CAPTURED BY PIRATES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 214, 6 September 1912, Page 5

CAPTURED BY PIRATES.

THE REPUBLICAN PABTT. ROOSEVELT'S DENTTNCIATION. PROGRESSIVES , VERMONT VICTORY. NEW YORK, September 5. The final returns of the Vermont elections give 2COOO votes for the regular Republicans. 20,000 for the Democrats and 15,000 for Mr. Roosevelt's party. The Progressives won seven of the eleven Congressional districts. The Prohibition vote totalled 1,400. The Progressive victory in the State elections ensures the nomination of Presidential electors pledged to support Mr. Roosevelt. The Republicans supporting Mr. Taft are disheartened, and the Democrats are jubilant, feeling that the split in tie Republican ranks is certain to mean a Democratic win. Mr. Roosevelt, speaking at Dcs Moines, said the official Republican party to-day bore the same resemblance to Abraham Lincoln's party as a ship captured by pirates did to the ship before the capture. Messrs Barnes, Penrose, Guggenheim and others did not know the meaning of Republican principles. They represented a crooked alliance between crooked politics and crooked business, which had been the curse of American life. The reactionary Republicans werfc now tending to support Mr. Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic candidate for the Presidency, the bosses finally concluding that a Democratic victory meant their victory.