The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-05-06
TAFT HURR|ES HOME
TO FIGHT FOR OHIO
Leaves Capital to Spend Two
Days Campaigning in
His Native State.
COLONEL WILL FOLLOW HIM
Administration A Attaches Great
Importance to Result
Of Primaries.

RIOuHu ON WHICH freslOeHt ! dit anu SOI.
Roosevelt will contend for delegates
will be Ohio. II 10 likely that the closing
days Of the campaign in Ohio will sur
pass in interest the remar kable campaigns
that have been carried on in Massachu-
setts and Maryland.
President Taft attaches CREST impor-
lance to the results in Ohio. He will spend
at least ten days in that State. He left
Warrington this afternoon to attend the
May music festival in Cincinnati, where
he will arrive early tomorrow. He
will give two days Of campaigning to the
State during the present vieit and
expects to return there a week from
Monday and devote nearly all Of the week
in the State.
Col. Roosevelt is going TO Ohio in the
last week Of the campaign and things
are likely to be interesting
The primaries in Ohio will he held on
Tuesday. May 81.
The managers Of both the Taft and
Roosevelt headquarters are awaiting
with keen interest tine outcome Of the
Maryland primaries tomorrow. Both
sides are claiming. the State. Some OF
the progressive Senators and Repre-
sentatives are predicting that Presi-
dent Taft will be strone in Baltimore,
and that Col. Roosevelt, probably vii
be ahead in the rural districts. On such
a showing the President ought to be able
to control the delegation.
Maryland has always been a conserva-
tive State. Although i; il Democratic
under ordinary conditions. il usually
has opposed William J. Bryan when
ne has been n candidate for President i.
becaIse of Ms radicl! views. The presi-
deni has IN. support OF the State ad :
minis.-a lion. headed by Gov Colds
borough. who is one of the ablest poll
,icians in the State. He also is supported
BY tine Fedc"al oificeholder. who have
a good organization. and by the Republi-
can organization. Charles }. Bonaparts
is tine chief reliance Of the Roosevelt
organization.
The managers OF both sides admit that
the negro vote is likely to be the de.ermin-
Ing factor. Doubt as to where il will
and in responsible for the conflicting z
claims advanced by the managers on both
sides.
Undoubtedly the result in Maryland
and that in Ohio two weeks later will
determine the fight between President
Taft and Col Roosevelt. Unless the
President Is able TO maintain the lead hs
gained in Massachusetts in Mary land and
Ohio the chances for Col. Roosevelt q
nomination or for the nomination OF
another candidate will be brighter,
In a statement issued tonight Director
Mckinney Of the Taft bureau calls atten :
kn 49,. ln
chucetts He says President Taft s popu-
larity in the preference primary was
established by the fact that about ls. .0OO
ballots cast Tor Taft delegates A. large
were declared invalid and that from
2,o00 to 5000 Taft preferential votes were
not counted Mckinley asserts this latter
decision was wrong. because the prefer
ential vote was separate and distinct
from the vote for delegates and when
corrected will greatly increase Tafts
lead
Mr.. Mckinley has no doubt that Presi-
dent Taft's right 10 the delegates will be
confirmed by the courts. il il should be
necessary TO appeal TO them, and in view
Of Col. Rooseelt's declaration that the
delegates at large should vote for Taft
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