Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1912 — DESERT ROOSEVELT [ARTICLE]

DESERT ROOSEVELT

IN ILLINOIS THIRD TERM SENTIMENT IS STEADILY DECREASING. FARMERS AGAINST CHANGE Reports From All Sections Are to the Effect That Republicans Have Determined to Remain Loyal to .Party. / Chicago, Sept. 27.—P011s which are being received at the headquarters of the Republican national committee indicate that the third term candidate will not receive on election day anything like the support given him in the primaries, when he was a Republican seeking the nomination of his party for the office of president. These figures are confirmed by statements published in newspapers in various parts of the state, by letters received at the headquarters and by Illinois people who visit Chicago and express their opinions on the political situation. Rev. Clark S. Thomas of Elgin, who has traveled through the state from East St. Louis to Vincennes and from Springfield to Centralla, was emphatic in his assertion that the Roosevelt sentiment in Illinois is disappearing. When former Senator William E. Mason, nominated at the primaries for the position of Congreßsman-at-large from Illinois, recently returned from a speech-making tour he reported that the Roosevelt sentiment was waning in the localities which he had visited.