Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-05-23
Ohio RETURNS
ARE COMPLETE
Roosevelt Will Have Thirty
Two Delegates AS First
Accorded Him
HARMON LOST HOME COUNTY
Latest Reports Indicate That
Governor Wilson Has Made
Slight Gains.

(By Special Leased Wire to rrew MexIcan)
Columbus, Ohio, May 23-Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt will nave thirty
two Ohio distlict delegates to the Re
publican natio lal conveIti0n and
President Taft -. Governo~ Harmon
will so to III E1'timore convention
with thirty-ole Gisulct delegates to
II for Governor Wilson. of New Je;-
sey, in addition to t%n six delegates
at large, the right to name whom he
won by his victory in tue Democratic
Presidential preference primary. With
numerous precincts still untdbulated.
these figures stand out as generally
accepted The six Republican dele
gates at large probably VIII be in dis
pute until after the Republican state
convention.
Fight for elegates-at-Larae.
Managers for both Roosevelt; and
Taft claim they have won enough del
egates to the state convention to give
them control of the convention. Wal
ter f. Brown, Roosevelt's Ohio CAM
paign manager, said today the Roose-
welt fight for Ohio's six deegates-at,
large will be carried into the state
convention.
Wilson Makes Small Gain.
Columbus. Ohio, May 23.--Scatter-
ing returns from the most distant dis
tricts which have been received with
in the last few hoIrs, indicate that
Colonel Roosevelts delegates ac-
quired in Tuesdays primaries will
not drop below the thirty-two hither-
to accorded him. Governor Wilson of
New Jersey, however, has made
slight gains and there is a possibility
that Governor Harmons delegates
will not total more than twenty-seven.
Harmon Majority, 1904.
The respective pluralities of the
candidates in the Democratic presi-
Dental preference with practically
complete returns from all but seven
counties are 10,137 for Wilson and
23,22S for Governor Harmo aEp-
the Ohio Governor @, ma,
1901.
Harmon Lost Home County.
| While the seven counties, it is
thought. may reduce Harmon's pur-
! ality slightly, no important change in
these figures is expected, The gov
& 10
in the first district, by a close race,
but suffered no loss of delegates
there inasmuch as his opponent had
no candidates for delegates.
Clermont county. the home of Lieu.
tenant Governor Hugh Nichols, Har-
mons campaign manager, gave Mr.
Wilson a plurality of seventy-five
Supporters of the Ohioan are said to
be in control of the county conven-
ton, however.
On the basis of the tabulations of
delegates to the Republican state
convention, Colonel Roosevelt ap-
parently has 3S7 out of 754, while 37S
are necessary to control the county
conventions to which delegates were
elected Tuesday and at which all but
twenty-three counties will name state
delegates. Estimates in each
county accord Colonel Roose.
welt the advantage. Taft sup
porters do not admit this, however,
and intimate that the president will
have strength enough in the state
convention in June to give him the
six delegates at large.
La Toilette Didn't Draw Much.
The total LaFollette vote in the
primaries was a little less than $50.
Although in one or two instances
they oat ran President Taft's dele
gates, his candidates for delegates
did not gain enough to seriously men
, ace any of Colonel Rooseve,t's dele
gates.