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Salt Lake City Accident, Automobile, Casualty, Bonds, Burglary, Elevator, Fire, Health, Liability, Plate Glass Steam Boiler and Sprinkler Leakage. S Politics and Things I WHAT in thunder is a "pivotal state?" Here we have been go ing through several weeks of the most remarkable political cam paign in half a century. Nearly every big newspaper in the United States has been supporting President Taft in his campaign, for himself and his as saults upon his former chief, Colonel Roosevelt. The Colonel, a wonderful campaigner, has fought back against this solid publicity, has overridden the assaults reduced to cool and calculat ed type and now stands upon the thres hold of the Chicago convention with far more power than any of the big papers dreamed he would amass. All through the campaign the Taft bureau, the White House and the Taft press belittled the campaign of Theo dore. If Taft received two votes and Roosevelt twenty in one state the pa pers would announce the accumulation of the pair and would forget to men tion the score. Finally, T. R. swept across state after state, winning the primaries, controlling the state conven tions and then he wound up with Pennsylvania, Maryland, California and last, but by no means least, Taft's home state. Taft had beaten Roose velt in New York, the home state of the Colonel, and it was a. return of the compliment when Roosevelt over whelmed the executive in Ohio. Just prior to the Ohio convention" President ' xit admitted that that was the "pivo x state," saying that the nomination depended upon the result there. The common people then had their first intimation that the Colonel was a contender for the press had been throwing away most of the news of Roosevelt victories and splattering Taft gains all over the paper. So It came as a great shock to the majority of the people of Utah to learn that Roosevelt had a look-in, after all. And It wasn't the fault of the majority that it was misinformed, for the people had been betrayed by the daily press The President's statement accentuat ed the interest In the Ohio campaign and last Tuesday when Roosevelt corraled thirty-two of the forty-two elective delegates in the preferential primary, won control of the state con vention which will name six delegates at large, those who had taken the President's statement for its face value regarded the nomination of Roosevelt as a cinch. Not so with the Taft bureau. Nor with Taft. After saying that Ohio would decide the great national race, the President came out of Ohio with ten lonely delegates and then claimed that that was sufficient to nominate him. McKinley went him one better by claiming 600 votes, despite the Ohio verdict, so we are led to ask what in thunder is a "pivotal state," after all. If Taft was right when he said Ohio would decide the matter of a nomination, is he correct in his as sumption that ten votes out of forty eight is sufficient vindication for him to base claims of a victory upon It? It was not until after Ohio had spoken that the Taft press began to talk of a third candidate and the ab surd mistake the President made by taking the stump against such a cam paigner as Roosevelt. The President has made a poor Bhowlng on the stump, as witness the vote in his own state upon which he centered his heaviest lire. Roosevelt, too, was in Ohio, talk ing the President off his feet from one end to the other of the state. Why conceal the truth? Taft never can be nominated at the Chicago con vention without the intervention of a miracle. Roosevelt will have enough voter, in that convention to control it, absolutely. Without counting any of the uninstruoted or contested votes, both of w' ' h are counted by the Taft managers for him Roosevelt has more 'fl than Taft, and I will get a healthy M number of delegates who are either un- V instructed or contested. In the New H York delegation, for instance, there H are 88 uninstructed votes. These men H have been polled and one third are H found to be for Roosevelt. New Jersey H is yet to come, the vote being taken H next Tuesday. Think you that Taft will make more of. a nit there than he H made in Ohio, his own state? Texas H won't be for Taft, despite the frantic H efforts being made by the federal ma- H chine. They have Federal Bunchers H in the Lone Star state as well as in jH other states not so far away but what wo could land on them with both feet H in one jump. HH & & Standing in Presidential Race & & H State Roosevelt Toft Cummini LaFolIctte Uninstructed Contested H Alabama .......... 2 ... 22 H Alaska 2 H Arkansas io H California 20 H Colorado 12 B Connecticut . 12 2 H District of Columbia . . 2 Delaware . g H Florida 12 H Georgia 2 2G H Hawaii G H Idaho 2 4 H Illinois 56 2 H Indiana 10 8 12 H Iowa 1G 10 H Kansas 16 2 H Kentucky ....... 3 7 16 H Louisiana 20 H Maine 12 H Maryland 16 H Massachusetts .... 14 22 H Michigan 10 12 2 G Minnesota 24 H Mississippi 20 H Missouri . , 26 2 6 2 Montana G H Nebraska 16 - . B Nevada G H New Hampshire .... 8 H New Mexico G 2 H New York 2 88 North Carolina ... 24 H North Dakota ,. 10 M Ohio 32 10 H Oklahoma 18 2 H Oregon 10 Pennsylvania .... 70 G H Philippine Islands ... 2 H Porto Rico 2 M Rhode Island 10 H South Carolina 14 4 H Tennessee 2 4 14 H Texas 8 H Utah 8 H Vermont 2 6 H Virginia 2 22 H Washington 14 M Wisconsin 26 H Wyoming 6 H West Virginia .... 16 H Totals 455 171 10 36 122 182 IH Although elected as Roosevelt delegates by over 8,000 majority, Col- H onel Roosevelt, on the assumption that the preferential vote is for Mr. Taft, H announced that he should expect the delegates-at-larg to disregard their Hj pledges to support him and instructed them to suppor Mr. Taft. HI 4 Taft delegates elected in Eighth and Tenth Congressional Districts H counted for Roosevelt who had majority of preferential vote. H