The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-04-03
BOTH ARE CLAIMING
MAJORITY IN VERMONT
Taft Men Assert They Will Get All OF
the Eight Votes and Roosevelt
Men Claim Six of the
Eight.

| MICH Nidlm DIX VI lne
Eight
To-day, four days after the holding
of the Republican caucuses, both the
| Taft and the Roosevelt forces are claim
ing majority of the eight delegates
| from Vermont to the national convention
in Chicago. In fact Chairman Fred G.
| Williams of the state committee, IN all
authorized interview, asserts that the
entire eight votes will be for Taft. Man.
ager Dixon of the Roosevelt national
campaign who came to Vermont yester.
! day, asserted that the second district
and state conventions would be for
| Roosevelt and the Taft lead in the first
district had been cut to 80.
The rival statements are here Civ
en-, Chairman Williams of Newport de.
clared: "My attention has been called
| TO certain statements in some newspa-
pers by Senator Dixon, campaign man
! ager for Colonel Roosevelt. in which he
says that the state of Vermont wa
carried for the colonel in the cauc.tses
the 30th of March and charges the Taft
men in the state with planning to stall
the Roosevelt delegates, and am in
| formed that Senator Dixon is in YER
mont and that soon after his arrival
| in the state advertisements We're sent
out from the Roosevelt committee max.
ing the same or similar claims and
charges and calling upon the Roosevelt
delegates to stand firm and not be
bought.
"The claim that the delegates elected
to the state and first district conventions
are majoriy for Colonel Roosevelt is
absolutely untrue and ii Senator Dix
on does not know that it is untrue, then
he has been poorly informed, for il the
Roosevelt managers in the state are
not aware that a very large majority
OF the delegates to the state and first
district conventions are for President
Taft they have been very negligent,
for the use of the telephone a few
hours any time since last Saturday even
ing would convince any ole OF the TACT
except those wto do not wish to be con
WINGED.
"The delegates to the second district
convention are more nearly even, hut
President Taft has the lead in pledged
delegates in that district Senator Dix
ON and the Roosevelt managers in Yer
mont insult the delegates elected TO vote
for Roosevelt delegates when they in
sinuate that they can he bought !
know a large number of them PERSONAL
" and ! do not know one who would
be influenced by improper proposals 10
desert a man who they were pledged to
support and | resent for all Eermonters
such insinuations.
I'm all the contests in the caucuses
s., 1 10, . he
best OF feeling prevailed and the dele
gates will go to the conventions and
cast their votes without being influ-
enced by any one, If Senator Dixon
and the Roosevelt managers in the state
expect to stampede any delegates elect
ed to vote for Taft delegates by such
tactics, they will fail, for Nermonters
are not easily deceived and they will re-
sent the attempt to stir up useless
strife, for the campaign has been carried
on in quiet and orderly manner and
no disposition has been shown by those
who are supporting the president to
change the result OF any csueuses or to
prevent any delegate from voting as his
constituents instructed him. Ii would
be impossible to do so in any event,
as anyone who is familiar with the peo-
pie here would know. In a large ma.
jority of the towns the issue for Taft
or Roosevelt was largely raised and if
Senator Dixon knew the people OF Ver-
mont better he would not insult the
Roosevelt delegates by such sugges-
tions."
Manager Dixon's Claim.
Manager Dxons statement was Civ
en- out from Bethel where a conference
OF Roosevelt supporters to the number
of 100 was held yesterday afternoon,
followed by a banquet in the evening,
Manager Dixon said:
eve now have reports from every
county in the state. There can be no
question about the result. The Roose-
welt men do not propose at this time
to be robbed of the fruits OF their vote.
The cold returns from Saturdays pri-
naries are as follows: In the second con
glessional distri,t Caledonia county.
Roosevelt "a delegates, Taft 4 delegates;
Essex, Roosevelt 10, Taft Z; Orange,
Roosevelt "A, Taft 0; Orleans, Roosevelt
30. Taft 81; Washington, Roosevelt. %,
Taft SO: Windsor, Roosevelt 81, Taft Is;
total for the second congressional dis
trict, Roosevelt 220, Taft III.
Summarized Roosevelt has l03 lead
in the second district and according to
the Taft claims in the first district,
Taft leads by rs. BY their own figures
the Taft delegates are beaten decisive
" and Roosevelt would have a majority
of 25 in the state convention, but in the
first district we have reports to-day OF
90 additional delegates, giving us 1872
and reducing Taft's totals to III. That
would give Roosevelt absolute control
of the state convention by a lead of 81.
''Fifty-eight delegates are unreported.
These are from the back farming towns
where Roosevelt's strength is admitted
by Taft leaders to be the strongest.
Giving Taft every one of the unreport-
ed delegates, they have clearly lost the
state convention II is decisive Roose-
welt victory, significant in the highest
degree OF the true trend OF the feeling
of the New England voter on this ISSUE"
NICHOLS CONFESSION OF