The Washington herald., 1908-04-19

An impartial table of delegates to the
Republican convention shows that Sec
retary Tart has 2s7- instructed delegates;
Gov. Hughes, "a; Speaker Cannon. IS.
with the others unchanged from last
week.
Twenty delegates OF those chosen last
week, chiefly from Massachusetts, and
Maryland. are uninstructed. The ma
jority of these are believed favorable 20
the War Secretary.
Statement of Taft Forces.
Following is the weekly statement is
sued by the Taft forces:
''Fifty-six delegates TO the Republican
national convention were elected this
week. and forty Of them are pledged to
Secretary Taft. either through instruc-
tions or by. virtue of resolutions Of pref
erence-twenty-ei through the former
and twelve through the latter method.
THE situation in Tennessee has been
cleared by the declaration of ". J. Oliver,
whose services as an anti-Taft leader had
been in demand, to the effect that he sup
ports the candidacy Of Secretary Taft
loyalty and that. no matter how the con-
tests in Tennessee may be decided. the
seated viii be for the War Sec
retary This virtually takes eight dele
gates in Tennessee from contested dele
gates and places them in the Taft column.
The contests in the Fourth and Fifth
Oklahoma districts may be treated in the
same way, adding u delegates to Seere-
tary Taft's uncontested strength.
Claims of Taft Votes.
THE total number of delegates thus far
elected is 5as. Secretary Tafts support
ers claim 27s of them. 242 being uncontest-
ed. to which should be added 4 from Okla
homa and from Tennessee, a total Of 81.
Delegations friendly to Secretary Taft.
but otherwise uninstructed and unpledged,
were elected in Hawaii and the Second
and Third Massachusetts districts this
week. Gov. Hughes added the Thirtieth
and Thirty-fourth New York districts TO
his list of delegates, and Speaker Cannon
the Thirteenth Illinois district. Unin-
structed delegates were chosen by the
Seventh Louisiana tirregulaD, and Sixth
South Carolina districts.
Minnesota finished up the work begun
last week In the Fifth district. and every
one of the eighteen district delegates and
the four delegates-at-large is now in
structed for the War Secretary. The other
TO Mr.. Tafts strength this week
came from the Fifth, Sixth. Eighth,
Tenth. and Fourteenth Massachusetts.
Second and Eleventh Michigan. Sixteenth
and First and Sixth Maryland
districts.
Conventions scheduled far next week
are the Eighth Alabama, Third Florida,
Second and Third Georgia, First and
Second Louisiana. Twelfth and Thirteenth
districts: Nevada, six
delegates-at-large; New Hampshire State.
First, and Second districts: Kentucky
State. Thirteenth Ohio district, and Sec
ond West Virginia district"
What Allied Opponents Say.
The statement given out by the allied
opponents of Taft is as follows:
'sThe end of this week finds the opposi-
ton 10 Secretary Taft maintaining its
substantial lead.
Five hundred and sixty-fOur delegates
10 the convention have been elected. OF
this number. IS7 are instructed for Judge
Taft and % for the opposition; IS dele
gates are uninstrueted, and 20 are con-
tested.
"Of the rs uninsuucted delegates. 50
are claimed by the opposition making a
total Of 2S2 OF the 494 uncontested dele
gates.
"The total of delegates instructed for
Taft was increased 50 during the week.
2 of these being elected in Minnesota,
while II delegates elected by the Lily
White faction in Virginia have been re-
moved from the Taft column 10 the con-
ested column by reason of the definite
of contests TO be instituted
against them.
"Of the delegates elected during the
week. twenty are uninstructed. four IN
5tructed for Hughes. and two for Can
loH. The uninstructed delegates for the
geek comprise twelve from Massachu-
ystts. two from Hawaii. two from South
saro.ina. two from Maryland, and two
rom Louisiana.
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