Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-05-30


 Roosevelt's comment. The Colonel was asked whether he will now be. gin to make plans for the fall cam. paign since he felt confident of his nomination.
 "Of course a long experienced hunt er," he replied, 'has learned never to divide a bearskin until the bear is dead.'
 Wilson's Support Staggers Opposition
 Newark, May 3O.-Roosevelt and Wilson were overwhelming winners in the primaries of New Jersey, ac- cording to the now practically com plete returns. Roosevelt made a clean sweep and apparently will have every one of the states 2S delegates. His plurality is fully 15,000 over Presi- dent Taft. Woodrow Wilson's victory is only a trifle less complete.
 The Wilson vote was a staggering blow to the opposition lead by ex-Sen ator Smith. Some of the districts went for the governor 200 to 1. Taft had a small plurality in four of the q counties, while the La Toilette vote was negligible
 Even the most rabid of anti-Roose- welt papers in New York concede edi- torily that New Jersey primaries must be accepted as accurate showing of the sentiment among the rank and file of republican voters. Even the New York World today says: "There is no other state in which the results of a presidential primary deserve to be treated with so much respect and con- sideration."
 The New Jersey ballot is one of the best primary ballots in the country, It was plainly stated on the ballot to whom each candidate for district delegate or delegate at large is pledged.
 Without a single exception, the New York papers this morning credited Mr. Roosevelt with only P delegates and one of the great dailies conceded that he had won but IS to 10 for Taft.
 The World stated that Taft seems assured of four and perhaps six, and the Times admitted that Roosevelt will get at least g out of 2S dele gates.
 The reluctance with which these anti-Roosevelt papers concede Taft's overwhelming defeat only emphasizes the tremendous importance of yester- days victory.
 The New Jersey election means the beginning of the end of Taft's candi- dacy. It knocks the last feeble proI from under it.
 All Advantage for Taft
 President Taft had all advantage of well-drilled party organization, the service of the state and various county committees, the federal bri- gade, and a big sack filled by the large financial interests.
 Roosevelt had to depend on volun- teer workers through the state, inn perfectly organized and with insuffi- cient campaign funds.
 Senator La Toilette cut practically no figure in yesterdays election. Al though extensively advertised and boomed by the reactionary press in hope that he would split the progres. sive vote he received less than per cent of the total republican vote cast In many districts he failed to receive a single vote. This does not mean that the Wis by New Jersey progressives. They simply refused to allow their support to become split up.
 How the voters were affected by President Taft's novel plan" of cam paigning up to the very hour of the opening of the polls was indicated in returns from Glassboro, where the president wound up his whirlwind campaign tour He was beaten there by vote of nearly 40 to l. One indirect result of the election is that it will result in a complete overthrow not alone of United States | Senator Briggs, Lorimers conferee at Washington, but of the entire stand pat machine. The state committee will be immediately reorganized along progressive lines and the old time politicians will be thrown into the pol ! itical scrap heap.
 Reward for Colby
 Gossip at Roosevelt state head quarters today indicate that Everette |