The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-05-23
ROOSEVELT and
Hartman IN LEAD

Columbus, Ohio, Hay 22.-With ait.
tie more than one-tnird OF the total
vote in the state counted at / o'clock
TINS morning, Colonel Koosevelt's del.
egates ON the Republican ticket ana
Governor Harmon on the Democratic
preference Dallot led Ohio's first
presidential preference primary. The
fight On botn tickets was so close,
however, that complete returns may
cnange final results.
Complete returns from slightly less
than 1900 precincts of 5,192 in the
state showed that Colonel Roosevelt s
delegates had lead of more than
1900 votes. Governor Harmons lead
over Woodrow Wilson was much less
than this.
The closeness of this race Will
Wilson was indicated by late reports
from Cincinnati, Governor Harmon 8
home city. Here the Ohio governor.
who had been well in the lead in
the early returns, was shown to have
1854 votes and Wilson 1904 in 100
precincts out of total of 361.
A peculiar situation developed Ia
the compilation of the results. This
showed that while Colonel Roosevelt
had lead of $4,000 in the total
nutnhar NJ vntao coat for daIauot n,
pledged to him the vote by districts
would be such that he probably
would not have more than twenty-six
of the forty-two district delegates 10
the national convention. But while
the Democratic presidential vote was
so close, the result could not be
foretold.
The indications were that Governor
Harmon would have at least twenty.
two or twenty-four of The delegates to
the Baltimore convention. The priv.
ilege OF naming the six delegates-at
large of the state, however, is carried
by the winner of the presidential pref.
erence vote.
OF the congressional districts, Colo,
mel Roosevelt apparently has won the
delegates in the fourth, sixth, ninth,
tenth. eleventh. twelfth, fourteenth
fifteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth,
nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-flrst
districts. President Taft practically
has been granted the first, second,
third, probably the fifth, seventh,
eighth aud thirteenth.
The sixteenth district remained II
doubt, although both sides claimed i.
Roosevelt supporters also claim two
or three of the districts listed for MI.
Taft.
Despite the close fight between Taft
and Roosevelt forces, Senator La
Toilette received much support, par
ticularly in Cleveland and Toledo dig
tricts, where he was credited with
several thousand votes. In Wood
county, near Toledo, Senator La Fol.
lette ran second to Colonel Roosey cit.
Mr.. Bryan and Speaker Clark, al
though their names were not on the
Democratic ballot, received scatter.
ing vote In many precincts.
Cincinnati. Cleveland. Toledo and
Columbus, Dayton and dozen other
large cities furnished the greater POI
ton of the last nights returns. BE.
cause of the complexity of the pri-
mary ballot, the count in rural dist.
riots was unusually slow.
II is doubtful II complete returns
will be in the hands of the election
officials by noon tomorrow. In add.
tion to being slow, all reports indicate
that the rural vote was comparatively
small.
Because of bad weather farmers
were loath to leave their fields and IN
every rural precinct leaders found it
difficult to get out large vote. Some
of the cities also reported that tle
poll was much under registration
figures.