Arizona republican., 1912-04-30
PRESIDENT |S COMING CLOSE TO THE GOAL One Hundred and Sixteen More Delegates Will
 Give Him Nom
 ination. VERNON SENDS SPLENDID NEWS New York Herald Publishes Table Supporting Claims of the Taft Men.
VERNON SENDS
 SPLENDID NEWS

Taft now has 437 delegates. in-
 cluding Nevada and New Hampshire and not counting Arkansas. William
 at least 80 of the delegation from that
 state is for Taft to the end. Nassa-
 chusetts looks good. The president is
 gaining throughout the country by
 reason of his reply to Roosevelt"
 The above is the text of d telegram
 just received by F. <. Kirk, in charge
 of the Taft campaign in Arizona
 from Leroy T Vernon. secretary at
 the headquarters in Washington. IL
 shows the standing of Mir. Taft with regard to pledged and instructed dele
 gates at this time.
 In this connection it is proper to
 say that many statements regarding
 delegates secured by the various can
 didates have been sent out and some of these vary widely. The statements
 sent out by Senator Dixon, for in
 stance. who is fighting MT. Taft. are
 of a character so absurd as to be
 absolutely worthless. MT. Dixon speaks of contested delegations in
 places where nothing worthy the
 name of d contest exists: and he has
 placed in other columns the names oi
 men who are pledged to the support
 of the president
 It is. therefore interesting to com
 pare these various statements with tn figures issued from unbiased ano unprejudiced sources. It is to be eX- pected that Mir Mckinley, in charge of the Taft bureau would claim al the delegates he could; but as it hap pens. his figures are corroborated bA the highest authority Only few days ago the Kew York Herald, an in dependent democratic paper. which l' absolutely reliable as q news medium and whose only interest in the mat ter is to give an accurate Statemen of the situation, published table slowing the standing of the candi- dates: and that table supported NIT McKniley in every one of his claims l The only difference was this: The Herald table was published before New Hampshire and Nevada haC voted. and of course those states were not credited to the president. Bu every other state claimed for Taft b! MT. Mckinley was conceded to hin be taken as absolutely authentic. Ant it may be mentioned here that evel l Senator Dixon gives Nevada and New Hampshire to the president.
 It is settled, then. that at this time MT. Taft has 437 delegates. Ina l leaves 116 to be secured; and ther' are enough states on which MT Tar may dely absolutely to give him fa | more than the required number ! Of the large states which have no vet voted, Massachusetts will nave 5 1 delegates in the convention; NeV Jersey. 2S: ohio. IS; Minnesota. Il New Jersey. 2S. There are enougf along to give the president 3S nor than q majority There are, i'll addi ton. many other states. some 1 which MT Taft is virtually certain t ] carry solidIy from others of which h. l will get part of the delegates
 l But the leaders are not lookn' l solely to the question of nomlna tion They say that is not enough l They want the victory so decisN that it will leave no doubt that th 1 Dresident is the overwhelming cholc l of his party
 i And there is every reason to oelleN that that is just what will happeh'