Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-09-23
TAFT REPUBLICANS BUSY
Uniting All Over Country for Real
Campaign Work.
CENTRAL WEST rs ORGANIZED
Opposition is HOpelessIy Divided In
Illinois and WiscOnsin--Ro0se-
welt Wave Over West lis
Receding.
BY CHARLES A. SCOTT.
Hf NAH4kHNIlES N sNV NEs
Secretary of Western Literary Bureau

secretary OF Western Literary Bureau of
the Republican National Committee.
CHICAGO, Sept 22.-(Special.) - That
the republicans all over the country are
getting together for q long and strong
pull is the dominant note of the reports
that come into national headquarters
during the last week. ~
I In Missouri the organization has been
perfected BY the election of ex-Congress-
man Elvins as state chairman, who has
opened headquarters in the Holland
building st. Louis, from which an ag-
gressive fight will be made during the
remainder of the campaign.
In Indiana, Michigan and Iowa, Oh
ganizations are completed and from
every section of all those states come
reports that sentiment is rapidly chang
ing to Taft and the republican ticket.
In Iowa, in addition to the regular state
organization. a'league of Taft clubs has
been formed to supplement the work of
the state committee and the republicans
are more confident each day that Iowa
will be In the right column In November.
Opposition is Divided.
The outlook in illinois for the success
of both the national and state tickets Is
materially frightened by the internecine
warfare within the ranks Of the opposi-
ton. Rival leaders of the democratic
clans all but came to blows In the office
of the election commission the other day,
where each was claiming the exclusive
/ n. Al ~kryo o,,I unh 10
nounced the other ir terms far more for
chile than polite. A similar lack of
brotherly unity characterizes the bull
moose leadership, the bone OF conten-
ton in this case being the question Of
putting up opposing candidates. Special
interest was added to this latter fray
by telegram from Colonel Roosevelt to
Medill Mccormick demanding that no OPP
position candidate be put In the field
against Congressman Wilson on the
ground that "he has always been per-
sonally loyal to me-" The telegram was
peculiarly illuminating in view of the
TRADES the colonel is delivering these
days against bossism and his voluble
assurance that the new party Is going
to be unreservedy in the hands of 'the
people"
From Minnesota and Wisconsin reports
from all sources both political and
otherwise, are to the effect that a great
change is taking place, the change In
both states being due to the influence or
the farmers, who are beginning to ask
themselves and everybody else what
either the third term party or the demo-
cratic party has to offer that would
make business conditions better than
they are. The La Toilette influence in
both these states has been strong, and
while the senator abs thus far refrained
from committing himself to President
Taft, his emphatic declaration that the
third party term has no excuse for exist
ence, that all the measures he had been
advocating can be accomplished through
the republican party, and his biting
criticisms Of Colonel Roosevelt have
made it enirely clear that the vote for the
third term candidate will be negligible In
the states where his followers are the
dominating factor.
Roosevelt wave Recedes.
The republican committee has been dis
posed to take with degree of allowance
the reports which have come in indicat-
ing the subsistence Of the Roosevelt tide
During the last week, however, these re-
ports have been so great In volume and
so specific and definite in statement that
they must be accepted as warranted, at
least In large degree.
1t is particularly interesting to note
that without exception correspondents
writing FROM the points in the northwest
and throughout the Pacific coast states,
recently visited by the colonel, declare
that his meetings were a disappointment
to his own people and that his speeches
did his cause harm rather than good.
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