trade
merchants.
Not one Of those states has re-
publican majority in sympathy with
the candidacy or raft The state Of
Ohio, honeycombed with federal ap-
pointees and driven under the presi-
dental lash, by d bare scratch that did
not dare be carried to the primaries
sent a divided delegation to Chicago.
The custom house officials at New
York City did save one vote for TAFT
but in Pennsylvania he mas none, nor
one in Illinois.
Wisconsin Is reform party state
but the people from the Badgerland
resent the insults to La Toilette
whilst the President throws fayors at
the feeg. OF. Craze, and--Long both. acs
knowledged personal representatives
OF the international Gas trust
II looks as If the republican part!
had concluded the Taft ship may hit
the breakers. It has been bolstered
up by the press agents and the neg
roes of the SOutn. In states where
there must come republican majOri-
ties, Ohio and Vermont alone are en-
tering the convention as his advertised
friends. Naturally Aldricu will allow
Connecticut and Rhode Island to cast
their votes for Taft. having promised
this when the President signed the
currency DILL Add the state of Kan
sas and Iowa, both Western In thought
and business alliances, and the Nor
mon state Of Utah, and you have the
record that Is TO make and command
the candidacy Of William Howard
TAFT,
Here are the states pledged to Taft
az the opening OF the convention taat
can possibly deliver their electoral
votes on election day;
Connecticut Minnesota. North Da
kota. OHIO. South Dakota. Utah, Yer
mont, Washington aud possibly ore
gon, the last not being Instructed.
There Is a tentative understanding
that California viii vote for Taft and
he can carry Il this fall, because the
conditions make ii az this time lingo
state
Nor DO the "fayorite sons" make this
change. Had Cannon been out Of the
way IN Illinois. Knox or Hughes could
garry It against Taft In walk; but
81 az ieasb is anu-Taft. and Il re
mains % be seen what win be the
feeling for or against the South and
Southwest reliably democratic. fore.
ing q republican nominee over the
states that must furnish the electoral
votes, n furnished.