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$50 VOTES FOR TAFT
THIS is EXCLUSIVE OF MOST OF
THE WEST AND NORTH.
WEST STATES.
FIRST CAMPAIGN DOPE
Chairman Mckinley, Senator Gran.
and Secrefaru AilIae In cnnfan
T CAMPAIGN DOPE
Chairman Mckinley, Senator Crane
and Secretary HilIes in Confer.
ence Have Bright Visions
of Success.

Washington. D. c. - Without count.
coInting a delegate from Minnesota,
the Dakota. Iowa, Wisconsin and most
Of the states of the West and North
west, the managers of President
Taft's campaign for denomination fig
ured out that he will have $50 votes,
sure, in the Chicago convention out
of a total vote of 1916.
AS result of conferences incident
to the opening of an informal head
quarters here in the interests of Pres.
ident Taft's candidacy these figures
were made, and they are accompanied
by detailed statement of the states
from which the Taft votes are certain
to come.
Where there is any reasonable
doubt of full or practically solid del
egation for Taft the vote of the state
is given to the opposition, either
Roosevelt, La Toilette or Cummins,
or whoever the anti-Taft people may
unite upon
The conference was participated in
by Chairman Mckinley of the Repub-
!icaii congressional committee, Sens.
tor Crane and Mr.. Hilles, the secrs-
tary to the president.
Consider States AS a Whole.
No details as to how the total vote
for Taft is to be made up were given
out and it is admitted by Taft lead
ers that it is difficult to claim every
delegate from certain states, as dis
tricts here and there in each state viii
go to Roosevelt or La Toilette, but
as a general proposition it is fair TO
claim these states as whole and
make deductions of delegates likely
to be lost.
For instance, Pennsylvania can be
put down as a Taft state, but there
will be a few districts that Will be
against the president. In the making
up OF tables, therefore, 1t is impoA-
sible to Go anything but reckon by
states as whole and allow for do.
fections in districts here and there.
That is what the Taft managers did.
The Taft claims. Judging from the
situation as viewed at the White
House for some time, are summed up
in the following states, with the votes
they will have in the Chicago conve1,,
ton:
Alabama, "a; Arizona, 6; Arkansas,
10; Colorado, 10; Connecticut, Ia;
Delaware, 6; Florida, IL; Georgia, %;
Idaho, 8; Illinois, So; Indiana, 80;
Kentucky, %; Louisiana, 20; Maine
10; Maryland, 10; Massachusetts, So;
Michigan, 80; Mississippi. 20; Mis-
souri,, So; Montana, 8; Nebraska, IS;
Nevada, g.; New Hampshire, 8; New
Jersey, %; New Mexico, g.; New York,
80; North Carolina, "a; Ohio, 4S; Ok
lahoma, 90; Pennsylvania, rs; Rhode
Island, 10; South Carolina, 18; Ten
nessee, "a; Texas, 40; Utah, s; Yer
mont, s; Virginia, "a; West Virginia,
16; Wyoming, 6; Hawaii 6; Alaska,
2; District Of Columbia, 2; Philip
pines, 2; Porto Rico, 2-Total, 91O.
Where Deductions Are Made.
From this list there are to be made
deductions of delegates in Illinois of
a considerable number who will be for
Roosevelt; in Michigan considerable
deduction of delegates for Roosevelt;
in Ohio, a few opposition delegates;
in Pennsylvania, with possibly one
third of it's total of rs votes for Roose-
welt; in West Virginia, few anti
Taft delegates, with scattering anti
Taft delegates in some of the other
states.
Put together, there would be deduct
ed from the foregoing total about 100
delegates that will be lost, leaving
780 for Taft.
The states given to the anti-Taft
candidates are Iowa with 26 votes, al
though the Taft people expect to get
some there; California, %; Kansas,
20; Minnesota, "a North Dakota, 10;
Oregon, 10; South Dakota, 10; Wash
ington, IA; Wisconsin, 26.
This makes total of 100 votes prac-
tically conceded by the opposition.
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