La Grande evening observer., April 18, 1912, Image 4

P.VOfcirOV
THE TIME I II S
COME FOR
ACTION
For the republican or Union ceun
jr to carefully recanvass in their .owi
minds the matter of the presidential
candidates. .
s ; Mo man In the history of the repnb-
lie hat made such a aiz weeks' cam-
yaign has Roosevelt has.' , '
State machines, timbered and tea- ,
aoned as they bare been from years of
coatiauoue control, and apparently tm."
jprtgn&ble, have been shattered into
: ahreds by Teddy and bis blf stkt
,Tbe fight la now clearly between
Beeeevelt and Tsfi.
'There la no other man In the real
cjht -Any other man than Roosevelt '
would have required 20 years to do
what' Roosevelt has done' in a hurri-'
cmne campaign In a few weeks. He
knows bow. He is practical. He does. "
things. He has doubtless opened the
way for other progressives later on,
and made the progressive cause an i
ether progressive candidates respect'
d and possible candidates at a later
date.- Today, however, be is the only
progressive possibility.
Vote, therefore, to win.
Tote for Roosevelt.
j "Roosevelt now has more uncontest
ed instructed delegates than all the .
other candidates combined.
' It is admitted that of the remaining
states yet to chose delegates Rooeevnlt
has much the best of the chances, an'l
the tide dally growing higher for hl::
. Last week destroyed the Taft chancer
for nomination. ...
New Hampshire Is progressive an-J '
sure for Roosevelt. Alt and llassachu
setts will join Maine and the major. ty
of Vermont Is for Teddy. . i
New Jersey has a direct primary
and will follow; Pennsylvania, bs all
iu oilier yriuiury Blums uireuuy vuiv
' Ing have done against Taft. There -are
but the two candidates, Taft and
' Roosevelt, In the east.
North Carolina, with her 114,000 re
publican votes, Is the only far south
ern state with a primary. She ha
already elected delegates from ,15
, counties, instructed to the state con
vention, by a vote of ten to one in the
primaries in the total vote "cast thera
so far for Roosevelt.
Maryland got a primary law 10 dan
'"i .K ago abRoosevelrtlnfelstSnce'and he
-V? k-H- l.weVoi the stktevit' 1
- more than two to one of the delegate
to the state convention for Roosevelt.
Rhode Island will follow, doubtless,
these other state's. Teas all admit wlt
glv Roosevelt 40 votes. Idaho seems ' '
' sure for Roosevelt. Taft test ballots
in Montana are strong for 1 Teddy.
' South Dakota is given over to Roose
velt. Taft will surely,lone In Minns
ota. Roosevelt 1b gaining and sween-
Ins progressive California. Eluewher
Boosevelt is gaining hourly.
The average man loves a man who
can make such a fight against such
uuua. iuo pupie iu ins primaries,
have shown whether he made himself
a candidate or whether he responded
io a popular call.
Oregon should shouldor ip wtth :
jsrogresslon elsewhere.
" Having my principal interests in
Eastern Orogon, having gpuet all my
' energies and a goodly amount of my
fortune here during the pnBt five years
" ' l am vitally Interested in seeing this
portion of the state get squarely into
line, and may ho pardoned for expres
sing a. hope that Theodore Iloosevnlt
shall get a very lnrge vote hero.
For more than 30 years I have per
sonally known Theodore Roosevelt
and I know him to be nn honest mnn,
practical, progressive and a straight
s - from thf shoulder fighter for what Ik
' fcelleves will be of the greatest good
to the greatest number. A man wh;
does things! .
, - HENRY WALDO COE3.
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVE!.: THURSDAY; APRIL 18,
rn
u u WW
BIO BUSINESS HAS NEVER BEEN ABLE TO SILENCE THE PRESS AS TO ANY CANDIDATE
AS IT HAS THIS TIME REGARDING THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
T FOR MANY DAYS ROOSEVELT HAS BEEN SPEAKING IN
WHERE GREAT MULTITUDES HAVE LISTENED TO HIM IN DOZENS OP SPEECHES, HE IS j
SWEEPING THESE TWO STATES LIKE A WILD FIRE AND WILL TOMORROW CARRY NE- -
' 3KA FOUR TO ONE. 5 . : , . . V
YET OUTSIDE OF THIS ADVERTISE MENT HAVE YOU SEEN A WORD IN ANY, PAPER AS.
TO THESE GREAT SPEECHES? r
EVEN NOW TO TELL YOU THIS NEWS FOR IT IS NEWS THE SPACE HAS.TO BE PAID
FOR'
IT'S THE MOST DAMNABLE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE RIGHTS OF A FREE PEOPLE THIS
COUNTRY HAS EVER SEEN! BIG BUSINESS LAUGHS NOW. FRIDAY NIGHT THE PEOk
PLE WILL LAUGH IN OREGON.
Might, Letter frorti
THE koLtOvVlNG LETTER XbDRESEt) 1"0 5
The Progressives of Oregon
WAS RECEIVED TODAY
. Lincoln, Nebraska, April 17, 1912
F. W. MULKEY, - ' f: '
National Roosevelt Committeeman j ' - . .-..r-. , , . ... ,
"I greatly regret that I am unable to speak A Oregon. .
