Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-03-27
NEW YORK ALMOST
SOLID FOR PRES. TAFT
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mere, and the results of the election
We're considerably delayed.
William Barnes, Jr, chairman of
the Republican State committee claim
ed at 10 o'clock that the opposition
BY the highest possible estimate,
would not win more than seven out
of the 80 delegates which New York
State is entitled to.
County Chairman Samuel S. Koe-
mig claimed victory in his own district
by 4 vote of $50 to 20 and declared
that The returns from about 10 per
cent. of the election districts indicat-
ed a ratio of voting of about TO /
against the opposition He claimed the
election of organization delegates in
every district.
After the polls had closed at 9 O'Clock
IN some instances, only about half an
hour after they had opened. on ac-
count of the delay in the delivery of
pa!lets, Roosevelt supporters said that
the mixup would lay the ground for a
contest as to the validity OF the cleo
tlon 1t was the first trial of the first
primary law, and the working of il
had been looked to with special inter-
est on this account. Ballots in many
of the districts ranged from 10 to II
feet long, and so great had been the
haste to get them to the polling places
that in some cases the ballots were in
sections, there having been lack OF
time 10 paste them together.
The Democrats who elected delegates
only to their state convention. and
members of organization committees.
hnd 81 ~. II
but the Republican Independence
League voters and Prohibition voters
were in many instances obliged to give
up their plan of voting on account Of
the long delay in the arrival of bal
lots. There was no disorder of import :
ance, the voters seeming to have suf-
| ficient satisfaction by venting thoir
| complaints in ridicule of the system.
County Chairman koenig declared
| during the night that his organization
was in no wise to blame for ballot
| nixups and other persons said the
| printers had been embarrassed by tho
| unusual size of the ballots and han
dieapped by nth hour litigation which
| the Roosevelt committee instituted
over the question of positions on the
| ballots.
| In certain election districts of the third
| assembly district no ballots We're receiv
| ed at ALL according to the report of tn.
| county committee Instances where they
| were not received until some time afte
or shortly before the polls closed at =
| were numerous throughout the city an,
| Brooklyn. AS to the exact lineup of del
egates, all statements given out at TIL
Republican county headquarters ex
| pressed the contest as between TAT
| and Roosevelt" This is because tn
| county organization has endorsed Presi
| dent Taft and claims that all the dele
| gates nominated by the party commit
tee in the various districts are in favo
of President Taft's denomination.
In accordance with the primary law
| however, none of the delegates is spe
officially instructed.
County Chairman Koenig, late this eve
ming, got the White House on the lon
distance telephone and told Secretar
Hilles that President Taft had swep
New York county and that not NOR
than three or four out of $50 electio
districts in the county had given plural
tiles for the Roosevelt nominees
The secretary said in reply that tn
| President was much pleased that Ne,
| Work county had Gonna IN biu c,,ppo,4