Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-07
The following table gives the repub-
lican delegates selected up to April 6:

| Contests are reported in the third In
diana, the third, fifth and fourteenth
Missouri, the second Tennessee and the
| third Oklahoma. These districts. at the
| regularly called conventions nave IN
| structed for Taft.
| The deadlock i'm the third Iowa district
convention at Waterloo was broken by
an agreement to compromise and name
uninStructed delegates. The convention
began balloting at o'clock Thursday
| afternoon and continued until IL O'CLOCK
| at night. Sixty ballots were taken, with
| seventy-two delegates voting for Taft
seventy-two voting for Cummins dele
gates. Upon reconvening at 10 O'CLOCK
next morning, the sixty-first ballot was
| taken and the deadlock still was on. Il
was then that the agreement made dur
ing the night was carried into effect
| No resolutions were adopted and this
was the first district convention held In
Iowa this year that has failed to do
this Inasmuch as this district long has
! been the political property OF Senator
Cummins, the silence of the convention
| as to his candidacy for the presidential
nomination and the election OF two un-
instructed delegates are regarded by the
Iowa friends of the President as de-
| cbded victory.
| A telegram received at Taft headquar-
ters from Des Moines, Iowa. yesterday
states: Control of state convention as
sured by conventions and caucuses this
week. Taft now has TAI delegates. Cum
MINIS $40; necessary, 742. Fourteen
counties yet to express preferences. Taft
men actually victors in third district con-
vention at Waterloo. Prevented instruc-
tions although Cummins delegates chos-
en-. Prevented resolution of any kind
although district is hotbed of insur
gency. Deadlocked for sixty-twO ballots
when Franklin County went over on
agreement that Taft men should be al
ternates and Taft man Endorsed delegate
at large"
j A statement issued from Harmon
headquarters last night said:
! THE Judson Harmon Travelling Mems
League, which was organized without
flare of trumpets ten days ago, with
John E. Etchison, jr., of Baltimore as
president is doing yeoman service II
Already more than 5000 knights OF
the grip in all parts of the United
States have enlisted in the work, and
are disseminating literature and sound
ing Gov. Harmon's merits.
| I'm the hundreds of letters received
during the past few days from com
merc1al drummers there is a unanimity
Of opinion expressed that Gov Harmon
is the choice Of business men generally
and particularly on the part of smaller
business men in the rural and semi
rural communities, and that the feeling
is growing constantly that Harmon i:
the one man of all others named for the
) presidential nomination who can carr,
the great states Of New York, Ohio ant
| 1huidHd, whose electoral votes are 81
vital to party success.
Many of the writer's insist that 1,
is nigh time that the democratic party
broke away from sentimental politics
which. they declare has been pursued
with such disastrous results in the pas
sixteen years. and got back to tn.
practical politics of our fathers. The,
maintain that 1t would be foolish *
, think Of nominating a candidate TO,
the presidency who is not reasonably q
sured of carrying the states mentioned
ana they emphasize the declaratio tina
J Harmon is the only democrat who car
be elected" O ''
One hundred and fifty prominen
republicans in response to an invita-
ton sent out by United States Senate,
Frank o. Briggs, chairman of the re-
publican state committee met at New
ark. N. j., yesterday 10 take actio,
looking to the selection of delegate
from New Jersey to the national re-
publican convention favorable to tn.
denomination OF President Taft.
FORMER State Senator Edward w
Wakelee of Bergen county was mad
chairman. committee was annointe,
to select candidates for DELEGATES a
: large to be voted for at the nrimar,
election, May %, and it named the Soi
, lowing: United States Senator Franl
) 0. Briggs. former Gov. Frankii,
l Murphy, former Supreme Court Justic
Gilbert Collins of Hudson and Wav
land +. Ayers of Camden.