The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-23
Roosevelt Maintains His
Overwhelmi g Lead
in Ohio.
FIGHT NOW GOES
TO CONVENTION
Presidents Managers Claim They
VIII Control and Give Him the
Delegates-at-Large-Whirl-
wind Campaign in New
Jersey Will Start
To-Day.

Columbus, Ohio. May 22-According
to returns in hand tonight from ap-
proHimately i.5Vo of the 5.l92 prcc nets
in ths state Colonel Theodore Rooze-
velts delegates to the National Repub-
lican Convention carried yesterdays
ohio primary by plurality OF about
25.ooo votes It now seems scarcely
possible that final results from the pri-
mary Will change the number % DIS
tTict delegates FOR either side BY more
than one or two. The best figures
available tonight show that Roosevelt
mas thirty-two OF the forty-two district
delegates selected yesterday. and that
President Taft has ten
Although later returns on the DEM
ocratic presidential preference primary
vote give Woodrow Wilson fighting
. chance for one or tTo more delegates
the New Jersey mans exact standing
VIII not be known for several days
when certain belated rural returns
have been secured fom dilatory electio n
officials. who failed 10 complete the
count before taking 4 nights sleep.
However. Governor Harmon practically
is assured delegation of forty-eight
delegates to tho Baltimore convention.
Also it is said that the convention will
provide for the unit rule. which VIII
force the Wilson delegates selected by
districts YESTERDAY to vote for the Ohio
Executive.
Curry Fight 10 cunrentiou
The delegatc-at-large situation in
the Republican party Will not be known
or settled until the State Repubiican
Convention is convened here The Taft
leaders claim that they will control tho
convention and name the dele gates at
large for the President iSGt tn .
Roosevelt manager declared that late
I
cGates TO the state convention to he
winding instead OF increasing. az was
announced early to-day. There is no
/ question but titst the Taft Roosevelt
/ fight viii be carried onto the floor OF
the state convention when The inal
struggle in ohio VIII be made for the
lialf-'lozen Delegates at-large.
In only twenty-thr,.. of the eighty
eight counties in the State were DELI
gates TO the state convention chosen.
In the remaining counties the delegates
| Will be named by county conventions.
Even in the matter of district dele
gates an official count will h.. neces-
sary - determine the exact results.
An instance Of this sor; arose to-day-
in the Thirteenth Congressional Dis.
| trict (Sandusky). where late returns,
vided almost evenly between Taft and
Roosevelt delegates and Harmon and
Wilson. Early hsures gave the tn,
delegates In this distrlc, on the Re
| publican ticket TO Mr.. Taft Colonel
Roosevelt, may now ge, enc OF the del
egates and thus increase his total OF
district delegates to thirty three. This
| would leave Mr.. Taft nine delegates.
An analysis made tonight OF the re-
| capitulated Roosevelt vote shows that
I the Roosevelt strength was not con
| fined to any particular section of the
| state or TO any particular class OF
citizens. He carried mining and indus
trial sections. such as the Hockinr
| Valley. as we'll as some of the oloe S;
! and most conservative urban communi-
| ties In the state. Added TO these was
much strength among the farmers. In
| Adams county. where more than 1900
voters were disfranchised not long ago
| for vote selling, Roosevelt had con-
| siderable plurality. A town with a
prophetic name, White House in Lucas
county. gave Roosevelt twenty-one
votes and Taft i've. Roosevelt mana.
gers seized upon this incident as har-
/ binger of good fortune