Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-05-22

HARMON's PLURALITY $4,000.
Wilson's Campaign Managers Claim
at Least Nine Districts With Two
Others Dubtful.

Columbus, Ohio, May 22-Returns
when were still incomplete early this
afternoon, confirmed the early reports
of Roosevelt landslide in Ohio. They
indicate that the colonel will have
at least thirty-one Of the forty-two
district delegates in the state.
Columbus, O., May 22.--With Col.
Roosevelt and Gov. Harmon winners
in yesterdays primaries, interest to-
day ccntered in the final returns which
will show the exact extent of their
victories.
Roosevelt managers today would
not concede that Taft had carried
more than three districtS--the first,
second and third districts--but the
chances were the president would get
one and maybe more. This would
give Roosevelt minimum of thirty
two and Taft maximum Of ten dis
trict delegates.
Harmon carried the state in the
presidential preference vote by Il plu-
raity roughly estimated at $4,000
over Governor Wilson of New Jersey,
but the latter appears to have capter-
ed a number of district delegates. Will
son managers claim at least nine, with
two others doubtful. The Harmon
managers will not conceUe more than
five districts to Wilson.
Harmon's presidential preference
victory gives him the six delegates
at-large from Ohio, who will be named
at the state convention June and 3.
The Republican state convention IN
Columbus June 3 and 4, will select
the Republican Big Six. Walter
Brown, the victorious Roosevelt man
aver said:
while the Roosevelt men have
made no fight for delegates to the
state convention, we expect the state
convention 10 observe the results in
the district primaries. This means
that six delegates at large, instructed
for Roosevelt will be selected"
Chairman Laylin, Taft manager,
said the Taft forces would control
the state convention and send six
Taft men rs delegates at large. This
probably will open another fight be-
tween Roosevelt and Taft.
Latest returns indicate that Harmon
delegates were elected in the first,
second, fifth, eleventh, twelfth, thlr-
teenth. fourteenth, sixteenth and
eighteenth districts, giving him twen-
t. delegates, exclusive of the six at
large.
Wilson appeared to be winner in the
third, fourth, eighth, ninth, tenth, sew
enteeuth, nineteenth, twentieth and
twenty-first. giving him a total OF
eighteen delegates.
Both sides are claiming the sixth
md seventh but returns favor the Har
mon candidates.
All sides agree that final figures on
the different districts may upset the
calculations Of both sides.
The returns are very slow in COM
ing in owing to the large number OF
candidates for local offices in the coun-
ties.
Many of the claims by the Wilson
and Harmon managers are based on
incomplete returns from a few eoun-
ties in EACH district
The Wilson men claim the two del
cmates in the third, + ". HaHie OF
DAYTON and Edward Schngen OF HAM
ilton. These men had no opposition
and were not pledged to either har-
mon or Wilson. Their sympathies
are with Wilson, it is said.
Nalee H&rold and NJ. F. Merrlman'
elected in the tenth are classed as sup
porters of Speaker Clark but are eX-
pected to. give Harmon their votes on
the first ballot.
Senator LaFollette failed to cap
ture q delegate in Ohio. He entered
the contest only in the ninth, twelfth
twentieth and twenty-first districts,
containing Columbus, Toledo ano
Cleveland.
An interesting feature of the re
suits is LaFollette's strength III the
twentieth, comprising one-haif o.
Cleveland. where he ran ahead of Taft
This was true in Medina and Lake
counties and in the country distrlet
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