The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-12
OHIO PRIMARIES
 SOLID FOR TAFT Supreme Court Decides Against
 Senator Foraker TAFT PEOPLE WIN EASILY
Arthur Vcrys, Manager of Taft Cam paien, Issues Statement Claiming State Convention Will Be
 Unanimous For Taft. '....r

Columbus O., February 11.-y %ess st result of the republican prims c.Seld throughout Ohio today was fo Q Siam H. Taft, four delegates at and 22 district delegates to the nahs j con- vention in Chicago and list of dele gates to the state convention, to be held March 8, which will be unanimously in his favor Hardin county held no pri- maries.
 No opposition worth mentioning de- veloped during the day. The supreme court destroyed all chances of success by the Foraker element in Cuyahoga county by declaring that the Taft coun- ty committee was the only valid organ ization of it's kind in that county, and the selection of delegates there went by default, no ticket being placed in the field against the Taft candidates
 In Knox county the opposition to Taft had brought an independent" ticket into the field, the independents, however be- ing all "Foraker men," The Taft candi- dates won easily-the vote being about four to one in their favor Actual vot- ing for delegates to the state convention was carried on in but 35 out of the total of SS counties in the state, the Taft dele gates in 52 counties having no opposition and their names were simply certified as having been elected; and no vote being taken in Hardin. it was the general be- lief that votes would be cast in 36 coun- ties, but the failure of the Foraker men to bring out an opposition ticket in Guy ahoga county reduced the number by one.
 Congressional primaries were held in the fourth, fifth, sixth, greater part of the eighth, ninth twelfth fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, eighteenth and twen- ty-first districts and in small portions of the seventh and nineteenth districts
 In all but the two last wherein the voting today was in too limited a terri tory to be decisive, the Taft people won without opposition. In the ninth, sixth and sixteenth districts, candidates for Congress were nominated directly at the primaries. It was the original intention to select delegates to the national con vention in the same manner, but later 1t was decided, in order to avoid all chance of future complications. to name the del- egates at a regular district convention
 In the eighth district congressional pri- maries were not held in one county Hardin, but the result there cannot pos sibly override the vote in the remainder of the districts and the two delegates to the Chicago convention are certain for Taft.
 The following statement was issued to- night by Arthur l. Vorys, the manager of the Taft presidential campaign:
 Ohio Is for Taft. The result at the primaries today completes the demon stration. Every county (except one with seven delegates), now has selected it's delegates to the state convention. Every county has selected Taft delegates. The state convention will be unanimous for Taft for every one of the S15 delegates is for and instructed for Taft This unanimity also demonstrates that every one of the AS delegates to the national convention will be for Taft