Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-10-24
RECORD WILL SURPRISE MANY
In New York When He Ran for Gov
ernor He Did Not Get Full Party
Support-Presidentiai Vote
When Analysed Is Not to
His Advantage.

the Republican nomination for
third term, he Is heading boiling
Third Party organization there ara
many Republicans who seem to think
that he has a strong hold upon til
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 a magic hold upon the people
is not supported by the facts. Mr.
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 1895, 1898 and 1900.
the two years before and the two
years after Roosevelt was a candidate
for governor:
1896 Black .............. 7S7,5l6
1898, Roosevelt ......... 661,707
1900, Odell ..........S 04 S59
When Roosevelt ran as a candidate
for governor he had behind him his
prestige Of service in the war with
Spain He made a spectacular cam
paign with a number of uniformed
soldiers riding with him upon the
rear platform OF his special train.
| Even with this advantage he polled
| 1876 900 less votes than Black and
nearly $4,000 less votes than Odell
This shows that in his own state he
| is not the vote-getter which he claims
| 70 be
PoIIed Less Votes Than Taft.
Colonel Roosevelt received an enor-
nous plurality when he ran for presi
dent in 1904 but that was because
$4,000 Democrats declined to vote
| for Judge Alton B. Parker. The real
| test of Roosevelts plurality is the
number of Republican votes cast for
him. He polled 7,623.4S6 votes. but
even this number was 55 900 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
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
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
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 ILL
nois in 1904 was 305 900, while Taft's
that in 1904 Roosevelt received 632 ,645
votes. In 1908 Taft received 629 ,929
votes, so that out of about 100000
votes the only difference between
Roosevelt's popularity and Taft's
popularity as shown by the total Re-
publican vote was ana
Illinois is cited merely because 1t is
.yplCdl OF OlneT states.
Some Primary Figures.
AS Republican candidate for presi-
dent last spring, Colonel Roosevelt
polled 81 per cent of the total vote
cast at the Illinois primaries, but only
1927 per cent Of the Taft 1908 vote.
majority of the Republicans of IL
linois have not expressed a prefer
snce for Colonel Roosevelt for presi
dent In a recent statement Colonel
Roosevelt said: THE primary In Hi.
nois last spring definitely decided
that | was the choice OF the Illinois
Republican voters for president"
Colonel Roosevelt should be informed
than 4237 per cent OF the Repub-
lean vote in Illinois does not decide
what 57.63 per cent shall do with a
bolter who denounced their party be
cause IL 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
1 powerful vote getter. The win
with-Teddy" buncombe is quite popu-
ar with Colonel Roosevelt and his
supporters with the hope Of dragging
nto line timid voters and pot-hunting
politicians. The facts show that as
/, vote-getter- Roosevelt never had
been as strong as his party. He was
lot as strong as Black or Odell In
New York, where he Is best known;
although running against a cripple in
Judge Parker, he ran more than a
million votes behind his party
strength; he was not as strong as Taft
n the country at large; and he was
lot as strong as Taft and Deneen In
Illinois.
The current belief, stimulated by
ioosevelts own expressions, that
Roosevelt is a powerful vote-getter, is