The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-11-08
NATIONS ANSWER
TO POLITICAL BOSSES
Not ROOseyelt-ROOt, Barnes, Mckinley
and PenrOse Responsible for Wreck
of the Republican Party

Governor Wilson was elected presi-
dent last Tuesday by the largest cleo
toral vote ever given to any president.
With the probable exception of some
eight states he carried all of the forty
eight. At the present time it is only
certain that Taft carried Utah, Idaho
and Vermont. Roosevelt carried Mime
sofa, Washington, South Dakota and
possibly Pennsylvania, Michigan and
Illinois.
The democratic majority in the
House OF Representatives is increased
from fifty to sixty. The senate will
likely be democratic by small ma
jority, giving the democratic party con-
troll of all the machinery of the gov
eminent. The first time in nearly
sixty years.
The defeat of the president was
even more overwhelming than his most
ardent opponents predicted. Carrying
Utah and Idaho and Vermont by
slender maiorities with the aid Of
the Mormon vote, the prophets hav-
ing Instructions to vote for Taft,
and losing out in most OF the
voting precincts in the United States,
often falling behind the socialist vote,
he made sorry showing against his
vote of four years ago. The Roose-
welt vote, while large, was almost dou-
BILE that given to the president, fell far
short of giving him the election.
Hodge, the progressive candidate
lost to Lister, the democratic candidate,
won over Hay by small margin. The
balance of the candidates on the pro-
gressive state ticket appear to have
won out by a respectable majority.
Falconer and Bryan, the progressive
candidates for congressman-at-large
have won out, while Johnson, Hum
phrey and LaFollette, from the first,
second and third districts appear to
have won out by slender pluralities,
which in the case of the first two may
be wiped out by final returns.
In Chelan county the progressives
did not fare so WELL Only two county
officers being elected by the progress
ives, Joe Johnson for assessor and Matt
Hickey commissioner of the second
precinct, all the balance being repub-
lican.
The vote in such rock-ribbed states
as Wyoming, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kan
sas, and all the New Eng n d
states, including Pennsylvania, where
the state republican tickets were
elected and the electoral vote was
given to Wilson, with the president
running a very poor third behind
Roosevelt, shows very plainly that the
republican voters were intensely op-
posed to Mr.. Taft and rebuked the
men who stole the nomination for him
at Chicago. This is proven by the
defeat of every congressman for re-
election who took a prominent part in
behalf of Taft. Nicholas Longworth,
Roosevelt's son-in-law, was defeated in
Ohio, Mckinley, Taft's congressional
campaign manager was defeated in
Illinois, Joe Cannon was defeated, to-
gether with all those of smaller caliber.
Washington's Roosevelt vote was the
neople's answer to the Aberdeen con-
vention steal. Chelan county's Roose-
welt majority is the conclusive answer
TO the boiling Chelan county repub-
lican convention, just as is the King
county Roosevelt majority the final
answer to the monstrous steal oi the
one hundred and twenty delegates
from that county by dozen as grace
less, debauched, power-sodden lot OF
tyicksters as ever met in secret to pro-
mote the invisible government.
Roosevelt is greater in defeat than
any president since Lincoln. This
will be the verdict of posterity. This
will be the record of history. Great
because he threw the weight OF his
personality against political wrong do
ing. political dishonesty, against the
I.orimers, the Pensoses, the Stephen
sons. the Barnes and the other long
list Of crooked republican politicians,
including our own little state crooks