Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1913 — Significance in Elections Held During Becent Months. [ARTICLE]

Significance in Elections Held During Becent Months.

Recent elections * have signified that a large partfof the vote given the Progressive party last fall was personal to Theodoje Roosevelt or some other candidate. The recent congressional election in Maine had the following result: Peters (Rep) ....15,106 Pettangall (Dem) 14553 Lawrence (Prog), ... 6,487 Maine farmers took a great deal of interest on behalf of l the Republican ticket. Lawrence, the Progressive candidate, got almost 6,800 votes less than Roosevelt got in the same district last fall and the vote in the special election was 36,176 against 34,522 last November. di— .

There are many indications that the rank and file of the Progressive voters are returning to th§ parent party. They have no falling out with the Republican party and they want to add their strength to help it accomplish things that a divided party can not accomplish. In Kentucky, where the Progressive vote was Strong last year the recent registrations have shown that a very large per cent have returned to the Republican party. Tn Pulaski county last fall the Republicans polled only 1,732 votes to the Progressives' 7,185, but at primaries held August 2nd the Republicans polled 3,005 votes and the Progressives only 318. In Whitley eounty the Progressive vote of 2,036 last fall fell to 85 at the primary while the Republican vote increased from 905 to almost 4,000. The same ratio maintained in other counties. In New York the registration, the past spring showed a great falling off of the Progressive strength, only 10 per cent of those who voted that ticket registering this spring. In St. Louis the Progressive candidate for mayor polled only 4,600 votes as against 25,000 at last fall’s election, while the two old parties polled practically the same vote, each about'6o,ooo. In the municipal elections in Chicago in April the Progressive candidates got from 38,000 to 47,000 votes, the Republicans from 57600 to 61,000, and the Democrats swept the city. Last year Colonel Roosevelt received more votes than Mr. Taft in Chicago. The bent is all in the- direction of return to the Republican party, the party of real progress, the party that stands ready to act according to the demands of the voters if they will take an active interest in its welfare. The homeward hound movement should ho marked in the local campaigns. Colonel Roosevelt is not a candidate now and not an issue at this time. There Is hut one thing confronting the voters locally and that is the election of good men to all the offices. The ticket that has been named by Republicans certainly deserves your support if you were ever a Republican and you will find yourselves welcomed into the fold as heartily as though you had always been there. It was your business if you wanted to vote for Colonel Roosevelt. It was vour business ts yon wanted to vote for Mr. Beveridge, hut don’t you think that you can now serve your country best, when these men are in no manner interested in this election by again identifying yourself with the Re publican party, which is your party still.