. ' i . at.i... : r. .' it v--"! t i - j.i. t i
to omy engagements in Nebiaska and Kans as! send tljiis message of: greeting to the
K "progressives x)f Oregon In this" fight the votes oIllftofs'Sfid'Pe'niisylvahiarhave madV
clear beyond the shadow of a doubt what had become fairly clear two months ago, name'
ly, that the contest is exclusively between he reactionaries" who are supporting Mr.
Taft and myself. Either a reactionary will, be : nominated or I will be nominated.
There is no midway course. Mr. Taft's managers know this well, arid in Oregon as weH'
as elsewhere, are encouraging every di vis fpn-; in the progressive, ranks with the vain
nup uj. uaiuiigiu uus, x am very cui'taiu iu view 01 tue way mings are. now gomg mat.
we shall be able to win a progressive victor y. J shall greatly regret if the state of Ore
"; gon which Jbas taken so prominent a place jrilba;duig the ' prbgr'ssive ovemen
now fail to record itself on the .progressive side. Let me again call your attention to
what has happened in the great states of Pennsylvania and Illinois. Either the man
whom the progressives of Illinois, of Pennsylvania, of (Maine and of Oklahoma have
Supported will be nominated by the Chicago convention or else some man chosen by the '
bosses of the stamp of Messrs Aldrich, Guggenheim, Tawney and Cannon will be nom
inated. - The fight is between these two forces, and in Oregon, the hope of the Taft peo
ple rests purely in creating any division wh ich they think will interfere with the move
ment for me and the progressive cause, as the progressive cause is understood ' from
the Atlantic to the Pacific. I am fighting for the progressive cause everywhere, iu
Maine and Maryland, exactly as in Washington, Oregon and California. I believe wa
-yill win anyhow, but I will be sorry if we h ave to win without Oregon's help.
(Signed) THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Paid Adv.
1912.
KANSAS AND i NEBRASKA,
As that is impossible owing
i .j.. 1 ' i .. i. :' jv
-i
Teddy
FOB THE REPUB
LICAN VOTERS
' OF UIM CO.
TO JOIN THE
PROGRESSIVES
OFMIRBfM!
uimni
wiimi
Tlis Spokane Twice-fr-Week Bpokes- V
man-Review has been carrying on y
" traw-ballof for various "oQees for
gome time and reports from 4,127 vot-'5
em. Today :the totals o far receive! f
- are as. follows:
Roosevelt, 27B2; Debs, 609; La Fot-
ette,, 286; Bryan, 180; Taft, 154; Bo- I
ger, 84; Clark, 66; .W.lson, 64; Har- ?
mon,- 6 ; scattering, 46. J
This Covers "Washington, IUaho, '
Oregon and Montana, the averages be-
.'log about the same everywhere. - '
The Oregon vote for the three re- '
publican candidates is as follows- '
Roosevelt, 320; La Follette, 19; Taft
18. -'
As the Spokesman-Review Is sup- "
porting Taft strenuously, this certain,
ly cannot be said to be a "made up' .
vote. It speaks well, also, for tha '
Spokesman-Review as a newspaper, x -thing
which the leading Oregon dai'v
v papers seeni to ' hata oVerloolsed. "A.- j
newspaper should print the news. It
is too much Roosevelt for most of '
. them. ' .
The News and Observer, a copy or
which is in the office of Dr. Temple,
which is the leading democratic paper
of the state, published at Raleigh,
North Carolina, in a leading edltoria'..
although against all the republican .
. . candidates, has this to say: . .
: Whatever one may think of Mr-
(Roosevelt, -every honest man. in the-
country must rejoice to see ex-Prel- j
dent Roosevelt speak out vigorously
and plainly against methods employ- ,
ed by his party to deny him a square:
"deal. -He has'rendfered a-.great ser--'
'' vice to hev(Dflaer'cari people in th'
used by the federal administration and.
machine all over the country. Nobody
has ever doubted that in a fair pri
mary Roosevelt would .receive more
votes in the "republican primary than
Taft.. In New York and Indiana th
- votes were stolen from - Mm by th
most ruthless methods ever known I
' politics . In North Carolina he woulJ
' . easily carry the vote, ten to one. Nln
.:, counties In North, CarolinEv(op to the,
' ythen 'date)' have' lustf fitted lor ",W'
velt without a single delegate for
Ta'ft. North Carolina with (H4,00
republican , votes), Teaces- ee ani
' Kentucky are the only southern stsM
' ;wlth a real republican party."
j. North Carolina Is the only southern
, state with a primary. Fifteen cohb
ties so far, and all folRoosevelt, hate
, held primaries, " it is the same every
where in the primaries. Roosevelt
swept all. Ten to one.
Up to date Roosevelt has more th"
200 Instructed uncontested delegate"
The remaining states.jjrlth pracUcal
ly half the delegates-yet to be electel,
v are admitted to be largely for Sooss-,-velt.
The Taff management put o
their "best chance" states arst. ,
Reports from throughout Oregon t
day tell the same story. . -