The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-22
Apparently in the Ratio of ? to
1 for Roosevelt.
GOV. HARMON BEATS WILSON
Indications That the Professor
Will Have 2 Delegates.
LaFOllette, Clark and Bryan
Among Also Rams.

plete returns from yesterday Onlo
primary, indicate that Colonel Roose-
welt won 80 out of AZ delegates to the
Republican national convention select
ed in twenty-one congressional dis
tricts and that President Taft was Civ
en- ten district delegates or slightly less
than a third of the total numbsr
manner.
On the Democratic ticket Governor
Harmon is believed to have won by a
larger percentage than did Colonel
Roosevelt, being credited with IS dis
trict delegates as against for Gov
ernor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey.
Although President Taft secured but
10 out of the AZ, the Taft-Roosevelt
fight in Ohio is no. finished, but will
be carried into the state Republican
convention which on June 3. will select
six delegates-at-large = the national
convention.
OF total of less than one thousand
delegates to the state convention, near
ly complete returns indicate that Presi-
dent Taft has a sufficient number to
control. This may give President Taft's
managers the six delegates-at-1arge to
be named Ey the state convention and
probably will make the presidents to-
tai 16 just an even third of the Ohio
delegation of As members which viii
attend the Chicago convention.
Harmon Can Name Six.
Governor Harmon, on the Democratic
ticket, unlike Col. Roosevelt, will not
be forced to make a further fight for
delegates at large as the Democratic
call specifies that the winner of the
presidential preference primary shall
name his own delegates at large.
1t will be impossible before night to
get an accurate list of totals in the
various districts on the Democratic
presidential preference, but X is clear
that Governor Harmon has won over
Wilson by large plurality. Amplifled
returns in the Republican contest show
that Senator LaFollette polled heavy
vote in several counties, and it is pos
sible that final results will show that
he ran second to Col. Roosevelt in a
number of counties.
The Taft managers declared that this
occurred only in Democratic counties
where Democrats voted the Republi-
can ticket. Mr.. Bryan and Speaker
Champ Clark, although their names
were not on the ballot. got a small
fraction of the total vote cast, but 1t
seems doubtful if the combined Bryan
Clark vote had any considerable effect
on the outcome of the Harmon-Wilson
fight
Rural Vote Was Light.
Complete returns from SO of the
SO counties of the state show that
Roosevelt carried As of them and
Taft IA. OF the SO, Governor Har-
mon carried the same number as
Roosevelt and in the IA counties car
ried by Wilson, Taft, on the Repub-
lican ticket, failed to get one of them.
The rural vote throughout the state
was light, as the farmers, who have
been retarded by the weather, pre-
ferred to put in their crops to going
to the polls
Senator LaFollette secured his
heaviest vote in the Twenty-first dis
trict, where he polled 4,163 votes. In
Fulton county LaFollette secured
more votes than Taft. OF the IL
counties which have so far reported
as carried by President Taft, one-haIf
of them are Democratic strongholds,
where the Republican vote was very
light.
The exact vote in the Democratic
preferential contest is not known, but
reports from 735 precincts out of
5,192 in the state indicate that Har-
mon has received 1909 votes to Will
sons 10,779 in those precincts, while
Clark received 10 and Bryan 155,
Adams county, where more than 1900
voters were disfranchised a year ago
for selling their votes, gave Colonel
Roosevelt a majority of nearly 200.
President Taft carried his home
districts, the First and Second. Gov
ernor Harmon, who lives in the same
city with the president, Cincinnati,
carried the Second district, but the
First is still in doubt.
The returns in show that Governor
Wilson carried the Third, Seventeenth.
Twentieth and Twenty-first districts.
In the Third district G. w. FoIkerth
was elected as Roosevelt delegate
and d. w. Allaman as a Taft dele
gate
In the Fifteenth district. d. L.
Melick was named as Roosevelt
delegate and Frank Ransbottom the
Taft delegate.
BY Districts.
other districts show the following
Roosevelt delegates:
Fourth-Carl d. Jones and ]. c.
Pense.
Fifth-Allen Bybee and Frank
Carlo.
sixth-R. ]. shawan and W. IA.
Baum.
Eighth-N. L. McClahnan and
Lewis Slack.
Ninth-George E. Hardy and c. D.
Finch.
Tenth-P. NJ. Stretch and Sherman
Eagle.
Eleventh-Henry Zenner and James
Thomas.
TweIfth-KarI t. webber and King
| G. Thompson
Fourteenth--A. L. Garford and H.
G. Hammond.
Sixteenth-Cook Danford and E. E.
| Erksine.
Seventeenth-E. S. Souers and A. S.
Eighteenth-H. A. March and Emil
Nineteenth-Edwin Seedhouse and
| w T. Beckley.