Milford chronicle., 1912-04-19
7. R. SWEEPS
PENNSYLVANIA
Colonel viii Get 70 Of the
76 Delegates.
STATE MACHINE SMASHED
Progresslves Will Control State Cen
Vention, and Many Predict It Will
Mean the Passing Of Senator Pen
rose.


Fl Complete returns from all parts O.
anSs Pennsylvania only accentuate tine
'acl sweeping Roosevelt victory in Sa ur-
oO' days primaries. On the final round
m ms up, after the state convention, whic
will elect twelve delegates-at-large 20
the Republican national convention,
m Roose Velt will have seventy Of tie
seventy-six delegates from Pennsylva.
ira mia, and it seems quite likely that he
will have the entire delegation.
wi The supporters of Presidlht Tat
carriad but one district west VI Phil.
III delphia, that comprising LlncasJer
'G county, where Mayor McLain has al
-. most an unassailable organization. IL
he Philadelphia the Taft supporters ap-
parently carried the First, Seloni,
Third and elected one delegate in tIe
/ Fifth district But in the First
M uict State Senator Edwin S. Ware
in the Republican organization leade.,
il and his running mate as de egate,
!, Hugh Black, have announced that %
1l their minds Colonel Roosevelt is tn
Ie only Republican capable of saving the
country to Republican rule.
20 President of Select Council Rams
ley, who was elected as an unins;ruct-
ed delegate in the Third district, an
& nounced: AS Senator Ware votes, s
L do l."
{ In the Fifth district in Philadelpii I
Z one Roosevelt delegate was elec,ed /
and one apparent Taft man SO. /
l. through, c. A Disston, the saw manu-
facturer, who was swept into ofic
n. d .
{ larity with his own employees.
\ The recapitulation shows that at TIC
present writing President Taft ma!
count on the votes Of E T. StotesbIr!
and John WanamakeT. who were elect
ed as delegates in the Second district;
J. H. Bromley. who was elected in the
Third c. A Disston, Of the Fifth, and
William W. Geist and William II
Keller, the two delegates elected in
the Lancaster district. This is tho
sum total of the Taft delegates unless
complete returns make some minol
changes.
Not only have the Roosevelt fol
lowers swept the state for their dele
gates, but they have elected the ma
jority of the 372 representatives &c
the state convention, which will elect
twelve delegates-atlarge to the ma
tional convention.
May Mean Passing of Penrose.
Those twelve delegates already are
counted for Roosevelt, but the state
convention will have other and more
potent effect on Pennsylvania. II
marks the passing of United States
Senator Boies Penrose as a member
Of the national comittee, and many
persons are predicting that ii also
marks the beginning OF his exit floI.
politics.
The Roosevelt followers will abso
lutely dominate the state convent on.
They will nominate an auditor gene. al
and a state treasurer, and for the first
time in many years will have absolute
control of the election machinery OF
the state.
In this same connection the twenty
five men nominated as candidates 70:
the state senate, when elected, VII =
hold over until the time comes for the
selection of a successor of Senator
Penrose. From late returns e -teea
of these men are opposed to Senator
Penrose and the ideas for which nc
stands