The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-04-26
ROOSEVELT
COMING STRONG
RESULTS In NEBRASKA
AND OREGON.
Six States Swing To
Rough Rider
ait Falling 5ack---PeopIe Every.
where for RoOseveIt-sIx States
Have Ninety-eIght Electoral
Votes-Lorimer Whipped at
Home-Taft Not Consider
ed safe-TabuIated
Figures.

washington, April 20-(snoo,.,,
Inc victory of Colonel RonsoSroI4
me presidential preference primaries
Oh Nebraska and Oregon on ApriI 1oth
pracGlcally clinches his nominat; Is,
ny the Republican National Cows
tlon at Chicago.
DIX great Republican States hauo
now expressed themselves nv nrosi
Dental preference primary and ave.,,
o O mas gone overwhelmingly against
Mr. Taft. These states, in the order
n winch they have voted. are NORTH
Dakota, Wisconsin, Illinois pa
savanna, Nebraska and Oregon. Thav
aggregate 1876 delegates to the Nation
al convention. OF these Mr. Taft hos
carried from the Illinois districts
Iontrolled by the notorious Senator
Lorlmer, and from districts in the
CITY OF Philadelphia, where the almost
equally notorious Penrose machine is
uonilnant. In terms of delegates tho
art candidacy has been repudiated
Dy these six Northern States "a 10
10 l. From these six great Renuhli.
can States, Colonel Roosevelt has 15o
instructed, uncontested delegates.
Colonel Roosevelt leads Mr. Taft
nearly 20 to 1, in terms of delegates
Ihese six Republican States cast
an aggregate of SO votes in the cleo.
toral college. Without them. no Re.
publican candidate can hone to he
elected. There can be no mistakine
tne character of their warning to the
Republican party that Mr.. Taft is not
sale man to name as its candidate
Tor the presidency this year. Equally
certain is their demand for the nomi.
nation of Colonel Roosevelt.
From every corner of the United
States comes the same refrain.
Roosevelt is as good as nominatedr
Taft is out of the running" This
chorus is sounded not alone by Pro
gressive newspapers, but by hereto
fore dyed-in-the-wool reactionary or
gans; it is the view expressed-even
pubicly-by men known as strong
partisans of the President. A few ex-
amples, taken at random from papers
received since the landslide for Roose-
welt in Illinois and the avalanche in
pennsylvania, will suffice to show the
geneal trend of opinion.
For instance, the Topeka (Kansas)
capital, under the caption Taft SUP
porters' Hope About Gone" saws:
That the Roosevelt landslide in
Pennsylvania put Mr.. Taft practical
Iy out of the running as a serious can
didate for denomination was the gen.
eral impression even among strong
Taft supporters"
Hark to the Pittsburg (Pa) Gazette
Times, whose fealty to Taft and the
9enrose-Oliver machine is beyond
question:
Col. Roosevelt's victory in the e.
primaries of Pennsylvania
If Saturday was so overwhelming
.hatCDSzRe LIS en- ETAI HRWY
hat it is impossible to question its
meaning and not difficult to measure
IS ultimate effect Whatever Col.
Roosevelt's alleged faults tempera-
mentally, economically, politically or
We have indubitable evil
lence now that this aggressive per-
3onality and rugged courage appeal to
he favorable consideration of a ma
ority Of the Republicans Of this state
md that they desire him as the
'arty's nominee for president"
Some Interesting Campaign Figures.
Wash In otop Anil on CJono+a-. nj