The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-29
OLD BAY STATE IS
TO GIVE VERDICT
TOMORROW
First Presidential Primary Ever
in New England
GREAT VOTE IS EXPECTED
Taft Bureau Claims at Least "a Of
Entire SO Votes-Roosevelt Men
Hope to Get 1s or More

Boston, April 2S-The answer of
Massachusetts to the campaign plead
ing, either personally or by represen-
tatives of the FIVE candidates for the
presidential nomination-Taf Roose-
welt, La Toilette, Clark and Wilson
will be made at the primaries on
Tuesday. Owing to the complicated
ballot and the absence of group vot-
ing, 1t is expected that no definite
result will be known until the next
day. and that it will be day or two
later before the actual identity OF the
thlrty-six delegates to the Chicago
and Baltimore conventions is known.
This will be the first presidential
preference primary ever held in the
Bay state, although the primary sys-
TEN for the selection OF candidates
for State offices was tried last fall. All
who voted at that election, about 100,
600 are enrolled as either Republi-
cans or Democrats in the 1853 cities
and towns, and unless they formally
changed their party allegiance ninety
days ago, they will be compelled to
vote a similar ticket.
AS the campaign has been one OF
the most strenuous that has rocked
the state for many years, it is expect
ed that 100000 voters will 80 TO the
polls on Tuesday
The presence OF both President
Taft and Col Roosevelt in the state
during the closing hours of the cam
paign, the fact that they selected
Massachusetts for their first personal
political encounter, and comments
from political writer's outside the
state, have been taken as indicating
possibility that Massachusetts may
| make or mar the political fortunes
OF the president or the colonel
Whether Senator Robert NJ. La Fol
lette will be ia, In determining
the result on the Republican side
and whether the 81. ces OF Gov. vii
son and Speaker Clark will receive
additional strength by reason of the
Massachusetts primaries, is a mat
ter OF much debate.
Voters may have some difficulty IL
expressing their choice, owing to the
complicated ballot In giving Massa
chusetts a presidential preference pri
mary, the legislature failed TO max,
any provision for circle voting b!
groups. On the Republican ballo
there are three sets of delegates
eight for Roosevelt, eight for Taft
and one candidate also pledged L
Taft, La Toilette, Roosevelt and Tai
appear in the presidential preferences
column.
There are sets of Roosevelt anI
Taft delegates in each OF the four
teen congressional districts, excep
the first, where the Roosevelt distric
delegate ticket failed to qualify, ant
where Roosevelt candidates will rul
on stickers. Alternates, both stat
and district, have also been named
Every Republican voter, in order L
give full expression TO his polltica
inclination, must mark eight dele
gates at large. eight alternates a
large. two district delegates, an,
two alternates, and one OF the pres
dental candidates.
There is possibility. which is no
regarded as probable, OF pledges
Taft delegation OF eight delegates a
large with a state preference 70
Roosevelt II would also be possibl
to choose a majority OF district dele
gates for Roosevelt throughout tn
state with total preference vote Il
the state for Taft. II is general
expected, however, that the voter
will follow the marking OF the eigh
names in one group with similar pre-
ferences on the balance of the tickle
Claims of the political managers
as usual, vary greatly. Gen. Edga
Il. Champlin of the Taft forces pr,
dlcted today that the president woul
sweep the state and get at least 3
out of the SO delegates. City Cour
cilor Matthew Hale, the Roosevelt
manager. claims a victory in the Sc,
ond, Third, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh
Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Fou
teeuth Congress dIstricts--and
/, fighting chance for the eight del,
: gates at large.