The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-04-26
ROOSEVELT GAINS A SWEEPING VICTORY
 OVER TAFT
Few People Believe That Roosevelt
 Will Bolt the Convention

| WASHINGTON, D. C., April 24- Political Washington has been doing all the stunts appertaining to emo tional insanity on account of the re- turns from the primary election il | the state of Illinois. The sweeping victory for Roosevelt over Taft has set the quidnuncs to work and they are predicting that the Republic and I National Convention in Chicago will very much resemble a bear garden which means a scrap to finish
 There are very few people here wno believe that Roosevelt will bolt the Convention, but. it is absolutely cer- tain that all the things he has said in this campaign, and all the attacks upon the Republican administration, of which Taft is the head, Will be brought home to rOOst and that the the Democratic speakers all over this country, during the campaign, will not neglect to use every word that Roosevelt has uttered in damning the Taft adm ministration.
 So far as the returns from the Hi nois primary concerns the Democra- tic situation, it beg-ns to look very much like the Honorable Champ Clark than ever it did before.
 The overwhelming defeat of Cover nor Wilson in a state like Illinois, :. which is one of the pivotal States in
 National election, has confirmed
 the opinion of many men here in > Washington, whose business it is 10 keep their fingers upon the public
 pulse that Governor Wilson is now ,n the toboggan slide and that he has . no more chance to win that one legged man at a kicking match. Ac- cording to their opinions, it also shows , the strength of Champ Clark as vote getter, and his friends all say that 7 that is exactly what the Democrats
 need in a National election.
 The Illinois returns indicate that : Champ Clark as a vote getter, can carry the State as against Taft, and , inasmuch as there is no chance foI r htfle State they claim that Champ lkClark's nomination would absolutely : cinch the Democratic electors in the r State of Illinois next November. The Clark people say that their mar has been endorsed by the voters T
 this country in the States that are
 the nearest neighbors to his home
 State, and they include in this the
 States of Arkansas and Iowa, there
 fore making their candidate maj loved by those who know him best
 which is a very good recommendation for any man any time in this world
 This is the most picturesque cam
 Daign before the Conventions are hel;
 that it has been my lot to witnes
 since 1896, and from my experience
 in watching political campaigns, 1 cal
 give it as my honest judgment tha
 the Democrats are going to win mex
 November, and that nothing now ca |, stop the nomination of Honorabl
 Champ Clark as the Democratic non
 inee unless the Democrats in Cor
 gress, of which he is the leader, mak
 some fatal mistake or do somethin
 absolutely abhorrent to the wishe e and the desires of the people of thi u country.
 The primary election in Pennsy S vania has caused another 1urr n among the politicians in Washington e It is the universal opinion here tha r. although Roosevelt carried that stat' o as he did Illinois, it will make no di n ference in the outcome of the Chicag s Convention.
 Of course, few of the progressiv " Republicans who are out and or sr Roosevelt men, differ with this opil . ion, but it is evident to all men wh u listen to them and their opinion, ths Is Roosevelt is going to be nominate, ~ s that the wish is father to the thought " As far as the Democrats are col
 cerned, the outcome in PennSylvani n has added materially to Governor Wi Q. sons list of delegates, and who pro Is ably will be the recipient of a greate IS portion of the delegates, but will nc n have solid delegation because th t unit rule does not hold good in Pen Il sylvania, and the delegates from eac y district are free to vote as they choos D. The Clark people will probably hay 'r eighteen or twenty of those delegatt 1- out of seventy-Six, and a few will 2 !, to Governor Harmon of Ohio. i-
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