The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-21
NORTH DAKOTA
RESULT CAUSE
OF MUCH TALK
Managers of Various Candi-
dates Busy Giving Their
Views as to How 1t All
Came About.
ANALYSIS OF RETURNS
BY LA TOILETTE MAN
Votes for La Toilette and
Roosevelt Added Together
Do Not Tally With Vote
of Taft in 1908.

n Theodore Roosevelt was SuCCeSS-
n ful on the returns today In cut
~ ting down Senator Robert NJ La
FolIette's majority In yesterdays
presidential primary to between 1000
and 10000.
Forty-fo counties reported returns
from 1923 precincts out Of 1913. giving
La Toilette 22.64S and Roosevelt 1889
Out of forty-nne counties in the state.
Roosevelt carried fifteen, La Toilette the
remainder One county went to La Fol-
lette by a majority OF only one vote,
Based on total vote in the state
OF $4,000, La Toilette has received from
30, 600 TO 20 900 votes and Roosevelt from
$4,000 to $1,000.
President Taft's vote will. according to
present indications. be less than 1000,
The trend of the vote throughout the
sate as indicated by the returns today,
was interesting. II Is In tho western dis
trict that the greatest surprise
found. The northern part OF the dis
trict. consisting Of eight counties. went
to La Toilette solidIy giving him g. pu-
raity of about 5000. In the southern part
OF the Missouri slope this lead was in
creased, according to latest reports avail
able from that district.
Analyses Figures,
CoURTENAY. N. D. March 2o-"Re-
turns from 659 OF the 1900 precincts of
the state do not bear out the charge of
the Roosevelt leaders that La Follette's
victory was due largely TO Democrats
voting for him In the Republican pri-
maries." said H. n. Tucker. the La Fol-
lette committee chairman today.
LA F'olette's total from these pre-
cincts is 1861 and Roosevelt's is 49,
al, total Republican vote of 37,3as.
This does not mean that the other two
thirds OF the precincts will give pro-
portonately large vote, because the $50
heard from are mostly cities and towns
and d few rural districts OF the eastern
part OF the state.
''The two-thrds Of the 1900 precincts
10 hear from are almost wholly in thinly
settled rural sections, The votes from
each and their total vote will be small
and probably will not bring the total Re
publican vote up to what Taft received
in 1908 which was $3.50"
Managers Claims.
WASHINGTON, March Ex-senator
campaign, said the North Dakota pri-
mary result was severe blow for
President Taft But one voter in forty
expressed a wish that Taft be made the
nominee said Dixon. No such hu-
initiating, crushing defeat OF a presi-
dental candidate asking denomination
| has ever been Witnessed in American
politics.
The ten delegates elected in North
| Dakota said several days ago that il
elected, they would support Roosevelt
when ii was shown that La Toilette
could not be nominated. They can safe
ly be put in the Roosevelt column
Director Mckinley of the Taft cam
paien headquarters today characterized
North Dakota's primary as an Indication
of what might happen in a so-called
'soapbox primary" Mr.. Mckinley quot
ed John +. Bass. manager of the Roose-
Welt campaign In North Dakota, who
said that Democrats had voted for La
Toilette in the Republican primary yes
terday.
This is exactly what the managers of
the Tart bureau have attempted TO i'm .
of this campaign" said Director McKin-
| ley. fn this instance there was d state
law, but without the party enroIlmc mt
J feature,
'In the absence of state law soap
I box primary rules would prevail and the
/ contest would degenerate into d national
scandal in which the Republican party
! itself would play minor role
4 statement today from the La Toilette
| headquarters says that in Wisconsin, Ne
braska, Oregon and California and other
states Mr.. La Follette's candidacy will be
submitted as IL was in North Dakota.
THE only Republican who has thus far
demonstrated in a statewide contest that
ne has a substantial following and can
| win is Mr.. La Toilette" the statement
reads. "'rhe decisive character Of the
victory is the more impressive when il is
borne I'm mind that in North Dakota the
! Roosevelt candidacy united the standpat-
! ters and all of the progressives that the
misleading character OF the colonels cam
pagn In the state could induce TO desert
! the La Toilette standard,
THAT this unholy alliance was so sig
| nally defeated IN North Dakota NAV be
! taken an indication OF what will be
! done I'm other popular primary states"