Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1914 — REPUBLICAN POLL ALARMS MOOSERS [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICAN POLL ALARMS MOOSERS

Pennsylvania Enrollment Gives Indication of Swooping Victory Over Other Parties. Washington, May 11—The enrollment returns from Pennsylvania, indicating that the republican vote in the May; primaries will be in the neighborhood of 680,000 as against 370,000 for the democrats, about 160,000 tor the progressives and 40,000 for the prohibitionists and socialists, is oppressive to the progressive party leaders who followed Colonel Roosevelt out of the republican party in 1912. In that year Roosevelt polled 444,894 in Pennsylvania, as against 359,€47 for Wilson and 273,360 for Taft. The recent enrollment just reverses (conditions in so far as the republicans and progressives arc concerned and indicates that the republicans (are returning to the party. In the populous counties of Philadelphia, Lackawanna, Allegheny and others the increased republican (vote is especially noticeable and led a Pennsylvania progressive member of the house to remark tonight: “They all tell me they ale still progressives, but when it comes to registering and voting they disappear into thin air.” This member w*as elected on the Roosevelt wave of 1912. He is a candidate for re-election on the progressive ticket, snd admits privately that unless progressives rally to the support of their candidates in the November election their places wall J»e occupied by republicans. The registration in Pennsylvania has created quite a stir among democratic members of congress who had hoped that the republican breach would continue. Instead of discord they discover a tendency to get together with the result that the republicans who followed Colonel Roosevelt out of the party in 1912 are returning in great numbers and that the socalled progressives will have trouble in keeping intact their forces for campaigns following that of next •fall. Friends and supporters for the senatorial nomination, are much discouraged over the poor Showing of their party managers. Instead of the Roosevelt vote of 444,894, their party enrollment this year is but 1144511. Not only, in Philadelphia and Allegheny counties has the falling off been unusually noticeable, but in the so-called insurgent countries of the states the desertions from the progressive party has been so large that the pinchot managers despair .of making even 'a respectable showing in the primary and at the election in November. (Mr. Pinchot following the publication of the enrollment figures, cancelled many of his speaking dates in the state and has spent much of his time in Washington.