Arizona republican., 1912-09-07
Feiqned Qualification

How the progressiVeS can find req son for qualification in the election returns from Vermont we cannot conceive. In fact, there is no reason, and there is no genuine qualification. The development of progressive strength did not meet the eXpecta- tions of Colonel Roosevelt when he closed his campaign in that state and the result leaves absolutely no pros pect of success there in November nor does it afford any indication of any sweep throughout the country of progressive sentiment.
 The expressions of qualification over the returns are foolish and they will deceive no one as they are eX- pected to do. The messages of con- graduation sent from progressive leaders and progressive newspapers to the badly defeated candidate for governor are ridiculous and, in this connection. We may observe that since the founding of the republic there was never so much expected of the ignorance and general want of intel lgence of voters as at the present time
 At Ottumwa. Ia, on the night of the election after it was known that the progressive ticket was d bad third. Colonel Roosevelt made this remarkable statement, regarding his campaign in Vermont: "A third or a half of the men who spoke to me stated their belief in the progressive national ticket but did not intend tc vote the progressive state ticket This was the reason why in my speeches, I practically dropped all ap- peal for the national ticket and urged the support of the state ticket"
 If the foregoing were a statement of a fact it is evident that the urg- ing of the colonel was not needed tC a wild extent by the Vermonters But the reports of the speeches O. MT. Roosevelt do not mention an! appeal by him in behalf of the stat ticket. His mind was then running on the Standard oil matter, (concern ing which he has since become sud denly silentD While he was no talking of Archbold and Penrose h. was denouncing bosses and expound ing the doctrines of the new part, and discoursing upon country life ant general righteousness.
 As to the ratio of those who ia vored the national progressive ticke to those who did not the ratio beini determined by the men with whom h talked, his statement may well b true In fact, we think the colOne gave himself the worst of it; that h minimized rather than eXaggerate the progressive sentiment he per sonally encountered We believe tha Taft, Roosevelt and Wilson find tha four-fifths or even a greater part 0 NCb for them and will vote for them an that they favor the principles fo which they stand.
 Voters as a rule do not get int conversation with the presidentis candidates against whom they ar going to vote and we may add tha not one voter in a thousand gets int conversation with presidential can didate at all. In the three days rus of the colonel through the Gree Mountain state he had little Oppor tunity to sound the sentiment ( voters by talking with them and W doubt very much whether he take with even one who did not say ths he would vote the national progres sive ticket and meant it.
 But. getting back to the origin; matter. We do not see how the pro gressives of Vermont expect to ii the chasm which the state eIectio left between their vote and the rt publican vote or even the great ga between their vote and the democrat vote. The same issues are to be prt sented at the November election ; were present at the election of Ia Tuesday Dr. Metzger, the progre sive candidate for governor, is or of the most respected and loved mt in the state and was undoubted
 stronger than his ticket. His pc
 sonality surely appealed as strong
 to his neighbors as that of Colon Roosevelt will appeal to the citizel
 of Vermont.