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Show TAFT IS WITHOUT HOPE. Even the standpat, bigoted supporters of President Taft, with the exception of Hilles, are beginning to concede the hopelessness of their cause. Representative "William Rodenburg of Illinois, special spe-cial privilege representative, has compiled figures on the probable outcome of the election. lie gives Taft 216 electoral votes, "Wilson 210 and Roosevelt 95, thus throwing the election into the house of representatives. When so devoted an advocate must admit Taft's defeat, the presumption pre-sumption is that the outlook for the reactionaries is dark and gloomy. Rodenburg places New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and most of the New England states in the Taft column and gives to Roosevelt, California, Kansas, North and South Dakota and other western and middle states. He includes New Jersey in Wilson's strength. Rodenburg 's figures reduce Hilles' announcement of a few days ago, to an absurdity and virtually make plain the desperate position posi-tion of Taft in this campaign. If Taft's ardent admirers admit defeat, de-feat, his defeat must be inevitable. |