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Show MERE ROOSEVELT BOOSTERS. Sonator Dixon, who wns manager for Roosevelt in tho recent campaign, is quoted as saying: "1 think we have elected more Congressmen iu the pres-out pres-out House thau have the Republicans." Of courso he meant tho next House; but that is ridiculous; yet is niorcly of a piece with the bombast that coustantly came from Dixon from tho llrst of Roosevelt's "shying his castor into tho ring" thon bofore and at the National Republican convention in Chicago, next continued through tho summer and exemplified ex-emplified especially by Dixon in his predictions pre-dictions of the certainty of Roosovelt's election as President. Dixon is quoted as having a good deal to say about tho principles of the Progressive Pro-gressive party. There aro, no doubt, Progressive principles, but thoy did not como to tho front during tho recent campaign. Prom first to last, that campaign cam-paign was simply a shout aud yell of Roosevelt boosters. Tho Booscvelt men not only refused to hear about auybody except Roosevelt for their nominee, but they cared nothing about any declaration declara-tion of principles or whether the platform plat-form they adopted was one of practical possibility or not. It dealt in generalities, general-ities, the gist of all being "let the people rule," but how the people ar to rule in anj different manner from the way they have been ruling in the past, the platform wholly failed to state. It was as though a lot of zealots should get together and declare that there ought not to be any more disease amoug human beings, with no possibility of pointing out how disease is to be prevented. pre-vented. The fact is that all the Progressive party wanted this 3-ear was Roosevelt. With him there was enthusiasm, shouting, shout-ing, and turmoil. They apparently J..id no foundation and cared for no foundation foun-dation upon which to build a permanent perma-nent party; and, of course, thore i.i nothing permanent about it. it was merely a campaign yell, that was all. Another thing that distinguished the movement was the "previousiiess-" of its assumption's. Thus, although there was a National Republican committee duly authorized to do everything necessary nec-essary towards preparing for opening the National Republican convention, the terms of its members not having expired, ex-pired, the Roosevelt men undertook to change the committee by clnimiug that newly elected chairmen should immediately imme-diately take their places in the committee, com-mittee, without waiting as heretofore until the terms of the old committeemen committee-men should expire. Again, when thero was talk recently about the calling of the Illinois Legislature in special session, ses-sion, tho newly elected Progressive members prepared to claim their seats without waitiug for their term of office of-fice to begin. Of course, nndor the law, if Governor Deneon had called a special spe-cial session of the Legislature, that special session would have been made up of the old members; but that was not the way the Roosevelt members figured. Their nninberB were not sufficient suf-ficient to do more than hold the balance of power us between the Republican members and the Democratic members, but they wanted to get right iu and hold that 'balance of power iu the special spe-cial session, even though tho terms of tho old members had not expired. But Governor Doncen concluded not to call the special scssiou. It is interesting to note that former Senator A. .1. Hopkins, whose action in the Smoot case was iu effect as special counsel for Smoot, while pretending to bo a judge in the Smoot case, was prepared to present his claim to be elected U. S. Senator again from Illinois. Hopkins claimed lo have beon the primary choico of the Republicans Repub-licans in J000 for the Senatorship; but, of course, that could not bo urged beyond be-yond the terra of the Senators elected for the four-year term, whose office will expire with the prcsont year; and so Hopkins has no further claim now upon the Illinois Republicans; his claim was always a iiiiuorily claim; and it is practically prac-tically certaiu that ho could not bo elected Scuator from Illinois now any more than ho could be elected whenihe was candidate before aud Lorimor beat him. The vote of Illinois this year is quite interesting. Indication's arc that the combined Republican vote of that State is a little in excess this year of what it was four years ago, while tho Democratic vote is much less. The figures fig-ures arc not complete, but 'they indicate indi-cate a popular voto for Wilson of about tOO.000. for Roosevelt r.80,000, for Taft 250.000. In .inOS Taft had iu round numbers uTi0,000 votes, Bryan -150,000. The Taft aud Roosevelt voto this year, combined, is practical)' the same as Taft;s vote four years ago, while Wilson Wil-son '3 vote falls below Bryan's by about 50,000: and yet, b3: reason of. the Republican Re-publican split, Wilson gets the electoral voto of the State. The loss in the Democratic voto sccinn to have gone chicrly to Debs, the Socialist candidate. candi-date. The indications .n'c that all otr tho country, unices, perhaps, iu the South-cm South-cm States, there Svill be shown a small- 1 or Democratic voto than was cast four years ago, and the combined Taft and Roosevelt vote will havo a greater pro-ponderaucu pro-ponderaucu in the aggregate voto than the Tuft voto had in tho aggregate vote of I DOS, considered with TCripcct to the thrco leading divisions of that vote. |