Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-15

Philadelphia, April 14.--Col. Theo-
dore Roosevelt's sweeping victory in
| Pennsylvania at Saturdays primary
election kept growing, today, as the
returns continued to come in.
/ Incomplete returns from every dis
| trict give the former President 60 of
! the states 76 delegates in the Repub-
| lican National convention. The Roose
welt supporters are claiming 81 and
| later returns may carry the figures to
| that total. Col. Roosevelt won SO of
the ca district national delegates and
| his followers elected enough delegates
| to the state convention to give them
| control of that body. The state con,
vention will name II delegates at
! large.
| Governor Woodrow Wilson of New
Jersey, who had no organized OPPOSE
ton, will have Is of the rs delegates
| from Pennsylvania in the Democratic
| National convention.
| In the 18th Congressional district,
the two Democratic national delegates
| elected are favorable to Gov. Judson
| Harmon, but they are not pledged
Politicians look upon the triumph of
| Col. Roosevelt with establishment. The
supporters of the former President
were without a state organization and
without Reorganization in many OF
| the 80 congressional districts.
| The Regular Republican organiza-
ton, headed by United States Senator
| Boies Penrose, which has weathered
many a political storm. suffered
crushing defeat in the loss of control
of the convention. 1t is the first time
in the present generation that it has
/ lost control in that body.
Besides naming the u delegates at
large to Chicago. the convention will
| select SO Presidential electors. four
| candidates for congressman at large
and candidates for state treasurer and
auditor general. all to be voted for al
the November election.
| The significance of the Roosevelt
| victory can be realized when it is re-
| membered that the delegates in con-
| troll of the state convention have the
| power to select the state chairman
| and under the party rules the delega-
ton to the National convention elects
the national committeeman. At pres
| ent Senator Penrose holds both posi-
| lions.
1t was said by a prominent member
of the state committee, tonight, that
| some of the Roosevelt delegates elect
| ed to the state convention are reg
| ular organization men, who, although
| they voted for Roosevelt delegates
| will stand by the state organization
Some of the leaders of the Repub-
lican organization refrained from per-
| sonally entering the primary as can
didates fer district national dele
| gates because it had been expected
| they would be selected as delegates
| at-large. Among those understood to
| have been looked upon as the likely
| delegates We're Senators Penrose and
| Oliver. Gov. Tener, Secretary of State
| Robert MeAfee and State Senator
James p. McNichol, the leader of the
| party organization in Philadelphia.
/ The vote polled was light. In some
| districts, it did not go much over SO
| per cent of the total vote cast at the
| last general election. Col Roosevelt
| is said to have received his heaviest
| vote from the reform element in the
| state represented by the Keystone
| party which since it was organized,
| about two years ago, has opposed the
regular Republicans at every election
| and succeeded in electing a reform
mayor in Philadelphia. last year. An
| other element of strength to the
| Roosevelt forces was the 100000 idle
| anthracite miners in the northeastern
| counties of the state, where the for
mer President ran strongly.
In Philadelphia, President Tafts
| adherents got three of the six dis
| triets and split the delegation in an
! 81. 4 la
gates to Roosevelt's five. The dele
gates favoring Taft were not instruct
| ed. Among those who escaped the
| Roosevelt landslide We're John Wan
amaker and e. r. Stotesbury, who
We're elected en- Taft delegates in the
End District Edgar Fahs Smith, pro-
vost of the University of PennsylVa
mia, Taft delegate, went down TO
defeat, but William Draper Lewis
dean of the law department of the
university. was a Roosevelt winner.
/ In Allegheny county, which includes
Pittsburg, Col. Roosevelt captured all the
eight delegates i'm the four districts
Among them is VIM. f. Linn, who has
fought the regular state organization foI
years. In the congressional district
where Clifford Pinchot has his home, the
Roosevelt national delegates won, bu
Mr. Pinchot's home county, Pike, sent q
Taft delegate to the state convention.
Governor Wilson had an easy time of il
| in winning "A of the 10 delegates to the
Baltimore convention. At present there
/ are two Democratic state organizations
in Pennsylvania and each has endorsed
the New Jersey governor for President
There were a few scattered delegates
who favored Champ Clark, and in three