The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-04-25
ROOSEVELT ''.WAVE
COUNTRY : WIDE
New England RevoIts From
Taft Machine.
-! .yE %tG|s - ~ ~ Ii
LINING UP.
States Regarded as Conservative
stronshods Have Plainly Demon
strated That Thoy Arc Against tn.
Candidate of Big B1sineess-staaaer-
ing Blows to Standpatism.

Candidate of Big Business-Staqaor-
ing Blows to Standpatism.
washington, April 19.-New England.
SO confidently claimed as Taft terri
tory has shown conclusively that it
wants Colonel Theodore Roosevelt as
lts candidate for the presidency.
UP to date twenty delegates have
been elected from this section. Or
these fourteen are instructed for Colo
mel roosevelt and six are uninstructed.
There remain sixty eight delegates
10 he elected from New England OIL
these New Hampshire will contribute
eight. Rhode Island ten, Connecticut
rourteen and Massachusetts thirty six.
Governor Bass Of New Hampshire
signed the call to Colonel Roosevelt to
accept the presidential nomination If
ofered and is confident that his state
will instruct solidly for Colonel Roose-
welt. Massachusetts realized that If it
tailed to have Il presidential prefer
ence primary its delegates would be
named by the Taft machine politicians
and the Republican voters would have
absolutely nothing to say about 1t. Pub
Tic sentiment was aroused, with the re-
suit that the primary law has passed,
In spite Of the opposition Of the Taft
leaders, backed by the president him
self. Mr.. Taft was urged to support
the movement for a popular test, but
refused to do so. After the law was
on the statute books he gave it lip-
loyal approval.
Lining Up For T.R.
In view Of the fact that the law was
passed as the result Of the insistence
or the Roosevelt forces it is easy to
realize that the movement for the colo
mel has tremendous strength. There is
every reason to believe that Massachu-
sets will give him the same rousing
majority that Illinois gave him a few
days ago. In spite Of the machines in
operation in Rhode Island and Connec-
ticut and the fact that no fight what
ever has been made in either OF these
| states for The colonels candidacy there
| Is great deal Of Roosevelt sentiment.
The New England situation is highly
! satisfactory from the Roosevelt point
| Of view and equally unsatisfactory
from tine Unfit standpoint. The six
| great states Of the northeast with the
| exception Of New Hampshire were be-
| lteved to be the stronghold Of conseTv-
abism, and Senator Gallinger, the all
| and supporter Of Senator's Penr use,
| Crane and LOrimer, was confident that
New Hampshire could be brought into
| line for Mr.. Taft Senator Dillingham;,
| who also belongs to the senate ring and
who for the second time has vindicat-
nG ri fI1 fho&
| Vermont would cast it's vote solidIy
for him. Yet Mr.. Taft has obtained not
| a. single instructed delegate from Yer
| mont. If it had been suggested sever
| al weeks ago that Colonel Roosevelt
| would carry Maine and that the presi-
| dent would not get single instructed
| vote from that state :nor the state Of
Vermont the man responsible for the
| suggestion, if living in Washington,
| would have been conveyed at once to
| an insane asylum. Yet Maine and Yer
mont have refused to place single
| delegate in the Taft column.
Strength With Voters. 1
The strength Of the Roosevelt wave
| will be realized when attention is call
| ed to the evidence furnished by action
taken in different parts Of the country.
| Oklahoma would have gone solidy for
| the colonel had not the Taft forces
| called q convention before it was def
| nitely known that Mr.. Roosevelt would
! accept the nomination If it were ten
| dered to -him.--As twas, he has got
| all but two Of the delegates from that
| state. Illinois, in which q presidential
| preference primary occurred, gave the
| colonel fifty-siX out Of it's fifty eight
| delegates, with q tremendous majori-
| ty in the state at large Of 10000 over
Taft TO prevent Colonel Roosevelt
| from getting delegates frauds have
| been perpctrated in Indiana, Michigan,
! Kentucky and other states, especially
| in the south.
The Illinois vote may properly be
taken as an indication Of Colonel
| Roosevelt's strength with the voters
! 1t Is local in so far as the number Of
delegates elected IS concerned, but it
is country wide III it's proof Of what
| the people will do II they can express
: themselves. 1t IS, Of course, impossi-
! bic to wall up sentiment within the
boundary lines Of Il state. The Amer
lean people are unit, swayed by the
same impulses and moved by the same
| judgment. 1t IS automatic in politics |
; that when there is pronounced move
ment in one part Of the country 1t is
| bound to show in other sections. The
extremes Of Maine and Illinois are in
point
1t may be safely predicted therefore
: TINT Now Tia mnahire and AIassao1i1. |