Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-30
Taft NOW CLAIMS
Al DELEGATES
ROOSEVELT HACKERS LIKEWISE
CLAIM TO HAVE 2e1 SAFELY
clNcHED.
MASSACHUSETTS, IS NEXT
Much Depends on the Primaries There
on Tuesday.-Clark Still Leads
Democrats With 1877 to
Wilson's 1922.

VdoAluSIOll April SS.-WlLQ tuc uuls
hplying of contests on the Republican
side. and the conflicting claims as to
uninstructed delegates on the demo.
cratic side. it becomes more difficult
each week to ascertain what are the
real facts with regard to delegates al.
ready elected to the Chicago and the
Baltimore conventions. Many lists are
being kept by experts in this city,
and no two of them agree.
The Taft managers claim for their
candidate not only all delegates in.
structed for him, but also all delegates
in districts which the Roosevelt peo-
pie have contested. The claim Of the
Taft people is that they carried the
regular conventions in each case. and
that the contests were arranged by
boiling conventions. The Roosevelt
people, on the other hand, apparently
are not willing to concede to Taft all
the delegates who appear to have been
instructed for him, and say Taft has
only about 100 delegates pledged.
The claim of the Taft people fol.
lows: }
Total Taft delegates, 421. Taft still
needs 119. ,..
Total Roosevelt delegates, 203.
Roosevelt still needs 1877.
La Fcllette's delegates SO.
.n.7 Cummins' delegates, 10. .a.,.
Delegates vet to be chosen, 4o8.
This estimate agrees substantially
with the estimates which are publish.
ed by the New York Herald and the
New York World.
e61 Delegates Claimed by Roosevelt.
The weekly table of delegates elect
cd, issued by the Roosevelt managers,
shows the following:
For Roosevelt. 261 delegates. For
delegates. Contested, 1874 delegates.
In the list Of uninstructed are counted
al the Taft delegates in New York
state. t' Ha,t
Inviding the delegates from Illinois,
Nebraska and Oregon in accordance
with the claims which have been made
by the contesting candidates. the dem.
ocratic situation is about as follows:
Wilson, 1872; Clark, 1877; Marshall, 30;
Underwood, "a; uninstructed, 102
(New York and Maine).
Massachusetts 10 Next.
The Importance of Massachusetts IN
the republican presidential calcula.
tons has been we'll illustrated THE
week, when President Taft and Col
onel Roosevelt united in speaking
tour there, each one criticizing the
other. Both wind up the campaign in
that state Monday night, Taft speak.
Ing at the City theater in Brockton,
and Roosevelt in Boston. Both sides
appear to realize that states which
have not vet selected their delegates
to Chicago will be affected by the out
come of the direct primaries in Mass.
achusetts on Tuesday.
The Maryland primaries are to come
on May 6, just six days after the pri.
carries in Massachusetts,, and both
Taft and Roosevelt are to make whirl-
wind tours in that state, Taft follow.
Ing Roosevelt. ....
After Maryland, interest will cen.
ter in California, where the direct
primaries are to be held May IA. So
far as known here. neither the presi-
dent nor Colonel Roosevelt will un-
dertake to cross the continent to talk
to the voters of the Pacific coast
state.
The Ohio primaries will be held
May 81, while no plans for campaign
Ing in the state have been completed
by either the Taft or the Roosevelt
managers, It is pretty well understood
that both the president and the former
president will 60 into the state.
After Ohio will come to New Jer-
pey primaries. May 20. Colonel Roose-
velt plans to speak several days in
the state the week before the primar.
les are held, and President Taft also
will speak there.
These five primary states have a
total of 1874 delegates-M Massachusetts
SO; California, 26; Maryland, 16;
Ohio, 4s, and New Jersey, %. The
supporters of President Taft feel that
II he can break even with Colonel
Roosevelt in these states his nomina-
lion will be assured.
Sandwiched between the direct pri-
mary states above mentioned are fl.
teen or eighteen states that will
choose delegates under the old con-
vention system. In this division are
Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas,
Minnesota, Montana. Nevada, North
Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee,
Utah. Washington, West Virginia,