Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-10-27
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QUAKER STATE
THAT NOW SEEMS CERTAIN
Hard to Tell if Wilson or
Teddy VIII Garry 1t

Pittsburg, Pa, Oct 26.-For SO
years Pennsylvania has been republi-
can. For IS years this state has pill
ed up amazing majorities for the pres
idential candidates of that party. New
/ er until this campaign has it wavered
in its support of the doctrines of that
organization which elected Abraham
Lincoln to the presidency and every
other president, except two, since.
Time and again Pennsylvania was
regarded as fighting ground, when ma
tional campo gns began Before those
campaigns had proceeded far, howey-
er, it was apparent to even the way
farer that the Keystone State was not
doubtful, but would deliver its usual
heavy majority to the G. o. p.
But at last Pennsylvania's vote is
in the balance. After half century
of loyalty to one party, its people are
rising against the power that has held
them in its grasp. They are stirred
as never before in the lifetime of any
citizen living.
The great body of Pennsylvanians
are in rebellion against the party re-
sponsible for protection. 1t cannot be
determ ned from this end of the state
whether or not they will give the
states electors to Wilson or to Roose.
welt, but it is not hard for anybody to
see that the old party will fail to car
ry Pennsylvania.
A look at the demoralized politics
of Allegheny county shows the state
of affairs. 1t was here that Roose-
welt in the primary contest outvoted
Taft two to one. 1t is here that old
Inc republicans have joined in the for
nation of powerful Woodrow Wilson
club. 1t here the democratic candi-
date received the most remarkable re-
ception, perhaps, accorded him any
where in the country.
All this is true of the great Pennsyl-
vania county heretofore so overwkelm-
ingly republican that Lincoln once re-
ferred to it as that little state of A'le-
gheny." The lines of the republican
party have been smashed. Roosevelt
is drawing from the wrecked organ
ization on the one hand and Wilson is
drawing from it on the other.
The fact is Pennsylvania is tired OF
government by bose They are sick
of polit cal machines. They are pre-
pairing to crush both. For long time
they had the feeling that these social
ed organizations" were necessary for
the successful management of govern
ment by parties. They believed them
to be benevolent oppressors in any
event, and they permitted self-anoint-
ed and self-appointed leaders" to
collect their millions of dollars in tax
money and to expend it.
But the day of the Pennsylvania boss
10 pclSOlnS. w HcIHGG w ilSOu CARRIES Lie
state or not, it will never be ruled
again as it was under Quay, Penrose
and Durham 1t will never be ru' ed as
Finn would rule ii if given a chance
The first protest against boss govern
ment was sounded when Roosevelt car
ried the state in the primaries and
when Wilson carried it against field
full of candidates a few weeks later.
The second protest is yet to come, but
that it will come W tn force nobody in
this end of the state doubts for a min
ute.
Just now it is impossible to foretell
how the state will go on November 5.
There are indications on every hand
that Wilson will carry it, These s gins,
unlike those in most states, are not all
on the surface. For the most part
they are concealed in the negative
phases of the situation. That is where |
the big puzzle comes in, in sizing up
the sent ment in this end of the state |
For instance, when the republican
primaries were held before the Chica- |
go convention and when Roosevelt |
swept everything before him, on'y a
little less than 60 per cent. of the re-
publican strength of the party in wes-
tern Pennsylvania went to the polls at
all. Forty per cent stayed away and
nobody knows for certainty how
that mig division of the party feels, or
how it will vote.