The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-14
KEoKUK, IOWA. SUNDAY, APRIL IA, 1912
(00SEVE[T SWEEPS PENNSYLVANIA
I'M PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE PRIMARIES
naming "A delegates also are Roose

A delegates also are Roose
velt men.
The IL national delegates to be
elected at the state convention May
also will be Roosevelt men according
to pro-Roosevelt papers here and in
Philadelphia at midnight. Taft pa
pers here content themselves with de-
claring that the primary vote was !
stress is laid on the local fight. Anti |
machine leaders here assert at mid
night that at last control has been
wrenched from Senator Penrose in re-
publican state affairs.
The control of the state convention
by Roosevelt spells doom to the Pen
rose machine, the Roosevelt leaders
claimed.
"Bossism" was Roosevelt's leading
issue, and the landslide of ballots was
said to have utterly smashed one of
the grandest political machines in the
country.
Returns up to midnight showed that
Roosevelt had carried the following
congressional districts, not including
Philadelphia districts: Seventh,
Eighth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth,
Thirteenth, Eighteenth and Twenty
eighth.
Another count showed that Roose-
welt carried 81 scattered counties out
of 25 There are 67 counties in Penn
sylvania.
The Early Bulletins.
PHILADELPHIA, April 13.-At
| 1926 the campaign managers for both
President Taft and Roosevelt were
claiming victory as the result of to-
days primaries in Pennsylvania.
There was no actual basis for the
claims as the returns were coming in
slower than ever before in the history
Of the state and at that hour the
vote had not been completed in a sin,
/ gle congressional district in the state
i 1t seemed that it would be impos
fsible to get definite results much be
4 fore Sunday morning,
I I RcpOflS Hull anu LIZ
i high county districts indicated tha
4 Roosevelt leaders were claiming thu
1 four national delegates from these
districts by vote of 2 to L.
!. The returns from this city were
/ scattering but seemed to favor the
president, and the Taft forces claim
ed they would sweep the city.
/ In York county there was an ever
split between Roosevelt and Taft 70
delegates All the state and nationa
democratic delegates were pledged t,
Wilson Leckawanna, Lycoming, Cen
/ tire, Wayne. Lehigh, Snyder, Delaware
/ Schuykill and Dauphin have def1nitel
gone for Roosevelt At Governor Wi
= sons headquarters it was claimed tina
. Wilson had swept the state for demo
| cratic presidential preference.
Eight for Roosevelt.
I PITTSBURGH, April 13.-Indicf
5 tions here at 1920 with the return
still incomplete, were that Roosevelt
= secured the eight delegates from Allt
L gheny county by big majority.
4 Reports from Connellsville at tn
e same hour said that Somerset, Green
It and Fayette conties indicate victor
n of the Roosevelt delegates.
= Leaders at Roosevelt headquartel
$ are jubilant and declare that the
> men will have a landslide in the ives
ern end of the state.
h Early returns from Philadelphia hs
l. the Taft faction claiming victory
s the eastern part of the state.
1t The vote of the late afternoo
II turned out much stronger than hf
been expected because of the thres
le ening weather.
e Predictions We're made here tonig
- that the vote will be probably Il
heaviest since the registration al
uniform primary laws went into effet
= Eleven O'clock Bulletins.
} PHILADELPHIA, Pa. April 13.-4
: II p. m. the North American, pI
Roosevelt, claims that Rooseve
rs split Philadelphia and swept t
m state. This means, according to t
~ North Americans claim, that Root
No velt got six national delegates
- three Philadelphia districts, and tn
a., Roosevelt has the majority of the
=. naming national delegates from t
:, state at large The paper also clai
60 ed that Roosevelt safely controls t