Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1910-02-17
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rnesENT CHOICE ron PREsI.
DENT or PArEas WEST or
THE ALLEcHANIEs.
lAFOIlETTE GETS THIRD
Roosevelt and TAFT ARE Only Two Can.
dldstss strongly Advsnced--t4ushs
Has supporters In Every state
and Territory But Two.

Chicago The Chicago Tribune
prints the Following:
When the Tribune asked the news
papers west of the AlIeghanfes TO ex-
press their opinion as to whether or
not Cannon should be speaker of the
next congress and whether they I'm
dressed the Aldrich tariff law, 1t also
asked them to give their presidential
preferences The question was asked
In this form: IF you could vote for
president today, for whom would you
cast your balIot!'
About three-ffths OF the editors
took advantage Of the opportunity and
the result OF The straw vote ~ pre-
scented by the Tribune, only those ed.
tf0rs recording themselves as Repub-
licans being included.
II shows that Theodore Roosevelt is
the present choice OF the Republican
editors for the presidency and he and
President Taft are the only two canii-
dates who are strongly favored.
La Toilette leads both Roosevelt
and Taft tn Wisconsin and has scat
terfng votes nearly everywhere.
Hughes has supporters In every
state and territory polled except Ten
nessee and Arizona.
cumnIns and Pinchot.
Cummins and Pinchot are mention
ed by many. while Dolliver and Can
non each have few supporters. The
scattering votes are split among the
various favorite ones but no one OF
these men III mentioned by more than
one state besides his own.
Roosevelt has not only majority
OF the votes, but his strength runs 90
uniformly that he is indorsed by a
majority Of the states. He is strong
" In the lead In the lake group, where
he was 466 votes to Taft's 427 He
leads In the prairie state by GIT to
475 and on the Pacific coast by 1874
70 20 In the only group where Taft
leads, the presidents margin Is mar,
row. It being SIS to 81 IN the mountain
states.
The south Ii evenly divided, IS TO
So. Roosevelt leads In sI5 Of the %
'stntes: Michigan, Indiana, Illinois,
Jhs Kansas. Nebraska, Oklahoma,
IltnMeno(A, North Dakota, Montana.
W1NAingt0h. Oregon, California, Ken
tuck5 and Nevada. These states have
i population Of 5.501 1856 and viii poll
294 votes In the Republican national
convention. Taft leads In Ohio, Mis-
souri,. Idaho, Colorado, wyoming,
Tennessee and Arizona
These states together. have popu
lar vote OF 2,4sS, 767, a total OF 116
votes III the Republican national con
vention, or less than half, that OF the
Roosevelt states. In Toilette leads
IN Wisconsin. while Roosevelt and
Taft divided the vote evenly In South
Dakota. Utah and New Mexico.
The vote IN Ohio Is OF interest.
There Taft has 1I2 votes, which Is
only 10 more than Roosevelt.
OF the lake group. Illinois Is most
strongly for Roosevelt, the vote being,
Roosevelt, $50 and Taft, ITO.
Two Interesting features OF the
straw VOTE are the ballots cast for
Bryan and pinchot. In many cases
the editors gave their reasons for
These baliots. More Of the 10 VINO
vote Tor Bryan say that they do 30
neo2uue they 40 not approve of the
present policies of the Republican
party. although they yoted Tor Taft
M Int presidential election.
The Pinchot vote which appears IN