The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-05-28
new JERSEY POLLS
OPEN TONIGHT
UNTIL $3.50
Returns Will Therefore Be Very
Late in Coming
BOTH FACTIONS CONFIDENT
President Got Great Ovation at At
lantic City and Col. Roosevelt Elk.
pounded His Doctrines

Atlantic City. N. j., May 2S.-Presi-
dent Taft travelled through five New
Jersey counties yesterday and talked
to 10000 persons. 1t was trump
hant tour Everywhere the voters
came out to see him and to cheer.
Nowhere was there one discordant
note. The day was ideal. and when
farmers leave their farms to join in
political function, with the weather
and soil ripe for planting, it means
that more than passing interest IN
the issues under discussion.
But the browning success of the
day came at this city, where the
President arrived at S:45 o'clock last
night, nearly an hour late. 1t was
all the police could do to hold the
crowd in check, and all the crowd
wanted to do was to see the Presi-
dent and cheer him, as it could not
hope TO hear him speak at Youngs
Pier. for the auditorium there was
already filed with 10000 men and
women who had been waiting for
him
The New Jersey state primary
election today will bring practically
to a close the spectacular campaigns
for the presidential nomination that
have resulted this year from the
adoption by several states OF presi-
dental preference laws. The South
Dakota primaries are still in the fu-
ture, but IL is believed that the open
ing of the polls in New Jersey will
see the end OF the personal appeal
FOR primary votes that President
Taft and Theodore Roosevelt have
voiced in many parts OF the country.
This state will choose twenty-eight
delegates to each national conven-
ton four at large and two each
from the twelve congressional dis
tricts Each district selects its own
delegates, but the delegates at large
are elected by the vote of the whole
state. The primary law also permits
the voters to express personal
choice for a presidential candidate,
but his preference vote has no direct
bearing upon the division of dele
gates.
In speaking at LambertviIle yester
day Col. Roosevelt took up at some
length the charge that he was at
tempting to wreck his party. That
is the direct reverse of the TRUTH" he
said. I'VE are building up the re-
publican party. The only chance for
the republican party lies in our sue
cess. The success OF our opponents
would mean the absolute ruin of the
party.
81 ask you to compare in this the
attitudes OF myself and of Mr.. Taft in
your own state. Just the other day,
here in New Jersey, he said he ex-
pected to win because the national
committee is with him. have told
you that ] expect to win because the
people are with me. The national
committee was chosen by the politi.
clans four years ago; and these 40 or
so men represented the choice Of the
politicians in 1908 are to be used, for
sooth, to overthrow the wishes OF the
republican party in 1918. am loyal
TO the republican party when | say
that We represent the rank and file OF
today and not the politicians of four
years ago.
MANY of those national committee
men Of whom Mr.. Taft speaks as the
friends OF constitutional government
as the men who are to save the party
are to save II from whom? From you
II is to save the party from the repub-
leans OF Illinois and Pennsylvania
who repudiated Lorimer and Penrose
That is the proposal Of Mr.. Taft on
behalf OF the national committee.
THE only men who impeach my
loyalty to the republican party are
the bosses who are themselves being
repudiated by the republican party
wherever the rank and file have the
chance to vote. hold myself bound
to be loyal 10 your interests: but !
am not bound to be loyal to the inter
ests Of the bosses who betray you
So my friends. my withers are wrune
when they talk of me not being loya
to the party
The polls opened at one O'Clock
this afternoon and will close at 9:3C
tonight