Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-10
WILSON AND JONES
WIN IN PRIMARIES
IN SOUTH CAROLINA
No Other Preference for Pres
iidenf rs Made by Counties
That INSTRUCTED for or En-
dorSed Jersey Governor
CBy Stan correspondent:l
JOURNAL BURIAL,
JEROME HOTEL.

.-t.r JEROME HOTEL.
COLUMBIA. S. c.. May IA clean.
sweeping. victory for the forces favor
able to.s Judge Ira B. Jones. candidate
for governor and showing of the
Wilson, strength hardly less remarkable
were the results of the county conven-
tons held throughout south Carolina
yesterday.
Gov. ColerI1a Blease is known to have
a majority of delegates inN only four
counties and a,total Of only a delegates
in the entire state committed ITO him.
while Judge Jones has 239 delegates
pledged to his cause, majority OF IL
of the zSeS, total vote 8 I the state con-
ventiop. This leaves so delegates whose
affiliations are not known. SOS s-s7srA t-''-
}, Woodrow Wilson. viii go into the con-
ventiop with 400 delegates from COIN
ties which eithsr41ir1dorsed him sore in
structed for him directly. rs - Ia
Five rReunties gave instructions and
six Endorsements. No other presidential
candidate received Endorsement by any
county,, and the name of Underwood was
not mentioned in more than. two or
three as a favorite
The, result of the county conventions
so far as the governors race is con-
cerned is that the Jones forces in addi-
ton to being in control of the state
convention May Is, and the primary
election machinery which names the
governor in August, have secured a de-
cided boosts for their cause. .s'
Judge Jones' strength in every part
of the state shown by the conventions
is a surprise even to his supporters and
that it will swing many votes to him
and istin measure an indication of his
victory in August can not be doubted.
The. Blease supporters say, however
that as an indication of victory 1T is
not of much value, They contend that
Blease's strength is in the county dis
tricts and mill villages, and that the
voters therein do not attend the ward
and precinct conventions and that such
conventios are Controlled by oily small
percentage of the vot srs.
With respect a presidential choice,
the results yesterday mean that a dele
cation will go from South Carolina to
the Baltimore convention composed Of
men favorable to woodrow Wilson,
with the chances now in favor of the
delegation being directly instructed for
him.
The Underwood movement has been
exhibiting in this state Tor some time
its characterize symptoms" of plenty
of money and that lavishly spent I'm
derwood supplements have appeared in
the weekly papers and the mails have
been cluttered up with Underwood lit
erature and since the Underwood vic
tories in Florida and Georgia and the
symptoms have become enormously ag
gravated
The results yesterday, however, have
landed. a-death blow on the Underwood
manifestation in this state.
The Jones forces while not officially
identified with the cause of Wilson, arc
so for all intents and purposes, and
the fact that theY~will control the state
convention by such an overwhelming
majority means that no Underwood and
no anti-Wilson delegation Will go to
Baltimore from this state. The most
the anti-Wilson people can hope from
South Carolina is that the delegation
though. composed of Wilson, men will
go uninstructed, and the indications
now are that they will be deprived OF
even that hope.
The counties that instructed for VIII
son are Richland, Marlboro Horny,
Spartanburg and Georgetown