Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-05-18
What Mckinley Claimed.

Roosevelt. TAFT.
Illinois 30
Maine Il
Maryland NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., 10
Massachusetts ......"."-.... IA "a
tOklahOma .....-.".......'. 10
Pennsylvania ......",."...''' ~ o
ro,,, 1S4 81
sLorlmer's district.
+Fifth Oklahoma district to be held
May Is.
This is another illustration of Nc.
Kinley's ability as a cisimer and a
prophet 1t is comparable only TO his
famous claim of 1910, when, as chair
man of the Republican congressional
committee, he wrote Mr.. Taft in Octo-
bpry lust before the election, predicting
the election of a Republican house Of
representatives. The facts at that time
were hat a Republican majority OF
about fifty was changed to a Demo
cratic majority of more than sixty.
Taft Candidacy's Slump.
A comparison of Mcl<inley's predic-
ton with the actual returns so far
from other Republican states also
shows that the Taft candidacy has
fallen down in Republican states whose
electoral votes must be secured if the
party is to secure the election, demon
strating the fundamental weakness Of
his candidate.
The Hon. Noah Allen of the law firm
Of Allen & Rich, Brownsville, Tex. de
sCribes in a letter received at this
headquarters the methods which the
Taft managers are using in Tcyas.
Mr.. Allen says concerning the stu.
alton in his congressional district,
which includes twenty-three counties,
many of them on the Mexican border.
that it has for years been absolutely
controlled by the Democratic bosses
and political machine, with fair
means or foul, as emergencies required.
Walls, Political Potter.
THE Mexican vote has been their
main asset" he says. Judge James
3. Wells has for years been the domi-
mating influence. He worships at the
shrine Of Senator Bailey and does at
his bidding at all times. AS you know.
President Taft and Senator Bailey are
warm friends, and Bailey hates Colo
mel Roosevelt because he could not use
him. Judge Mcdowell of Val Varde.
county, who has been selected by the
Taft people to manage Taft's cam
paign in this the Fifteenth congress
sional district, is an ardent Bailey
Democfat and is a morsel of clay In
the hands Of Judge Wells, his political
potter. Mcdowell has for the past six
years held office in his county, being
nominated and elected as a Democrat
ic officer, and now holds the position
of county judge, to which he was
elected two years ago.
An Unholy Alliance.
Mcdowell has supported the Demo
cratic ticket from top to bottom and
was not dreamed of as a Republican
until the Taft Bailey Wells MacGre-
gor goose neck bill Democratic-Repub-
hco combination dug him up and
sprung him on the Republicans IN th,s
district to line up delegates for Taft.
with the aid OF q venal Democratic
machine, whose leaders are to control
the federal patronage In their district
If Taft is renominated and elected. In
Pursuance Of this unholy alliance this
Democratic ~oficeholder, posing as a
Republican, commissioned by a Re
publican president seeking a renomina-
ton to represent him and his # >,
at once Journeys to Brownsville %
Mecca of his political devotions, and
lays his tributes and his commission
Tor political service from a Republican
candidate for president and the future
disposition of federal patronage for the
district at the feet pf the great Demo
cratic warrior and political dictator on
the border, Judge Wells, in exchange
for his assistance In selecting delega-
uons to Republican conventions in ia
vor OF the nomination of President
Tart. The tributes were accepted, the
ald promised and the wopk Immediate
ly begun.
A Disgraceful Combination.
"A more corrupt, d~isgraceful combi-
nation was never made to secure votes
Tor my man. and it should politically
damn the prospective recipient of its
fruits. The aroma from the Lorimer-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS combina-
ton would Ne as from the sweetest
lilies compared with this unclean
thing, and yet our preAident and his
followers pirate about cleanness and a
square deal"