Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25

Director William Is. Mckinley OF the
national Taft bureau last night made
the following statement on the result OF
the Indiana primaries Saturday:
"The latest advces from Indiana indi-
cate beyond a doubt that the Taft people
control the state convention by "A ajor-
ity of at least 30. and will send -four
delegates at large instructed for Presi-
dent Taft, Tuesday. March 26. 1t is set
tied beyond any question that Taft will
have twenty-five out of the thirty in the
state. The first and seventh districts have
already sent instructed delegates and it
is absolutely certain that Taft delegates
will be sent from the second, third,
fourth. fifth. ninth, tenth and thirteenth
districts.
THE eleventh district, with its two dele
gates, is conceded to Roosevelt. The sixth.
eighth and twelfth districts are so close
that it is doubtful il the result is known
until the conventions are held The prob
abilities are that the Taft people will get
two out of these three. The third, fourth,
fifth and eleventh districts will hold their
conventions Monday, March -. The sec
ond, sixth, ninth and tenth districts will
hold their conventions March %, and the
thirteenth district April 3 and the twelfth
district April 81
Senator Dixon. director of the Roose-
Welt bureau. issued this statement:
we have met the enemy in Indiana
and they are ours. We have carried
eight congressional districts out of thir-
teen for Col Roosevelt. and insured the
control of the state convention. which
will elect four more Roosevelt delegates
to the national convention at Chicago
have seen the statement put out by Mr..
Mckinley at the Taft headquarters in
which he claims victory in Indiana, but
[ want to say now that Mr.. Mckinley
knows that his claim is not well founded.
Il say, further that We do not propose
to be robbed of our victory i'm Indiana by
any of the numerous forms of political
burglary of which the Taft managers are
masters. The lavish use of cash which
they are prepared to make will not avail
10 overthrow the expression of the real
sentiment of the republican voters of In
diana registered at the primaries yester-
day. The desperation of the Taft mana
gers is easily understood.
Their defeat in Indiana foreshadows
their defeat in the nation.
by every form of political chcanery
which ingenuity could devise the Taft
managers have sought to mislead the
people of this country as to the true
situation and to create the false impress
sion that their candidate is gathering
strength. Only such masters of men
dacity as those who have the effrontery
10 claim the election of Taft delegates
in the fifth Missouri district. where, by
vote of approximately 5000 to 400. the
rank and file of the party repudiated the
Taft candidacy, can now have the face to
make such claims regarding Indiana as
the Taft headquarters have put out.
1T is not only in Indiana that the
Roosevelt forces triumphed yesterday.
kilograms received at this office from
Mississippi, where the county conventions
were held for the election of delegates to
district show
that the Roosevelt forces have won a
majority of the congressional districts
The following statement was issued by
the Taft bureau last night:
Senator Joseph NJ. Dixon of Montana.
chairman of the national Roosevelt
executive committee. suffered a crushing
defeat in his own home state late Sat
urday night, when the state committee,
composed of one member from each
county in the state, at a meeting at
Helena, Endorsed the Taft administration
and President Taft for denomination by
a vote of ~ to -. The state committee
of Montana is chosen by the delegates to
the county conventions. which are, in
turn, chosen by primary vote Accord
ing to the information received at the
national Taft bureau today several men,
hers of the committee voted against the
Presidents Endorsement out of regard
for Senator Dixon s official position in the
Roosevelt camp, while at the same time
admitting that they were not rehectnS
the actual sentiment in their counties by
so doing.
THE action of the state committee of
Montana merely reflects the actual senti-
ment among the voters of the state as II
has been known to exist to the Taft man
ayers for some time. There never has
been any question but that Montana s
eight votes in the republican national
convention would be cast for the renomi-
nation of President Taft. Last Wednes-
day night a Taft club was organized
among the business men of Helena which
includes in it's membership representa-
tives of most of the substantial business
interests of the state and of the state
capital city. Similar organizations are
now operating in practically all the cities
THE basis for the strong Taft senti-
ment in Montana is the recognition of the
fact that President Taft is the real re-
visionist of the tariff on a protective
among those who voted for the Payne
tariff law, not only item by item. but for
the law itself. He was not among those
republican insurgents who opposed the
law, and he voted as he did at the behest
of the unanimous sentiment among the
republicans of his state.
1.-The people of Montana realize that if
President Taft had vetoed the Payne law
the Dingley law. carrying much higher
tariff rates would now be in operation,
Wnllt the ltpupiiSdu party itSCii "ooAO NC
split wide open. Their wool industry is
one which needs protection, and the people
of Montana are willing to abide by fair
decision from President Tafts tariff
board as to the cost of production here
and abroad. This report has been rem
dered and a democratic House of Repre-
Sentatives will pass a democratic bill re-
vising the wool schedule this week, while
the republican minority, standing square
ly on the report of the tariff board, have
reported bill fixing a tariff tax on the
basis of clean wool, which not only gives
the wool grower all the legitimate protec-
fords liberal reductions in the present
rates on wool for the benefit of the con-
sumner.
Had IL not been for the tariff board,
which President Taft fought for and Sc
cured in the Payne law. the wool tariff
would again have been revised on an un-