Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1914 — BULL MOOSE PARTY DONE FOR IN OHIO [ARTICLE]

BULL MOOSE PARTY DONE FOR IN OHIO

Vote Dwindles From 229,329 in 191$, to 9,500 in 1914—Republicans Gaining All the Time. Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 14.—1 tis estimated that the total vote in the recent Ohio primary was as follows: Republicans 210,000 Democrats 170,000 Progressives 9,500 The vote in Ohio at the 1912 election was: Democrats 423,152; -Republicans, 277,066; Progressives, 229,329. 7 ' The distinctive feature of the primary was the practical disappearance of the progressive party. The total bull moose vote was slightly in excess of the number of names on the petitions filed by the party’s candidates for nominations. In Hamilton county, containing the city of Cincinnati, where close to 100,000 voters were registered, only 223 progressive .votes were cast. Congressman John J. Whiteacre, successful candidate for the democratic nomination for governor, today predicted that the republicans would carry Ohio in November by an old time plurality. In the course of his formal statement this democratic leader said: • ‘The bull moose party is absolutely done for In Ohio. I do not mean to say that the candidates for governor and senator will not get some votes, but the number will be negligible.”