The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-05-30
PRESIDENT TAFT is DEFEATED
BY $4,000 IN PREFERENTIAL
VOTE, LOSING DELEGATION.
New Jersey Candidate Will Have
Twenty-four of Twenty eight Dele
gates to National convention-Boss
Smith Beaten 8 to 1,

ANS"dIhJ N. j., May 29.-TheOdOre
Rooseyelt's plurality over President
Taft in yesterdays primaries will be
at least $4,000, according to returns
tabulated up to noon today. While
the Third and Sixth congressional dis
trlcts still were in doubt, indications
were that Roosevelt had carried both,
giving him the states entire delega-
tion in the Chicago convention.
on the democratic side, the vote
up to noon today indicated that Viii.
son would have "a of the states dele.
cation to Baltimore, the remaining
four delegates from districts where
Wilson's opposition was strongest,
going to the national convention un-
instructed
The Roosevelt victory was a clean
sweep, and the former president will
apparently have every one of the
states 2S delegates at the Chicago
convention. In the preference vote
his plurality was fully 10000 over
Taft. The result exceeded the expec-
tations of the most enthusiastic OF
Roosevelt leaders. In some districts,
Colonel Roosevelt received ten votes
to every one cast for the president.
Governor Wilson's triumph on the
democratic side was only a trife less
comDlete than that of Roosevelt The
governor lost four delegates out of the
twenty eight, and these four were
elected from Essex county, the anti
machines stronghold where he had no
hopes of winning. The results stand:
Wilson Gets "a Delegates
Wilson, "a delegates; uninstructed,
delegates.
The Wilson vote, as compared with
that of the opposition, was a stag
gering blow to the antis, being in
ratio of about 6 to l.. Some districts
We're for the governor by a vote as
high as 20 to 1.
The Taft supporters hoped for
share of the delegates until midnight.
At that hour they ceased to claim
more than six, and an hour later their
claims dwindled to the two delegates
from the Sixth district, where u
strong Taft sentiment in Hackensack
made the vote very close. Later re-
turns indicated that Roosevelt had
carried this last hope of the Taft
leaders by about 100 The president
had small pluralities in four of the
twenty-One counties of the state. He
showed his greatest strength in the
farming districts. In one of the fac
,xrln hA W
just before the opening of the polls,
he was beaten 40 to l.
Tht LaFollette vote was a negli- !
gible factor, not more than 2 per cent
of the entire vote cast.
The vote in nearly all sections or
the state was exceedingly light, sew
eral counties casting less than half
of the total registered at the last
general election. The polls did not |
close until 9 o'clock last night, and |
as a result the vote was very late in
being counted. Even at a late hour
this morning the returns were incom-
plete from several counties.
Roosevelt Leader Talks.
chairman of the Roosevelt executive |
committee in New York City, made
the following statement:
"NeW Jersey has come through !
handsomely. The men who make up
the rank and file of the republican
party and who carried the state by
10000 at the end of Roosevelts ad-
have shown that they
are still loyal to their old leader.
They hail with delight his return to
the command of the republican party, !
and will give him 10000 again in No
vemOer Roosevelt has unhorsed the
old machine leaders, and will now
turn the party back to it's first prin-
ciples.
The New Jersey primary is the
last but one (South DakOta) to be
held before the political conventions,
Washington, May Ex-senator Dix
on, campaign mdnager iur Oolohei
Roosevelt returned to Washington .
from New York today and made the
prediction that Colonel RooseVelt
would have more than six hundred
delegates on the first ballot in the
Chicago convention, exclusive Of the
contested delegates. Included in TINS
number he said, would be more thah
thirty from New York
President Taits manager, Repre-