Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-05-22
Taft, 1t is Believed, Has Nearly
as Many District Delegates,
But Colonel Carries State at
Large,
GOVERNOR FAvORITE
OF DEMOCRATIC VOTE
Less Than 0ne-Third of All
Precincts Heard from and Es-
Inmates May be Changed On
Complete Returns.
rBy Morning journal special Leased wire.l

vBy MOFuiHk JOuhhHh bIvCCAnh A<cu5cu WtfO.I
Columbus, Ohio. May 21.--With lit
tie more than one-third of the total
vote in the state counted at j
yelt's delegates on the republican
ticket and Governor Harmon on the
democratic preference ballot, led
Ohio's presidential preference pri-
mary.
The fight ofi.both sides was so close,
however, that.scomplete returns may
change the fhal results.
Complete ret1rhs from slightly less
than 1000 Precancts of 5,192 in the
state, showed that Colonel Roosevelt $
delegates had "a lead of more than
$1,000 votes.F' Governor Harmon $
lead over Woodrow Wilson was much
less than this.
The closeness of this race with Will
son was Indicated by late reports
from Cincinnati. Governor Harmon's
home city. Here the Ohio governor,
who had been well in the lead in the
early returns, was shown to have
1854 votes and Wilson 1904 in 120
precincts out of total of 361.
A peculiar situation developed i'll
the compilation of the result. This
showed that while Colonel Roosevelt
had lead of $4,000 in the total num-
Der of votes cast for delegates pledg-
-ot' him, sfAc uots by districts would
be such that he probably would not
have more than 22 of the AZ district
delegates to the national convention.
But while the democratic presiden-
Al IL h.
not be foretold, the indications were
that Governor Harmon would have at
least twenty-five or twenty-four of
the delegates to the Baltimore con-
vention. The privileges of naming the
six delegates at large of the state, how
ever, is carried by the winner of the
presidential preference vote.
OF the congressional districts Colo
mel Roosevelt has apparently won the
delegates in the fourth, sixth. ninth,
tenth, eleventh, twelfth, fourteenth,
fifteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth,
nineteenth, twentieth and twenty
first districts. President Taft practi-
cally has been granted the first, sec
ond third, probably the fifth, seventh.
eighth and thirteenth. The sixteenth
district remained in doubt, although
both sides claimed it.
Roosevelt supporters also claim two
or three of the districts listed by Mr..
Taft
Despite the close fight between Taft
and Roosevelt forces. United States
Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin re-
ceived much support. particularly in |
Cleveland and Toledo precincts, |
where he is credited with several
thousand votes. In Wood county, near |
Toledo, Senator La Toilette ran sec
ond to Colonel Roosevelt.
Mr.. Bryan and Speaker Clark, al
though their names were not on the
democratic ballot, received a scatter
ing vote in many precincts.
Cincinnati, Cleveland. Toledo and
Columbus, Dayton and a dozen other
arge cities, furnished the greater por-
Ton of last nights returns. Because
Of the complexity Of the primary bal
lot the count in rural districts was
unusually slow.
II is doubtful IL complete returns
viii be in the hands of the election
officials before noon tomorrow.
In addition TO being slow. all reports
indicate that the rural vote was COM
paratively small.
Because Of good weather. farmers
We're loath to leave their fields and in
every rural precinct leaders found IL
uiliicult TO get out a large vote.
some OF the cities reported that the
poll was much under registration fig
ures.
PRESIDENT Taft's manager, l. c. Lay
nm was bitter in his summary of the
primary result He said:
Misrepresentation and prejudice
,ne delegates at large. Probably Mr..
roosevelt will have a majority of the
district delegates. II is simply impos-
S'oie now to make an accurate state
'neht or summary Of the results"
against President Taft took early root I
n Ohio. The results in Illinois and
=, r,ehnsylvania encouraged the opposi-
ION hut a great change and trend to I
.ait have occurred in the last ten
eaSs. Another weeks deliberations |
'onia have meant a sweeping victory
Tor the president. II
Aeager returns indicate that Mr.. !
VIII nave the state convention and
"aiter Brown. chairman Of the state
snual committee and manager of Mr..
,"seNeits state campaign. declared ,
- belief that Colonel Roosevelt had
ep' everything hut the Cincinnati
!. -.s'i'ets and possibly a mere handful :
u county districts. n
IN the democratic side Governor ]
non declined to make any state |
However. statements were is 9
By the managers in charge of I