The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-04-15

> yotes."-statement at Woodrow .
Wilson headquarters. .
Speaker Clark's friends OK :
pected little and made practically .
no hight In Pennsylvania. The
votes. at Champ .
Clark's headquarters. .
. = . 4
Hxty-dve Certain.
Phiiadelphia. April 15.-colonel
IN Pennsylvania at Saturdays prim-
ary election grew today az the returns
continued to come in.
incomplete returns from every dis
trtct give the former president sixty
tve OF tho states seventy six delegates
~ the republican national convention.
Iho Roosevelt supporters are claiming
slxty-ssven and later returns may car
fy the ngures to that total. Colonel
Roosevelt Won h1ty-thres of the sixty
TOUR district national delegates and his
followers elected enough delegates to
tho state convention to give them con.
troll OF that body. The state conven-
tton Will name twelve delegates at
large.
Governor Woodrow Wilson Of New
Jersey. who had no organized opposi-
tion. will have seventy-four OF the
Seventy-six delegates from Pennsyl-
vania IA tha democratic national con
Ventyon. In the eleventh congression.
q distfact the two democratic national
4els6atee elected are favorable to
Governor Judsbn Harmon but they
arc not pledged.
PoNticians look upon the triumph Of
Colonel Roosevelt with astonishment.
The supporters Of the former president
were without state organization or
without an organization in many Of
the thirty-two congressional districts.
The regular republican organization
headed BY United States Senator Boies
Penfose. which has withstood the fury
OF many 9 political storm. received q
crushing defeat in the loss Of control
Of the state convention. It is the first
time In the present generation that It
has lost control Of that body.
In addition to naming the twelve
delegates at large to Chicago, the con-
yention will select thirty-eight presi-
Dental electors, four candidates for
congressman at large. and candidates
al, all to be voted for at the November
election.
The significance of the Roosevelt
victory can be realized when It Is re-
membered that the delegates in con-
troll OF the state convention have the
power to select the state chairman and
under the party rules the delegation to
the national convention elects the ma
tional Committeeman. At present
Senator Penrose holds both positions.
1t was said by prominent member
OF the state committee last night that
some OF the Roosevelt delegates elect
ed to the state convention are regular
organization men who while voting for
Roosevelt delegates will still stand by
the state Organization.
The vote polled was light. In some
districts 1t did not go much over fifty
per cent Of the vote at the last general
election. Colonel Roosevelt is said to
have received his heaviest vote from
the reform element represented by the
Keystone party, which succeeded in
slecting reform mayor in Philadel-
phia last year.
Another element of strength of the
Roosevelt forces was the 10000 idle
anthracite miners among whom the
former president ran strong.
Some Of Those Saved.
In Philadelphia President Taft's ad-
herents captured three of the six dis
tricts and split the delegation in an
other. giving the president seven dele
gates to Roosevelt's Ave. The dele
gates favoring Taft were not instruct.
ed. Among those who escaped the
Roosevelt storm were John Wanamak-
er and q. T. Stotesbury. who were
elected ~ Taft delegates in the Sec
ond district.
In Allegheny county. which includes
Pittsburg. Colonel Roosevelt captured
all the eight delegates In the four dis
trtcts: Among them IL William Flinn.
who has fought the regular state or.
ganixation for years.
Wilson Gets State.
Governor Wilson had an easy time
In winning seventy-four Of the seven.
ty.six delegates to the Baltimore con.
vention.
There were a few scattered dele.
rates who favored Champ Clark, and
IN three districts there were delegates
IN favor Of Harmon. Two Harmon
delegste! appear to have won. but. they
ara not Instructed,
Figures at hand indicate that the
"reorganised" democratic faction,
headed by George w. Guthrie Of Pitts
burg and Congressman A. Mitchell
Palmer. elected majority Of their.
deleGates in opposition to the regular
organization headed by James n. Guf-
fey. Each faction has called q state
convention at Harrisburg on the same