Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-05-21
HUGHES WINS
SECOND PLACE, .
BURTON THIRD
Teddy Gets 1875 First and Forty
Second Choice Ballots in
State.
JUSTICE POLLS 81;
ROOT Is FOURTH
Rest of Vote Is Badly Scattered
Among the Favorite
Sons.

wide margin in the presidential straw
vote started week ago by the Trib.
une. More than $50 readers clipped
the ballot and mailed it in. Hughes.
while securing only 81 first choice
votes, is high man on second choice
votes, with II to his credit.
rribune's Motive.
fate "Teddy's' boom, but was merely
actuated in this straw vote by Z de.
sire to get line on it's readers pref.
erence.
That there is bitter opposition to
Roosevelt in certain quarters is
shown by the comments received on
some of the ballots, but he still has
large following in the state. Burton
received more votes as first choice
than Root, but the New York attorney
won more second choice votes than
the Ohio senator.
Favorite Sons Score. issfi
LaFolette is sixth, with Ford trail
ing him in seventh place. The rest
of the vote is scattered among the
favorite sons.
The only possible question which
may be asked Is whether the. type Of
person who votes for Col. Roosevelt
is not apt to be- the sort Of voter
most likely to participate In Z vote
of this kind. People who are attract.
ed by his personality would naturally
most quickly respond to an invitation
to register their beliefs. They ara
that sort. But it is just as true that
his personality stirs quite as great We.
hemence among his opponents as
among his supporters. 72s% SIS /
r., NEW YORK FOR TEDDY. ~.
The Tribune also announces there.
suit Of the straw vote conducted by
the New York Tribune, in which
Roosevelt, out of total Of more than
5000 votes sent in, secured 1854.
Hughes came second with 1,670 votes.
Just how the various candidates
ran is indicated in another column.
Many of the readers of the Bis
marck Tribune made some interest,"
ing observations. A Valley City suf'
fragette in voting says:
suffraoette Votes.
ITS fun for a woman to have q
chance to vote for president, even on
a straw ballot"
She promptly names IaFollette as
first and Roosevelt as second choice.
In voting for James r. Mann, q
reader writes across the ballot: ANY.
one but Root or Roosevelt" =,
Roosevelt first, last and always"
is favorite slogan for some voters.
A jamestown reader declares that
Roosevelt is very strong in his pre-.
cinct.
One admirer of Roosevelt scribbles
across his ballot, Can the kaisers,"
which indicates that some feel tho
war will be an issue in the next cam.
paign.
All For Roosevelt.
A group of Garrison readers OBJ
serve:
"The republican members Of En-.
met Farm clubs, about Is In number.
are for LaFollette first and nearly all
for Hughes second, or any republican
other than Roosevelt. They will vote
democratic il Roosevelt is nominal.
ed
An official of the Stark County Re.
publican club, Dickinson, writes:
Stark County Republiean.
Having seen the advertisement in
your paper asking your readers to
cast their straw vote for president, I
herewith enclose my first and second
choice. l believe Justice Hughes is
the only man that can successfully
unite the republican party, but In
case he could not be nominated. I
believe Theodore Roosevelt the next
best man to unite the party. Any
other man would mean q certain de.
feat in the fall elections again, be-
cause the Roosevelt factions would, I
believe. go outside the party again
and cause the defeat Of the. party, and
believe we can better afford to let
them rule than to ruin us. Under no
should we have anoth.
er man like Wilson.
Also For Teddy"
A prominent republican OF North
Dakota and a well known state ON.
cial, who says he is ''out of politics"
has the following interesting com.
ment to make: NJ
/ am out of politics, still am In.
terested in your voting feeler, an ex.
cellent idea and timely. It will IN.
swer good purpose to our delegar
ion at the coming national conveA.
ion: l consider Roosevelt the best
itted man to be presidsat Of the
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