The Coconino sun., 1912-10-25
HIS POPULARITY NOT SHOWN BY THE VOTES HE HAS RECEIVED.
RECORD WILL SURPRISE MANY
In New York When He Ran for Gov. ernor He Did Not Get Full Party Support-PresidentlaI Vote When Analysed is Not to
 Hs Advantage.

Roosevelt shouters prior to the re- nomintnation of President Taft. And even now, when, having failed to get the Republican nomination for a third term, he is heading a bolting Third Party organization, there are many Republicans who seem to think that he has a strong hold upon the people The fact is the record shows that he is not a successful vote get ter. The belief which prevails in some parts of the country that Roose- welt has magic hold upon the people is not supported by the facts. Ar Roosevelt's own activity in self-ad- vertising is largely responsible for the belief
 Take, for instance, his home state of New York. Here are the figures of the Republican vote cast in the three elections of 1896, 1898 and 1900, the two years before and the two years after Roosevelt was candidate for governor:
 1896, Black ..7S7 ,516 1898, Roosevelt ....661 TOT
 1900, Odell ............S0 S04, ,S59
 When Roosevelt ran as a candidate for governor he had behind him his prestigate of service in the war with Spain. He made a spectacular cam. paign with number of uniformed soldiers riding with him upon the rear platform of his special train, Even with this advantage he boiled l25.000 less votes than Black and nearly 145,O00 votes less than Odell This shows that in his own state he is not the vote-getter which he claims to be.
 Polled Less Votes Than Taft.
 Colonel Roosevelt received an enor nous plurality when he ran for presi- dent in 1904, but that was because 1,2S0000 Democrats declined to vote for Judge Alton B, Parker. The real test of Roosevelt's plurality is the number of Republican votes cast for him. He boiled 7,623,4S6 votes, but even this number was 55.O0O less than were cast for Taft in 1908 with Bryan in the field and practical Democratic harmony restored. Do these figures show Roosevelt to be 8 great vote-getter?
 The figures as to Illinois are also interesting and instructive. In 1904 the total Republican vote for Roose welt was 632,645, but this was 1884 i less than were cast for Charles S. Deneen for governor Roosevelt was supposedly the idol of the Republican party while Governor Deneen's nomi nation was secured at the end of a three weeks convention in which bit ter factional fighting developed. Yet Deneen, as stated, received 1884 more votes for Roosevelt.
 An attempt is made to demonstrate Colonel Roosevelts popularity by cit. ing the fact that his plurality in Hi nois in 1904 was 305,O00 while Taft's was only 179,000 in 1908. The fact is that in 1904 Roosevelt received 632, ,645 votes In 1908 Taft received 629, ,929 votes, so that out of about 630,000 votes the only difference between Roosevelt's popularity and Taft's popularity as shown by the total Re publican vote was 2,7f3.
 Illinois is cited merely because it Is typical of other states
 Some Primary Figures
 As Republican candidate for presi dent last spring, Colonel Roosevelt boiled 61 per cent of the total vote cast at the Illinois primaries. but only 42.37 per cent of the Taft 1908 vote. A majority of the Republicans of IT, linois have not expressed a prefer. ence for Colonel Roosevelt for presi. dent Tn a recent statement Colonel Roosevelt said "The primary in Hi nois last spring definitely decided that I was the choice of the Illinois Republican voters for president" Colonel Roosevelt should be informed than 42.S7 per cent of the Repub- lican vote in Illinois does not decide what 57.63 per cent shall do with bolter who denounced their party be- cause it would not nominate him Similar conditions prevail in other states
 The foregoing record proves that Colonel Roosevelt, without regard to his other essential deficiencies, is not powerful vote-getter. The win with-Teddy" bumcombe is quite popu- lar with Colonel Roosevelt and his supporters with the hope of dragging into line timid voters and pot.huntine politicians. The facts show that as a vote-getter Roosevelt never had been as strong as his party. He was not as strong as Black and Odell in New York, where he is best known; although running against cripple fin Judge Parker, he ran more than a million votes behind his party strength; he was not as strong as Taft in the country at large; and he was not as strong as Taft and Deneen in Illinois.
 The current belief, stimulated by Roosevelt's own expressions, that Roosevelt is a powerful vote-getter, is dianroyen hy the facts