The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-05-03
ROOSEVELT WAVE
IS COUNTRY WIDE

Candidate OF Big business-Stag9er-
ing Blows to Standpatism.
Washington, April 1S.-New England,
so confidently claimed as Taft terri
tory, has shown conclusively that it
wants Colonel Theodore Roosevelt as
its candidate for the presidency.
Up to date twenty delegates have
been elected from this section. OF
these fourteen are instructed for Colo
mel Roosevelt and six are uninstructed.
There remain sixty-eight delegates
to be elected from New England. OF
these New Hampshire will contribute
eight, Rhode Island ten. Connecticut
fourteen and Massachusetts thirty-six.
Governor Bass of New Hampshire
signed the call to Colonel Roosevelt to
accept the presidential nomination If
offered and is confident that his state
will instruct solidly for Colonel Roose-
velt Massachusetts realized that If it
failed to have a 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 it. Pub
lie 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 Fer T. r.
In view of the fact that the law was
passed as the result of the insistence
of 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 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 colonel's candidacy there
is a great deal of Roosevelt sentiment.
The New England situation is highly
satisfactory from the Roosevelt point
of view and equally unsatisfactory
from the Taft standpoint. The SIX
great states Of the northeast with the
exception of New Hampshire were. be-
lieved to be the stronghold of conserv-
atism, and Senator Gallinger, the ally
aud supporter of Senators Penrose,
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 yindicat-
ed Lorimer. assured the president that
Vermont would east its vote solidly
for him. Yet Mr.. Taft has obtained not
a single instructed delegate from YER
mont. If il 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.
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 solidly for
the colonel had not the Taft forces
called a convention before it was def
nitely known that Mr.. Roosevelt would
accent the nomination If it were ten
dered to him. AS it was, he has got
all but two of the delegates from that
state. Illinois, In which presidential
preference primary occurred. gave the
colonel fifty-siX out of its fifty-eight
delegates, with a tremendous MAORI
tv in the state at large of 10000 over
Taft. To prevent Colonel Roosevelt
from getting delegates frauds have
been perpetrated 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.
It is local in so far as the number of
delegates elected is concerned, but 1t
is country wide in its proof of what
the people will do If they can express
themselves. 1t is. of course, impossi-
bic to wall up sentiment within the
boundary lines of state. The Amer
lean people are a unit, swayed by the
same impulses and moved by the same
Judgment. 1t is automatic in politics
that when there is a 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
that New Hampshire and Massachu-
sets will instruct their delegates for
Colonel Roosevelt and that some re-
suits will be obtained in Rhode Island
and Connecticut. In this event the
territory which was believed TO be abb
solutely stand pat and upon which the
president and his supporters depended
| will be represented in the Republican
conveMnsn by Roosevelt delegates.
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