Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1912 — A FAILURE IN COLORADO [ARTICLE]

A FAILURE IN COLORADO

Why the Roosevelt Movement Has FsNed to Materialise. “The Roosevelt movement is a failure In Colorado,** said David Heaton Of Sallda, Colo., during a recent visit to Chicago, while discussing the political situation In bis state. He is president and general manager of the Federal Consolidated Monumental Granite company, and is also identified with large mining interests. “We are tired of Industrial and political pyrotechnics In Colorado," he continued. “We have been through all sorts cff disturbances In our state. We have seen what were oalled ’dynamite days.’ We have had our wild and woolly experiences and we have known what it Is to deal with strikes and strikers. Mr. Roosevelt Is now a dangerous type of pohtloal striker, doing' nothing but raising trouble. We do not want s man of his temperament In the White House. We prefer to support President Taft"

Roosevelt a Frost In Oregon. A V. Spalding, a widely known contracting engineer of Portland, Ora, while on his way east from Portland, reports -'that the Roosevelt tour through Washington, Oregon and the Pacific coast states was a frost A letter rooetved at the Taft heedquarters from Edward D. Baldwin, secretary of the Oregon state central committee, says: “Things s re looking better here every day tot Taft., The lukewarm reception given Roosevelt in Portland the other day has given oonrage to our people."