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UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
FARGO, N. D.. March 20.-Early
morning returns from all sections of
the state up to eight o'clock today in
dicate that Senator Robert M. IIaFol-
lette has carried the North Dakota
presidential preference primaries by
majority OF about 10000 over Roose-
velt and Taft combined His plurality,
it is estimated, will be between $4,000
and 10000. The late returns are
bearing out the claims of the LaFol-
lette managers and there seems little
probability OF returns from counties
not heard from, materially changing
the estimated plurality.
P. N. Tucker, chairman OF the exc
cutive committee of the North Dakota
Republican League. today made the
following statement OF the result:
THE outcome Of the election was
never in doubt in my mind. have
always had the greatest confidence in
the judgment of the farmers of North
Dakota and / knew they would do
their share toward having the state
declare for man of the wonderful
constructive ability OF Senator La
Toilette to regain more than the
strength he apparently lost during his
sickness. 1t was a glorious victory
shared by both business men and
farmers, and proves the old adage that
right must prevail LaFollette's ma
jority will he upwards of 15,000.'
John F. Bass, who came to the state
to take charge of the Roosevelt cam
pafgn said: ~ have nothing to say
The result speaks for itself. If demo
Gratis had stayed out of the republican
primary, it might have been different
Chairman Frank s. Talcott, Of the
republican state central committee,
who conducted the Roosevelt cam
paign, said: I'VE have received re-
turns from approximately two-thirds
of the counties of the state. Some
of these have been very meagre with
only a few precincts in county. We
have estimated the result from returns
in other counties in which the returns
have been practically complete. These
returns show that If the full returns
are carried out on the same basis.
LaFollette has carried two-thirds of
the counties yet to be heard from. It
Is impossible to give an estimate for
the final majority until we definitely
learn of the trend of the vote in the
counties where we have SO far re-
ceived no returns
The Fargo Forum, leading Roose-
velt newspaper, today conceded the
state to LaFollette by a majority OF
not more than 5000. The Grand
Forks Times-Herald. also Roosevelt
paper, admits LaFollette's victory,
but claims the plurality will be small.
The returns are coming into head
quarters here slowly and because of
limited transportation facilities, it
may be several days before the com
plete vote is at hand. Most of the
returns SO far are from cities and
towns and the rural vote is almost
unknown. The LaFollette managers
claim that their candidate was espec-
tally strong among the farmers and
declare that his plurality will grow
instead of decrease as the vote comes
in.
Soap Box Primary.
WASHINGTON, March 2O.-4Assert-
ing that the LaFollette ten delegates
elected in North Dakota's primary can
safely be put into the Roosevelt col
II N ~ oil
days ago that Roosevelt was their
second choice, Senator Dixon, the
colonels campaign manager here today
confined his comment on the result OF
the North Dakota primary to obser-
vations concerning the antiTaft
sentiment.
But one republican voter in forty
in North Dakota expressed a wish that
Taft be made the republican nomi-
nee he said. "No such humiliating,
crushing defeat has even been wit
messed in American politics.
Manager Mckinley, of the Taft
headquarters, said: "Lamenting the
defeat of Colonel Roosevelt, the colo
nel's adherents are excusing their mis-.
fortune by the charge that democrats
and socialists voted for LaFollette.
This is exactly what the managers Of
the Taft bureau have attempted to
impress upon the country. In this
instance there was state law but
without party enrollmment feature
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