The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-03-20
ROOSEvELTS ENTRYMEANS
SURE DEFEAT FOR TAFT
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force, Npublic opinion is thor
oughly aroused. the political machine
generally is forced TO yield That is
the history oi politics lMill this he
an exception?
Claims i27 Delegates For TAFT.
Talt.s manager claims ia delegales
ChUsVTT. t.Vr us SEE wffefe- r.
gets them. South Carolina. Il;
Florida IL; Georgia. %; Virginia ~;
Tennessee. IA; Alabama, rs. Here
are l02 delegates from states which
have not cast a Republican presiden'
thai vote in the electoral college Tor
80 years. To permit these delegates
TO sit In a Republican convention Is
a scandal.
Then. Mr.. Tafts manager claims
two delegates from the Philippines
two from the District OF Columbia
four from Missouri. two from Micht
gan; two from Indiana; six irom
Iowa, and seven from New Mexico
There is no Republican party In the
Philippines the District of Columbia
and very little in New Mexico. SO the
only claims of strength in states
which take part in electing Republl'
can presidents are the four from Mis-
souri,. two from Michigan; two from
Indiana, and six from Iowa; a total
o. Il.
Indiana has become Democratic
state II has no popular primaries
and the delegates from there We're de
livered by ex-senator Hemenway, eN'
Congressman Jim Watson, eN'State
Chairman Jim Goodrich, ex-Distrlct
Attorney Joe Healing. eN'Natlonal
Committeeman Harry New-all dis
pensing the patronage turned over 10
them by President Taft.
The Taft delegates from Iowa and
Michigan were chosen in couple OF
standpat districts as result OF snap
conventions and without any express
sion of the people at primaries.
So much for the Taft claims.
laFoilette Versus Roosevelt.
Roosevelts strength will be appar
EFT only after the primaries have been
held in states where presidential
primaries have been provided by law
New Jersey has such a law, and SC
has California, Nebraska. Oregon
Washington and recently enacted)
Massachusetts,. The real sentiment
OF the people will be shown in these
returns.
In the west. the only question will
be whether Roosevelt is preferred te
LaFollette. who is looked upon by
many as the more radical, and there
fore the more acceptable candidate
There Will be no returns from these
states favorable 10 Taft. That is
shown conclusively by returns already
in, and by the polls and scientific
straw votes.
Two events of real significance
have occurred in the Taft-RooseVelt
contest. One is the action OF Okla
honla in choosing a solid Roosevelt
delegation from that state, and the
other is the action OF North Carolina
in doing likewise. In Oklahoma the
people have a way of making their
opinion felt and the result there fore
casts what will happen IN states
which have primaries.
The North Carolina bolt shows that
even patronage is not holding all the
south in line. Nothing that has hap
pened has done more 10 discourage
the Taft managers than the North
Carolina action in choosing a Solo
Roosevelt delegation. IL has hurt
even more than the refusal OF Texas
10 come through for Taft with its 40
delegates.
If the solid south will not stand
Tutt's hopes are dead.
Yes" said Senator Dixon. there
arc two sides to this presidential pri
mary question. The people are on one
side and the steamroller is on the
other"
Roosevelt's managers are now plan
ming to SEND a challenge directly tc
President Taft. asking him to say
whether he favors presidential pri
marles. or whether he fears that the
people in gust of popular passion
tight nominate him.