The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-12
Foraker Forces at Primaries Fail to Elect a Single Delegate to State
 Convention.
VIRTUALLY NO OPPOSITION
All Those Chosen Are Instructed for Taft. Assuring Unanimous Dele gatiOn 10 the National
 Convention.

columbus. Feb. 1.-The net result of the republican primaries held through out Ohio to-day was, for William H, Taft four 6elega tes-at-larga and twen- ty-two district delegates to the national convention in Chicago, and a list of delegates to the state convention to be held March 3, which will be unanim- ously in his favor Harden county held no primaries.
 No opposition worth mentioning de- veloped during the day The supreme court destroyed all chances of success by the Forlker element in Cuyahoga 1 county by declaring that the Taft county committee was the only valid organization of it's kind in that ounty and the selection of delegates there went by default, no ticket being placed ] in the field against the Taft eand | dates.
 { In Knox county the opposition to { Taft had brought an "independent" ticket into the field, the Independents, however, being all Foraker men The Taft candidates won easily, the vote being about four to one in their favor, Actual voting for delegates to the state lconventon was carried on in but thir- tty-five out of the tota of lightweight counties in the state, the Taft dele gates in fifty-two counties having no Opposition, their names were simply certified as having been elected No vote being t,ken in Hardin it was the general belief that the vote would b. east in thirty six counties, but the fail ure of the Foraker men to bring out an opposition ticket in Cuyahoga coun- ty reduced the number by one,
 Congressional primaries were held in fourth, fifth, sixth, greater part of the eighth, ninth twelfth. fourteenth. fif- teenth. sixteenth, eighteenth and twen Ey-first districts and in small portions If the seventh and nineteenth,
 Tn all but the two last wherein the toting to-day was in too limited a ierritory to be decisive the Taft people ron without opposition. In the ninth, ixth and sixteenth districts, candi- hstes for congress were nominated dl- lectly at the primaries.
 It was the original intention to select delegates to the national convention in he same manner, but later II was iecided in order to avoid all chance of uture complications to name the dele Eates at a regular district convention
 In the eighth district congress ional Primaries were not held in one county s-Hardin. but the result there cannot Eossibly override the vote in the re. hainder of the district and the two elegates to the Chicago convention arc ertain for Taft The following state
 Aent was issued tonight by Arthur I forys, the manager of the Taft presi
 antial campaign: "Oh'o Is for Taft lhe result at the primaries to-day com
 aetes the demonstration Every coun
 E (except one with seven delegates
 DIV has selected it's delegates to thu
 late convention Every county has SC
 cted Taft delegates The state con
 hntion will be unanimously for Taft
 sr every one of the S15 delegates il
 IT, and is instructed for Taft. Thi
 sanimity also demonstrates that ev
 y one of the forty-six delegates t.
 e national convention will be fol
 aft"