The San Francisco call., 1910-02-14
Republican Editors Express
Preferences for President
Under Present Conditions
TAFT SECOND CHOICE
WEST OF ALLEGHENIES
Mountain States Give Present
Chief Executive Small Ma
iOrity Over Predecessor
SOME VOTES CAST FOR
BRYAN AND PINCH0T

Especial Dspoich 10 The Call
" HICAGO, III, Feb. 13.-Following
are the presidential preferences
of the republican newspapers
west Of the AlIeghenies:
ROOseveiS 1850 Pinchot ..... 30
Taft ..--.... I,O33 Cannon 1890. IA
LaFOllette .... 1877 Bryan ........ SO
Hughes ...-.. I22i Scattering ..-.. lI6
0ummins 65
The Chicago Tribune in the morn
ing viii print the following:
When the Tribune asked the news
papers west of the Alleghenies to
express their opinion as to whether or
not Cannon should be speaker OF the
next congress and whether they in
dorsed the Aldrich tariff law it also
asked them to give their presidential
preferences.
Question for Editors
The question was asked in this
form:
# you could vote for president to-
ddr. for whom wouId you cast pour
baIlot2
No names of candidates were sug-
gested. but the editor was forced to
write the name of his preference and
also the name of the party with which
he is affiliated.
About three-ffths of the editors took
advantage of the opportunity, and the
result Of the straw vote is presented by
the Tribune, only those editors record
ing themselves as republicans being
included.
Roosevelt First Choice
It shows that Theodore Roosevelt is
the present choice of the republican
editors for the presidency and that he
and President Taft are the only two
candidates who are strongly favored.
La Toilette leads both Roosevelt and
Taft in Wisconsin and has scattering
votes nearly everywhere. Hughes has
supporters in every state and territory
polled except Tennessee and Arizona.
3 Cummins and Pinchot are mentioned by
have a few supporters.
The scattering votes are split among
the various favorite sons, bat no one
Of these men is mentioned by more
than one state besides his own.
Roosevelt has not only majority
OF the votes. but his strength runs so
uniformly that he is indorsed by a ma
jority Of the states. He is strongly
in the lead in the lake group. where
he has 4S6 votes TO Taft's 427. He leads
in the prairie states by el7 to AS, and
on the Pacific coast by 1e4 to 80.
Mountain States for Taft
In the only group where Taft leads
the presidents margin is narrow, it
being SIS TO 81 in the mountain states
The south is evenly divided, 35 to 36
Roosevelt leads in IS Of the % states:
Michigan. Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kan
sas. Nebraska, Oklahoma, Minnesota,
North Dakota. Montana. Washington,
oregon, California. Kentucky and Ne
vsda.
These states have a population of
5.5O1. ss5 and will poll 294 votes in the
Taft leads in Ohio. Missouri, Idaho.
Colorado wyoming. Tennessee and Ari-
zona.
These states together have a popu-
lar vote Of 24s9.757. a total of 116
votes in the republican national con
vention. or less than half of that Of
the Roosevelt states.
Wisconsin for La Toilette
La Toilette leads in Wisconsin. while
Roosevelt and Taft divide the vote
evenly in South Dakota, Utah and New
Mexico.
The vote in Ohio is Of interest. There
TAFT has Il2 votes. which is only 10
more than Roosevelt.
OF the lake group Illinois is most
strongly for Roosevelt. the vote being
Roosevelt I5S and Taft 10.
Two interesting features of the straw
vote are the ballots cast for Bryan and
Pinchot. In many cases the editors
give their reasons for these ballots.
Most of the 40 who vote for Bryan say
they do so because they do not ap-
prove Of the present policies of the
republican party, although they voted
for Taft at the last presidential cleo
tion.
Reasons for Pinchot Vote
The Pinchot vote, which appears in
al hut six Of the states. is generally |
N,sounled with doubt of the admins |
tration's forestry policy and disap- |