New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-23

Columbus, Ohio. May 22.-According
TO returns in hand tonight from practi-
cally all OF the 1892 preincts OF the
state. Theodore Roosevelts delegates
to the Republican National Convention
carried yesterdays Ohio primaries by a
plurality of about $4,000 votes. II seems
hardly possible that final results from
the primary poll will change the number
OF district delegates for either side by
more than one or two. The best figures
available tonight show that Roosevelt
has 81 of the II district delegates Sc
lected yesterday and that President Taft
has 10
The official count, which will begin -
morrow, is expected 10 make difference
Of one or two votes in both OF the parties.
on the face of the returns tonight the
returns in one or two districts are So
close that the official count will be neces-
sary to decide which Of the candidates
has won.
The delegate-at-large situation in the
Republican party will not be known or
settled until June /, when the Republi-
can State Convention will be held here.
Taft leaders claim that they will control
the state convention and designate the
delegates at-large for the President, bur
the Roosevelt managers declare that lat
returns show the number Of Taft dele
gates 10 the state convention 10 be
dwindling instead of increasing. There
is no question that the Taft Roosevelt
fight will be carried 10 the floor of the
state convention. when the final strug-
gle in Ohio will be made for the half
dozen delegates-a t-large.
Few County Delegates.
In only twenty-three Of the eighty
eight counties in the state were delegates
to the state convention chosen. In th3
remaining counties the delegates will be
named by county conventions.
Even in the matter of district dele
gates an official count will be necessary
10 determine exact results. An instance
OF this sort arose to-day I'm the 18Th
Congress District GSandusky), where lato
returns Indicate that the district will
he divided almost evenly between Taft
and Roosevelt delegates and Harmon
and Wilson. Early figures gave the two
delegates in this district on the Repub.
lican ticket TO Mr.. Taft. Colonel Roose-
welt may get one of the delegates and
thus increase his total Of district dele
gates 10 SO. This would leave Mr.. Tai:
9 delegates.
An ANALYSIS made tonight Of the
Roosevelt vote shows that the Roosevelt
strength was not confined TO any partic.
ular section of the state or 10 any par
ticular class OF citizens.
In Adams County. where more than
/. 800 voters were disfranchised not long
ago for vote selling, Roosevelt had a
considerable plurality. town with a
significant name, Whtehouse, in Lucas
County, gave Roosevelt 21 votes and
Taft 3 Roosevelt managers seized upon
this incident as a harbinger of good
fortune.
Harmons Victory Assured.
Although late returns on the Demo
cratic Presidential preference primary
vote give Woodrow Wilson a fightms
the New Jersey Governors exact stand.
ing will not be known for several dag
when certain belated rural returns ha' .
been obtained from dilatory judges who
refuse to complete the counts IN the"
precincts before taking nights sieep.
Governor Harmon, however, practically
is assured a complete delegation OF
forty-eight delegates to the Baltimore
convention. His lead now gives him
control Of the State Democratic Con-
yention, which will select six delegates
at-large II is said the convention VIII
provide for the unit rule, which Will
force the Filson district delegates to rose
for the Ohio executive.
Walter F. Brown, chairman of the Re
publican State Central Committee, issued
the following statement:
ont OF the forty-two national delegates
apportioned to Ohio's twenty-one Congress