Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-29
Taft Denies RooseveIt's Allegations
About Prosecuting Int. Harvester
O.--BOth Will Stump MaSsa-
ChuSetts, This Week.
BAY STATE PRIMARIES.

Boston, April 2S.-The answer o
/ Massachusetts to the campaign plead
| ing either personally or by representa-
tives of the five candidates for thu
Pr sidential nomination. La Toilette
Roosevelt, Taft, Clark and Wilson
will be made at the primaries. OF
| Tuesday. Owing to the complicated
| ballot and the absence of group vot-
| ing. it is expected that no definite re-
suit will be known until the next day
and that it will be day or two later
before the actual identity of the 81
| delegates to the Chicago and Balti-
more conventions is known.
This will be the first Presidential
preference primary ever held in the
Bay State although the primary sys-
TEN for the selection of candidates
fer state offices was tried last fall. All
who voted at that election, about
100000 are enrolled as either Republi
cans or Democrats in the 353 cities
ana towns and unless they formally
changed their party allegiance 80 days
ago they will be compelled to vote a
similar ticket.
As the campaign has been one OF
the most strenuous that has rocked
the Bay State for many years, it is
expected that 100000 voters will go
to the polls, Tuesday, seven-ninths of
whom can vote either ticket.
The presence of both President and
Col. Roosevelt in the state during the
closing hours of the campaign and
the fact that they selected Massachu-
sets for their first personal political
encounter and the comments from
political writer's outside the state
leads to the belief that Massachu-
sets may make OF mar the political
fortunes of the President and the only
living ex-President. Whether Senator
Robert NJ. la Toilette will be a fac
tor in determining the result on the
Republican side and whether the
forces of Gov. Wilson and Speaker
Clark will receive additional strength
by reason of the Massachusetts pri-
maries is matter of much debate.
In giving Massachusetts a Presi-
DENTAL preference primary the Leg
islature failed to make any provision
for circle voting by groups. On the
Republican ballot there are three
SITS Vi utftSdltS, eight lOT ftubSHSell,
eight for Taft and one candidate also
pledged to Taft La Toilette, Roose-
welt and Taft appear in the Presiden-
tial preference column.
There are sets of Roosevelt and Taft
delegates in each of the four Congress
sional districts except the 1st, where
the Roosevelt district delegate ticket
failed to qualify and where Roosevelt
candidates will run on sticl5ers Al
ternates. both state and district, have
also been named.
There is a possibility, which is not
regarded as probable, of pledged
Taft delegation of eight delegates :
large with state preference for
Roosevelt. Ii would also be possible to
choose majority of district delegates
for Roosevelt throughout the state
with q total preference vote in the
state for Taft. 1t is generally expected,
however that the voters will follow
the marking Of the eight names in
one group with similar preferences on
the balance of the ticket. The Demo-
cratic ticket is even more unusual,
There are Is candidates for delegates
at-larse, 10 of whom are pledged to
Gov. Eugene n. Foss, one to Gov.
Goodrow Wilson and four without
pledges There are IL alternates, eight
of whom are pledged for Foss
It IS inathematically true that at
least three of the Democratic candi-
dates for delegates-at-l large pledged TO
Foss will be elected, and it is notable
that although Gov. Wilson might OBJ
tain the Presidential preferences of the
Democratic voters of Massachusetts,
he could obtain but one delegate at
large.
There are II alternates. eight of
whom are pledged to Foss. but in four
of the Ia Congressional districts, only
two delegates are named and are,
therefore, sure of election. OF these.
three are pledged to Foss and ii is
generally expected that a majority of
the Massachusetts delegation to the
Baltimore convention will be ON rec
ord as favoring him for President. al
though he firmly declares that he is
rot candidate.
Claims OF the managers as usual
vary considerably. General Edgar r.
champlin of the Taft forces predicted,
today that the President would sweep
the state and secure at least "a out
OF the SO delegates
City Councillor Matthew Hale, the
Roosevelt manager, claims a victory
in the I'd, Sd. 4th, 9Th, Eth, 9th, 10th,
18th and 18th Congressional districts
and lighting chance for the eight
delegates large. The activities of
the hackers of Senator La Toilette
have been confined to a few speeches,
the dissemination of some literature
and the securing from the delegates
pledged to Taft or Roosevelt an ex-
preston as TO second choice. Robert
Sietten, secretary of the La Toilette
movement states that 10 of the replies
so far received indicate that many OF
the candidates pledged to Roosevelt
would be willing to vote for La Toilette
IL Roosevelts name were withdrawn.
Gov. Wilson has been the only Demo
cratic candidate to speak In Massachu