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Show nominated, and there Is little doubt but that num'ier were stolen from him. A third party with Roosevelt as the nomitiee now looks pnbable. tut we tin not think it will amount to any more than did the Hold Deiuoeritlc party in lMOfi. Doubtless it will get Unvotes Un-votes of many progressive Republican who ure not yet progressive enough t i vote for a progressive Democrat. Hut the voters do have to accept Roosevelt as the only progressive candidate can-didate and people do not take kindly to a bolter however Just liU cause. Had Roosevelt accepted the situation a one Inevitable under our present convention system, adviK'ated progressive progres-sive principles without necessarily working r voting for Tuft and then have come up four yearn from n iw hi; could undoubtedly have made a winning win-ning Ah It la he has put himself out -Hide the party and need never expect anything AH he ha done Is to ensure en-sure the defeat of Taft. Iltyun was the disturbing element In lb Democratic convention, but In spite of some bud bleaks lie has undoubtedly un-doubtedly more Influence than any man In the Democratic party. It wan undoubtedly largely through bin In-llntmce In-llntmce thai a progressive liemoerat like Wilson wan dually nominated after the hardest fight ever made In a convention. Wilson ts u genuine progressive and wi think there I little doubt hut he w ill be elected. There la no little difference dif-ference now between the Democratic and the Reptilian party and party distinctions are coming to count for so little among the treat mass of independents inde-pendents that progressives ' a" parties can unite upot Wilson with the. certainty that special yuerests ran never swerve him from Vrving the. whole people. ' y I THE POLITICAL SITUATION. La! week's Chronicle gave a very full report of the Republican conven, tion and this week the Democratir eonvenion is fully reported. There was more disorder and bitterness sii'.wn at these conventions than at ary previous ones that we can recall Roosevelt and his foil wing were the disturbing element In the Reipublli an convention and they bad the steam r"l'er nppl'ed o 'hem in an out r-reous fashion We think no one inn re,i ! the doings of Ihe convention with jut being convinced that may delei;a:e were virtually stolen from R sisevelt and that had the vote been 'eft to the eople Roosevelt would hive been oerw heluilngly elected as the cindidate. As It was 344 deegate nfuse.i to vote at all In accordance wMh his wishes, while 107 voted for ' i i in showing that he had 4.',1 follower Hsd Ihe .".6 of the Taft delegates v ited for Roosevelt he woulj' have been |