Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-05-01

Lno fTeSlu6ut received mdJOIlIy
because the Taft delegates-at-larg'
voters voted for nine instead of ei'
At the Taft headquarters this af
ternoon there was some doubt as "a
whether the President had gotten
two delegates in the eighth district.
He is known to have gotten one but
the other Is IN doubt. If Roosevelt
gets this one 1t will give him nine
teen delegates to seventeen fer Taft,
Roosevelt carried three cities, Brock
ton, Taunton and Pittsfild. Taft
carried Fall River and Springfield.
Returns are coming in slowly.
Taft Carries Boston.
Returns from ia out of ,0S0 election
precincts, including parts of 10 cities
and 160 towns out of SO cities and S20
towns, gave. according to latest figures,
Roosevelt 25,451, Taft 25,215 and La
Toilette 663.
President Taft carried the city of
Boston, exclusive of Hyde Park, by
more than 800 over Colonel Roosevelt.
but he ran behind in the small towns,
together with a number of wards IN
the cities of North Adams, Hayerhill,
Newburyport, Lynn and Woburn.
Five Districts For Taft.
The latest available returns from the
fourteen congressional districts are not
conclusive, but the indications are that
Taft has carried the First, Second,
Third. Fifth and Eleventh districts,
which carry ten delegates, and that
Colonel Roosevelt may finally be shown
to have carried the Ninth, Tenth and
Thirteenth, with the other six districts
in doubt.
Chairman Champlin of the Taft
league executive committee said that
President Taft carried the state by
from 5000 to 10000. Returns from
Worcester and Springfield and other
cities were cheering to the Taft people.
They boosted the Taft plurality.
At Taft league headquarters these
figures have been received: Nine cities
and 176 towns, including Boston, out Of
B3 cities and 800 towns give Taft 32,-
OFT, Roosevelt 20, 10e; Taft lead, 2,106.
Ballot Confusion Costly to Taft.
Owing to the presence on the ballot
of nine names for delegate at large,
all pledged to Taft, the regular slate,
headed by Senator w. Murray Crane
and former Governor John L. Bates,
appears to have been defeated by the
Roosevelt delegates.
The Roosevelt victory in the matter
of delegates at large was due to the
name of Frank Seiberlich being sand
wiched n on the ballot between group
one, consisting of eight names pledged
to Roosevelt as delegates at large,
and group three, comprising eight
names pledged to Taft Seiberlich was
also pledged to Taft, but his name on
the ballot caused endless confusion
and substantial loss for the Taft dele
gates In nearly all the polling places
heard from Taft delegates ballots were
invalidated by voters marking for
Seiberlich as well as for the eight
regular candidates. In each case the
Taft preferential vote was counted,
but the vote for his delegation was
thrown out. The voters in their haste
neglected to heed the instructions to
vote for eight and marked every name
pledged to Taft.
Lodges Town For arr.
Although Senator Lodge was silent
in the campaign, his town Of Nahant
gave two to one vote against the SEN
ator's old time friend, Roosevelt.
The first returns from the district OF
Congressman Gardner, the militant
Taft leader, came from the town Of
Essex. which gave Roosevelt 90 to 43
for Taft. Wilbraham, on the other
hand, which is In the special sphere of
Senator Cranes influence, gave Taft 81
to 18 for Roosevelt.
The Back Bay silk stockings of Ward
II saved Boston for the president. his
majority In that ward being S52, which
Is larger than his majority In the city.
Despite the strenuous campaign
waged by the two Republican candl-
dates for the presidential nomination
and the fact that Massachusetts had
been looked upon as pivotal state in
this contest, the voting was light
Clark Easy Winner.
Champ Clark won in a canter over
Wilson, and La Toilette was scarcely
heard from. The speaker Of the house
beat the governor Of New Jersey by
$500 in Boston, but In the west of the
state 1t was not quite as bad. The
vote was light all over the state, prob
ably not more than 40 or 45 per cent
of the total strength of the state being
cast. In many places the polls were
not closed until o'clock