The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-05-01
TAFT HAS MAJORITY OF POPULAR
VOTE ON FACE OF RETURNS
cANvAssED.
DELEGATION WILL STAND
l6 FOR EACH CANDIDATE
Both Express Pleasure With Result
Champ Clark Has Long Lead Over
Woodrow Wilson For Democratic
Preference-Underwood Gets Fla.
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: Roosevelt today renounced his I.
= claim to the eight delegates-at- I,
:: large to the Republican National =
= Convention elected for him in =
i Massachusetts,. He telegraphed =
: them he would expect them to =
: vote for President Taft, taking =
:: this action he said because of the =
:: fact that Taft carried the state :
: on the Presidential preference 4.
I: vote. =
: :: 80 : 49, 80
Boston, Mass, May Additional
and practically complete returns from
yesterdays presidential primaries,
Giving the vote of 1,076 out of 1880
precincts in the state show, Roose-
welt 71,203; Taft, 74,SOS. Clark 49,
909; Wilson, 9,206.
For delegates-at-large Baxter, head
ing the Roosevelt group, 74,121; Crane
heading the Taft group, 65,S76. Prac-
tically complete returns from four
Congressional districts show the COM
plete Massachusetts delegation to Chi
cago will stand is for Roosevelt and
is for Taft.
Taft Pleased With Result.
Savannah, Ca, May President
Taft arrived here this morning, when
he received the first information about
the Massachusetts primaries. He was
pleased to learn he was leading and
hopeful that later news might be still
more encouraging, but made no COM
ment
Teddy Regards 1t as Great Victory.
New York, May Colonel Roose-
welt was in high feather today. He
was greatly pleased he said with the
result of the Massachusetts primaries
which in the light of incomplete re-
turns he declared he regarded as a
great victory.
Underwood Gets Florida.
Jacksonville, Fla, May 1.-Returns
from the Presidential preference pri-
mary held in this state yesterday with
Woodrow Wilson and Oscar Under
wood as the only participants, were
meagre at midnight. Few precincts
had been reported complete, but the
vote of other precincts so far as count
ed indicated that Underwood was lead
ing by fair majority. The Florida
Times-Union in it's early editions
claimed the state for Underwood by a
majority of about 1000.
The ballot in the primary was more
than two feet in length and in addition
to the Presidential candidates, carried
the names of delegates and State Of
ficials from Governor down who are to
be elected. Tests in counting the bal
lots showed that it takes four to six
minutes to count one vote Anything
like complete figures on the vote are
not expected before late Wednesday
night or Thursday.
In the gubernatorial contest indica-
tions are that Park Trammel and
Cromwell Gibbons are running a close
race.
New Hampshire Instructs For Taft.
Concord, N. H., May 1.-The state
Republican convention yesterday cleo
ted delegates to the Chicago conven-
tion favoring the denomination Of
President Taft and instructed them to
vote for him until released.
A clause in the platform presented
to the convention instructing the dele
gates to not vote for Roosevelt under
any circumstances was stricken out
after heated debate.
Wilson Solid in Delaware.
Dover. Del, May t-Governor Wood
row Wilson will have solid delega
tion from this state to the Democratic
National Convention, two from each
of the three counties. While the dele
gates are not instructed, they are
known 70 favor Governor Wilson's
nomination.