Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-03-05
TVENTY-SIXN MORE
TAFT DELEGATES
THE PRESIDENT NOW Hhs sEN.
ENTY ASSURED VOTES IN NA-
TlONAL CONVENTION.
PRESS SEES HIS NOMINATION
Campaign D. Making a Pleasing Head
WaN-rW Hampshire proarcs-ivcs
desert GOV Bass.

MASlllNGTON March i,-The
week just ended brought 26 more deli
oettcs iuto the TAFT column, all but
/ four of them instructed and contest
/ Threatened with regard to the two del
ogatos from the Third Missouri dis
trict Total number of delegates thus
/ far chosen, 70 Total for Taft 10.
/ Number of delegates involved in
| threatened contests 4.
I'm an other regards also the Taft
campaign has made headway most
/ pleasing and satisfactory TO the men
at the head of IT, The announcement
Of organized opposition has resulted in
stimulating the activities Of Mr.. Tafts
supporters and in developing the over
whelmng sentiment that is behind his
candidacy. Twelve republican govern
| ors at once came out i'm the open and
avowed support and figures were ad-
| duced to show that President raft in
! the respective states whose seven gov
ernors now oppose him, received a
popular vote exceeding that of the
seven governors by tSO,199, Senator
| Root and every republican member of
| The New York delegation remains loyal
to President Taft. In Massachusetts,
! Senator Lodge, because of his personal
relations although strongly opposed to
! the recall Of judicial decisions an
nounCcd neutrality while Representa-
tive Gardner and Lieutenant Governor
! rockingham declared for Mr.. Taft.
/ Other progressives, like Senator Bo-
rah, have withheld their support, and
yet others, like Representatives Martin
and Burke, Of South Dakota, Hum
! phrey, Of Washington and Senator
Jones Of Washington, took their stand
/ in favor Of the president. Former
! Governor n. j. Bachelor, Of New
Hampshire, president Of the National
! Grange, declared that the Columbus
speech made the opposition impossible
In Orange, n. j., the Mckinley and
Roosevelt club changed its name and
endorsed the candidacy Of President
Taft. Fifty New Hampshire progress
sives, previously associated with Gov
ernor Bass, pledged their support to
Taft. In Michigan, enthusiastically
described as a stronghold of the oppo-
gett endorsed the president and the
Eighth district convention instructed
its delegates to vote for him. Taft
clubs and Taft leagues are being
formed all over the country notably
in Ohio, New Jersey, Massachusetts,,
New Hampshire West Virginia, Con-
necticut and Michigan.
In the state of Washington the
state committee has endorsed the can
didacy Of Mr.. Taft The North Caro-
lima committee has endorsed the ad-
ministration. In New York, Kings
county will send a solid Taft delegation
to Chicago, the Thirty-Slxth district
committee has endorsed Taft delegates
the jefferson county convention has
endorsed the president and repudiated
the recall doctrine, and the Duchess
county committee has declared for Mr..
Taft. Delegates to state and dis
trlct conventions from Surrey, Rock
ingham and Danville counties, Vir-
gnia, are for Taft. so are the dele
gates from seven of the eight Iowa
counties that have chosen delegates,
Appanose and Adams being the latest.
The Second Kentucky district has
endorsed the president, and so have
Anderson. Oconee and Pickens coun-
ties, South Carolina. Eleven of the
fourteen counties in the Fourth Ten
nessee district have chosen solid Taft
delegates. At Millbury, Mass, 1apub-
and Representative Mccall is author
ity for the statement that the Massa =
chusetts delegation of thirty-six VIII be
a unit for him. In Missouri, Governor
Hadley offered to divide the delega-
ton. and the answer of che Taft sup
porters was to capture the Third dis
trlct convention.
Polls taken in Washington and MIN
nesota indicate a strong preponder-
ance of sentiment in favor of President
Taft. A poll Of the congressional
press galleries indicates that in a pro-
portion of three to one the newspaper
correspondents are of the opinion that
Mr.. Taft's denomination is assured.
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