Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-06-07
ROOSEVELT AND
WILSON Win
Colonel and Governor Sweep
New Jersey by Large PIuraIities
FARM DISTRICTS FOR TAFT
Smith-Nusent Opposition to Governor
Was Only Strong in Spots-la
Toilette Vote Light-Vote was
Only SO Per Cent.

Trenton, N. J.-Sweeping victories
were scored by Col. Roosevelt over
President Taft and by Gov. Wilson
over the "uninstructed" Democratic
opposition in the New Jersey Presi-
dental primaries.
Roosevelt captured the delegates to
the national convention. For time it
looked as if President Taft might have
six delegates, but later returns swept
these districts from his list.
The vote on both the preferential
and district delegates was about the
same in the two parties.
About so per cent of the registered
Republican vote of the State was cast
at the primaries, the polls for which
opened at l p. m. and closed at p. m.
On the Democratic side only one
third of the registered vote was cast,
and the interest was very much less
keen than in the Republican contest,
because Woodrow Wilson was unop-
posed by any other candidate.
Gov. Wilson carried the State by a
towering majority. In the preferential
place on the ballot Gov Wilson ran
without rival, but the Smith-Nugent
machine in the Democratic organiZa-
tion, which had placed in the field un-
instructed delegates at large and dis
trict delegates against Gov. Wilson,
sustained crushing defeat. Only two
of the Congress districts in Essex
County, the SmithNugent stronghold
elected delegates not pledged 10 Gov.
Wilson.
The Endorsement given Col. Roose-
welt was even more pronounced than
that for the New Jersey Governor
President Taft was badly beaten in al
most every county. The delegates-at
large will be for Roosevelt, having
been elected on the same ballot as the
district delegates.
In some of the districts Col. Roose-
welt received ten votes to every one
cast for the President. But in both
parties the vote was very light.
Little interest and no disorder char
acter .zed the contest. The vote for
Senator La Toilette was negligible
The President showed his greatest
strength in the farming districts. In
one of Il e towns in which he spoke,
within few minutes of the opening
of the polls, he was beaten by 40 to 1.
Col. Roosevelt carried Jersey City by
3,7O0 over the President. He also
swept the Oranges, Montclair, Eliza
beth, Newark, Paterson, Atlantic City,
Cape May, Bayonne and Hackensack.
Roosevelt carried the 5th Congress
District, made up of Union and Morris
counties, by small vote. The vote
in Union, the bailiwick Of Senator
John Kean, was close.
Roosevelt carried Mercer. the home
of United States Senator Briggs, by a
majority sufficient to give him the 4th
Congress District He carried the 1st
District, comprised of Camden, Glou-
ester and Salem counties, which had
been deemed a sure Taft district. He
swept Passaic County, the 7th Con-
gress District, by to l vote, despite
the great showing made in Passaic
and Paterson for President Taft when
he spoke there.
The delegates at large elected for
Col. Roosevelt are John Franklin Fort,
Everett Colby, Frank B. Jess and Ed
gar B. Bacon The delegates at large
| for Gov Wilson are James E. MARITIME.
| John w. Westcott. Nicholas p Wedin
and John Hinchliffe.