The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-21
To-Day, Result Will Be
Told by Ballot
Boxes.
CANDIDATES MAKE
WHIRLWIND FINISH
Three Presidential Aspirants
Carry On Their Fight Until
Late Hour at Night-Taft
and Roosevelt Both Conf
dent That Victory Has
Been Achieved.

Columbus, Ohio. May 20.--Ohio to-
| night rested from the strain OF the
last two weeks campaign, during
which four pres dental candidates
the other. and 10 ready for to-mor-
rows prmar ies.
Three OF the Republican candidates
for the presidential nomination car
ried their lights almost up to the hour
of balloting. and lat tonight Presi-
dent Taft. Colonel Roosevelt and
| Senator La Toilette were still making
public addresses. offering their final
pleas with the Republican voters for
support Tomorrow
! Governor Judson Harmon ended hts
night for the State Saturday night.
The second to the last State to hold
presidential preference primaries and
the home of two of the candidates.
Ohio is considered the cruz of an
| unusual political situation.
cnmpsisn without Precedent.
Activity in the Ohio campaign is
said TO be without precedent in the
present presidential contects II was
In this state that Colonel Roosevelt
first presented the platform upon
| which he is Dasing his fight.
President Taft and his former
friend the cx-Presiient. have crossed
| and recrossed each others trails in
! their courses about the state. speak
| ing from the rear OF special trains. In
open air meetings and in town halls.
Woodrow Wilson. Governor Iiar-
| mons only opponent, did not enter
the state. liarmon's antagonist has
been William Jennings Bryan. who.
speaking for the Ohio Progressive
Democratic League. has berated the
ton in several campaign tours.
President Taft and Governor Har-
! mon tonight went to their homes In
Cincinnati The President viii leave
| morrow afternoon for Washington.
and Governor Harmon will hear the
returns at his home.
Colonel Roosevelt and Senator La
Toilette completed their campaigns,
the one leaving for the East during
the night and the other for the West.
Supporters of all factions IN the
four-cornered contest are expecting a
| large primary vote. Because of the
| complicated ballots returns are not
expected until late. The polls will be
| open from 5;a0 in the morning until
the same hour In the evening.
Lnylin is Confident.
Lewis c. Laylin. Tafts Ohio man
agcr was confident in his prediction
| tonight on the eve of the primaries
| that the President Will not be turned
down by his own State.
''It's a Taft victory and it's ali over
| but the shouting" he said. Ohio
! looks better for Taft tonight than 1t
did fortyeight hours ago. and 1t
looked mighty good then. Within the
last twenty-four hours there has been
| remarkable change in sentiment for
| the President among the farmers"
Chairman Walter +. Brown. OF the
| Republican State central committee
who has managed Roosevelts cam
pa!gn in this State. did not make any
final prediction as to to-morrow's out
come. The Ohio Roosevelt committee.
however. said: Assured that delegates
pledged to Theodore Roosevelt Will
of the twenty-one congressional dis
tricts. we continue to expect a 2rac-
tically complete sweep OF the dis
tricts by Roosevelt"
Lieutenant Governor Hugh Nichols,
campaign manager for Governor
Harmon, said that the people OF Ohio
will support Governor Harmon in
to-morrow's primaries.
| Tnft's Fight Ended.
Dayton. O.. May 2o-President Tatt's
| seven days OF speechmuking through
Ohio came to an end here tonight
with final plea to Republicans OF
port at tomorrow primaries and TO
| defeat Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
whom Mr.. Taft dubbed the boltcr."
Mr.. Taft appealed all day long IN
Speeches he made for Republicans TO
consider and keep in mind Mr. Roose-
velt's Cleveland speech. where the
President said he prophesied a bolt
/ a fiyNas 81 to lot
the grand old parry If Mr.. Roosevelt
does not change his attitude and IS
not assured of the nomination by the
Republican National Convention. lie
long that party had existed. what it
always had stood for and to decide
FOR themselves whether or not they
wished to see it disrupted to CRAFTY
| the ambition of one man.
Mr.. Taft has made no predictions
before any of the primaries in other
States have been held. and he fol-
lowed this rule to-day His friends
worthy effort to win Ohio, and many
OF them were confident that the re-
suit OF the trip will be evident at the
polls Tuesday.
Mr.. Taft's only ensagement to-mor-
and he expects to leave that city N
the afternoon for Washington.
Most of Mr.. Taft's attacks on Colo
mel Roosevelt over his predecessor en-
pecting to bolt the Chicago conven-
ton were alike. Hero is one delivered
| late to-day at Xenia: MFR. Roosevelt
said at Cleveland. the other night N
| effcca that he was going to bolt il
| he were not nominated. and that when
he bottled II he were not nomina ted
he would he the Republican party. and
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