The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-05-02
REPUBLICANS IN. Line
THROUGHOUT NATION.
Overwhelming MajWities In H.
Ilnois and Pennsylvania Show
OFift-Taft Welcome to
His Two LOriTnpr Men,

New York.-The present indication in
the political race for-the Republican
nomination at the Chicago convention
In June is that President Taft is ex-
pected to withdraw from the contest
this week. 1t is quite evident that the
managers Of the administration cam
palgn are in q panic, and the efforts Of
the senators and congressman who
have been fighting for Mr.. Taft to get
ION the band wagon" are interesting, for
they realize now, as they have not real
lied before. that Mr.. Taft cannot Sc
cure the nomination.
The results from those states where
the people have had an opportunity to
express their choice by presidential
preference primaries show that should
Mr.. Taft receive the nomination his de-
feat would be inevitable.
In Illinois the progressive movement
showed its popularity with the people
by the Overwhelming majority Of 1885,
600 votes in favor Of Colonel Roosevelt.
The entire state delegation to the Chi
cago convention will be solid for the
colonel, with the exception Of the two
delegates from Senator Lorimer's dis
trict, Il fact significant in itself
In Pennsylvania the people voted as
they shouted, and when the ballots
were counted it was found that the
Taft forces had been routed by nearly
100000 votes and it was found that the
machine politicians, the professional
politicians like Penrose, Governor Te-
ner and Oliver, were buried in the
debris to such an extent that they can
not be eXtricated in time to be allowed
in the convention hall at Chicago or TO
have any voice in the proceedings. Mr.
John Wanamaker, the merchant. az:
Mr. Stotesbury, the Wall street rag
nate, are two Of the six Taft delegates
from Pennsylvania who will be able to
get into the convention.
The situation in the west Is the same
In Oregon and Nebraska, where Sen
ator La Toilette. with his progressive
ideas, was a strong factor, the people
showed that they preferred the pro-
gressive ideas Of Colonel Roosevelt by
giving him majority in Oregon of
over 1000 votes and over 10000 votes
In Nebraska, and the delegates in these
and other western states who are now
for Senator La Toilette will at the Chi
cagO convention on the second ballot
cast their votes for the colonel.
In Wisconsin and North Dakota the
people have emphatically rebelled
against the Taft candidacy.
Already the southern delegates are
beginning to break away from the
Taft camp. The machine roller meth
DDS, based on federal patronage, had
for time kept the southern states in
some sort Of line, but even they are
now beginning to wake up to the fact
that it is useless to hang on to a losing
proposition any longer and are willing
and eager to cast their lot with Colonel
Roosevelt Six Of the South Carolina
'"Taft" delegates have wired Senator
Dixon to the effect that they are dele
gates at large from that state to the
Republican national convention, having
been instructed for Mr. Taft at the
state convention, held Feb. 20, at
which time Colonel Roosevelt was not
q candidate, and that it did not appear
that Mr.. Taft could now be elected.
Since the colonel has entered the field,
however, it IS evident that he is the
choice Of the great mass Of Republican
voters In the states that elect Repub-
l1can nominees and that they had
reached the conclusion that it was
their duty to the party and the country
demanded that they should vote for
Colonel Roosevelt, and they stated
they you'd so vote.
In the east Maine is solid for Colonel
Roosevelt, and, while the Vermont del.
egation Is now divided. there Is no
doubt but that this state will cast @
solid vote for Colonel Roosevelt at the
convention In June. The indications
are that great surprise IS in store for
the managers Of the Taft campaign
when the results in Massachusetts
have been tabulated.
Colonel Roosevelt's position is grow
Ing stronger and stronger each day.
and President Taft is becoming weak
er and weaker in the fight, and by the
time set for the national convention 1t
will have been that the voices Of the
plain people have been raised so loudly
for the nomination Of' Colonel Roosc-
welt and the sentiment so strong for
him that 1t will not be we'll for the
welfare Of the Republican party to lg
more the emphatically expressed WISH
es Of the Deople.