The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-11-10
Friends Lament His Stand For
Cox Ticket
HE YIELDED TO BAD ADVICE
Looks Better for Harmon-The East Is
Doubtful Territory in 1912 Cam
aign-Foss Cheers the
Democrats.

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Washington professed yesterday to be
able to extract a little comfort out of
Tuesdays elections. On the whole they
declared the party hade mad an encour-
aging start toward recovery from the
slump which carried it down in the last
campaign.
So far as President Taft is personally
concerned, however, Republicans at the
national capital could not see that he
had added anything to his prestige, As
a matter of fact the presidents friends
were somewhat depressed by the out
come and acknowledged that Tuesdays
balloting made it look as If the Re-
publican party was considerably strong
err than the president himself.
The results in Ohio were particularly
disappointing to Mr.. Taft's supporters.
They were complaining that the presi-
dent had Numbered by tying himself to
Boss Cox ticket in Cincinnati, and that
the defeat of that ticket by the Demo-
Gratis had gone far to diminish any sat
isfaction the president himself might
have obtained from Republican gains in
other parts Of the country.
The Cincinnati episode is regarded
here as another instance of the presi.
dent being overwhelmed by his friends.
Mr. Taft wanted to be accommodating
and yielded to the urging of several Gin
einnatians to indorse the ticket repre-
senting the Republican organization of
that city, which Mr.. Taft had denounced
bitterly in his Akron speech in 1905.
The president has since explained that
he knew the Republican candidates this
year personally and that the situation
was entirely different from the one that
was denounced by him when he attacked
Boss Cox.
The effect of the results in Cincinnati
and other Ohio cities as viewed in Wash
ington has been to prove the weakness
of President Taft in his own state. In
the case of the Cincinnati defeat the
country will be impressed with the fact
that President Taft was repudiated in
the only instance in which Ne made
personal appeal in this campaign while
there were good Republican gains in
other quarters.
As viewed by Democrats and Repub-
licans here the results have given de-
cided impetus to the Judson Harmon
boom for president and a corresponding
setback to Woodrow Wilson's chances
Normally Cincinnati, Cleveland and Co
lumbus are reliable Republican, but the
Democratic victory Wednesday is taken
as striking evidence of Gov. Harmon's
strength in his own state.
Democrats in Washington were not
surprised at the overturning of the
Democratic majority in the New York
assembly. They have for several months
regarded the conduct of the party's af-
fairs at Albany as suicidal. They find
encouragement, however in the hope
that Wednesdays defeat will remove
Murphy's hand from the state organ
ization.
Attempts on the part of either Repub
LEANS or Democrats to make any dedue-
tions from Wednesdays balloting were
practically fruitIess. There seemed,
however, to be manimity of opinion
about one thing, and this was that the
results in Massachusetts,, New York,
New Jersey and Maryland put those
states definitely in the doubtful column
for next years presidential campaign.
Democrats are inclined to find more
comfort in Gov. Foss' reelection than
in any other of the events. They regard
Foss' victory as further protest on
the part of the Republicans of Mas
sachusetts against the tariff revision
ideas of the Republican standpatters.
The Democrats are inclined to minimize
Woodrow Wilson's defeat in New Jer-
sey by declaring that it does not repre-
sent knitting of the governor by his party
MANAGERS