The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-05-02
TAFT WINS IN
MASSACHUSETTS
President Leads in the Preferential
Vote by 1884.
CLARK WINS FOR DEMOCRATS
Roosevelt Delegates at Large Are
Elected but Preferential Ballot it
Is Claimed Will Instruct Them
to Vote For the President.

Boston, May 1, 10 o'clock a. m.-
Special: The latest figures available
at 10 o'clock today on the results of
yesterdays preferential primaries
were as follows. Complete returns
from 1910 of the 1880 election dis
tricts in the state gave Taft 84,94S,
Roosevelt 1854, LaFolette 1850. A
lead for the president of 1884.
Democratic results in the same pre-
cincts: Clark 32,S72, Wilson 1859.
Clark lead, S,113.
| The Roosevelt delegates at large,
headed by Baxter, in the same pre-
cincts received S2,67S as compared
with 1885 for the Taft delegates at
large, headed by Senator Crane.
At this hour the indications are that
Roosevelt carried only five of the
state districts, giving him 10 addi-
tional delegates, making IS in all.
President Taft carried the remaining
nine districts on the returns now
available, and this will give him Is
delegates to Chicago.
The Taft followers insist that if
the president carries the preferential
primaries he is entitled to the vote
but this claim is laughed at by the
Roosevelt men.
In Washington.
Seattle, Wash, May SPECIAL:
Not until the county conventions are
all held will it be determined whether
Colonel Roosevelt or President Taft
will get the Washington delegates to
the national convention. In most of
the counties Of the state the dele
gates have not been chosen.
Roosevelt Will Contest.
| Boston, May f.-Special: Because
the official count in the Eighth dis
trict gives the Taft delegation ma
jority of only three, Roosevelt men
today demanded a recount and Roose-
welt may yet have 10 delegates to
II for Taft in the state.
Crane May Retire.
Roosevelt carried the fourth. fifth,
seventh, ninth and fourteenth dis
tricts. Taft carried the first, sec
ond, third, sixth, eleventh, twelfth
and thirteenth districts and probably
the eighth district. The defeat of
Senator Crane for delegate at large
! probably means his retirement from
the senate.
In Pennsylvania.
Harrisburg, May Especial: ROose-
welt is in complete control of the
state convention today.
Teddy Will Not Contest.
Oyster Bay, May Special: In a
statement issued this afternoon TheO-
dOre Roosevelt announced he will not
insist on the delegates at large from
MASSACHUSETTS voting for him. He
stated that in as much as President
Taft secured the majority of the pref
erential primaries votes he will with
draw from the contest in that state
so far as the delegates at large are
concerned This will give Roosevelt
only ten of the Massachusetts dele
gates.
Returns All In.
Boston, May 1.-Special: With the
Sc delegates from the Bay State equal
lily divided between Taft and Roose-
welt the Taft men are preparing this
afternoon to contest the election of
the eight delegates at large. Cen
eral Edgar r. Champln, head of the
Taft forces in the state, in long in
terview announced that the fact that
the president secured the majority
of the preferential votes cast would
he the ground work for the contest.
1t was not until late this afternoon
that the last complete returns were
in II was then found the Taft forces
had won nine of the fourteen districts
only to lose the eight delegates at
large because of the presence on the
ticket of Taft candidate for dele
gate who was not endorsed by the
committee Nearly ten thousand vot-
ers named nine names instead of
eight, thus invalidating their votes
under the primary law and permitting
the Roosevelt delegates at large to
win, despite the presidents success
in the preferential primary voting.
With three small towns which are
yet to be heard from and which can
mot change the vote materially, the
state vote at the presidential prefer
entail contest was: Taft Sf,177, Roose'
d welt S3,144, LaFollette 2,06S So far
as the democratic primaries are con
cerned Clark showed Governor VIII
son under. Clark received S3,49l and
Wilson l4,470.