Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-08-29
"6O" "4O" CABAL|ST|C FIGURES
 WILL GUT WILSON LIKE KNIFE

watch and see if those figures of '60'
 and 40 hold good during the present
 election. If they do hold good those figures of "60" and 40" will cut Will
 son like a knife. For the democrats
 needing every vote which they can
 beg, steal or borrow to carry the big figures are applied-it does not need a
 political phophet or the son of pOlit
 ical prophet to understand what is going to happen to Prof. Wilson. In stead of fulfilling the Wattersonian pre-
 diction of carrying every state in the
 union, if Roosevelt receives fair
 sized vote and the vote is drawn 60 per cent from the democratic party and 40 per cent from the republican
 party, Wilson will lose every Northern and Eastern state. He will be driven back as Judge Alton B, Parker was 10 s9loA IeIol09I9 9ql ol-YoBq u9A!Ip the Solid South. Indeed he will have good reasons for congratulating him. self to think that Roosevelt and his new Progressive party has not invaded the Solid South.
 These figures of "60" and 40" shed a whole lot of light on the political controversies which are now raging. They show that no mans calling and election can be considered sure. Pc litical wiseacres on both sides of the fence have been taking it for granted that Roosevelt was splitting the repub- lican party with his Bull Moose movement But in the final analysis is that anywhere near the truth? Is it not the democratic party which MT. Roosevelt is hurting-even more than he is hurting the republican party? We cannot, for instance figure out how it will help Wilson in the electoral college to have Roosevelt carry Kan sas and the Dakotas and California, or even a few states like Ohio and Pennsylvania. How does that add to the total of the Wilson vote in the electoral college? Wilson must get a majority of the votes in the electoral college or the question of the election of a president goes to the National House of Representatives And to say nothing about the fact that Champ Clark and his following in the Lower House of Congress might prefer some other man for President-the organiz- ation republicans and the progressive republicans are not likely to vote fol a democrat like Woodrow Wilson.
 One thing should not be forgotten in all of these calculations; in the event that the election is thrown into the National House of Representatives the vote is by states, the vote of Carl Hayden of Arizona counting as much as the vote of the entire state dele gation from New York And while it is extremely difficult to figure out just how the republicans with leanings towards the progressive policies might vote still if the vote is taken by states the republicans and progressives stand just as good a chance of carry ing the Lower House of Congress as do the democrats.
 Colonel Watterson is welcome to all of the consolation that he can get from a perusaI of these figures. If they prove anything they prove that the one best bet in the country at the present time is not the Waiter son bet that Wilson will carry every state in the union. A far better bet would be that Wilson, with the Bryan ite votes trooping to Teddy, by the tens and hundreds of thousands, wiI not be the next president of the Unit ed States.