Show THINKS THE WEST WIL WILL VILL BE FOR TAFT TAFTA A Washington Correspondent ST-J ST Bases Opinion on Personal Personal Personal Per Per- Investigation I LOYALTY TO ROOSEVELT t Claude Watts Wats Believes the Pacific Pa- Pa Pacific States Solid for Administration I S Claude l C C. C Walts Washington on corre- corre r of th the Cleveland Cle leader reached Salt Lake raice Sunca Sunday on 11 a tour of oC political I hl alon Mr Ir Watts Walts expects to visit ti l. l every pr state In the tho Union returning S f to to Cleveland The Tue Ch Cleveland Leader 1111 I iu Is Isone S ono one of th the foremost Taft advocates amIl anti and antiS S Mr l' l Watts Watts' n Us' Us mission lon 1 Is to a ascertain t the hI aS public pulse pule on Presidential l There re i 1 Is no mistaking the thc strength of o Iri Roosevelt unit 1 01 the Roosevelt cI throughout hout tho tha Middle West Vest and andI 5 I st. I. I said aid Mr Ir ats 1 Walls I 1 ha have ha visited Of states already and In every everyone one of ot them tin tIu tw o overwhelming majority ol ni tho Republicans hI Is with the national ad ad- x L. L S ministration If It I were werl understood that 5 ie Roo Hoo would accept i nomination I 1 ina na ho he hC would h have the delegations from of ot those states slates without a atu I om r c every one tu contest on With Ih t the h t eliminated in tI u the th rank and filo 11 of oC the tho party varty turns turn urns nat nat- v in 1 al ally to the tho tu man mm who I ls Is recognized as I Ir r thoroughly representative of oC the principles S t. t ples that tha t ha have VI so o popularized t the he Boo Boo- J S 5 pit eIt lt a secretary lary inn f S In in tho tiu coast states the Roo Roosevelt Hoop evelt sentiS sentiment senti senti- S uncut ment Is i 1 strong ron and unless theS the tho S Information I 1 have ha ha gathered 1 ls hu wholly I 1 think It I I Is a n COI foregone one cont conclusion con con- t elusion tha that l California Oregon Washington Washing tOt ton tOi Idaho and ani Montana lollum lana will wi send senti delegations a thins to the notional natolI COn l convention next a year ar that will wil lint RI up lp with the tho I rat Ion forces In support of feCI Secretary a L Taft lat California may mar h ho he dominated I hv hy railroad Interests II moans NU us s J 13 fl I 11 1 I I I a rilma n-ani n and a ac arrayed c the tho administration ii it I there then should a air fair chanco of oC nominating an LI Roosevelt anti oll lt man hut hU th the e sentiment of oC tim rank anti and file le of oC the he pirty in the theS S slate I la ll undoubtedly cit h the Iho Ihl tr a ton tion ki Fr Frankly I have ben hoen surprised to tn learn kant how strong the Ii hold Is IsOM 5 S OM 01 the th of oC tin tho great groat West st st. I iia haw have i S talked with wih man mon nUN after man who has said J- J f that he Is for COl al any Presidential candidate 5 Z who whom Roosevelt lt al wants and that liat Is a n S. prot pretty strong troug tron kind Ind of loal loyalty and sup slip IJ L- L 1 a port It f of difficult to I course figure onS on OI S the conditions that will wi obtain a year from now hut hit tin the tw Indications now are me that the contest for the Republican nomination nom noun wilt will wi lie le tween Secretary Ta TaCt t and Vice Ic Fairbanks and It I i IH is myS my S S t Ohio man mm that th the odds greatly favor avol th the |