The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1912-04-25

Velts majority over tart and LaFOl-
lette IS more than 5000.
It's effect on the candidacy of Col.
onel Roosevelt was to foreshadow
his nomination at Chicago. Its effect
was even greater than that. 1t fore
shadowed his election in November
The inception of the Roosevelt
movement was the belief of many
Republicans that Taft could not be
reelected; that he had no grasp on
the country. which was out of sym
pathy with him, and looked askance
on his close association with and
support by reactionaries. The pre-
convention campaign strengthened
that notion to the point of conirma-
ton in the public mind Roosevelts
candidacy provoked a storm OF op.
position voiced by high-brow editors,
who charged him with everything
from insanity to high treason. Taft
supporters said Roosevelt could no
more he elected than could Taft.
Postmaster-made delegates in the
south and machine-made delegates in
Nht hOl IL were CIdihtu up anu punt
ed to as an anti-Rooseyelt express
sion oi party sentiment.
Then came genuine expression
with the voting in Illinois and Penn
tylvania. All the power Of organized
politics, the Republican state ma
chimes. was against Roosevelt So
was the press the notable exceptions
being one paper in Chicago. one in
Philadelphia and one in Pittsburg.
The newspapers had voiced every
possible attack on Roosevelt. Every
imaginable objection TO him as again
president had been impressed on the
Republican voters of Illinois and
PENNSYLVANIA. Yet they voted they
wanted him and him only.
They voted that sentiment by the
thousands They voted Il overwhelm-
iugly Roosevelt rode out the storm
would face no greater storm as the
nominee Of the Chicago convention
I'm the national campaign. Roosevelt
can be elected
Said the Philadelphia Press, a
strong Taft paper: The people rule
this country when they choose to do
SO. That they want leaders whom
they can trust is the lesson OF Sat
urday's primaries I'm Pennsylvania ="
In legal safeguarded primaries in
-four states North Dakota, Wisconsin.
Illinois, Pennsylvania, Nebraska and
Oregon, Taft was in head-on collision
with public opinion. The Republicans
Of those heavily Republican states
elected a total of 1876 delegates to the
Chicago convention. OF tbs number
President Taft secured but IL, the
ratio against him being more than II
TO /.
How Roosevelt appeals to people
everywhere, significant, too, of the
attitude of wage-workers in Ohio. is
the declaration of the Union Reporter
OF Canton, official organ of the Ohio
Federation of Labor locals in three
counties:
"The fact that every boss and ma
chine poit clan Is against the candi-
dacy OF Theodore Roosevelt is in it.
self a sufficient guarantee that he
will, in case Of nomination and cleo
tion, stand for the rights OF the peo-
pie. II Is the strongest proof that
Colonel Roosevelt Is considered dan
gerous to the bosses, who fear the
loss OF power and revenues.
But the masses, who find them
gaIvnc Ynpva and v,pVa DNpv,ugaI ,n1
IN need of protection, know that The
odore Roosevelt will be fighting their
cause and that Is the reason Illinois
gave such a tremendous majority for
the colonel, and that will be the rea-
son other states, unhampered by poi
iticians and ofiiceholders. will show
their preferences in thte same way"
From Washington comes the news
that Senator Burton was amazed and
shocked al the overwhelming defeat
of Taft I'm Pennsylvania. where he
spoke, and may stay out Of the Taft
campaign in Ohio, which he was ex-
pected to lead, The four Ohio con-
eressmen who had declared for Taft
also are reported to be perturbed,
foreseeing low Roosevelt sweep in
Ohio. The Pennsylvania verdict fol-
lowed a conference at which the Ohio
colony of odlceholders in Washing
ton had decided to have the Ohio
state convention, which they sup
posed they would control, explicitly
condemn Roosevelt by resolution.
In his speech as temporary chair
man of the convention Senator Bur
ton was delegated to pave the way
for officially reading Roosevelt out
of the party by resolution of the con
yention. In the panic caused by the
news from Pennsylvania the con-
ferees overlooked making any change
in this program. which Is still the
official Taft one.
In cCntinued effort TO make in
volved and cumbersome the express
sion of the voters wishes, county
committees under Taft guidance have
called county conventions to select
delegates to the state convention.