The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-12
NINETY-NlNE TAFT DELEGATES.
Presidents Campaign Manager Pleas
ed With the Weeks
Results.

/ Results.
/ WASHINGTON, March 12.-"We
are very much pleased with the gem
eral situation, and especially pleased
with the situation in Iowa." said Will
liam B. Mckinley, director of the Taft
National Bureau, last night.
We will control the Iowa state con-
vention, replied Mr.. Mckinley, in re-
ply to question -Four districts in
/ Iowa already have selected delegates
to the national convention, instructed
for Taft With returns from New
Mexico and the Fifth Congressional
District of Virginia, received today,
we now have ninety-nine delegates for
Taft"
Mr. Mckinley suggested, when Ok
borne In mind that Oklahoma had
twenty delegates New York has nine
ty and Pennsylvania seventy-six, but
Oklahoma with her twenty delegates,
does twenty times more shouting
than these two states which have
more votes in the convention than all
of the states west of Illinois.
Mr.. Mckinley had nothing to add to
what he had said in relation to the
! question of presidential primaries, on
! which the Roosevelt managers are
constantly harping. The states are
being left to decide for themselves
what they will do about primaries,
4 and no Taft people are fighting the
proposition in any state under in
struction or advice from the Taft Ma
t:onal Bureau, as has been claimed
by the Roosevelt people.
The news from New Mexico received
4 at Taft Headquarters came in tele-
gram from Solomon Luna, national
committeeman who stated that the
state delegation had not been instruct
led. but stands five for Taft and three
for Roosevelt. Taft managers claimed
! they would have the whole delegation.
The state convention did not conclude
I its labors yesterday, but conference
: was held to promote party harmony
and three Roosevelt men we're placed
on the delegation Five Of the eight
are avowed Taft men. This, with the
: instruction of two delegates for Taft
selected by the Republicans of the
fifth Virginia District today. brings
) the Taft total of delegates up to nine.
, ty-nine. The Taft bureau handed on,
the following statement:
The boast of the opponents of the
denomination of President that the
, west is aflame' in opposition to him
received heavy jolt today when the
State Republican Convention Of New
: Mexico chose eight delegates to the
Chicago convention, five of whom are
! out-and-out Taft men. This Taft vic
Z tory in the heart of the country
I where it has been persistently alleged
1 that President Taft was weak. togeth
f. er with the Fifth Virginia District, car
0 ried today, raises the total number O
(: delegates already chosen for Mr.. Taft
S to go The concession of an unin
r structed delegation and the recogni
h ton of the opposition on the delega
S ton in. New Mexico was for the pur
e pose OF maintaining full party har
+. mony in the new state The Taft mel
a had the votes to sweep the convention
r entirely
+ 'The outcome in New Mexico furth
4 er illustrates the fact that when TIL,
:. final roll is called at Chicago in Junt
! to nominate the Republican candidat,
>. for President only scattering vot,
!, will be cast in opposition to Mr. Taft
), There is every prospect at this timt
!. that the President will break his rec
: ord of 1908. when he received 10
= votes on the first and only nominatin;
: ballot at the Chicago convention 0
that year. The total of ninety-nin
delegates now in the Taft column
= have been elected in eleven differen
d states of the union, showing the wide
IS spread sentiment In favor of the re
nomination of the President. Despit
the strenuous campaign of the oppo
sition and the large sums of none,
It expended by it in fighting the friend
10 of the President in almost every cor
yention held to date the President ha
gathered in almost an even 100 dele
.r gates.
lie THE New York district primaries
20 which VIII be held under the laws o
that state on March 2G, will, in tn
judgment of most disinterested polit
it cal observers, settle the Republica
IS nomination. That state will hav
,e ninety delegates in the Chicago cor
vention and President Taft will scor
sweeping victory in that state. T
re all intents and purposes the Ne'
lie York primary law affords ample OF
m portunity for full test OF strengt
Of between the delegates nominated fc
Mr.. Taft and those who may desire t
oppose them. There can be no escal
at ing the final verdict of the Republ
er cans of the states as redistricted III
Id der primary law in which the flu
Mt protection Of the law is throw
around the choice of these delegate