The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1914-11-19
COLONEL ROOSEVELT
SEEMS DOWN AND OUT
CRUSHING NEW YORK DEFEAT
REMOVES HIM AS PRESl-
DENTAL FEASIBILITY.

The minute it became known that
Charles S. Whitman had been elected
governor of New York by plurality
way beyond what any republican mad
dared hope for, that minute Charles
s. Whitman became presidential tim
Der to be figured on in 1916, and so he
will remain unless his administration
of state affairs for the next two years
proves a failure, says a Washington
correspondent.
Whitman's election was not sur
prise: Whitman's plurality was sur
prise to whitman himself and to other
New York republicans. No prediction
no forecast gave Whitman anything
like the vote he actually polled, and MS
election proved to have been the re-
suit of a landslide, of which there
was no previous warning. Incidentally
Whitman's election signalizcd the
practical disqualification of republican
sentiment and republican strength IN
Now York state, in the face or the
most vigorous plOICSl Va
republican state leader, Colonel Hoose-
welt.
Jolt to Roosevelt.
The whitman landslide was one OF
MANY iolts handed to Colonel hoose-
welt on November 3, and by all oous'
the most severe and most annoying IL
was not many months ago that Coi-
oneI Roosevelt announced that he was
going to lead a movement to reuhl'e
the republican party in New YORK anu
To that end, he indicated his purpose
to support Whitman for the guperha
.or,o, nomination. But hardly had the
announcement gone forth than lne
colonel suddenly changed his milu
and declared he could not and Woulo
not support whitman whom he oranu-
ed as o tool of Boss Barnes, and cog
in the old republican machine lheh
the colonel gave his endorsement u
Human.
whitman cleaned up Human nan
div for the republican NOMINATION
whereupon the colonel turned 10 NE
third narty and put forward Frederlcf
s. Davenport as their candidate ~
Governor after promising ex-GoVernol
Sulzer to keep hands Off ana le' '"'
progressives make their own selee'ion
Sulzer at that time was caholua'
against Davenport and had sought th'
endorsement of Roosevelt
The nitiable showing made by DaV
EXPORT. the third party candidate II
the election of November muica'e'
clearly the thorough disintegration o
the progressive party in New hoii
state and incidentally whitman
overwhelming election demohs'ia'o
that the republican party hao pee
able TO reunite without the leadershil
OF Colonel Roosevelt, and IN the Ia
Of his most determined opposition in
colonel emerged at the head OF a ilt.'
hand. so few as to numbers as " y
,nconseouential. and Of no use wfiat
ever to the democrats IN ne"
state.
Repudiation Of Whitman
II was clearly understood when 20
Roosevelt repudiated Whitman las
summer after having first approve
his candidacy for the guberna'oria
nomination. that personal motiVe
swayed the former president anu tna
no had decided Whitman, If elected
might prove formidable cahuiua a.
for the republican presidential nor,iii
alton in 1915. The colonel then ma IA,
and still has the presidential pee ~ ~
bonnet. and when he turned on Wn'
man he entertained ideas OF sllppih
back into the republican party 'n'
year, as evidenced by his endorse, ,''a,
Of Human, also republican. a li''l
later when Human was defeated IL
- ox,,tuation the colonel went u