The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-04-25

SCFGlALS "a ESNCuAy ola ASA1Gd1N5
10 the Roosevelt column at Chicago.
Nebraska gives all of her sixteen. IL
llnois gives fifty-six of her fifty-eighI.
In Missouri the elections TO Congress
sional District and State Conven-
tions have proceeded far enough to
show that Colonel Roosevelt will
have all but two of the thirty-six
delegates TO the Chicago convention.
West Virginia Is in line with a
solid delegation. North Dakota and
Wisconsin are solidly against the
Taft candidacy.
These nine States send an ag1re-
gate of $50 delegates to the Republi
can National Convention. The most
Mr.. Taft can hope for from them is
| ten delegates. His candidacy has
been repudiated by these Republican
States twenty-five to one. From the
States which have thus voted so over
whelmingly against Mr.. Taft's candi-
dacy, Colonel Roosevelt has 224 dele
gates. The Republican voters from
these States who must be relied upon
to carry the party to victory at the
November election have declared in
| favor of Colonel Roosevelt. These
nine States cast 100 votes in the
| Electoral College. There will be So
votes in the next Electoral College,
making 266 necessary to a choice.
States representing practically half
of the electoral votes necessary to a
| Republican victory have declared al
most unanimously against the Taft
candidacy, and in favor of Colonel
| Roosevelt's nomination"
| Claims for President Taft.
| Congressman Mckinley, President
Taft's manager, has just given out
from his headquarters in Washing
ton the following statement:
Despite the hub-bub and the fur
| ry displayed by the Roosevelt man
ayers during the week just ended, the
| campaign developments continued in
their calm trend toward the nomina-
ton of Mr.. Taft in June. Exclusive
of the Illinois delegates, whose pref
erence was determined by the pri-
maries of a fortnight ago, sixtysiN
! delegates were chosen last week. OF
| these Senator Cummins received 2
Colonel Roosevelt 80, and President
Taft "a. The latter came from Ha-
wall, Missouri, Kansas, South Caro-
lima, Connecticut, and Colorado. Mr..
Roosevelt took Nebraska and Oregon
and a district each in Michigan an6
Missouri.
president Taft now has 3S9 dele
gates, giving him II in Pennsylvania
Colonel Roosevelt has 1875, Senator
La Toilette remained stationary q,
Sc, and Senator Cummins has s, al
in his home State.
Iowa, in it's State convention, and
Rhode Island, State and districts, will
take their stand this week.
president Taft will have at leas,
thirty delegates from Texas on the
first and only ballot in the Chicag-
convention. The Cecil Lyon machine
in that State has been smashed tC
bits, and Lyon himself is now beg
ging the Taft men to let him go tt
the Chicago convention as a dele
gate. Unless Lyon can slip himself
in as a delegate from some one dis
trict or by some trick, he, like Pearl
Wight, of Louisiana, will have to vote
for Taft at Chicago or stay at home. y
These statements are SO conflicting
that no one who has not the inside
information which these managers
have or ought to have can say how
much of these claims on both sides
are we'll founded. However, in this
connection, it should be stated that
five of the delegates already elected
in South Carolina, and instructed fol
President Taft, have sent telegrams
to Senator Dixon declaring that they
will vote for Colonel Roosevelt. They
/ say that the sentiment in their State
and districts is for Roosevelt, and
that they were elected before the Col
onel announced his candidacy, and
therefore they feel justified in max
ing the change. We publish in an
other column these two kilograms
If number of other Southern dele
gates would take the same position il
would materially alter the situation
+ The New York Herald's Poll.
i In every campaign, for many years
J. the New York Herald has kept a pol
) of the votes of contesting candidates
: of both sides. So accurate have beer
the statements made by the Herald iI
7 the past that politicians have come tc
look upon them with considerable
2 confidence. For this reason, and or
t account of the wide difference in the
E claims of the managers of the two
: sides, we have decided to give oul
, READERS the benefit OF the poll made