New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-10
Taft's Maryland Convention to
Support Roosevelt Because
He Won the Preferen-
tiaI Primary Vote.
CONDITION LIKE BAY STATE
Only Opposition to Plan Will Be
Candidacy of Bonaparte as
Delegate Large
Presidents Men in
Full Control.
LRv relesraph 70 The Tribune. J

paItir13re. NAV 9.-It is now certain
that President Taft's friends will con-
,ro, the state convention which meets
,r this city next Tuesday That con-
tro, was clinched to-day by the official
returns from Prince Georges County
which showed the election of four Tart
delegates to the state convention lhe
total votes of President Tafts friends
q, the convention. including the Balu-
more Taft delegates. viii he seventy
one. or six more than majority.
While controlling the convention ana
having power TO elect delegates pledseu
n vote for Roosevelt for nomination FOR
President on the first ballot only and on
succeeding ballots as long as his nomi-
nation is possible, the intention OF the
Presidents friends, so far is known IS
70 give sincere support 10 RooseVelt'
Who received a majority of nearly 4'WH
in the preferential vote in the pri-
maries.
The men suggested to-day as ie!e'
rates-at-large 10 Chicago were Gov
ernor Philips Lee Goldsborough. eX-At
tornev General Charles J. Bonaparte
REPRESENTATIVE Thomas Parran and
Judge John C. Motler.
The state convention. which Will elec'
the four delegates at-large. VIII also
elect two delegates from each Congress
district. a total Of twelve. Colonel r.
c. Darlington. who led the fight in the
state for Colonel Roosevelt, is suggested
as a district delegate.
The Republican organization leaders
will support all except Bonaparte. Ihey
will fight him because Of his V1trloiC
attacks on the President and the federal
oficeholders.
The Roosevelt people have been caus-
ing bitterness by insinuations that the
Taft men will not play fair in the con-
yention.. Chairman Hanna and Gov
ernor Goldsborough both declared to-
day that the Roosevelt men would re-
ceive square deal, and that men would
be chosen for delegates who would sup
port Roosevelt so long as there Is "A
chance for his nomination.
Governor Goldsborough said to-day;
Colonel Roosevelt won the preferential
vote in the primaries in this state last
Monday and the will Of the people should
prevail. ! was on the Taft side ana We
lost. "
! advocate a delegation to the Republican
National Convention at Chicago that viii
carry out TO the utmost degree the wishes
expressed by the ma jority of RepuDlcans
az the poIls and who will vote for Colonel
Roosevelt for President as long as he has
any possible chance of receiving the nomi-
nation. The personnel of these delegates
10 the national convention should proper!
be determined by the delegates III the
state convention.
John B. Hanna. chairman OF the ke-
publican State Central Committee, VINO
heard the Governor make the foregoing
statement, said he indOrsed the Gov
ernor's views.
The Roosevelt men, however, continue
suspicious.
The board Of election supervisors of
this city tonight completed the canvass
OF the vote cast here I'm the Presidential
primary election last Monday. The ofii-
cial figures will not differ materially
from those previously announced Speak
or Clark and Colonel Roosevelt carried
all four legislative districts of Baltimore
by large inajOrities.