The Washington times., 1912-04-12

MISSOURI DECLARES
. FOR ROOSEVELT BY
A LARGE MAJORITY
Former President Will Get
At Least 80 Of So
Delegates.
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''clcan nm Pennsylvania Exactly what
ground there is for these stories cannot
reasons. A few days ago Penrose said
II would pc q humiliating personal de-
a bs 10 hm II & gos ten rsssG Votes te
hfteen. twenty, twenty-five, and then
thirty.
Have Become Serious. d.
Today there are oerious minded TAFT
lcaders-by the way, they have all
been serious minded since Illinois hap
pened to them--who fear that Roose-
welt will get half the state. 1t Is con-
ceded shat twenty or more for Roose-
welt puts Taft out of the running. He
will have TO be dropped as the real
candidate of the reactionary forces IL II
is demonstrated that he is SO weak as
this In PcnnsylvaDia.
Mr.. Taft is. in fact, commanding mach
attention among the real politicians
just now. They don't intend to do 1t
They want to keep him in the field and
to keep his huge campaign fund and
his postmasters working Just as long as
possible. Without these there would
be no sinews with which to fight Roose
vslt. ..- '..
According to reports that circulate
go right on using the Taft personal
resources, but to let "the boys" know
tina: it's all right; Taft can't be non,i;
A stall. In politics is a place where a
dark horse is kept while you talk about
. Hight horse.
Didn't Figure on Roosevelt.
A week ago the wise reaotionaries
thought they could defeat Roosevelt by
dropping Taft at the right time, after
they had squeezed the Juice out of his
campaign-fund lemon, and nominate
somebody else. They didn't believe they
would have to take up Roosevelt. But
since Illinois, now capped by Missouri.
they have lost heart about this project.
The question Is not so much how TO
beat Roosevelt, as how to keep the
Taft people hopeful enough to induce
the campaign contributors to continue
giving down."
But it's all changed now. Roosevelt 8
wonderful performance and the still
more wonderful performance of the
people of Pennsylvania during his two
days tour OF the State has settled that
matter. 1t wouldn't have been SO bad
dom hadn't slipped in between Illinois
and Pennsylvania: But q week that
piled up Illinois, Maine. Missouri. and
s to tnsaract ~S and Mchgan eS 1re
ing a riot instead of State sconven-
ton, that's an epoch of trouble not
easily to be explained. They've given
up explaining. ,.t L.
Even Iowa To Line Up.
Not the least Of the sorrows that
r.. have assailed the lugubrious headquar.
tiers Of Manager--no, beg pardon. OF
lDirectoY-McKinley arises by reason oi
the discovery that Iowa. after all, ism
going to send Taft delegaton-at.
large. Before Illinois and Missouri go'
busy the Taft forces counted confident
Ily on Iowa's observation-disclosures. Bu
the Standpat section of Iowa. in the
east and south, Is next door to lllinoi!
and Missouri and the effect of the re
suits in those States has been a re
vulsion against the idea of hitching tn
Iowa political apple cart to dead one
Today's advices are that Cummins VII
name the delegates at large from Iowa
and that the whole State, even including
the delegates already selected at Tai
district conventions. is likely to turn II
for the progressive movement:
by the Taft forces at the Kentucky ant
Michigan conventions have made
more than ever impossible for Tart u
State that will be hopelessly lost to tn
Republican cause II the Taft delegate
are all accepted: Michigan Is In wors
frame Of mind than 1t was In 1892, when
shiver, II chose nine Republican ant
hve Democratic electors.
1t is going to be absolutely necessal
for the national committee to settle til
Kentucky and Michigan contests witt
regard to their real merits; and to d
that means not only to take 10: 0
their delegates away from Taft, but &
fepudiate Taft methods in a way tia
will make the nomination of the presen
Executive quite impossible from a senti
mental point of view.
What Illinois Figures Show.
The complete official figures from tn
primaries in Illinois throw an interest
ing light on the campaign.
The total Republican vote was 1850
total Democratic, 2S9,5sO. Republican
ma ajority, 126,972. This shows the sub
stantial character of Illinois Repub
licanism, and what may be expecte
from the State of Abraham Lincoln a
at the Presidential election in Novem
ber, in case the Republicans of Illinoi
are satisfied with their candidate. Tota
Roosevelt vote, 252 SIG; total Taft, 122
97S; total La Toilette, 40.958.
The total Clark vote was 211. sos
Clark's majority over Taft, S8.8S1. Thi
gives a pretty fair line on what Illinoi
would do at the election should Tai
and Clark be the opposing candidates
aRooseKelt's vote, 252, ,626; Clark's Vot'
Rl1, ,S09.~ Roosevelt's majority over Clarl
40,S17, showing conclusively what lllinoi
will do at the election should Roost
Welt and Clark be the nominees.