Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-10
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THE SITUATION, TODAY.
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are unofficial and by no means guar
anteed are as follows:
Whole number of delegates, 1918.
| Necessary for nomination, $40.
Instructed for Roosevelt and uncon-
tested. Ali
Instructed for Taft and uncontested,
pol
Instructed for La Toilette tno con-
tests. SO.
Instructed for Cummins mo con-
tests, 10.
unrestricted uncluding New York $
eO) 1866
Contested, 254
OF the 254 contested, National com
nittee has thus far given Taft ~.
These figures analyze as follows:
Instructed for Roosevelt and uncon-
tested:
canifornia Sc; Indiana 10: Kansas Is:
Kentucky /; Maryland 16; Massachu-
sets Is: Michigan 10; Minnesota "a;
| Missouri -: Nebraska IS; Ne Jersey
| %; North Carolina 16; Ohio "a; Okla
homa 16: Oregon 10; Pennsylvania 67,
South Dakota 10: Tennessee /; Texas
l6; Vermont 2; West Virginia Ito
| tai. All.
Instructed for Taft and uncontested
(net including the ~ given him, last
week, by the National committees de-
cisions upon eontestsD
Alabama s: Colorado j: Connecticut
| 10; Illinois q Indiana s; Iowa Is: Kan
| sas 2; Kentucky 7; Massachusetts Is;
Michigan 12; Mississippi 2; Missouri 2;
| Nevada s; New Hampshire s. Ohio H.
Oklahoma 2; Pennsylvania .; Rhode
Island 10; South Carolina 10; Tennessee
Is; Utah s; Vermont q Virginia 4; wy
oming s: Hawaii 6: Philippines .; Por-
to Rico 2-TotaI 201.
Instructed for La Follett fno con-
tests): North Dakota To- Wisconsin 26
Total, &c.
Instructed for Cummins ono con-
testsl: Iowa, 10.
Uninstructed and uneontested: Ar
kansas 2; Connecticut 4; Delaware 6:
Idaho S. Indiana 2; Maine T.. Michi-
gan 2: Missouri s; Montana s: New
Mexico s; New York 80: North Caro-
lima 2; South Carolina s; Texas 4 Yer
mont 4-Total 166.
Contested by either Roosevelt or Taft:
Alabama Is, Arizona 6. Arkansas 16. CAL
fornia 2, Florida II, Georgia %, In
diana IL, Kentucky Is, Louisiana 90 Mich
igan g. Mississippi Is. Missouri IA. North
Carolina g. Oklahoma q South Carolina
2, Tennessee s, Texas 30, Virginia 20.
Washington IA, Alaska 2, District of Co.
lumbia 2. Total, 254.
OF these contests the national commit
tee, Friday and yesterday, decided in
Tafts favor all those from Alabama,
Arkansas. Florida and Georgia Total
y Out of these figures may be made
combinations to suit almost any politI-
cal taste 1t all depends on how the
national committee decides the contests
who get these delegates, and-most i'm
portant of all-whether the delegates now
listed one way or the other "stay put
Taft steering committee to take
charge of the Presidents pre-convention
campaign in conjunction with Rep. VIII
liam B. Mckinley, director of the ma
tional Taft bureau, was named, tonight,
as follows:
Joseph b. Healing of Indiana, William
Barnes, Jr., of New York, Senator Boise
Penrose of Pennsylvania, Otto f. Steifel
of Missouri. Gov. John l.. Mead of err
mont, Ralph Campion of Arizona, Ralph
Ullman of Connecticut, T. L. NARROW of
Montana, Harry Daughtery of Iowa.
A troop of Rough Riders has been or
ganized by May. John " CIinnin to act
as the personal escort of Col. Roosevelt
If he decides to come to Chicago before
the Republican national convention