The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-05-03
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VIII Be Continued Until the Last
Delegate Has Been Chosen


Delegate Has Been Chosen
The contest between President Taft
and Theodore Roosevelt will not end
with the Massachusetts, primaresIt
will go right along, and most persons
believe with increasing bitterness,
until the last delegate to the Chicago
convention has been chosen. or even
until the convention renders its YER
dict. From Massachusetts the main
show" will be transferred to Mary
land. where direct presidential pref
erence primaries are to be held on
May Z. Both the president and the
third-term candidate are planning to
invade this state in much the same
way that they have gone into Massa-
chusetts.
President Tafts "dander is up" and
he proposes to keep right after the
third-term candidate. After Mary
iand interest will center in Califor-
mia. where the direct primaries are
to be held May IA So far as known
here, neither the president nor the
third term candidate will undertake
to cross the continent TO talk to the
voters of the Pacific coast state.
The managers of the Taft cam
paign have been greatly encouraged
by the information from California,
that the women who have a vote in
the primary there are very generally
supporting the president. In many
parts of the state they are campaign
ing vigorously for him
The Ohio primaries will lie held
May q. While no plans for cam
paigning in that state have as yet
been completed by either the Tar
managers or the Roosevelt managers
it is pretty we'll understood that both
the president and the former presi
dent win go into the state.
President TAFT is determined tc
carry his own state, and the third
terms candidate is just as determined
| that the president shall not have the
support of Ohio. After Ohio viii
come the New Jersey primaries on
May 20. President Taft already has
done some talking in that state anc
he expects TO do a great deal more
before the primaries come off The
third.te1m candidate plans to spend
several days in the state the week be
fore the primaries are held
These five primary states have
total OF 154 delegates. Massachu
sets has SO, California &C. Maryland
l6, Ohio As and New Jersey 2S. The
supporters of President Taft feel thai
| if he can break even with the third
term candidate in these states, his
nomination will be assured. Mana
ger Mckinley Of the Taft campaign
shows by his table of delegates chos
! en- that Taft is today within liz votes
of the nomination AS heretofore
pointed out, the Roosevelt campaign
managers are unwilling to conced'
that the president Is so near the nom
nation. They are unwilling to cred
ii to him the uninstructed delegate
in New York state and the contested
| delegates in various states.
Sandwiched in between the direc
! primary states above mentioned ar
! Is or IS states that will choose dele
gates under the old convention sys
TEN In this list are Arizona, Arkan
sas, Idaho, Kansas, Minnesota, Mon
tana, Nevada, North Carolina, Soutl
Dakota with sort OF primary Ter
nessees, Utah, Washington West Vii
ginia, Wyoming, and Texas The ouI
look is that President Taft will far
we'll in most of these states.--Indian
| apolis News.