Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-02-14

banks, Cannon and Knox, who are
the avowed candidates, have been un-
able to corral any sentiment in other
states than their own.
1t is different with Secretary Taft.
The political leaders of many states
also state and county committees and
conventions, have declared for him in
sufficient number to make 1t possible
to print tentative list of the dele
cations OF which he is already as.
sured, not counting Ohio. This is the
list, and it is quite impressive.
The Taft Votes.
California, 20; Kansas, 90 Michi.
gan, 2S; Missouri, Sc; Nebraska, 16;
South Dakota, s; Tennessee, "a;
Texas, SC; Oklahoma. IA; Alaska, Ha-
waii, Porto Rico, the Philippines, Dis
trict of Columbia, Arizona and New
Mexico, each; total, ZIG. Assuming
that the secretary will get a solid del.
egation from Ohio, which will have 46
delegates. brings the number up
to 262.
Then there is the fertile southern
field, where evidences of stampede
to the Taft band wagon are already
apparent. Tennessee's Republican
leaders are vying with one another to
get there first. The Sanders Evans
faction, that pretended to be for the
denomination of Roosevelt, have
turned to Taft. The Brownlow fac
tion have been shouting for the war
secretary from the beginning, and
with both going in the same direction
the result of the election of delegates
is foregone conclusion. That is why
Tennessee is included in the preced-
ing list Cecil A. Lyon, who controls
the Republican situation in Texas, is
for the presidents choice.
Southern Break to Taft.
The other southern states have $50
delegates at the convention, divided
as follows: Alabama, %; Arkansas,
IS; Florida, 10; Georgia. &c; Louis
lana, IS; Mississippi 20; North Caro-
lima, "a; South Carolina, IS. and Vir-
ginia, "a. HistAey seems bound to re-
peat itself in the case of the southern
states. When some of them break for
a certain candidate most of the others
follow. The Taft managers are fol.
lowing his boom through that section
and are very Sanguine over what is
going to happen. They do not pro.
fess that they will bag all the dele
gates. but they have every reason to
expect goodly number. If they get
only one-third, Taft would have over
800 delegates already; the reader can
make further calculations for himself
Much is heard these days about
what New England is going to do in
the way of influencing the president
ial nomination. But even should that
entire section go to other candidates,
then Secretary Taft would not lose
much The six states comprising that
division will have in the
aggregate only 50 votes in the conven-
ton, distributed as follows: Maine,
12; New Hampshire, 8; Vermont, s;
SO: Rhode Island, 8;
IA. That is only four
more than New York will have, or IA
more than Pennsylvania Consequent
Rhode Island, Vermont or any of it's
neighbors could do would be to blus-
ter. Still, Taft has a strong following
up there, and is sure to get some of
the delegates.
More Taft Votes.
The states not yet mentioned have
a total delegate strength of PA. OF
these Minnesota, which will probably
be for Taft, has % votes; Kentucky,
with 26 votes, will give part of her
delegation to the secretary. He will
probably be remembered in Iowa,
which has 26 votes, and so on down
the list. At this stage of the cam
paign it looks like Taft on the first
ballot.