Show TAUT TAfT CHOICE Of CENTRAL WEST Chicago Tribunes Tribune's Poll Shows an Overwhelming Sympathy With Roosevelt's Roosevelt's Roose Roose- velt's Policy CHICAGO Aug 23 The The Chicago Tribune Tribune Tribune Trib Trib- une the recognized Roosevelt organ of the Central West has completed a poll of 1700 editors Congressmen and chairmen of State and county committees es in eleven States of ot the Central West Three questions questions questions ques ques- were were submitted to each of them and almost all of them submitted an an- savers The questions asked were Do you approve of the Presidents President's aggressive aggressive aggressive ag ag- policy Do you prefer a candidate of the progressive progressive progressive pro pro- school as his successor Whom do you prefer That the Central West Vest is well satisfied with the policy polley which John D. D Rockefeller nas so vigorously denounced Is evident from the fact that 1435 of the 1700 men addressed answered and favored the policy poli poll policy cy of ot the President and favored the nomination nomination nom nom- of ot a a. candidate who will vill follow along the same lines The States to which the questions were sent were Illinois Illinois Illinois Illi Illi- nois Indiana Michigan Wisconsin Minnesotan Min Min- Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota fa Iowa oe Nebraska e k Missouri t S f a and Kansas In answer to the question Ju as to whom they preferred as the successor of President President dent Roosevelt the votes stood as follows Taft Fairbanks Cannon Hughes 1801 Knox 19 Senator Cullom 39 President Roosevel Roosevelt The small vote favoring the re re of President Roosevelt is regarded as beIng being being be be- ing due to his repeated declaration that he would not accept a for a third term The vote of Secretary Taft plainly shows him to be the choice of the of chief Central Central West as the successor of his his chief despite the words of praise given him by b- Mr Rockefeller which would seem slem to take him out of the aggressive class Senator Knox whose boom has been so carefully nursed by Pennsylvania politicians poll poli and for whom the Pennsylvania State Republican convention has gone on record does not Appear as even en a remote possibility while Senator Cullom Is In but t little better shape The character of ot the vote Is taken t to speak for tor the masses of the people In th the e districts represented as great care was taken to collect the opinions of representative representative representative men who were feeling the pulse puls e of the people and who would be likely to know what was going on |