Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1912-10-03

SAYS ROOSEVELT
WILL CARRY STATE
JUDGE ALLEN COMPLETES TOUR
PREDICTING VICTORY FOR
PROGRESSIVES.

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Allen of Brownsville, Texas, who
has been touring the state in the in
terests Of the Progressive party, left
last night for st. Paul, and will be-
gin tonight series Of speeches in
Minnesota. When asked for mis-
views of the campaign in this stare
he said:
Il have been in your state for
more than two weeks, visiting some
twelve or thirteen counties, in diff
ferent directions within the state.
Wherever I have gone I have
made it point to make quiet in
Quiries as to the situation in the
several localities before and after
our meetings. 1 have found prac-
tically no Taft sentiment or votes
in a single locality visited.
How Sentiment Stands.
In nearly every place we have
visited there has been two and some-
times three elements, namely, pro-
nounced Roosevelt sentiment, a pro-
nounced LaFollette sentiment, and
a pronounced Wilson sentiment. In
most places the outspoken Wilson
sentiment was small, but loud. The
pronounced Roosevelt sentiment was
much. larger but not SO noisy, while
the LaFollette sentiment was quite
large and was quiet and non-com-
initial at first, with some uncertain
ty as to where it would land on elec-
ton day.
We have found that as the admir-.
ers of Senator Laollette have come,
more and more, to realize the i'm
portance of the issues involved and
less the importance of the men,
they rsaliSe that there is;senly one
course fer q real, genuine Progress
sive to pursue. When they realize
that Taft and Wilson are mere in
struments in the hands Of the party
machinery of the two old parties,
and that the party machinery is in
the hands Of and controlled by po-
litical bosses and representatives of
crooked business, they realize that
Taft's and Wilson's hands are tied
and that they are helpless SO far
as progressive legislation is con-
cerned, even if they desired to pro-
mote it.
Says Neither Taft Nor Wilson Are
Progressive.
But they also realize that nei-
ther Taft nor Wilson are progress
sives. Mr.. Taft places sacredness
of the constitution and the old order
of things above the rights and lib
critics of the people, while Mr.. Will
son says the Democratic party has
offered the same program for re-
storing the government into the
hands of the, people, that it offers
now, for more than sixteen years;
that it offers nothing new in 1912,
hence there is no progress there. In
addition to this Mr.. Wilson tells the
people that If to be progressive we
must change the essentials he could
not be progressive; and the LaFol-
lette type of progressive, like the
Roosevelt type, believe in changing
the essentials to change only non
as Mr.. Wilson wants to do
according to his idea Of progress
sivism would be of little avail.
'It is the old order Of things that
are essential that need changing,
and so as the real Progressives
awaken to the fact that to jump out
Of the Republican, or Taft, frying
pan into the Democratic, or Wilson,
fire, will not avail to remedy the
evils of which they complain that
have made them Progressives, and
they are overcoming their disap.
pointment over LaFollette's defeat,
and are daily coming into the open
for Roosevelt and johnson and the
genuine Progressive ticket. This
change In the past two weeks has
been marvellous.
Could Get Majority Of the LaFollette
Strength.
s.In nv opinion Colonel Roosevelt
and the Progressive ticket would, II
the election should be held tomor-
row. poll all of the hitherto Roose-
velt vote and fully IS per cent OF
the LaFollette strength. and with
the sentiment growing stronger ey-
cry day for Colonel Roosevelt and
less for Wilson, BY November 9TH
and Johnson will receive
s5 per cent Of the LaFollstte vote