Few In South For Roosevelt.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 19, 1912:
Editors and Leaders Tell The Times That Democrats Never Were So United.
ALL WORKING FOR WILSON
Republicans Hopelessly Divided and Colonel's Claims Are Called Absurd.
MAY WIN SOME SOCIALISTS
Influence of Steel Corporation Likely to Aid Him Slightly in Alabama.
    To obtain at first hand information as to how the South regards Theodore Roosevelt's third party candidacy for President and what foundation there is for the claims put forth by his supporters here that he will receive a large share of the Democratic as well as the Republican vote in the Southern States, The Times telegraphed recently to some forty Southern leaders and editors asking them what foundation there was in their respective sections for the Colonel's claims, and what the chances were for the realization of his hope of a large Southern vote.
    The thirty-two replies received are printed below, some of the inquiries having failed owing to the recipients' absence from home. The answers, it will be observed, show a well-nigh unanimous belief, among those whose experience, should make their forecasts worth while that there will be no vast rising in behalf of the Progressive ticket south of Mason and Dixon's line.

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