Arizona republican., 1912-04-22
Now Has 388 Instructed Delegates Out of the Required Number
 of 543
WILL
 SUPPORT TAFT
Political Writer Asserts the President Will Be Chosen on First
 Ballot
Washington, April 20, 1912.

R. A. Kirk.
 Arizona Secretary. Taft Bureau. Phoenix, Ariz
 President Taft will be nominated
 The campaign of Justification and ] abuse of the president, which has l mislead the voters, will soon be an swered President Taft will take the stump Thursday. The attempt to steal southern instructed delegates will be met by Roosevelt assertions 1 in the north. His own delegates are already getting shaky. realizing he has made his own election impossible. 1 President Taft now has 3SS delegates. w E. MCKINLEY, l Chairman Taft National Bureau. 1 The above telegram has been re- Ceived by R. A Kirk. the local secre- l tary of the National Taft bureau and i is a clear cut, truthful, and concise statement of existing conditions. And 1 in this connection it may be said the national Taft organization at Wash | ingtOn will be most cordially support i ed by the real republicans of Arizona. 1 There has not been any bluff and buster about it, but the Taft organi- i zation in this state has been extended ] to every county and already the question of delegates is practically ] settled. There is hardly the slightest doubt that Arizona will send six del ! egates to the national convention in structed to work and vote for the re l nomination Of William Howard Taft. 1 And there is another fact to be noted here The statement made by MT. Mckinley in his telegram to MT.
 Kirk that 3SS delegats have already been selected who will vote for MT. 1 Taft is absolutely accurate. It takes 1 543 to nominate, so MT. Taft needs i just 155 more delegates. Conventions 1 to be held within the next few weeks | will give them to him. Of that there is not the shadow of a doubt.
 1 Also. it is an absolute certainty 1 that many of the people throughout
 the country, who are honestly and earnestly opposed to MT. Taft's re- nomination. have been grossly de- ceived by the wild and untruthful as i sertiOns sent out by Senator Dixon. ! The fact is there never was a cam paign in this country that contained so much falsehOod and distortion as 1 the campaign conducted by MT. Dix on. It is d fact that statements sent cut by him do not even approach the truth; it is also q fact that separate
 statements sent out by him do not Iagree with each other.
 It will be good news to the loyal friends of the president in Arizona and throughout the whole country that the president is to have a few things to say himself about the grossly indecent manner in which he has been treated. There is probably no other thing that could so greatly strengthen the president at this time Furthermore. it is worthy of note that the current issue of the Satur
 day Evening Post, Samuel G. Blythe
 one of the best informed men in this country, declares positively that MT
 Taft cannot fail of the nomination Mir. Blythe makes that statement aft
 CT a trip from New York to San
 Francisco and back again. The trip was
 made for the express purpose of study
 inv political Conditions And the result
 of Mir Blythe's observation is not only
 that MT. Taft even now is certain
 of the nomination but that he is
 growing in strength all the time. Il
 is worthy of note also that this state
 ment is made by man unfrlendly
 to MT. Taft, so he can hardly be saio
 to be biased in the presidents favor