Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-22
La Toilette Not Sighted.

Amplified returns in the republican con-
test show that Senator La Toilette poled
a heavy vote in several counties, and 1t
is possible that final results will show
that he ran second to Col Roosevelt in
number of counties where Mr. Taft
dropped down to third place on the ticket
Inc Ia1t managers declared that this
occurred only In democratic counties
where democrats voted the republican
tlcket Mr.. Bryan and Speaker Champ
Clark, although their names were not on
the ballot. Got a small fraction of the to-
tai vote cast. but it seems doubtful il the
combined Bryan-Clark vote had any con-
siderable influence on the outcome of the
Harmon Wilson fight
The additional congressman to which
Ohio Is entitled as result OF the last
census will be selected at large and will
De named by each party at their state
The rural vote throughout tho stata
light. as the farmers, who have been re-
tarded Dy the weather, preferred to mt
In their crops to going to the polls.
WINE returns are meager on the vote
for delegates to the republican state CON
vention. which will name the six renuh.
lican national delegates at large i :.
believed that the Roosevelt forces viii
dominate.
Returns From Seventy Counties.
On the face OF returns from about sew.
enty of the eighty-eight counties OF the
state President Taft will have but ten of
the forty-two delegates to the national
convention. He will have two in each OF
these districts-the first, second, seventh
and thirteenth-and one delegate from the
third and one from the fifteenth. The
| official count may show a change in the
districts where the delegates were divided
L hotU President Taft and
welt.
| The thirty-two delegates that have been
elected to vote for Roosevelt are from
the following districts: Fourth. fifth. sixth.
| fourteenth. sixteenth. seventeenth, eight
eenth, nineteenth. twentieth and twenty
| first He will also have one delegate each
from the third and fifteenth.
Roosevelt Carries 45 Counties.
Complete returns from fifty-nine of the
eighty-eight counties OF the state show
that Roosevelt carried forty-five Of them
and Taft fourteen.
OF the fourteen counties which have SO
far reported as carried by President Taft.
one-half of all Of them are democratic
strongholds. where the republican vote
was very light.
Adams county, where more than 1,5OO
| voters were disfranchised q year ago for
| selling their votes, gave Col. Roosevelt a
majority Of nearly 200. President Taft
carried his home districts, the first and
the second.
Republican Delegates Elected.
In the third district c. W. Folkert was
| elected as a Roosevelt delegate and D.
w. Allaman as a Taft delegate. In the
| fifteenth district D. L Melick was named
as a Roosevelt delegate and Frank Rams
bottom the Taft delegate. Other dis
tricts show the following Roosevelt
| delegates:
| Fourth-Carl d. Jones and ]. c. Penz.
Fifth-Allen Bybee and Frank Carlo
Sixth-R. ]. Shawan and w. H. Baum.
Eighth-N. l. McClachnan and Lewis
| Slack.
Ninth-George E. Hardy and C. w.
Finch.
Tenth-P. NJ. Stretch and Sherman
/ Eagle
Eleventh-Henry zenner and James
Thomas.
Twelfth-Karl T. Webber and King G.
| Thompson.
Fourteenth-A. L. Garford and H. G.
Hammond.
Sixteenth-Cook Danford and E Er.
skine.
Seventeenth-E s. Souers and A. s.
i Mitchell.
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