The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-05-20
TAFT AND ROOSEVELT
WINDING UP STIRRING
BATTLE FOR SUPREMACY
Continue Fight On Each Other
On Last Day of Whirl-
wind Campaign
PRIMARIES TOMORROW
Voters Will Also Decide Between
Woodrow Wilson and Gov.
Harmon
PRIMARIES TOMORROW

CLEVELAND, o., May 2O.-At the
close of the fiercest campaign for dele
gates ever contested in Ohio, President
Taft and Col. Roosevelt today express
ed equal confidence in the result OF the
statewide primaries tomorrow. In the
final dash the two principal candidates
were joined today by Senator LaFol'
lette, who Is seeking the selection OF
Republican national delegates only In
districts embracing Cleveland, Toledo
and Columbus.
In a speech in Hamilton TO-DAY TAFT
came back with hot reply to Roose-
yelt's statement Sunday that the
Roosevelt administration was entitled
TO credit for the bureau OF mines tatll
since Roosevelt as president appoint
ed commission TO study the prob
lem, which board was later abolished.
The president also followed up his
statement OF Sunday, accusing the col
onel of party treason.
My friends" the president ccntin-
ued, what do you think OF putting q
man into the presidency, who says
now. i am the Republican party?' IL
elected again he would be saying, 1
am the whole thing"
The latter remarks were In reply
to a story in which Roosevelt was re
ported to have said he would bolt If
not nominated in Chicago.
There will DE no compromise can
didate," said Roosevelt, in Cambridge
today. He asserted that some OF the
Taft supporters were saying neither
he nor Taft would be nominated, III
tell you the compromise candidate
added the colonel. Il am the man.
Taft struck out from Cincinnati ear
ly in the day scheduled to make nine
speeches before closing the Ohio cam
paign tonight at Dayton. Roosevelt
appeared first at Marietta, having
made a night run from Cleveland
where he spent Sunday at the home OF
James r. Garfield.
The president spent day of rest
yesterday with his brother Charles p.
Taft, In Cincinnati. - ~. AA-s..--, -.+sr-
LaFolIette conferred yesterday with
Republican progressives supporting
him in Cleveland He will close his
campaign here tonight.
BY voting for presidential delegates,
Republican voters in Ohio tomorrow
will have what is their nearest ap-
proach to a presidential preference
election. However. both Taft and
Roosevelt today based their only
doubts over the outcome on The con-
fusion expected to result from the
blind ballot" The name OF neither
candidate will appear on the ballot and
unless the voter is sure of his dele
gate candidates he may vote for an
other than his choice for president.
Early in the campaign hot fight
was waged over this point by the sup
porters of Taft and Roosevelt The
state central committee, strongly
favoring the president, succeeded in
preventing the appearance of the
names of the presidential candidates
on the ballot.
The Democrats will have full pref
erence election. On the ballot appear
the names of Gov. Judson Harmon, of
Ohio, and of Woodrow Wilson, govern
or of New Jersey. A vote for Wilson
is vote in support Of the fight made
by William Jennings Bryan for the
progressive Democrats against the
candidacy of Gov. Harmon, who has
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