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Managers Of Taft and Roosevelt
Concede Senator Has Carried
Presidential Primaries.
PLURALITY MAY Be LARGE
Claims of 5000 to 10000 Made
Charges That Democrats De.
feated the Colonel Are
' Derided.

Fargo, y. D., March Ex-senator Rober.
NJ. La Toilette to-day carried the presi-
tai preferential primaries In North Da-
kota over Theodore Roo evel, and Presi-
dent Taft.
Frank Talcott, chairman Of the republi-
can state committee. and John f. Bass
manager OF the Roosevelt campaign in
this State, notified Senator Joseph NJ.
Dixon at Washington late o-night that in
their opinion Senator La Toilette had car
r!ed the primaries. Neither made a pre-
diction as to La Follette's plurality but
defeated.
This decision was reached by the Roose-
Welt managers after nearly complete re-
turns had been received from Is Of the 4,
counties In the State
doing over the figures from these Is
counties, the Roosevelt men conceded lC
OF them to La Toilette outright listed
two others as about even and claimed
six counties for their candidates.
With these figures as a basis it was de-
cided that there were not enough Roose-
Welt votes on the western slope 20 bal
ance the heavy poll for La Toilette in
the eastern portion Of the State.
Even in some portions Of the COW coun-
try, La Toilette ran even or better
Roosevelt carried Medora, his former
home. ~ to l3
With Grand Forks. Valley City. Devils
Lake, Minot and others of the larger
cities listed for La Toilette by the re-
turns. 1t seemed that the Wisconsin sena-
tors plurality would be large.
CLAIM $4,000 TO 10000
Leaders Of the La toilette movement,
sent a telegram to Senator La Fol
lette aboard a train on his way from
North Dakota to Washington. stain
that he had won the preference pri-
maries by from $4,000 to 10000 votes
The La Toilette men declared that
they would admit no smaller margin
Of votes
President Taft drd not figure prom
inently in the contest.
Because of tine difficulty in securing
accurate complete returns from many
isolated quarters of tho State 1t is
doubtful IL the total vote In all Of the
1900 precincts will be known until
late tomorrow.
John F. Bass. in statement to-
night issued before the returns fore
ed a conclusion that La Toilette had
won. said:
Our reports indicate that practi-
cally all the democrats have voted for
La Toilette and this has run up the
early returns for him in the eastern
and valley section Of the state where
La Toilette Is running ahead about 2
to /. II the democrats had stayed out
of the republican primary there is no
question that Roosevelt would have
won"
BETTER THAN SENATOR EXPECTED
Chicago. March 19.-"Thats better
even than expected" Senator Kober'
NJ. La Toilette said upon his arrival here
tonight from Devils Lake n. D.. when
he was shown early returns from the
North Dakota presidential preference
primary election. II am glad to see that
the so-called COW country returned the
results 1t did. My friends in that State
cannot be fooled by mere talk and Nortt
Dakota csn't be shaken from its prog
ressive trend"
80 Mr.. Bass says many democrat:
voted for me and thus defeated the PEG
pie from expressing their desires did he
In a number OF those precincts Their,
aren't many democrats. suppose the,
will have the cows voting for me to over
ride the will Of the people. That's Al
good an explanation as the other ane
about as likely.
Generally, I say now only what hav,
said all along. that people are considsr
ing principles In this contest and they
are ignoring all else than progressive
principles They consider men only In 80
far as they believe tho individuals. by
cir past and present actions may be cx'
pected with most reason to carry out pro
gressive ideas.
II never have been president and hence
have had no opportunity to handle the
growing trend Of the big interests toward
ignoring absolutely any consideration for
the rights OF the people
But there are those who have been
president and who have had that oppor-
tunity. Indeed there were two Of them
on the ballots in North Dakota. May
say with pardonable satisfaction that the
result as shown by these reports are very
encouraging to one who Is making q hght
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