Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-06
REPUBLICAN
VOTE WEAK
On ANALYSIS
SO SAY The DISPATCHES
Detection From the RGpubIi-
Can Camps

dSuluSICn, II. u, June 0.-An
analysis of the vote in all the re-
publican primaries in every state thai
fas held a primary election where
Roosevelt has won, will show to the
observant citizen that there has be III
not over 80 per cent. of the stato
polled That absolutely proves that
he greatest portion of the voters of
the country who have hitherto been
republicans, are thoroughly disgusted
with the manner of campaign that is
being made by these two doughty
warriors in the republican ranks for
the presidential nomination, and that
they have studiously stayed at home
That means that they want neither
Taft nor Roosevelt. They are sick
and tired of this sort of politics, not
only the weak-backbone policies Of
Taft, but the strenuously radical pol
icies of Roosevelt, and that they pre-
fer a democrat with patriotism and
brains and decency, to either one of
these men in the presidential chair.
There are men offering to bet that
Roosevelt will be nominated and If
he is nominated, it will make me out
n 7 II
along in this correspondence thar
Mr.. Taft would be nominated. Now
then, Taft may not be able to hold all
of his delegates that have been in
structed or pledged to him and the
Roosevelt forces, adopting the same
strong methods used by their chief,
they may go to Chicago and bulldoze
through the nomination of Roosevelt,
but l do not believe it.
The leaders of the republican party,
that is the old-fashioned republican
leaders, who are still in control OF
the national committee, do not intend
to allow Theodore Roosevelt and a
handful of republican insurgents 70
take control of the republican party
so long as they can help it, and be-
lieve they can. They pass on all these
contests between Taft and Roosevelt,
and it is a safe bet that they will run
the steam roller over every contest
ing Roosevelt delegation that comes
before them. That means that the
Taft people will control the Temporal
ry organization of the convention and
that the temporary organization will
appoint the committee on credentials,
and that committee will follow the
national committees recommendation
and seat the same delegates, thereby
giving Taft the nomination on the
first ballot This means further that
Roosevelt's people will cry fraud,
withdraw from the convention and
hold convention of their own, nom-
mate Roosevelt on an independent
ticket on the ground that he has
been willfully defrauded of the nomi-
1.ation after he was the peoples
choice.
The republican leaders are all firm
ly convinced that this will happen;
also that this spells defeat for the
republican ticket next November Ney-
ertheless and Notwithstanding, they
prefer defeat and democratic success
to the success of Roosevelt, which
means anarchy and the disintegratiou
of the republican party. They would
rather take defeat at the hands of a
patriotic democrat than success with
| Roosevelt under the name of the re-
publican party which does not near
the republican party, as they hav'
been taught and believed all their
| lives, because the republican party
they believe in is the republican party
of public plunder through a protec-
tive tariff.
The talk of third man or dark
horse winning the nomination IS
subsiding very materially The rea.
son is there is no able or self-respect-
ing republican willing to take the
nomination with the conditions con
fronting them after this campaign o
vituperation between Taft and Roose
welt. They know they would be de
feated and they are not hankering Il
to pull the chestuuts of a few stand
pat republicans out of the fire. So /
does not make any difference to th
democrats of this country who is nom
mated on the republican ticket, the.
will beat that candidate to FRAGILE