The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-05-07

Baltimore, Md, May 6.-Maryland's
16 votes in the national conventions
will be cast for Theodore Roosevelt
and Speaker Champ Clark, unless the
few election districts still TO be heard
from change the result registered to-
day by the states first presidential
primaries. Although the result was
close and Col Roosevelt on the face
of the returns had but one more than
the number of votes necessary to con
troll the state convention, the latest
count tonight did not materially
change the result indicated before
midnight.
The primaries divided the dele
gates to the state convention as fol
lows:
Republicans
Roosevelt. &C.
Taft GO
Democrats:
Clark, 70; Wilson, A; Harmon
four, in doubt nine
Majority necessary to control con
vention. So.
The state delegates elected are
bound to choose a delegation to the
national convention favorable TO the
presidential candidates for whom the
people today expressed their prefer
ence.
Although the popular preference
vote OF the state as whole did no
determine the result, II favored
Roosevelt and Clark by pluralitiel
more conclusive than the division o
state delegates based on the count!
preference vote would have done
This was due largely TO the SWEEP
. which both successful candidates
made in the city of Baltimore.
! Speaker Clark led steadily from
the time the first returns arrive,
: from the Baltimore wards. Early ii
the evening It looked as II Col. Roos,
. welt would win by an equally big ma
iorlty, but shortly before midnight re
turns from the strong Taft countie
in southern and eastern MARYLAND
put the president suddenly aheal
with SO delegates TO his opponent
81. 1t was Prince Georges count
that decided. Both sides claimed II
five votes until conclusive return
shortly after midnight placed IL 4
the Roosevelt column.
Clark's preferential vote In thi
' city was greater than that OF Hal
| mon and Wilson combined lie d,
| feated Wilson by nearly TO | an
| the New Jersey governor was ahea
| OF Gov. Harmon by 2 to /.
The sweeping Clark success in Ba
| tlmore was a victory for the demo
| cratic organization. In the repub
can primary here the Roosevelt oil
ganization downed the regular reput
lican organization led by Collector O
the Port William +. Stone.
Under the Maryland law the afil
ated voters Of the two parties IN
structed the delegates to the stat
convention by the preference vote O
each county a majority OF this vot
In a county instructed that county
delegates accordingly.
The delegates to the state CONVEX
ton must vote as instructed for
solid delegation to the national col
vention. This means that the success,
ful candidates carry 10 the nationa
convention l6 votes in a block boun
by the law to stand by them as Ion
as In their conscientious judgmen
there is possibility Of his beln
nominated.
| The Taft leaders claim that IA
FIVE Taft delegates chosen in Bait
more city, although Obliged by thel
instructions to vote for Roosevelt
may give the Taft sympathizers col
troll OF the state convention and 81
able them 10 elect delegates to IN
national convention who would b
ready to abandon Roosevelt as 500
as released from the obligation In
posed by the law. Such sltuatlo
might arise at the national CONVEX
| ton they say II several ballots falle
to result in a choice.