Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-27
BATTLE TO CONTINUE
Bay State Will Not Settle
Taft-RooseveIt Fight.
OTHER STATES IN DOUBT
Many Are to Name Delegates by
Convention System.
INTEREST IN MARYLAND
Both Candidates to Wage Hard
Fight There-Also Will
Invade Ohio.
OTHER STATES IN DOUBT
INTEREST IN MARYLAND

The contest between President Taft and
former President Roosevelt will not end
with the Massachusetts primaries next
Tuesday. II will go right along, and
most persons believe, with increasing
bitterness. until the last delegate to the
Chicago convention has been chosen. OF
even until the convention renders its yer.
dict.
From Massachusetts the big show
will be transferred to Maryland, where
direct presidential preference primaries
are to be held May Z. Both the Presi-
dent and the third term candidate are
planning to invade this state in much
tie same way that they have gone into
Massachusetts,.
After Maryland. interest will center in
California, where the direct primaries
are to be held May IA. So far as known
here, neither the President nor the third
term candidate will undertake to cross
the continent to talk to the voters Of the
Pacific coast state. The managers OF
the Taft campaign have been greatly en-
couraged by the information from Cali
fornia that the women, who have a vote
In the primary there. are very generally
supporting the President. In many parts
of the state they are vigorously cam
paigning for him.
May Enter Buckeye State.
The Ohio primaries will be held May 81
While no plans for campaigning in that
state have been completed by either the
Taft or the Roosevelt managers, 1t
is pretty well understood that both
the President and the former Presi-
dent will go into the state. President
Taft is determined to carry his own state.
and the third term candidate Is just as
determined that the President shall not
have the support of Ohio.
After Ohio will come the New Jersey
primaries May 20. The third term can
didate plans to speak several days in the
state the week before the primaries are
held, and President Taft also will speak
there.
These five primary states have total
Of 154 delegates-Massachu So;
California, 26; Maryland. 16; Ohio, 48.
and New Jersey. Is. The supporters
of President Taft feel that if he can
didate in these states his nomination
will be assured.
Manager Mckinley Of the Taft cam
paign shows BY his table of delegates
votes of the nomination. The Roosevelt
campaign managers are unwilling to
concede that the President Is so near
the nomination. They are unwilling to
credit to him the uninstructed delegates
in New York state and the contested
delegates in various states.
Have Convention System.
Sandwiched between the direct primary
states above mentioned are fifteen or
eighteen states that will choose dele
gates under the old convention system
In this list are Arizona. Arkansas,
Idaho. Kansas. Minnesota. Montana, Ne
vada, North Carolina, South Dakota. with
sort of a primary. Tennessee. Utah,
Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming
and Texas. The outlook is that Presi-
dent Taft will fare we'll in most of these
states. During the coming week the big
event will be the Massachusetts, primary
Tuesday The Porto Rico territorial con-
vention will be held Monday, and Saturday
the South Carolina state convention c'lily
white') will take place. During the week
some eight or ten districts scattered
throughout the country will name dele
gates.
On the democratic side. Champ Clark,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives,
still continues to hold the lead in the
number Of delegates chosen. The can
didacy of Oscar Underwood, chairman Of
the ways and means committee will be
tested in two southern states next Tues
day, Georgia and Florida.