New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-22

La 0lleCLe DOeS well
Columbus, Ohio, May % "wednesday.
With little more than one-thrd Of the
total vote in the state counted AZ
o'clock this morning, Colonel Rooseve'ts
delegates on the Republican ticket ana I
Governor Harmon on the Democratic 4
preference ballot led Ohios first Presi- .
Dental preference primary. The Eght .
on both tickets was SO close. however.
that complete returns may change final
results.
Complete returns from slightly fewer
than 1000 precincts Of 5,1o2 in the state
showed that Colonel RooseVelts dele
oates had a lead Of more than $1,000
votes.
Governor Harmons lead over Wood
row Wilson was much less than this.
The closeness Of his race with W!lso1
was indicated by late reports from Gin
cinnati. Governor Harmons home city
} Here the Ohio Governor. who had been
well in the lead in the early returns,
was shown to have 1854 votes and WI
son 1901 in 10 precincts out Of total
/ of 361.
Colonel May Get Only rs Of AZ.
/ 4 peculiar situation developed in the
compilation of the results This showed
/ that while Colonel Roosevelt had LEAD
of II 600 in the total number Of votes cast
for delegates pledged to him. the vote
bv districts would be such that he prob
ably would not have more than twenty
six of the forty-two district delegates
I 70 the national convention at Chicago.
Rut while the Democratic Presidential
vote was so close that the result could
NOT he foretold, the indications were that
Governor Harmon would have at least
TWENTY-FIVE or twenty-four OF the dele
gates to the Baltimore convention. Inc
privilege of naming the six delegates-at-
! large Of the state. however. is carried
nv tho winner of the Presidential prefer
! enCe vote.
OF the Congress districts, Colonel
Roosevelt apparently has won the dele
gates in the 4th, 9th, 9th, 10Th. llth' l-tn'
18th. 10Th. 18th, 18th, 18th, 10Th and 2lst
| districts.
President Taft practically has gained
the lst. I'd, Sd, probably the oth' 'tn'
Sth and 18th districts.
The 18th District remained IN DOUBT
! although both sides claims II. Roose-
Welt supporters also claim two or tnreo
of the districts listed for Mr.. Tart.
! Despite the close fight between too
Taft and Roosevelt forces on the Hepub-
lican ticket, United States Senator La
! Toilette. of Wisconsin, received flu'h
support. particularly in Cleveland ana
/ Toledo precincts, where he was credited
with several thousand votes. In WOOD
/ County, near Toledo, Senator La Folleus
ran second to Colonel Roosevelt.
| Mr.. Bryan and Speaker Champ Clark.
! although their names were not IN the
Democratic ballot, received a scattering
vote throughout many precincts in tho
state.
Vote Greatest in Cities.
cincinnati. Cleveland, Toledo, Column
bus, Dayton and "A dozen more ot tuo
larger cities in the state furnished the
greater portion of to-nights returns
Because of the compleXity Of the pr,-
mary ballot the count i'm rural districts
was unusually slow. 1t is doubtful IL
complete returns from all sections OF
the state will be in the hands OF the
election officials by noon to-day. In an
dition TO being slow, all reports indicate
that the rural vote was comparatively
small Because OF bad weather almost
ND 10 this time. the farmers were loath
TO leave their fields and in every rural
precinct leaders found IL difficult % got
out a large vote. Some of the cities also
reported that the poll was greatly un-
der registration figures.
President Taft's manager L. c. lay
lin. was bitter in his summary II tho
primary result. He said:
Misrepresentation and prejudice
against President Taft took early root
in Ohio The results in Illinois and
PENNSYLVANIA encouraged the opposition.
but a great change and trend TO Mr.
Taft have occurred in the last ten days
Another weeks deliberations would have
meant a sweeping victory for the Pres
ident.
Taft May Get Delegates. at Large.
"Meagre returns indicate that Mr.. Tat
will have the state convention and the
delegates at large. Probably Mr.. Roose-
welt will have a majority of the district
delegates. 1t is simply impossible to-
night 10 make an accurate statement or
summary Of the results"
Walter Brown, chairman of the state
central committee, and manager Of M.
Roosevelt's state campaign, declared his
belief that Colonel Roosevelt had swep.
everything except the Cincinnati cis-
tricts and possibly mere handful "
country districts.
On the Democratic side, Governor Has.