The Sentinel=record., 1912-05-23
HARMON AND
 ROOSEVELT
LATE RETURNS GIVE COLONEL 32 OR 33 OF THE DISTRICT
 DELEGATES IN OHIO.
Governor Harmon Is Assured of a Solid Democratic Delegation Roosevelt Was Strong in all
 Sections of the State.


 to returns in hand tonight from ap proximately 4,5OO of the 5,1S2 pre- cincts in the state. Colonel Theodor, Rooseyelt's delegates to the nationl Republican convention carried yes. terdays Ohio primaries by plural. ity of about 25,00O votes.
 It now seems scarcely possible that final results from the primary pol will change the number of district delegates for either side by more than one or two. The best figures available tonight show that Roose. welt has 32 of the 42 district dele gates selected yesterday and that President Taft has 10.
 Later returns from the Democratic presidential preference primary give Woodrow Wilson fighting chance for one or two more delegates, but his exact standing will not be known until belated rural returns are in.
 Governor Harmon practically is assured a complete delegation of 4S delegates to the Baltimore conyen- ton. His lead now gives him control of the state Democratic convention, which will select six delegates at large Also it is said that the con- yention will provide for the unit rule, wbich will force the Wilson dele ghtes selected by districts yesterday -lo vote for the Ohio executive.
 The delegates-at large situation n the Republican party will not be known until June 3, when the state Republican convention meets here Taft leaders claim they will control the state convention and designate the delegates at-large. But Roose- welt managers declared late returns show the number of Taft delegates to the state convention to be dwindling instead of increasing, as was am nouneed early today.
 There is no question but that the Taft Roosevelt fight will be carried onto the floor of the state conyen- ton.
 In only 23 of the SS counties in the state were delegates to the state convention chosen. In the remaining counties the delegates will be named by county eonventios.
 Even in the matter of district dele gates an official council will te necessary to determine exact results One instance of this sort arose today in the Thirteenth congressional dis trict, where late returns indicate that the district will be divided al most evenly between Taft and Roose- welt delegates and Harmon and Will son. Early figures gave the two delegates in this district on the Re publican ticket to Mir Taft. Coloae Roosevelt may now get one of th' delegates and thus increase his tota of district delegates to 3S. This woulc leave MT. Taft, nine delegates.
 An analysis tonight of the Roose welt vote shows the Roosevelt strength was not confined to an! particular section of the state or f' any particular class of citizens. H carried mining and industrial sec tions and some of the oldest an' most conservative urban communitie in the state Added to these WI much strength among the farmers in Adams county, where more tha l500 voters were disfranchised no long ago for vote selling, Rooseyel had a considerable plurality. town with a phophetic name, Whit House, in Lucas county, gave Roose Yelt 2l votes and Taft g. RooseveI managers seized upon this incident a a harbinger of good fortune.
 Walter F. Brownell. chairman the Republican state central oommi tee, and Roosevelt's Ohio campalg manager, tonight said he is not De placed in charge of Colonel Roose Vet's national campaign should th colonel be nominated at the Chicag convention
 These rumors are pleasant con pnments, but there is absolute nothing in them, said MT. Browne I There were persistent rumors ! eolumbus tonight that friends ! rresident Taft were attempting
 nave Robert T. Lincoln selected