Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-05-23
TAFT LAYS CLAIM
TO $40 DELEGATES
President Invades New jersey To-
day to Make Assurance
Doubly Sure
OHIO SETTLES NOMINATION
Positive His Forces Will Control
State Convention and So
Give Him II Votes
from There.
OHIO SETTLES NOMINATION

Washington. May 22.--Claiming $50 dele
gates to the Chicago convention or 80
more than enough to insure him the nomi-
nation President Tart to-day declared that
he was going into New Jersey to make
assurance douby sure" He will leave
Washington for Philadelphia at seven
o'clock tomorrow morning and make his
first political speech at Camden in the
evening.
The Presidents statement was issued
after day Of activity at the White
House. Political conferences with his
manag gers. and appointments with mem
bers OF the cabinet were followed at four
o'clock by a meeting of the full cabinet
1t was stated later that this meeting was
devoted to routine business but mem
bers of the ca hinet admitted that the po-
litical situation had been reviewed in con-
siderable detail
our opponents quote from q state
ment of mine. made In Cleveland. that
the fight in Ohio. my home State, much
to my qualification. would he the decisive
one" said the President IN his statement.
'and would settle the question of my
nomination. This is true. ! shall have at
least Il votes from Ohio. including the
delegates sat large for we have every as
Surance that we shall control the State
convention.
This will constitute a clear ma a'ority
i'm the national convention. Indeed, in
addition to the votes from Ohio dele
Gatcs elected for mo from other States,
Of which | have been advised since my
Cleveland statement. give me at the most
conservative estimate so out of the
Los votes in the national convention, 80
moro than the number necessary 10
nominate
II am going to New Jersey to take part
In the coming campaign there for the
same reason that I went to Ohio, and
such delegates as we may receive from
New Jersey will thus make assurance
doublv sure"
Earlier in the day Director Mckinley OF
the Taft headquarters claimed "at least
COO delegates for the President. The
Presidents estimate, while smaller, was
declared at the White House to represent
rock bottom figures which were ex.
pected to be materially increased The
claim to the six delegate Large In Ohio
was made by the President after reas-
suring messages from his Ohio managers
forces to-day to the q delegates to be Sc
ected In New Jersey next TUESDAY Al
Roosevelt national headquarters, Senator
Dixon expressed the belief that Colonel
Roosevelt would carry all districts In the
state and secure the full delegation. In a
| statement earlier in the day Senator Dix
on declared Colonel Roosevelt would bc
nominated at Chicago on the hrst ballot
ROOSEVELT JUST AS SURE. I.
| Oyster Bay. y. Y. May 22,-Colone
| Roose' elt would add nothing tonight tc
his statement earlier in the day In whict
| he said that his victory in Ohio had "set.
| tied the contest" He Will leave for New
! York early tomorrow to 70 to his edi
| torial office for an hour before begin.
ming his New Jersey campaign He il
| to leave Jersey city by train at clever
o'clock for Paterson, where he vii
make his first speech.