The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-02-14
Votes.

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Chicago, Feb 14.-The Tribune this
morning prints the following:
When the Tribune asked the news
papers west of the Alleghenes to ex-
press their opinion as to whether Can
non should be speaker of the next
congress and whether they Endorsed
the Aldrich tariff law it also asked
them to give their presidential prefer,
ences.
The question was asked in this
form:
IF you could vote for president to-
day, for whom would you cast your
ballot?'
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-fifths of the editors
took advantage of the opportunity and
the result of the straw vote is pre-
scented by the Tribune this morning,
only those editors recording themsel-
yes as being republicans being in
cluded.
Roosevelt Present Choice.
1t shows that Theodore Roosevelt
is the present choice of the republi
can 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 every
| where.
Hughes has supporters in every
state and territory polled except Tenn
essee and Arizona. Cummins and
| Pinchot are mentioned by many,
while Dolliver and Cannon, each have
d few supporters.
| The scattering votes are split
among the various favorite sons, but
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 Endorsed by
ma jority of the states. He is strongly
! in the lead in the lake group. where
he has 4S6 votes to Taft's APT. He
leads in the prairie states by 617 to
AS. and on the Pacific coast by 1874
to 80. In the only group where Taft
leads the presidents margin is mar
states. The South is evenly divided,
SO to SO.
Leads in Indiana.
Roosevelt leads in fifteen of the
twenty-five states:
Michigan, Indiana, Illinois. Iowa,
Kansas. Nebraska, Oklahoma, Mime
sofa, North Dakota, Montana, Wash
Nevada.
J These states have population Of
5,501,665 and will poll 294 votes in
the republican national convention.
| Taft leads in:
Ohio, Missouri. Idaho, Colorado, Wy
oning, Tennessee, Arizona.
These states together have a popu-
lar vote of 2,493.737. a total of JIG
votes in the republican national con-
vention. Or less than half that of the
Roosevelt states.
| La Toilette leads in Wisconsin.
while Roosevelt and Taft divide the
| sotS CtSli1t III COulA bdhUtd,
and New Mexico.
The vote i'll Ohio is of interest.
There Taft has IL votes, which is
only nineteen more than Roosevelt
| OF the lake group Illinois is most
strongly for Roosevelt the vote being
Roosevelt 15S and Taft 10.
Bryan Gets Forty Votes.
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 forty who voted
for Bryan say they do so because they
do not approve of the present policies
of the republican party. although they
voted for Taft at the last presidential
election.
/ The Pinchot vote, which appears in
all but six of the states, is generally
coupled with doubt of the administra-
ton forestry policy and disapprovai OF
its attitude toward Ballinger.
No compilation was made of second
choices, but great many ballots gave
them. usually saying they We're for
TAFT as the situation stood at present.
but the second choice was for Roose-
welt or that they were for Roosevelt
if he will run or some other quail
fication.
The compilation of the ballots was