Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1912 — Names Three States That Roosevelt Will Carry. [ARTICLE]

Names Three States That Roosevelt Will Carry.

The Democrat is in receipt of the following letter from a reader and an old friend at Goodland. Whether aHI was intended for publication or not the writer does not state, but we take the liberty of publishing it entire, witholding the writer's name. We will say, however, that the writer of the letter has been a life-long republican and prominent in that party’s councils: Rensselaer, Ind., Mr. F. E. Babcock, Dear Sir: and Friend: I note with some amusement the offer of Mr. W. H. Ritchey, and will say, he still figures on the fact that the Taft party still has all the thrives it used during the Chicago republican convention.

Why not turn his proposition, around? Taft has the machinery he used in Chicago to nominate him, plus the office-holders and the "Splendid record” he has made as President to carry for him the great republican states. Let Mr. Ritchey name now four states anywhere in the Union that Mr. Taft will carry. While I am not a resident of Marion township, but if I was, I would name for Mr. Ritchey the following states that Roosevelt will carry: Oklahoma, California, North Dakota and Pennsylvania, and could name several others if he wanted them. But if I was to die I could not name one state north, wes; or east that Mr. Taft has the ghost of a chanc6 to carry.