isa-normaladvance-1913-00115

Description:	THE NORMAL ADVANCE115on the supposition that this loss and the lossthrough registration were taken equally fromeach party, the Democrats should have received291,000, and the Republicans should have gotabout 302,000. They lacked 153,000 of reaching this mark however, and the Democrats lacked almost 10,000 of their mark. According to those figures the Progressives drewbut 10,000 Democratic votes in Indiana. Thefigures show that a much larger Progressivevote came from the Republicans than from theDemocratic ranks.Another point to be taken into consideration is the assertion made by many Republicanleaders and newspapers that a great number ofRepublicans voted the Democratic ticket tokeep out Roosevelt and Beveridge, knowingthat no hope existed for Taft or Durbin in thenational and gubernatorial races. Althoughthis statement is made by strongly partisanmen, it is doubtless true to a certain extent, asa close scrutiny of the county vote will showthat the Progressives gained much more than10,000 votes from the Democratic ranks.What does this vote in Indiana indicate?What is the significance of it ? It means thatthe citizens of Indiana along with the citizensof other states of the nation will no longerstand by and let the standpat principle of theRepublican party dominate. The Democraticparty with its more progressive platform didnot poll nearly the number of votes that it didin 1908. and this shows a great weakening.This fact shows that the people are desirous ofa radical change toward progressivism and willsupport the party or man that advocates suchprinciples, providing they are good and soundand on a just basis The big vote of the Progressive ticket in the state is also strong evidence of this fact.Political talk and theories of all sorts havebeen advanced by the men of all three partiessince the election, and it is indeed a hard problem to pick out the best ones, although some canbe discarded as soon as they are read throughor even at just a glance. Some of the membersof the Democratic party figure that by President Wilson pursuing a radical progressivepolicy, the Progressives will gradually die outor be absorbed in the Democratic party? Thisidea is hardly sane though, as great strengthwas shown by the newly organized party in the1912 campaign, that it is a fair guess that itwill have to be. reckoned with in future campaigns. Many old line or standpat Republicans are now making a great effort to win themembers back into the fold by adoptinga progressive platform, but this idea is scoutedby any of the Progressives and none seem totake up with the idea.Only conjectures can be formed regardingthe future of any of the political partes aftersuch a vast change in public opinion as wasshown in the last campaign and time alone cantell what questions and situations will be putbefore the American voters by the time forthe 1916 campaign.COUNTYLakePorter . . .Laporte . .St. JosephElkhart ..Lagrange .Steuben ..Newton . .Jasper .. .Starke ...1908 Vote1912 Vote311 Tribune AlmanacFrom Indianapolis NewsPage 668Nov. 18, 1912BryanTaftWilsonRooseveltTaft5,5029,4995,1365,6595,1761,7892,9401,3521,2411,5105,6805,8244,8472,7492,7018,36211,2225,3915.2403,1465,6976,2454,3004.5331,1991,4142.3571,2331,4027581,4532,7041,2661,2101,2901,1901.6459656338921.4951,9391,2926941,2381,3051,5211,208696787
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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