Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-22
TO THE LAST DITCH
TAFT Plans to Resume His
Fight for the Nomination,
GOES NEXT TO NEW JERSEY
Proposes to Carry on a Vigorous
Campaign There.
TO SPEAK UNTIL POLLS OPEN
Declines to Comment on the Ohio
Returns Until He Gets Deh-
mite Figures.
GOES NEXT TO NEW JERSEY
TO SPEAK UNTIL POLLS OPEN

wearing his old smile as usual, Presi-
| oent Tart got or his train at s:45 o'clock
'his morning at the Union station and al
| once proceeded to the White House. To
those or his party who talked with him
at the station the President showed him.
seI game loser so far as his home state
goes. He declined to comment for publi-
cation upon the Ohio returns, reseryiny
anything he may have to say until he
J gets definite figures
Back OF the Presidents smile is a grim
determination to carry the fight to the
| iast ditch. and to that end he today made
dnoitional engagements for his campaign
tour OF New Jersey that will keep him
taking there up to within one hour of the
opening OF the polls for the presidential
primary election next Tuesday.
All precedents are broken in this action
oi tne president In the past election
eHorts and speeches have ceased the
night before election day, but the Presi-
dent will knock precedent in the head bv
talking until noon, the polls opening at
1 O'Clock.
Enough to Nominate Claimed.
The White House was absolutely con-
ndent today that the President will hs
nominated on the first ballot at Chicago
1t was pointed out there, though unoth-
ciaily, that the delegates elected for Taft
in Ohio are just that many to the good
and that the President already had mora
ihan enough TO nominate him without
the ones picked up in his home state.
Although the President would have pre-
Ierreo a ciean-cut victory IN his home
state, the election figures il IS stated
show that he has done much better here
than Roosevelt did n New York, where
! money was spent freely to give him =
majority OF the delegates
The Taft people get q great deal of
satisfaction from the fact that the Presl-
dents campaign in the state had begun
10 turn sentiment toward him, although
| 1t was too late 1t is demonstrated TO the
satisfaction of the President, il is de-
clared. that where the people under
stand first-hand the issues they are not
so easily swept on their feet by the ap-
| peals OF COL Roosevelt. 1t was asserted
today by men who followed President
TAFT through the Ohio campaign that if
he had not gone there he would not have
gotten over four to six delegates.
Sensational Fight Indicated.
The Presidents New Jersey fight will
be just as sensational as that in Ohio.
He will speak in every county OF the
state. and will speak as vigorously as he
did in the Buckeye state. His Ohio fight
had a big influence on his followers. Civ
ing them spirit and backbone and the
New Jersey fight will be made as much
for the purpose of heartening the Taft
delegates already elected to the national
convention as il will be directed to getting
delegates In that state
Mr. Taft will begin his New Jersey
tour tomorrow, leaving here shortly
after o'clock in the morning and
reaching Philadelphia at 1890 o'clock.
He will open the International Naviga-
ton Congress at the Metropolitan
Opera House and receive the foreign
delegates. After noon he will have
luncheon with the grand master OF
Pennsylvania Masons. and at the Ma
sonic Temple in the afternoon he VIII
witness the conferring Of degrees.
Jersey, speaking at Camden. Burling-
ton and Trenton. where he will spend
the night Friday and Saturday he
will be on the go all the time. resum-
ing the fight Monday and continuing
right up to the beginning Of the bal.
loting Tuesday.
Party Division in New Jersey.
Reports from New Jersey are that the
Roosevelt people have a perfect organiza-
ton In every county and have spent thou
sands of dollars in getting ready for the
FRAY. They seem to be as plentifully sup
plied with cash as they have been every
where else. The Taft people claim that
they will win a big majority Of the dele-