The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1912-06-13
Some Facts to Consider.

Let us lay aside personal preference
and prejudices for moment and con.
slider the fight for the Republican
nomination for president calmly and
sanely.
We believe that every fair man will
admit that the only just thing for the
convention at Chicago to do is to
nominate the man whom the majority
OF the party want. In order to see
who the majority Of the Republicans
want let us consider a few things that
have happened during the recent
campaign for delegates.
Direct primaries were held to select
delegates to this convention i'm twelve
states. In these primaries every Re-
publican had the right to vote and
over 80 per cent. Of them exercised
that right. Now what was the result
in these primaries q?
Taft lost Illinois by 10000: North
Dakota by 10000: South Dakota by
10000; Oregon by 5000 ; California by
5000; Nebraska by 10000; Wisconsin
by so 600 Ohio by As, 600; Pennsylvania
by 55,0O0 New Jersey by 2S,000 and
Maryland by 1000 and carried Massa-
chusetts by $500. The above figures
are only approximately correct.
Everyone of these states is ordinari-
ly safely Republican but Maryland.
Ohio is the home state OF the presi-
dent and Ohio, Illinois and Pennsyl-
vania are three Of the most populous
states in the Union. These states are
not contiguous but extend from the
Atlantic TO the Pacific coast. They
contain all kinds and classes of citizens
and we believe that the sentiment so
plainly and clearly expressed by their
votes can naturally be inferred to
exist everywhere.
1t must also be remembered to get
the full force of the Reputation of
President Taft and his administration,
that in all Of these states President
Taft had the support OF the army of
Federal Office holders and in most of
the states the support of the state
officials and state and county organiza
tions With such support behind him
that he should be so decivsively de-
feated is almost a miracle. The only
explanation is that the people are
unalterably opposed TO his nomina-
tion.
Now let us turn to the support that
President Taft will have in the Ma
tional Convention. In the first place
most Of his delegates we're selected
under the old convention plan. Even
the veriest novice in politics knows
that under this plan the party work.
ers almost without exception control I;
that they are the people who do things
politically; that their action does not
represent the wishes OF the rank and
; file OF the party.
In the second place where do the
majority Of the Presidents delegates
come from2 1t takes only a.glance at
OF the tables appearing in the
Tally papers to see that they come
from Democratic strongholds many
of them from states that have never
cast an electoral vote for a Repub bill
can and where the Republican party
only exists for the purpose OF its mem.
bers securing Federal appointments
where a ticket is never nominated In
county or state elections.
The facts herein stated we do not
believe any one familiar with condi-
tions will dispute.
This being so 1t must be admitted
that President Taft can only be nomi
mated by the use Of the ''steam roller
and in utter disregard of the expressed
wish OF the majority Of the Republi
cans OF the country.
Party leaders and active workers
while they dislike to be run over by /;
steam roller usually take their medi
cine, but the rank and file OF the part
are almost as certain when thei
wishes are disregarded, to show thei
resentment In AN emphatic manner a
the polls.
To nominate President Taft is sim
Ply ply saving s tS (, the people, 1.-THE peopl'
And that is one thing the peopl
! > ont stand for.