New-York tribune., 1912-04-15
KEYSTONE PRIMARY
REBUKE TO PENROSE
PENNSYLVANIA Politicians Say Re-
suit of Vote Is Not a Real VIC
tory for Colonel Roosevelt.
WAS A WAR ON THE MACHINE
Trouble in Anthracite Fields and
Fight in Pittsburgh and Phlla-
delphia Against U. S. Sen
ators Important Factors.
rRv Ter.graph 10 The Tribune. !

IRy Telegraph to The Tribune
PHILADELPHIA, April 14.-Astute Penn
svlvania politicians. although on tne
verge of being shorn Of their power 'o-
day are almost unit in declaring tld'
the sweeping victory Of the apparently
/ Roosevelt followers at the primary eieo-
/ tions Yesterday was not a VictorS io'
Roosevelt. but was victory in hgh'
against machine politics
These politicians are unit IN decisi
ing that Roosevelt is the chosen lhStru-
mont 10 overthrow the present Repupli-
can machine. perhaps for the upbuildihs
| NJ = hotter one on more advanced INES
because Of his ability to appeal 10 the
passions Of the multitude, and not Ne
cause Of his executive ability as the
( head Of n nation.
In Pennsylvania MAN. things helped
/ the Roosevelt followers as against Pres
: 'dent Taft. who proba bly, viii have only
| six ont OF the entire scyenty-siX dele
! gates from Pennsylvania when the chi
caco convention iG called 10 order
/ The coal strike vas not the least of
these. and this statement IL vouched for
by no less n person than John p White
prosident &C the United Mine Workers
! of America In an unguarded moment
! to-day. in discussing yesterdays c'ec-
7 tion. Mr. White said:
| You know. when the miners are WORKING
! the mine boss IS q great zig man ne =
lin A position IN request the men under nm
} 10 do certain things, and theN are HduIe
! 10 do as asked But when the mines ar
! idle tho minc boss is shorn or III, poW'I.
: 10 is not IN q position to request the mcn
| undar him to go to the polls ana 10 No'e
as he may suggest. The miner then votes
! as he feels.
Whether this is the reason the deliber-
alton Of the miners representatives and
} the operators have extended over pc
riod much longer than was said TO be
: necessary. and even after most OF the
/ important questions involving the sus-
/ pension at the mines have beer settled
to the satisfaction Of both sides cannot
| be declared absolutely.
| Two weeks ago il Wa stated hat the
/ followers Of Roosevelt wanted n see the
suspension at the mines extend over
primary day. The wish may have been
! father "a the thought, but the suspen-
sion did extend over primary DAY, and
/ yesterday every miner in the Pennsyl'
vania diggings went 10 the voting places
and cast ballot for the Roosevelt dele
gates and the anti-Penrose candidates.
This accounts for the Roosevelt land
I eI;Jo A, ,ba MINING 6ietricts
/ In Philadelphia and Pittsburgh the
fght against Senators Penrose and
/ Oliver has been on for Years. The fGh'
against Penrose reached an anti-climaS
/ AZ the Mayoralty election here several
months ago, when the Keystone ticket
elected Rudolph BlankenburR as IT,
| Mayor and showed under George II
/ Earle. the candidate Of the organiza
/ tion. Since that time the anti machine
. followers have been welding together a
machine IF their own. They have take,
! the Police Department ont OF politics
! They have stripped tho organization ot
! its greatest asset. It has neither thc
police nor the municipal patronage. Yes
! terday Roosevelt carried seventeen oI
the forty-seven wards in Philadelphia
because the people h;d decided the tim
! had come to overthrow Penrose.
! In the western end Of the state. the
| coalition I'm Pittsburgh between former
Senator William Finn, himself ar
astute politician, and Mayor Magee over.
threw United States Senator Oliver
! There has been a factional fight in ALE
! gheny County for years. but two suc'
| powerful leaders never could meet on T.
common ground before. This year the'
got together, and the organization suf
fcred
The Republican leaders say they can
not account for the Roosevelt Landslide
In the farming districts and in the in
terror Of the state other than Ian
caster, where the organization still re
mains supreme. the one oasis Of the or
ganization in the entire state.
The reorganizers account for this land
slide 10y the fact that the organization
snug in its alleged knowledge that th
differentiation fight was being wage,
I'm the cities only, left the country dis
tricts to themselves. The tour Of Roose
welt through the stat" accomplished tn
rest.
Summed up in a few words, the defea
Of the Taft delegates is due 20 the fac
that the Penrose organization did no
get down to real work until after tn
Roosevelt tour through the state. The,
il was that Penrose and his follower
realized that the people no longer woulo
follow them on national issues, and tn
anti Reorganization forces had aroused tn
voters with appeals that the time t.
strike a vital blow for the elimination o
! Pcnrose was ripe