Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1912 — KANSAS IS REPUBLICAN [ARTICLE]

KANSAS IS REPUBLICAN

Roosevelt Strength Aniohg Voters Is Decreasing Perceptibly Throughout State. Topeka, Kah., Sept. 23. —Notwithstanding the enthusiasm which has always existed in Kansas for Theodore Roosevelt, it is undeniable that his strength as. a presidential candidate is decidedly waning throughout the state. If he were the candidate of the Republican party, and if there were a chance of his election, he would, of course, sweep the state without any serious opposition. But neither of those conditions exists. The fact that his otvn leaders have been obliged to yield to the wave of indignant protest which swept against them on account of their effort to have Roosevelt’s electors placed In the Republican column has not only proven the strength of the Taft sentiment, but It has eliminatetd all possibility of Roosevelt carrying the state. The withdrawal of his electors from the Republican columns has emphasized the fact that he is not the Republican candidate; and Kansas is too* well satisfied with the conditions which have prevailed during the past sixteen years to follow any man, however popular he may be, out of the Republican party. The Roosevelt sentiment has been further weakened by the universal conviction that there is no possibility of his election and that the only effect his candidacy can possibly have is to expose the country to the danger of a Democratic victory. Kansas is as far from being a Democratic state as it ever was and with the substantial collapse of the Roosevelt campaign, this state will be found in its accustomed place near the head of the Republican column.