The Washington times., 1912-06-26
ROOSEVELT IS REAL
ISSUE Of CAMPAIGN,
DEMOCRATS ADMIT
Leaders Believe Fight Will
Be Won BY Progressive
Votes and Voters.
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date of its own for President; here as
Ia hopelessly out Of II, just as Taft was
recognized as a sure loser even II he
should win the nomination.
So, as Ohio cast twenty-four votes for
the Roosevelt side and fourteen for the
Taft side in Chicago, SO here It counted
twenty-nine for Parker and nineteen for
Bryan on the one test roll thus far
called.
section Of the battle front that It oee
cupied at Chicago. for Wisconsin's
Democracy has been converted to the
Ideals Of ta rollstts,sI 5Sss sTsy
The state had it's own candidate at
Chicago, here it threw its twenty
six solid votes to Parker. which
meant Wilson.
Iowa was divided at Chicago because
Of local conditions and complications,
1t is divided here. Washington, car
for 6sSx but
as California II II had had square
deal at Chicago. here IL turns in Its
solid fourteen votes for Bryan and
Wilson. as a testimony OF good faith
Old Bay State Split.
Missouri divided at Chicago, and de
vided here on the real test note. Now
1t turns to the East.
Massachusetts was split between
progress and reaction in the Chicago
gathering. Eighteen to eighteen was
It's division.
stand here. 1t cast eighteen votes for
Parker, fifteen for Ryan and three for
O'Gorman. The rest of New England
is conservative here; in the main 1t was
ception Of Maine. which had been land
ed by the progreesives.
New York-well, the less said, the
better. Barnes bossed 1t there, Murphy
dictionary there. a solid ninety here.
1t makes the Empire State loom big
and potent in both conventions: but 1t
Is a testimony to the degradation. the
the greatest Of all the States, It is no
proof of the bigness and the real great
ness Of the imperial commonwealth.
In both conventions New York's has
An Embossed, untrammeled New York
would have made Roosevelt the nominee
In Chicago; would have made the con-
vention decent and honest; It would
have saved the Republican party.
A de-Tammanyized New York here
would have made Bryan chairman;
would have smashed the Ryan-Belmont-
all-boss combination, and made the
1t is a sorry tale that must be told
View now the South. That was the
reliance OF the Taft campaign from the
for the Republicans, but II provided
tho delegates that did the nominating.
South for Reactionary.
Because 1t has no real party warfare
the South is as easy for the Democratic
bosses as for the Republican, so 1t
turns up here with its votes for the
| Of
Parker and extreme conservatism. Just
as at Chicago; so do Georgia, Florida,
Arkansas, Mississippi, most Of Tennes-
see and North Carolina.
How close the parellal continues:
South Carolina broke away from the
machine at Chicago and gave the pro-
gressives a big bunch of votes, and II
did the same same, casting it's solid
! eighteen for Bryan against Parker.
Texas was carried for Roosevelt and
progress. ana would have voted solid
~ for that program had 1t not beer
f,ched from tine column to which Il
| belonged bY the larcenous hand of ar
immortal national committee.
nj truth, however, Texas Republican,
Is progressive and Texas Democracy II
the same, as evidenced by the fact tina
the Lone Star State cast its solid forty
votes into the scale of the first roll cal
In favor of Bryan, Wilson. and the pro
| gressive cause.
lowed throughout the whole country
There are hardly enough exceptions t
prove the rule, and these. under clos
examination, prove to be rather appar
ent than real exceptions.
These conditions give the greatest en-
couragement to people who believe tn
time is come for new deal all aroun
In national politics. Progressiveism ha
ceased to be partisan. 1t is national.
1t is bigger and broader than an!
party. It is determined to win. 1
knows 1t has the sympathy OF th
national conscience and Is in har
5 mony with the national purpose.
5 Its eyes are turned to the neV
p movement that proposes TO give 1t
{ platform and a voice with which t
i appeal, at last, in the broadest way
: 10 the better and wiser purposes an
instincts of the whole country.