Connecticut western news., 1908-02-27
VILLAGERS NAME
 THEIR FAVOR|TES
THE RESULT OF A STRAW VOTE
In Canaan and Falls Village Roose- welt Leads by Four and Five to One He is Also the Favorite in Shar- on and Other Villages. Taft and Hughes not Unusually PopuIar--D Dem ocrats Declare for Republicans.

HugneS HOt UnuSudllf FOpuldT--UeHi-
 ocrats Declare for Republicans.
 In order to learn something of the preferences of the people in THE NEWS territory, relative to presidential candi- dates, we made a partial canvass in Ca naan and Falls Village last week and inquiries in other places. .r
 Men were asked in the stores, on the street and elsewhere. who they would nominate for president were it left for them to do. The canvass was absolute ly impartial. Both republicans and democrats were approached and no word or'hint was dropped in order to inf1u ence the answer. The result shows an overwhelming desire for Roosevelt. Men who said they have been life long democrats remarked that they believe in his policies, believe that he has done the country much good. They take the stand that the present financial depres- sion IS the result of the misdeeds of the fnaneiers and not the result of the putting into practice of the policies favored by the president. AS one demo-, crat expressed it, the country is like a man who has typhoid fever, i. G., feels better after he recovers than he has felt before in some time because his system has had thorough cleaning out. This man believes the country will be in bet ter condition after the cleaning out of some of the noxious combinations and the frenxied financiers, than it has been in several years. Many democrats and republicans who are satisfied with what the president has done, remarked that the work is not yet fnishedI and that Roosevelt is the man of all men to complete it. Other democrats remarked that the views of Roosevelt and Bryan are so nearly identical on the matters uppermost in the public mind to-day that one might as we'll be president as the other and in- asmuch as Roosevelt is in the harness HOW and has the work well under head way, it is proper that he should remain in the presidential chair until he finishes it.
 Then there were men, republicans, who characterized Roosevelt as being too radical too impetuous and too head strong. These men believe that Hughes would accomplish the results the Presi- it in more quiet, more conservative. but, at the same time, none the less effective. manner.
 There were others who believed in passing the thing around" as they ex- pressed it. They hold that Roosevelt has been president long enough" and believe that William H. Taft is, in all ways, equipped to become his successor
 Only one man in Canaan expressed a preference for Bryan.
 The Canaan "vote" is as follows Roosevelt 49, Hughes 13, Taft 8, Bryan 1. Chanler 1.
 In Falls Village the expression was as follows: Roosevelt 24, Taft 5, Hughes 3, Root and one declaration for who- ever the Prohibition party nominates. AS it was not possible to canvass the other villages we made inquiries from various people in these villages and from these sources we learn that the majority favor candidates as follows: Sharon for Roosevelt, Lime Rock for Taft, Ashley Falls for Hughes or Crane, Mill River for Roosevelt, East Canaan for Roosevelt. Sheffield for Hughes. Southfeld for Roosevelt total of six villages for Roosevelt, one for Taft, one for Hughes, one about equally divided between Crane and Hughes.