The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-15
FIGURE VICTORY WILL
CONE TO-DAY
CONTINUED from First pago.)

tomorrow Is an easy one--for it Roll
ing down fifty Roosevelt pretenders,
and giving free seats to that many
Taft legislators--from the Taft point
of VIEWS SO simple that the engi-
neers hardly consider ii worth while
to start fires under the boilers.
Here Is the way 1t is to be done.
There remain TO be settled contests
for total of siXC'-six seats. OF those
contests thirty are for Texas. twenty
for Virginia. fourteen for Washing
ton, and two for the District of Co.
lunbia.
Virginia 10 Easy.
Now the Virginia votes arc IS good
AS in the TAFT column already. They
have all the advantage of regularity.
, That makes twenty The fourteen
from Washington wifi be easily pick
ed up. for the issue IN that contest Is
understood To bc largely "a matter of
party law. ana the best thing a steam
roller does is 80 iron out law points
AS the owners association thinks they
should be iroued Two more can be
noFoleutlv asSimilated from the Dis
trict Of Columbia. There is total of
thlrty-siN, and the other fourteen can
he taken from the total of THIRTY con-
tests in Texas, sn easily that Cplonst!
Cecil Lyon will regard the operation
as n painless one. even without the
administration OF an anaesthetfc
/ Everyone likes Colonel Lyon. and they
desire 10 make him suffer just as lit
tie as possible with a consistent course
for tht4 steam roller
There are tho 223 steam roller votes
required by the Taft statisticiaus for
their fetal OF 5G7. The others are
easy TO court President Taft has In
structed for him uncontested dele
( gates to the number of col, and the
7 r. oeR"@ ett,-n< ari nit that count. With
, the 223 steam roller votes, that makes
Il total Of 42}
Now the total number OF uninstruct-
ed dele gates TO the convention num-
Der 1855, or that number the Taft
men claim as certain for the presi-
dent 1913. and # YOU will add to that
number aga you get the total TAFT
claim of 567.
The Remainder.
OF the rema ming delegates to the
convention. the Taft fnrces divide
them thus: Instructed for Roosevelt
4tfs uninstrneted delegates likely to
vote for huoEcvctr II. us Follows.
New York, 3. Idaho, y: North Caro-
lima, 2. contests already awarded
Roosevelt -; contests 10 be awarded
Roosevelt, iG, Total for Roosevelt
465. Total FOR La Toilette, 80 Total
for Cummins 10 Add all the totals
and YOU gel Las. the delegates to
The convention
l4ct 1t Ice repeated that the above
as a whole is onil Taft claim, I5ut
the Taft niauWgera believe H. or
course, they ADMIT there is a chance
for a slip OF "a few votes, but also
thee have allowed themselves a Httstv-
gin Of twenty seven votes. in THEN
total claim Of 81. when $40 would
be enough 10 acminate.
, They are not sleeping on that claim
ana depending upon the eternal
varieties. pledges or the popularity or
their candidate t. make ii good They
ttfe ,iding hard on each ono of tnC
56f every minute the Vigilance, com
lnittee is stii vielanttne. 2nd there
was 'ereli "a report Yesterday that spHe
of IN crowd had rssefted To PRAYER
to help keep the lines ,fnhroken.
Aud they sre depending on the
staain rolie~ for those Fifty votes. n
lbat machine slips cog. or anyone
mixes SOAP with the wafer in tho
boiler 50 II VIII not MAKE steam dir,
things ara feared