Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1912-04-18
TAFT LEADERS
CLAIM THE STATE
Last Of Counties Hold Conventions And
State is Claimed by Taft With
1853 DELEGATES.

Now that all of the counties of the
state have held their republican conven-
tions, aud the control of the convention
is a matter of handful of votes, an
analysis of the vote of the districts Of
the state is interesting.
The Taft leaders claim the president
has 163 instructed and pledged delegates.
This total includes the entire Pottawat-
tamie county delegates of 80. where the,
Cummins men claim at least half, di-
vision of 9 for Taft and for Cummins
in Dallas county, and the entire Frank
lin county delegation. which the Cum
Minis leaders claim also
John Briar, for Senator Cummins,
claims bare working majority in the
convention, where | ,4Sl accredited dele
gates will be seated Disinterested par
ties have it figured out that Taft has
al delegates and Senator Cummins 740.
In the First district, Taft carried
everything but Washington county with
IA delegates. giving him majority in
the district Of 81 delegates.
The Second district gives Taft ma
jority of Is, Taft having SO delegates and
Cummins 81.
Regarding the Third there is dispute
resulting from the double claim to
Franklin county's delegation. Cummins
men claim a majority in the district of
"A, while the Taft forces figure it even
ly divided with IL delegates each. This
was the situation in the district couven-
ton at Waterloo, where Franklin voted
with the Taft counties The Cummins
men assert the state delegation is unit
behind the senator.
Clayton county alone in the Fourth
district went for President Taft. Senator
Cummins majority there is 80 delegates.
In the Fifth district there are 70 Taft
delegates and As Cummins delegates,
majority for the president of "a dele
gates.
Save for Poweshiek county. the Sixth
district was sold for the president. Taft
has majority of SO delegates there.
Giving Cummins the whole Of Dallas.
Senator Cummins has a majority of 70
delegates in his home district the Sew
enth. According to the Taft figures.
with Dallas divided 9S, the majority
would be 20.
Page county, in the Eighth, instructed
for Roosevelt. Page is the only county
in the state to send solid delegation
to the convention instructed for the
colonel All the other counties in the
district were solid for Taft giving him a
majority of 80.
In the Ninth district the Taft forces
claim majority of 81 for Taft, which
included Pottawattamie's 32 delegates
solid. Splitting the Pottawattamie dele
CATION as the Cummins men do, Taft's
majority is cut to SO.
Calhoun and Palo Alto give President
Taft 81 delegates in the Tenth district.
Senator Cummins gets his largest dis
trict majority here, 1913 delegates.
Three counties in the Eleventh, Ida,
Monona and Woodbury., We're carried by
the administration forces, making Tafts
total 81 delegates, as compared to SEN
ator Cummins' Ill, a majority of A
delegates.
An interesting feature of the align
ment of counties is that not a single
county in the north tier went for Presi-
dent Taft. while not county in the
tier on the south state line went for
Senator Cummins. In the second tier
on the north, Taft broke in with Palo
Alto, while the Mills delegation alone
of the counties in the second tier on the
south broke away from the president,
majority of the delegates from that
county being Roosevelt men.