Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-05-29

The Roosevelt victory was general. Ow-
ing to peculiar conditions in Hudson
county, he got larger majority there
the trend was decidedly to Roosevelt
from Cape May to Sussex.
The vote cast for Senator La Toilette
was small and had practically no bearing
on the contest between Taft and Roose-
velt
The Roosevelt sweep is a stunning blow
to the regular leaders In the State. His
New Jersey victory was more complete
relatively than his success in Illinois or
any of the other States where he won in
the direct primaries, and, coming at a
critical time In the contest, when the
Taft people were grasping at straws, 1t
is recognized by the Taft leaders that
the moral effect Of the victory viii he
great, aud that after the Jersey demon
stration 1t will be difficult for the Repob-
ncan National Committee to keep up the
Taft fight at Chicago.
Taft made probably his best fight In
the Fifth district He carried Morris APP
/ parently by about 100, and was beaten
! in Union by about 400.
In the Sixth district Bergen county
J stood by him, but he lost in Sussex and
!, Warren, the other two counties In the
F, district.
THE Seventh, composed of Passaic
county, with the exception of two small
Townships, was carried OVERWHELMINGLY
by Roosevelt. In the Eighth, Nintn'
Tenth. Eleventh and Twelfth districts,
living within Essex and Hudson counties
II ID Roosevelt first and Taft nowhere.
The Regular Republican leaders were
ready to concede early this morning
that it was Roosevelt all along the
line. The Taft headquarters In the
Essex building closed up at a. m
/, Fverv raw of hope that Taft would save
snvthing out OF the wreck had then
been given UP.
Edward w. Gray, secretary OF the
Taft League, who had teiephoned TO
Washington earlier in the night that
Newark would give n majority for Tatt
and the first returns seemed to JUSTIFY
that prediction, said before going nome
that the State had gone to Roosevelt
overwhelmingly.
Alfred N. Dalrymple, chairman II the
county committee, at the headquarters
of which returns were being received,
admitted at o'clock that IL was all up
in the state. but entertained a slight
hone. he said, that Taft would get some
delegates out of the Essex districts and
possibly a set of delegates from either
the FIFTH or Sixth district The hope
did not materialize.
Roosevelt carried all three counties in
the First Congressional District, Camden,
CIoucester and Salem. He carried
Gloucester, where Taft campaigned up to
the hour that the polls opened, by 500,
salem by 50 and Camden by a small ma
jority.
In the Second District Atlantic went
for Taft by 500, but he lost in the other
counties Of the district, Burlington, Cape
May and Cumberland. In the latter
county, where former Governor Stokes
led the fight for Roosevelt, the colonel
had a majority of 800 Burlington gave
him about 1000.
In the Third District Taft won Middle
sex, but lost Monmouth and Ocean.
Roosevelt carried Trenton. the home
CITY of United States Senator Frank o.
Briggs. the chairman of the Republican
state Committee, who was leading the
Fight for Taft in New Jersey.
The returns from the rest of Mercer in
sicate that Roosevelt would have a ma
tority of approximately 1000 in the
county. Somerset and Hunterdon, the
other two counties in the Fourth dis
trict. according to partial returns would
frontinued ON Second Pnge0