The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-28
CLAIMS OF RIVALS
WIDELY DIVERGENT
Taft Managers Say They Have
264 Delegates, While Roose-.
welt Bureau Admits Only az.
!, Latter Has Listed More
Than One Hundred
Cobtests.
Especial to The rimos.Disna,,b

w dShlnSton, March o7.-Thc discrcp-
ancies between tho claims of the Taft
and Roosevelt manag RS of delegates
| already chosen grow wider every day.
| In a statement including Yesterdays
results in New York and to-day's in
Mississippi and Colorado. the Taf,
! managers claim 26i delegates, or ten
/ delegates less than half Of the number
needed TO nominate Mr. Taft The
roosevelt bureau SO far has not form
ular.d its claims in New York, and it
/ has tonight said nothing about Col
oraoo and Mississippi But where the
TAFT managers conceGc Mr.. Roosevelt
} only twenty-four delegates. Senator
piHon, leaving out the elections OF tho
pas; two days. claims fifty for his
chief and comedies to MI. Taft only
twenty-five votes in all 1t is safe TO
say that Mr.. Dixon will put nearss
every New York district In the contest
column. as ne probably will the eight
deiesates chosen IN Colorado TO-DAY
and the sixteen chosen in Mississippi
al OF whom arc claimed outright by
the Taft managers.
Where They Agree.
The only points of agreement be-
tween thu tables issued from The two
bureaus come where they treat OF the
claims OF AIR. Cummins and Mr. La
o!.SAte' WIN complete undnIminty.
both headquarters concedc two DELE
gates to Mr.. Cummins and ton dele
gates 10 Mr.. La Toilette. Senator
| Dixon throws the Southern districts
| eli bloc into the contest column, ,vcn
where SIR. Tatt's supremacy was prac-
| ticnily undisputcd. and contests are
raised in every district all over the
country where there is the least sea-
t!ment
| The Roosevelt bureau already has
credited more delegates to the contest
column than II has to the column of
| al! the Republican candidates together
/ These nnCty'eiRht liz! q contests no,
counting the contests ye. 20 DC made
| IN New York, Mississippi and Colorado.
indicate the desperate plan that the
Roosevelt managers have formulated
as their only chance of controlling the
Chicago convention. They have al
ready prepared tho way to make their
| night entirely In contests after failing
to get delegates in the regular way.
| The procedure at Chicago Will be
FOR the national committee to make
up the temporary roll of the convcn-
ton. Each State delegation as made
up in this temporary roll will then elect
It's member of the committee on Gre
dentials and OF all other committees.
And before the committee on creden-
tials Will come the contests. II Colonel
| Roosevelt cannot control the commit
tee on credentials he cannot scat his
| contesting delegates and that is the
whole situation.
Their Claims.
Tho Taft claim including delegates
CHOSEN to-day, is as follows:
Tatt-Alabama. 90: District of Co
l.nnt, 2; Colorado, s.: Florida, IL:
igan. 6: Mississippi, Is: Missouri. 8:
New Mexico, Z: New York, 20: Okla
hama, 4; Philip mes. q South Caro-
INA. IA; Tennessee. Is: Virginia. 2I.-
Total. 264.
|; New York, !: Oklahoma, I4MTotal,
Cummins-Iowa. 2-Total. 2.
La Toilette. North Dakota, 1o-To-
tai. 10.
Contests are reported in the Third
Indiana, the Third. Fifth and Four
teenth Missouri. Second Tennessee and
the Third Oklahoma. These districts
at the regularly called conventions
have instructed for Taft.
The Roosevelt claim as made ND on
excepting New York. Mississippi and
Colorado is rs follows:
Observation-Disclosures, .: contested,
IS: District OF Columbia. contested. .;
Florida, contested, IL; Georgia. 9; con-
Michigan. ;: Missouri, s; Now Mexico.
s; Oklahoma. 1t: South Carolina, 5;
contested, s: Tennessee. .; contested.
IL; Virginia. {; contested. lS.-Totnl.
90: contested. 9S
Cummins-Iowa, e.-Total, q
La Fciette-North Dakota, 1o.-To-
Taft-Indiana. 6: Iowa, s: Michigan.
.: New Mexico. .: Oklahoma, .: Philip
pines. 2.-Total. %.