Connecticut western news., 1912-05-30
JERSEY GOES FCR
 I. R. AND WILSON.
Colonel Captures 20 of the
 2S Delegates.
RETURNS ARE INCOMPLETE
President Taft Is Badly Defeated In New Jersey - tt~ Gets Good Vote In Committing Sections Roosevelt Victory About 2 to i.

Defeated In New Jersey - t4o Gets.
 Good Vote In commutino Sections
 Roosevelt Victory About 2 to l.
 Colonel Roosevelt won n sweeping rictory at the primaries in the state nf New Jersey over President Taft. While early returns were incomplete, the indications were that of the twen- ty-eight delegates elected to the na- tsonal convention twenty-six of them have been instructed for Roosevelt.
 Governor Wilson got the Democratic vote. and he has majority of the delegates Throughout the state the vote was light probably TO per cent of that cast on election day. On the basis of the returns 1t was estimated that Roosevelt had beaten Taft about 2ia to 1.
 Early returns received at Trenton showed that Roosevelt had carried the Second, Third. Fourth and Seventh congressional districts. 1t Is likely that President Taft carried the sixth congressional district, while the Fifth was in doubt. @. 10
 In Hudson county there was a sweep for Roosevelt and Wilson. They car ried the delegates from the Eleventh and Twelfth congressional districts ns we'll as part of the Eighth district.
 George l.. Record, the leader of the progressives in Jersey City, said that the vote would be three and one-half to one for Roosevelt. At the Taft head quarters In Hoboken If was conceded that Roosevelt had won the county by vote of two to one Mayor Wittpen, leader of the Wilson forces in Jersey City, predicted that the plurality for Wilson in Hudson county would be IB,0O0.
 It was practically conceded that 1 Colonel Roosevelt had captured the delegates at large. They are John F. Fort Everett Colby. Frank B. Joss and Edgar B. Bacon. #..
 Former Senator James Smith, IT.. who has been one of the strongest op- ponents of Governor Wilson, Is elected a delegate to the national convention from the Ninth district James R Nu- gent, who has been a leader of the anti Wilson forces. is elected n dele gate from the Tenth congressional dis trict He Is also elected as a state com mitteeman. @. H.4
 In fifty districts in Essex county. in- cIuding part of Newark, Roosevelt got 1,0T0 and Taft LAOS votes. This lndi- cated that Colonel Roosevelt carried the county by 2,500. In the same dis trict the Smith and Nugent forces had beaten Governor Wilson by about to l, which indicated that Governor VII son would lose the county by about 5000. The men in charge of the po- litical headquarters also 1Eure that the Wilson delegates in the Eighth. Ninth and Tenth congressional dis tricts were defeated. ....
 In Burlington county the vote show ed that Roosevelt and Wilson had car ried the county by about to l. Tn Bayonne little interest was taken In the primary. but the Roosevelt forces had knocked out the Taft delegates by . to l. The Wilson forces won by about the same figures, Roosevelt carried the city of Elizabeth apparent ly by . to 1. Tn Paterson the Taft forces conceded that Roosevelt had carried the city. Ex-Senntor John Hinchcliffe. one of the Wilson dele gates. ran far ahead of the other dele gates