Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-19
OPPOSITION VOTE DIVIDED
Third Termers' Ticket Running
Strong in Sections.
FARMERS RETURNING TO TAFT
Gains, However, Not Likely to Give
Him Electoral Vote-Republic-
ans Antagonize Roosevelt.
BY N. o. MESSENGER.

CHICAGO, October 19.-Indiana will go
for Wilson. if present indications are
borne out election day. Beveridge. the
third term candidate for governor, is
running strong and is pushing the demo-
cratic state ticket hard. But this very
fact. in itself. promises to inure to the
benefit of Wilson. If the Roosevelt state
and national tickets seem really to have
chance to pull through. many old line
republicans will openly vote for Wilson.
1t is the same situation in the Hoosier
state, in this respect, that we have found
from Maine to Illinois-once Roosevelt
and his party loom up as an actual
to stop him and his followers by the
effectual means of casting a democratic
ballot.
Indiana is going through a stirring
campaign, but for that matter campaigns
have always been stirring in that state.
Politics seems to be in the blood, and
the two parties have perennial strangle-
hold upon each other.
With three candidates for President
and three full state tickets in the field
the Hoosiers are having a regular satur-
MALTA of politics, and they are In the
fight up to their eyes. Life will be a
tame affair after it is all over and they
have been making some deep-sea sound
ingS in Indiana and bring up nothing
but traces of Wilson. OF course. there
is in that state some of the same evil
dences of the farmers returning to Taft.
but the cold judgment of well-posted poll
ticians is that the tide has not gained
sufficient impetus to be effective.
Always a Close State.
Remember in the first place that In
diana is close state. When it was re-
publican the pluralities ran about 10000.
In the past two campaigns it has gone
democratic by about 10000 Now it is
apparent that the republican vote in the
state is almost evenly divided between
Taft and Roosevelt, and if anybody can
figure out chance for the republican
ticket in such a situation one might ask
what kind of dope he smokes in his pipe.
Some of the Indiana politicians estimate
that Beveridge will poll more votes than
will Roosevelt, and others say that
Roosevelt will run behind Taft on the
presidential ticket In Indiana.
The congressional outfook-wen, as the
boy, when asked for the core of the ap-
pie he was eating, said: There amt go
ing to be no core" However. that Is a
bit overdrawn. Indiana, as you know,
has one republican member in the House
out of thirteen-Judge Crumpacker. They
expect to save him. Then, down in the
Evansville district there Is fighting
chance to pick up a man, estimated upon
the ground that Evansville business men
are lining up for Taft and the neighbor-
ing farming communities show signs of
the drift to Taft.
In the Terre Haute district. where there
are more republican factions than there
are varieties of pickles, Beveridge is
weak. and the fight on him may make a
clean-cut contest between the democratic
and republican candidates. But there
look to dazzle the eyes of the republicans,
and it can safely be viewed without
smoked glasses.
Interest in Campaign Revives.
Around the national headquarters of
the several parties here there is renewed
activity today, due to the willingness of
Col. Roosevelt to have the campaign pro-
ceed. To use parliamentary phrase ap-
piled by the Speaker of the House when
a gentleman has been called down for
Incorporate language, it will probably
proceed in order l4s
However, the Inter Ocean makes a Bug
Sestion in its leading editorial today
which holds out a hint of further heck
ling. 1t says:
I'VE hope Theodore Roosevelt will get
well III record time. There are several
things we want to say to him as soon as
he is out of danger
Everybody beiieVeS that once the doc
tors and Mrs. Roosevelt remove the taboo
from the colonel he will hop back on the
stump and go at them with old-time
energy 90 there is fair prospect for
shindy yet.
The managers of the third term head
quarters were in high glee today over the
announcement that Don VI. Dickinson of
Michigan. who was Postmaster General
under Cleveland has come out for Roose-
Welt, side whiskerS and ALL
a special to the Chicago Tribune from
Detroit says:
Don VI. Dickinson. once chairman of
the democratic national committee and
until recently a supporter. of Woodrow
wilson. has sent telegram to Theodore
Roosevelt assuring him of his support for
the remainder of the campaign
Michigan Leans to Roosevelt.
At hand is further information confirm
ing the statements made in my dispatches
from Detroit that Roosevelt was strong
in Michigan and will have to be reckoned
with very seriously.
The fact that the information comes
from republican sources makes it signiti-
cant. Roosevelt's trip through the IS tate
is said to have left an effect which is
causing worry to the county committee
men in several sections of Michigan.
RELIEVING DETROIT RIVER.