Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-24
Taft HUPELESSLY
BFATFN IN Ohio,
HIS HOME STATE
Theodore Roosevelt Scores a
Sweeping Popular Victory in
Ohio, Assuring Him 80 Out
of AZ Delegates
CBy Associated Press.)

COLUMBUS. Ohio. May 22.-Nearly
complete returns from yesterdays Ohio
presidential preference primary indi-
cate that Colonel Roosevelt won 80 of
AZ district delegates to the Republican
national convention.
President Taft took 10 district dele
gates, or slightly less than a third Of
the total number.
on the Democratic ticket, Governor
Harmon is believed to have won by a
larger percentage than did Colonel
Roosevelt. Harmon is credited with
35 district delegates as against z for
Woodrow Wilson.
Although President Taft secured
only 10 out of the 40 district delegates,
the Taft Roosevelt fight in Ohio is not
finished. 1t will be carried into the
state Republican convention, which on
June will select sin deIegat es-at-
large.
FIGHT NOT ENDED.
OF a total of less than 1000 dele
gates to the state convention nearly
complete returns indicate that Presi-
dent Taft has nearly sufficient num-
Der to control. This may give the
Taft managers the six delegates-at-
large to be named by the state con-
vention and probably will make the
presidents total 16, just an even third
of the Ohio delegation of As members
which will attend the Chicago conven-
ton
Governor Harmon, on the Democratic
ticket, unlike Colonel Roosevelt, will
not be forced to make further fight,
for delegates-at-large. as the Demo-
cratic call specifies that the winner of
the presidential preference primary
shall name his own statewide dele
gates.
1t will be impossible before night to
get an accurate list of totals in the
various districts on the Democratic
presidential preference, but ii is clear
that Governor Harmon has won over
Wilson by a large plurality.
TAFT THIRD IN SPOTS.
Amplihed returns in the Republican
contest show that Senator LaFollette
BOILED heavy vote in several counties
and il is possible that final results will
show that he ran second to Colonel
Roosevelt in a number Of counties,
where Mr.. Taft dropped down to third
place on the ticket
The Taft managers declared that this
occurred only in Democratic counties,
where Democrats voted the Republican
ticket. Mr.. Bryan and Speaker Champ
Clark. although their names were not
on the ballot got "a small fraction OF
the total vote cast. ISL
ANALYSIS OF VOTE.
An attempt to analyze the vote early
today from about 20 of the SO counties
of the state showed that President Taft
will have only 10 of the ~ delegates to
the national convention He will have
two in each of these districts:
First, Second, Seventh and Thirteenth,
and one delegate from the Third and
one from the Fifteenth. The official
count NAV show a change in the dis
tTicts where the delegates were di-
vided between President Taft and Col
onel Roosevelt
The 80 delegates that have been elect
ed to vote for Roosevelt are from the
following districts:
Fourth. Fifth, Sixth, Eighth. Ninth.
Tenth. Eleventh, Twelfth, Fourteenth,
Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth
Nineteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-first.
He will also have one delegate from
the Third and Fifteenth.
MORE RETURNS.
Complete returns from SO of the SS
counties show that Roosevelt carried
45 of them and Taft IA. OF the SO,
Governor Harmon carried the same
number as Colonel Roosevelt and in
the IA counties carried by Wilson, Mr..
Taft, on the Republican ticket, failed
to get one of them.
OF the IA counties which have so far
reported as carried by President Taft,
one-half of them are Democratic strong
holds, where the Republican ovte was
very light.
Senator LaFollette secured heaviest
vote in the Twenty -first congressional
district, where he poled 4.163 votes. In
Fulton county LaFoIlette secured more
votes than President Taft