Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-03-30
THE COLONEL A POOR LOSER.

The Colonel is mighty poor loser sorry
specimen of the sport. lie squeals too much /;
III fact he puts III most of his time squealing
these days.
After his hat had been kicked into an I'M
recognizable thing i'll the ring in North Dakota,
he said the democrats had done it; that the re-
publicans had voted for him but that the demo-
Gratis, lacking contest in their own party, had
helped La Toilette That was his explanation of
humiatng defeat and of his friends,
among them Chester III Rowell of Fresno sup
piled the additional information that blizzard in
the western part of the state had kept the Roose-
welt supporters from the polls.
Then came the election in Indiana where the
Roosevelt hat had more things done to it, and
from the Colonel and his friends arose another
squeal. The election had been conducted fraudu-
lently they said, and straightway they proceeded
to contest the seats of some of the Taft delegates
and incidentally, to get another setback.
Which constant wailing brings to the situa-
ton in New York. where the Rooseveltians were
in such meager minority that they almost
regarded as .curosties when they showed up to
vote, where Taft swept the state in which Roose-
welt had been governor and from which he had
been sent to the vice presidency
Even while the vote was being cast the Colonel
and his friends were squeaing Even before the
polls had been opened they had started fuss
the position of names the ballot and so
delayed the work of the printer that the election
was thrown into disorder. Now they charge
crookedness, as was to be expected, and are as.
serting that they will have the result invalidated
because many of their followers were unable to
vote
Of course, these protests are intended to con-
vey the impression that President Taft has set
about stealing the nomination. but in New York
they show pettiness that should make the former
president ashamed of himself and his friends
Whatever trouble there was can be charged up
~, 4ho holc 10 u,.aI tho fho M,
cation resorted to discredt the returns of the cleo
ton in advance Knowing that they would be
beaten, the Colonel and his followers enioined
the printing of the ballots in the form prescribed
by law and tied the matter up in the courts until
the printer could not finish his work in time
for the opening of the polls AS a result many
of the precincts were without ballots at the
time of opening the polls and naturally there was
a great deal of confusion; but Taft suffered by
it much more severely than did Roosevelt, for we
may presume that his supporters were turned
away in approximately the ratio of to |, as
the more fortunate of them voted over the sup
porters of Roosevelt.
This is miserable political trickery but such
tactics seem to be all the Colonel can employ now
to bolster up his boom for little while longer
His weakness could not be more effectively dem
onstrated than by the loss of popularity he has
suffered in New York. Two years ago he won
the state and got control of the organization
now he cannot make even respectable showing
His strength has been disspated that in only two
OF the thirty upstate district did he even dare
contest for the delegates
After every state primary or convention in
which he is defeated, the public can expect Roose
welt to squeal. So unused is he to successful Cd
position convinced is he of his own nfal
bty, he will lay every licking to fraud He car
not make himself believe that anybody but a
downright crook could object to his occupancy
of the White House for lifetime