The Cairo bulletin., 1912-05-20
BUCKEYE STATE
WILL DETERMINE
Presidents STATE
Many Delegate. May Desert Taft
if He Fails to Carry Home
State
49, ss.
DEMOCRATS ARE ALARMED
| III --- sts-.ssss
Some Think Roosevelt Nominations
viii Enhance Republican
Chance II sssssll
DEMOCRATS ARE ALARMED

/ Washington. May Whether
William Howard Taft or Theodore
Roosevelt garners next Tuesdays
[crop Of presidential primary votes in
lOhio Is matter OF tremendous i'm
port to the Democratic party. whose
Representatives win gather in ma
tional convention in the city OF Bal
timore June rs to select a candidate
for president and vice-president. The
fact that the swelling tide OF Roose-
welt sentiment Is not viewed with
composure by many sagacious Demo-
crats is too glaring to be concealed
lby a display of party pride. Roose-
welt as the nominee OF the regular
Republican convention at Chicago
would change the bearning express
sion of hopefulness and happy ex-
! pectaney on many Democratic
lcountonance. Unwelcome as this fact
may be, 1t Is fact nevertheless
Taft as the Republican nominee
would be comparatively easy mark
for the Democratic candidate, wheth-
or Clark, Underwood, wilson or Har-
mon. but should Roosevelt be the Re-
publican nominee, the Democrats as-
Isembled In Baltimore would need to
!have recourse to the coneatenated
wisdom of the ages to pick candi-
date who could beat him TO the I
presidential goal in the November
| election
Taft's Fate Rests with Ohio.
There Is no Disgusting the increas-
ing apprehension at the portentious
momentum which Roosevelt's cam
'paign has gathered in the last few
weeks, Leading Democrats are ac-
knowledging in whispered words
that the contest In the Republican
party for the nomination looks en-
tirely too Rooseveltian for the SER
entity of their minds. AS tillers in
, the Democratic field they wish that
Tafts plentitude OF person and genial
smile could be clearly discerned
through the haze that envelope the
! battle-ground in Ohio, for upon the
result Of Tuesdays battle of the bal
| lots the fate of william H. Taft. IL
, he loses his home state he might as
, well put out the fire and call the
dog" as the Ozark mountain folk
say, for his continuance in the race
, would be without the hope OF re-
ward. On the other handlf Roose-
welt loses In Ohio his campaign will
have lost only its formidabillty. 10
is not expected that he would feel
constrained to quit the conquest be-
cause of his failure to outrun Taft
| on his own grounds, but the moral
As we'll as the political effect OF his
defeat would impose crippling
I handicap upon him.
The opinion is unanimous In po-
/ litical circles here that no disap-
pointment or defeat would impel
/ Roosevelt to quit the presidential
race, because he Is practically sure
to bolt the convention In the event
of the nomination of President Taft
The opinion that Roosevelt will bolt
is predicated mainly upon his state
inent of month ago to the effcct
THAT he would mot bolt the Chicago
convention"
Desertions Wholesale,
Instances of Republican Office
holders and politicians deserting the
Taft camp. for the Roosevelt band
wagon are multiplying at a signifi-
cant rate. The action of the Repub-
licans of the Ninth Tennessee dis
, trict is an illustration close to the
readers of The Bulletin. Roosevelt
headquarters here seized upon the
| incident with avidity and sent IL
broadcast throughout the country as
/ striking evidence Of the resistlcss
! spread of the newborn notion that
, Roosevelt's nomination and subse-
auent election are inevitable.
In the Republican congressional
district of Virginia there are mani
/, festations of an impending change
! to Roosevelt. and In Pennsylvania,
where federal ofhceholding is pro-
y fession, some Republicans, who have
/. been cheek by iowl with the TAFT
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