Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1912-03-20
Roosevelt Gets an Awful
Drubbing at the Hands
of Senator Bob
LaFOllette
TAFT MEN TOOK
BUT LITTLE PART
Man From Oyster Bay is
Buried Under Avalanche
of Votes in First
Primary
.Issocidfcd Press DiSbdfchl

I f.ISS0cidfcd Press Dispatch
FARGO. March l9.-Late tonight
Frank Talcott. chairman ot the re-
publican state committee. and John +
Bass of Chicago. manager of the
Roosevelt campaign in this state no
titled Senator Dixon of Washington
their opinion that Senator La Toilette
had carrie, the North Dakota primary.
Neither made u prediction of the plur-
ality. Going over the figures of eight
cen of the forty-nine counties OF the
state. the Roosevelt men conceded ten
of them 10 La Toilette outright listed
two others as about even. and claim
ed six for their candidate. Win
these figures Is basis il was decided
there were not enough Roosevelt votes
on the western slope To balance the
heavy poll of La Toilette in the east
ern portion of the state. With Grand
Forks. Valley City. Devils Lake.
Minot. and other large cities listed for
tho Wisconsin senator il seemed his
plurality will be large. TAFT did not
figure prominently in the contest. as
the presidents supporters generally
stayed away from the polls.
Because of difficulty in securing ac-
cllratr and complete return from many
isolated quarters of the state. II ~
doubtful if the total vote from the
eighteen hundred precincts of the state
will be known until late tomorrow
Probably not over fifty thousand votes
were cast or these the La Toilette
leaders claim plurality OF between
fifteen and twenty thousand
With these figures as a basis J. ;.
Rass. manager Of the Roosevelt cam
Iaisn. issued a statement saying the
returns indicated the republicans were
fer Roosevelt two to one. but ali
democrats voted for LaFollette. He
would not concede LaFollette's VIC
tory. saving Roosevelt would win by
a close margin. Leaders at LaFollette
HEADQUARTERS issued statement which
declared LaFollette had defeated
Roosevelt by twenty thousand votes
The farmers ground Taft and
, Roosevelt into the ground and gave
the state into your hands, wired La
Toilette leaders to the senator The
heart of the cattle country. counted
"a Roosevelt stronghold. gave
majority to LaFollette. Complete re-
turns from 165 precincts give La
Toilette almost a two to one lead.
CHICAGO. March 19.-Thats bet
ter even than | expected" said Sen
ator IaFollette on his arrival tonight
| from Devils Lake. y. D.. when he
| heard early returns from the primary.
! Il am glad To see the so-cal!ed COW
/ country returned the results 1t dld-
! NV friends in that state can't bo
! fooled with mere talk: North Dakota
can't be shaken from the progressive
/ trend
| SO Mr.. Bass said Roosevelt suffer
ed because the democrats prevented
| the people from expressing their de
sires. did he? In many of these pre-
cincts there are not many democrats
I suppose they will have the cows
voting for me next. to override the
will OF the people. That's about as
good an explanation as any other ana
as likely.
Il will say now only what sald
ali along that the people are conSid-
ering the principles of this contest
They are ignorant of all else than
progressive principles. They consiuef
men only who by their past and
tpresent actions may be expected with
the most reasons to carry out pro-
gressive ideas.
| Il never have been president ana
hence had no opportunity to handle
the growing trend of the big interests
toward ignoring absolutely any con-
sideratiOn for the rights of the people
The people. i'm voting. have bad I"
consider me only from those things
II have been able to do in lesser fields
Os opportunity
"Sut there are those who have Oeen
president who have had more oppor +
tunity Indeed there are two OF them
who were on the ballots in North Da =
kota. May ! say. with pardonabie
satisfaction that the result. as shown
in these reports. then. are very en-
Couraging to one making fight toi
better things? / guess ! don't need
to say anything more"
FARGO. y. D., March 19.-Co1n
pIete returns from fifty-eiGht pre-