The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-05-09
GIVES VOTES WON
ROOSEVELT DECLINES TO ACCEPT
EIGHT MASSACHUSETTS DELE
GATEs-AT.LARcE.
PRESIDENT WINS BY 3,e5s
TAFT and Colonel Make an Even Break
In District Eleetions-te,7te 10
Champ cIsrks Majority over
Governor Wilson.


President Taft by the colonel. those
eight Republican delegates-at.largC
who were elected at the primaries fol
Roosevelt, have most emphatically re
fused to vote for the president
After two conferences the delegates
announced that they had decided not
to take any Joint action on the atti'
tude OF Colonel Roosevelt in releasing
them from the obligation to vote for
him. But In individual interviews
each declared that the voters instruc.
tons were paramount and binding.
While President Taft's managers
aud leading supporters made no Off
cial statement, they made clear that
they would demand the seating OF
their eight delegates.at-large. They
presented figures and assertions 10
prove that the confusion" OF the pri-
mary ballot cost the president $4,000
votes. These figures are doubtless ex.
aggerated. However. the appearance
Of an Independent candidate pledged
for Taft, II is admitted aided in con-
fusing some of the voters. Many men
voted for nine instead OF eight dele
gates, as the primary law directed.
There was much telegraphing be
TWEEN here and Oyster Bay after the
colonel publicly presented" the eight
delegates TO President Taft. He knew
by that time that both he and Taft
had won II district delegates. With
the eight delegates-at-large Roosevelt
would have had % Of the total Of 36
delegates.
The Taft supporters declare they
Will insist on the seating of their own
chosen eight" instead OF the double
quartette Of rough riders offered by
Colonel Roosevelt. And as the first
step to prove their assertions Of an I'M
fair election the Taft league deter
mined to demand a recount OF the
state vote. Each side also demanded
a recount of one district.
Boston. May A. Massachusetts
emerged from It's first presidential
preferential primary election to find
that the Republican voters had en-
pressed preference for the re-nomi-
nation of President Taft, but had CIV
en- Colonel Roosevelt the eight dele
gates-at-large TO the national conven-
ton. To these eight votes Colonel
Roosevelt renounced all claim. The
Democratic voters OF the state ex-
pressed a preference for Speaker
Champ Clark. although the delegates
at-large to Baltimore will go pledged
to Governor Foss.
Returns from 1917 out OF 1850 cleo
tion precincts give:
Republican presidential prefer
ence): Taft. 74.s0s: Roosevelt. H.
203: LaFollette. 1.756
Delegates-at-large: Baxter (heading
Roosevelt group. 74,121; Crane (head-
ing Taft group. 65.s76.
Democratic presidential prefer
ence): Clark. 19.s03; Wilson. s.2o6:
delegates-at-large, Coughlin pledged
to Foss). 1850; Williams (for prefer.
ence primary. s.256.
On the Democratic ticket. although
ten Of the fifteen candidates for dele
gates.at-large to Baltimore were either
pledged to or indicated to be for"
Governor Foss. there was no Foss
name in the presidential preference
Speaker Clark. whose name
appeared in the preference ballot and
who defeated Governor Wilson by a
vote of to 1. did not have a single
pledged delegate on the list. Many
Of the Democratic district delegates
were also elected pledged to Foss.
The Republican deiegates-at-large
elected are Charles S. Baxter, George
w. Coleman, Frederick Fosdick, A. r.
Hart. o. A. La Riviere. Arthur L. Ma
son, Alvin G. Weeks. James p Magen-
Is; all for Roosevelt but renounced to
Taft. BY districts:
First, c. C. Chesney. f. B. Blake,
Taft; Second. f. p. Clark, William II.
Reiker. Taft; Third. Matthew ]. Whit.
all. Lawrence p. Kitty. Taft; Fourth,
John NJ. Reyes. F. p. Glazier, Roose-
welt; Fifth. L. s. Chapman. s. NJ. Deck.
er. Roosevelt; Sixth. J. p. Ingraham.
IT., Isaac Patch. Taft; Seventh,
Charles N. Cox, Lynn NJ. Ranger.
Eighth. John Read, George
;. Lovejoy, Taft; Ninth. A. Tewks-
bury. l.. L. Jenkins, Roosevelt; Tenth.
X. Clifford Gallagher, Guy A. Ham,
Taft; Eleventh. Grafton d. Cushing,
". Prentiss Parker. Taft; Twelfth.
J. Stems Cushing, George L. Barnes.
Taft; Thirteenth. John Westall, A. p.
smith. Taft; Fourteenth, E. b. Keith,
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