Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-12
A Roosevelt Waterloo.

| The New York World made the
most vigorous fight against Roose-
welt in New York that any newspa-
per ever made against a man. The
| Worlds exposure of Roosevelt's at
tempts to become a political dictator
was a potent factor in the cam
| paign. Many who have read quota
lions from the Worlds campaign at
tacks upon Roosevelt, may now wish
to hear what that paper has to say
! in comment upon the result. Inc
World says:
Theodore Roosevelt and the new
nationalism have gone down to their
Waterloo. Mr.. Roosevelt will not be
the republican candidate for presi-
dent in 1912.
When the World made Mr.. Roose-
welt the issue in this campaign he
gayly accepted the challenge and
spread himself over the political map
from the Rocky mountains to the At
lantic ocean. He elbowed Mr. Taft
and the republican administration
aside while he conducted a skyrOcket
campaign for a third term and his
own political apotheosis. Mr.. Roose-
weeks. Now the people have spoken
and the people have repudiated
Rooseveltism.
He is beaten decisively in his own
state where his personally conducted
candidate is overwhelmed and the
republicans have lost the governor
ship for the first time in l 6 years.
He is beaten in his own congress
district.
He is beaten in his home district
in his own town, which was carried
by John A. Dix.
He is beaten in Massachusetts,,
where he viciously assailed Mr..
Foss, and the people elected Mr..
Foss governor.
He is beaten in Connecticut. where
he viciously assailed Judge Baldwin,
and the people elected Judge Bald
win governor.
He is beaten in Ohio. where he
viciously assaulted Judson Harmon.
and the people have reelected Jud-
son Harmon governor.
He is beaten in New Jersey, where
Woodrow Wilson made an old ma
tionalism democratic campaign
against the vagaries of the new ma
tiOnalism.
He is beaten in Indiana where he
campaigned for Senator Beveridge
on a fake tariff platform of false
pretenses.
He is beaten in Iowa, where re-
publican majority of $4,000 is near
ly if not completely wiped out.
And wherever Mr. Roosevelt has
been beaten he has been beaten by
republican votes.
This is no partisan democratic vic
tory in the ordinary sense of that
term. While it is a defeat for the
Taft administration and for the re-
publican party, it is peculiarly a de-
feat for Theodore Roosevelt and his
1912 ambitions. 1t was brought
about by the help of republicans
who were dissatisfied with the record
of the Taft administration and the
Aldrich-Cannon revision of the tar
iff. But it was also brought about
by hundreds of thousands of patriot
&c republicans who still believe in the
constitution of the United States,
who still uphold the supreme court
and who will tolerate no third-term
ambitions in any man. whatever the
party name that masks his preten-
SiOns.
The World repeats now what it
said time and time again during the
campaign. Republican victory would
have been a Roosevelt victory. Re-
publican defeat is a Roosevelt de-
feat. When the republican conven-
ton in 1912 looks for this myster-
ious Moses whom Elihu Root has so
eloquently described, it will not look
in the direction of Oyster Bay.