The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-07
Clark's Friends Hopeful


 voters could be gathered for the other | candidates.
 Clark's Friends Hopeful | Speaker clark's friends tonight would 1 eoucede little or no chance to Wilson. | Clark sentiment k said o be practically unanimous in the extremely southe.n districts of the state and acute ob- | servers give the speaker strength suf- ticent to win in Chicago and the re- mainder of the state | Frank Smith, Tafts illinois manager. claimed that the President would carry the state by handsome majority and | also would carry majority of the .5 leongressional districts.
 | Under the preferenti-i primary law the vote of the state at large Is ad- vlsory to the eight delegates at large to the national conventions. who are 10 be chosen in the state conventions | chauncy Dewey. the Roosevelt man lager, asserted that the former President would carry the state and every district except the Fifth Senator Isorimer's distrieD in the west of Chicago. Managers for Wovcrow Wilson lalmed a majority of the districts but did not go into detail
 | Fight for Governor
 There is bitter fight fof the guher- uaio oriai nominattons Governor Denecn i is running for n third term, while thA Lorimer republicans are behind Len small of Kankakee. There arc six other candidates on the republican ticket On Ithe democratic side i, Is a three-eor- Inered fight by samuel Alsehuler of Au- rora. Ben F. Caldwe,i of Sangamon Ioounty and Edward r. Dnnne of Chi cago.
 The followers of Champ Clark are giving Chicago the liveliest ca mpaign eyer seen. Numerous meetings were thrOuRhOnI t9h hD | big event being the mass meeting at the Second armory,
 1 United States Senator Stone declared l that he Is not as many profess to believe, the manager Of Champ Clark's campaign, but Is animated only by a desire to see Clark elected as the one man above all others who can lead the democratic party to victory In Noven- l her. X-Gongressman George Fred l Williams Of Massachusetts voiced tho protest against the selection of Wood- row Wilson as possible standard bear | Ex-Gov. David R. Francis declared that the, legislative record of Champ Clark and his triumph in organizing 1 the democratic forces in the House of 1 Representatives after the downfall of the Cannon dynasty have demonstrated his eminent fitness for the leadership | of the democratic party.
 Roosevelt Speaks l Springfield, H., April 6.-With dozen speeches and encounter with a siashlns 1 April storm, Colonel Roosevelt today put in the first half of his campaign tour of Illinois. Although in several towns the | people who listened to him did so at the cost ot a drenching, Colonel Roosevelt was met everywhere by crowds.
 The principal speech was delivered in l Springfield thls evening In it colonel | RQnEeHnlf kad .nrfp of ! Illinois in emphatic language. He took 1 issue with Joseph Choate and other New 1 York lawyers who have formed an asso- l ciation to combat his ideas in regard to the judiciary and Expressed his opinion about what he termed the nice exclu- sive persons Of great wealth. who. he said, are easily frightened, especially | by the bugbear of majority tyranny" 1 The formation Of the Lorimer- Lincoln l Republican league which Is opposed to Colonel Roosevelt. furnished the theme. l Colonel Roosevelt expects to rest tonlor- row. In the morning he will attend the service in the First Presbyterian church and will sit in Lincolns pew. In the afternoon he Is to visit Lincolns tomb. Tuesday he expects to spend most of the day with friends in Pttsburg, making a speech in the evening. His Philadelphia speech Is scheduled for Wednesday night.
 Taft Defended Chicago. April s.-"Colonel Roosevelt pointed the way; Mir. Taft has traveled | the road
 Senator Charles E. Townsend of Miehi- | gan. in speech here tonight thus coni- pared the two republican candidates Tor l the presidency:
 l Both these men are great, said Sem | ator Townsend. their natural instincts are the same Each has the good of the | country al heart. But they were widely different in their methods One knew the l value of aYertising. President Taft would
 not advertise. and though maligned, he
 answered not Honest himself, and judi l cially minded, he has given every man and institution of our country the benefit | of the doubt until the evidence was all in"
 Senator Townsend then reviewed Colonel 1 Roosevet's conservation policies, saving 1 as much credit should be given to Mir. Taft for carrying them out as should he
 given to the former President for orisi-