The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-04-05
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TwENTY-EIGHT TO BE CHOSEN
THIS WEEK At WISCONSIN,
AND GEORGIA PRIMARIES.
CLARKLEADs DEMOCRATS
The Speaker Has Seventy.Two Dele
gates, Wilson Ten, Marshall
Thirty-Many Primaries in
April.


election of Taft delegates in Alaska
and in the Ninth Missouri district,
the Taft managers claim to have 27S
delegates to the Chicago convention.
During the coming week twenty-eight
delegates will be elected. OF these
twenty-six will come from Wisconsin,
whose direct primaries are to be held
on Tuesday. 1t is conceded that Sena-
tor La Toilette will win in that state.
On Thursday two delegates are to be
chosen in the Seventh Georgia district,
and it is said they will be for Taft.
OF the Taft delegates thus far
claimed for him, 125 come from north.
ern and western states, counting Mis-
souri, as northern state. and 153
come from southern states. A majori-
ty of the Chicago convention will be
$50 votes.
Attention is called to the fact that
on March 80, four years ago, Taft had
only 1876 delegates. The combined OPP
position to him had on that day eighty
two delegates, and of the Taft dele
gates thirtyfour were contested, all
of them from the southern states.
Colonel Roosevelt is conceded thirty
delegates by the Taft manager-eight
in Indiana, one i'm New Mexico, seven
in New York and fourteen in Okla.
homa. Senator Cummins has two del
egates from Iowa, Senator La Toilette
has ten delegates from North Dakota.
On the democratic side, the list
stands: Clark seventy-two, Wilson ten,
Marshall thirty, and the twelve dele
gates from Maine uninstructed, but
supposedly pretty evenly divided be-
tween Wilson and Harmon. Delegates
from New England of both parties are
usually uninstructed. The six dele
gates from the Philippines are not in
structed, but it is said they favor
Clark. The convention which elected
them passed resolutions saying Clark
was its choice for president. Adding
the Philippines to the Clark column,
brings the total up from sixty-six TO
seventy-two.
The contest in Wisconsin is be-
tween Wilson and Clark, there being
no Underwood or Harmon tickets in
nomination.
OF the delegates thus far chosen at
county conventions in Iowa, Clark has
1877 and Wilson thirty-seven. These
county delegates will be members of
the district and state democratic con-
ventions will elect delegates to Balti-
more.
Republican conventions for April
will be numerous. BY the end of the
month about two-thirds of the dele
gates to Chicago will have been
chosen. Following is the April list:
WISCONSIN direct primaries, for
both political parties.
4-Seyenth Georgia.
Utah state committee, to fix date
for convention.
S-Thirteenth Indiana: Louisiana
state convention.
9-New York state conventions; first
and second Vermont: seventh. tenth
and eleventh Kentucky. Illinois prima.
ries; Chicago primaries.
10-Kentucky state convention; Yer.
mont state conventions; tenth Michi-
gan; Maine convention.
michigan state conventions; Sec
ond Missouri.
13-St. Louis ward primaries; Penn
sylvania district primaries.
14-Tennessee state convention.
15-Ilawaiian convention.
16-Connecticut state convention;
Delaware state convention; first Kan
sas; first South Carolina.
17-All the Connecticut congress
sional districts.
1s-Nebraska direct primaries; Ore
gon direct primaries.
22-SiXth Missouri.
23-Twelfth Indiana.
24-lowa state conventions: second,
thifd, fourth. fifth, tenth and eleventh
Iowa; Rhode Island state and district
conventions.
25-Missouri state convention.
29-Porto Rico convention.
30-Massachusetts direct primaries.
for April is very incomplete. due part
ly to the fact that these conventions
are coming from one to three weeks
later than the republican convention.
So far as reported in this city, the
democratic April dates follow:
2-Wisconsin direct primaries, for
both parties.
6-Arkansas county conventions.
S-lllinois direct primaries, for both
parties.
13-District primaries i'm Pennsyl
vania.
19-Direct primaries in Nebraska
and Oregon, for both parties.
29-Colorado state convention.
30-Florida primaries.