Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1912 — Roosevelt Losing Supporters. [ARTICLE]

Roosevelt Losing Supporters.

“I have been all over the state of Illinois, addressing Chautauquas, home-coming rallies and farmers’ picnics, and everywhere I went I met the admission that Mr. Roosevelt is losing supporters,” said Mr. A. C. Rankin of Chicago. “Large numbers of people believe he is organizing his movement merely as an aid to elect Wilson and defeat Taft, and they refuse to be a party to his treachery.” “I have just returned from a tour through some of the counties of Illinois,” writes Henry I. Nowlan, a prominent attorney of Peoria, 111., to the Taft headquarters in this city, “and I find that the third term sentiment is on the wane.” Change Among Farmers. “Republican conditions have improved in my section of Illinois more than 25 per cent since I was here two weeks ago,” says -Mr. W. W. Clark of Aurora, 111., formerly labor editor of the Chicago Inter Ocean and how editor of the Aurora Sentinel. “The change is principally observed among the farmers. They appreciate the prosperity which they have been enjoying under Republican administration and they are beginning to realize that a change to Democracy means an end to their good times. The trend toward President Taft is plainly apparent” Pledged to Republican Ticket. *’l cannot speak for other parts of the state,” said Mr. W. E. Wire of Hebron, 111., while in Chicago recently, “but I know that in my precinct Roosevelt will not poll one per cent, of the vote ■which he received In the primaries last spring.” Mr. Wire was formerly chairman of the county committee of McHenry county, and is now a member of the county committee. While there are some sections in the state where the Roosevelt senth ment continues to manifest itself, the fact that'it Is generally disappearing Is proven beyond a doubt. Let your wants be known through dor Classified Column, Phone IS.