Arizona republican., 1912-05-02
Massachusetts Stands by MT. Taft in Prefer ential Primaries
 of Tuesday
GETS ALL BUT
 FIVE DISTRICTS
Roosevelt Men Renounce Instructions and Fight Will Go to the
 Convention
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boS oN, MdS 1.-1He TeluSdl Of the republican delegates at large to accept Roosevelt's decision today that they should vote for President Taft at the Chicago convention, has fur ther complicated the situation arising from the state primary yesterday. The situation is acknowledged by par ty leaders to be without a parallel. Although republicans of the state Se- lected President Taft as their can- didate for renomination by a ma
 jority vote of 3605 over Roosevelt on the presidential preference ballot, at
 the same time they elected the en-
 tire slate of eight delegates at large pledged to the former president. Col Onel Roosevelt secured ten delegates in the district elections, and Taft car
 ried nine districts, so that Roosevelt and Taft each have eighteen dele gates from the state to the national convention. A similar situation is
 created on the democratic ticket.
 Speaker Champ Clark had no pledged delegates on the ticket won a two to one victory over Governor Wilson in the presidential preference contest. At the same time the delegates at large are pledged to Governor Foss, though the name of FosS did not appear in the presidential preference column
 The Roosevelt followers have an- nounced their intention asking a re-
 count in the Eighth district. while Taft men will do likewise in the Ninth on account of the closeness of the vote. In his request to the delegates at l large, Roosevelt declared it is his wish they abide by the will of the people. and that, therefore, the delegates, though elected as pledged to him, should vote for Taft, who received the presidential preference vote. One by one, the delegates as heard from to- day protested that under no circum- stances would they cast their ballots other than as pledged. Charles s. Baxter. who heads the delegation, said he always had been a Roosevelt man. was elected as a Roosevelt man, and expected to continue a Roosevelt sup porter Arthur L. Mason and George w. Coleman declared they would ab- solutely refuse to abide by any such request" James P Magenis took po- sition he was elected as a Roosevelt l ueltSdlt dIlu COu1u oCC i1O Hoy OA S's~A ing the decision. Other delegates ex- pressed themselves similarly.
 Both Roosevelt and Taft headquar- 1 ters' managers remained silent tonight | on the announcement of Roosevelt. A 1 slightly different interpretation of the primary law as respecting district i delegates was brought forward by Judge TEoma, r. Riley, chairman Of 1 the democratic state committee. Judge Riley said all district delegates should l vote for the candidate of their party 1 who carried the presidential prefer i ence vote of their state, whatever their | pledges, unless the vote whereby they were elected as pledged delegates nap pened to be greater than the vote Of the district given to the opposition l candidate who received the presiden- tial preference choice
 A contest which she managers of the Taft campligl l promise to carry to the very doors of the convention is neces- 1 sary is threatened as a result of the | independent candidacy of Frank Sic berlch of Boston. Sieberlich was not
 on the regular slate of Taft delegates, l but ha,! lis name entered on the bal lot as an independent, pledged to Taft. The name was placed immediately above the slate of eight jelegates-at-
 large. also pledged to Taft, a that many voters, following down the col umn. voted for the Lame of Sieberlich as well as the eight others pledged to
 Taft thus marking nine names. On
 the ground this nlal king invalidated
 the ticket. hundreds of votes were
 thrown out by counters "a citi: S and
 towns all over the state. the number running as high as 300 or 400, 1t is
 said, in New Bedford, Gloucester and
 Lynn Taft rlanagers claim the loss
 to the Tai. ballot is So heavy from
 this case that hte president would
 have won the entire list of eight dele
 gates at large had the full vote been
 counted. besides securing delegates in
 some of the more closely contested dis tricts They contend that inasmuch as
 the delegates names were marked sep
 arately the intent of the voter was l shown anI that all ballots so marked
 should be counted, emitting the name 1 on. the liSt of the nine which received
 the smallest vote.