Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25
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POLITICS DAY BY DAY

scientific and unfair basis, and both the
wool grower and the consumer again
jeopardfzed by a compromise which could
not possibly be fair to both and probably
not fair to either in all its details The
republicans of Montana have analyzed
the situation for themselves. and this is
the reason why they are supporting
President Taft for a denomination. The
outcome in Montana affords further evil
dence that the claims of Mr.. Roosevelt
campaign managers in his behalf have no
actual basis in fact
A telegram was received at Taft head
quarters stating that President Taft had
carried every ward in Denver, Col, Sat
urday, in popular primary to select
delegates to the state convention. This
assures solid delegation for Taft in the
national convention.
In the primaries in various counties in
Michigan Saturday the Taft forces won
forty-eight delegates to the state con-
Ventlon as against nineteen for Col.
Roosevelt. The Taft men carried Mar
quette. Dickinson and Iosco counties and
lost In Chippewa and Mason counties. In
Chippewa county, the home of Gov. Chase
Osborn, who is leading the fight for
Roosevelt, the issue was raised at the
last moment that a Taft delegation would
be personal slap at the governor. The
home city of the governor is reported to
have gone for Taft, but the country dis
trictS saved the county for him. 1t has
only eight delegations in the convention.
The delegation from Menominee is unin-
structed, but will vote for Taft delegates
to the national convention. AS a result of
the primaries Saturday President Taft is
and twelfth congressional districts Of
Michigan. The delegates in the seventh
and eighth districts have already been in
structed for him.
Discussing the Ohio situation. former
Gov. Myron T. Herrick said yesterday:
"The situation in Ohio has recently so
cleared that l think it may now be safe
ly asserted that there will be a solid or
nearly solid delegation for President
Taft to the Chicago convention from his
home state. We Ohioans are never lavish
with praise for the good deeds of our
sons until after they are dead and Will
not know about it But we are free with
our criticism This is Yankee charac-
teristic which we inherit However. when
outsiders attack it invariably has the eff
feet of a third party's interference in a
quarrel between husband and wife. who
soon finds himself confronted with
united and invincible foe.
'Of course, the popular drift toward
the President in the country at large and
the prevailing opinion that his renomina-
ton is now inevitable have had their
influence in Ohio. But this alone does
not account IOr the present SltudllOI.
Ohio republicans have a way of thinking
things out for themselves and settling
their own differences. / think l know
them pretty well, and, while l assume
no authority to speak for them, 1 feel
that I can speak of them with the ad-
vantage at least of having always been
one of them.
Il do not know whether full import
has ever been given to the remarkable
fact that every man first nominated
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litical party of the country since the
days Of Lincoln was born In Ohio
What I mean is that for more than
fifty years, whenever the American
people have elected a republican preSi-
dent, nominated first for that office and
not because he had been Vice President,
they have chosen native son of Ohio
In other words, leaving out Blaine
who was defeated, Cleveland. who was
a democrat. and Roosevelt, who came
into the succession through the vice
presidency every chief executive of the
United States elected since Lincoln
was born in the Buckeye state. Even
those who were not nominated from
Ohio were born there.
Read the roll of honor-Grant,
Hayes, Garfield. Harrison, Mckinley.
Taft. With such a record to be proud
of, it would certainly seem vain to
attempt now to persuade Ohio republi
cans to go back on an Ohio President.
If there were no other reasons, and
there are very many more, this is
enough to unite and inspire US. We
have got the habit so fixed Of fur
nishing Presidents to the country that
1t is too late to break us of it,
A dispatch from Springfield, ILL.,. says:
"A call for the state legislature to meet
in extraordinary session at ) o'clock
Tuesday afternoon, March 26, is in readi
ness to be sent out early by Gov. Deneen.
1.-The extra session will be called for the
main purpose of enacting law providing
for preferential vote ON President to be
taken at the primary election April 3.
THE governor had refused to call spe-
cial session for the purpose of legalizing
such a primary unless tWo-thirds Of the
membership of the general assembly de-
sired him to do So.
Col. Roosevelt returned yesterday from
his trip to Maine immensely encouraged
over the campaign situation. and eX-
pressed himself as extremely hopeful of
1T was highly satisfactory trip"
said the ex-President. II feel that we
have made good progress in Maine"
The colonel was assured by his cam
paign managers that not only is Maine
inclining his way, but he has an excel
lent chance of getting snug proportion
of delegates in Massachusetts, and New
Hampshire. The ex-President stirred up
New England-they told HMM his two
days jaunt up to Portland, and injected
new life into the fight.
The Wilson bureau last night gave out
the following:
1.-The situation in the democratic presi-
Dental contest has not changed material
ly in the past few weeks, except that
lines then dimly discernible are now
standing out in bold relief. The situation
is that Woodrow Wilson is the leading
canddate-in fact, the only national can
didate for the nomination-that the OPP
position to the New Jersey governor
practically comedies that he will have a
majority Of the delegates when the Bal
timore convention assemblies. and there
fore bases its whole hope on the two
thirds rule, and that the principal op-
ponents of Gov. Wilson, namely Speaker
Clark, Gov. tIarmon and Chairman