The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-24
TAFT SUCCEED
IN OHIO
ROOSEVELT WINS In
OHIO In WALK.
$4,000 Majority Is
Verdict.
Taft Only Got Ten District DELEGATES
Will Carry Fight to the Con-
Vention = Fighting Hopeless
Battle-Harmon Beats Viii
- son DecisiVely-Has Con-
troll of Convention.

Columbus, o., May 22.-According
TO returns in hand tonight from APP
proXimately $500 of the 5,192 pre-
cincts in the state, Col. Theodore
Rooseyelt's delegates to the national
republican convention carried yester-
Gays Ohio primaries by a plurality of
about $4,000 votes. 1t now seems
scarcely possible that final returns
VIII change the number of district
delegates for either side by more than
one or two The best figures availa-
Die tonight show that Roosevelt has
thirty-two of the forty-two district
delegates selected yesterday and that
President Taft has ten.
Later returns from the democratic
presidential preference primary give
woodrow Wilson a fighting chance
lor enc or two more delegates, but
his exact standing will not be known
until belated rural returns are in
Governor Harmon, however, practi-
cally is assured a complete delegation
OF forty-eight delegates to the BaIti.
more convention. His lead now gives
MN control of the state democratic
convention, which will select six de-
legates at large. Also, tits said the
convention will provide for the unit
rule, which will force the Wilson de-
legates, selected by districts yester-
day, to vote for the Ohio executive.
The delegates-at-large situation in
the republican party will not be
known or settled until June 8, when
the state republican convention meets
here. Taft leaders claim they will
control the state convention and des-
lgnate the delegates-at-large But
Roosevelt managers declared late re-
turns show the number of Taft dele
gates to the state convention to be
dwindling instead or increasing, as
was announced early today.
Fight Not Over.
There is no question that the Taft
Roosevelt fight will be carried on to
he floor of the state convention.
In only twenty-three of the eighty |
light counties in the state were dele
yates to the state convention chosen. I
n the remaining counties the dele {
rates will be named by county con- I
q
Even in the matter of district de- /
egates an official count will be neces- p
airy to determine exact results. An {
Instance of this sort arose today in v
he Thirteenth congressional district. e
here late returns indicate that the a
istrict will be divided almost evenly d
etWPen Taft and Roosevelt do1oor,+c.. G,
nd Harmon and Wilson. Early
cures gave the two delegates in this T
istrict on the republican ticket to 81
Ir. Taft. Colonel Roosevelt may nj
ow get one of the delegates and if
lus increase his total of district de- fl
gates to tbirty-three This would y,
ave Mr. Taft nine delegates ~,
An analysis tonight shows the A.
oosevelt strength was not con- IN
led to any particular section of the w
ate or to any particular class of ci ",
ems. He carried mining and indus oi
lal sections and some of the oldest NO
I'd most conservative urban commu- 90
ties in the state. Added to these ~
as much strength among the farm. ~,
S. In Adams county where more u,
an 1,500 voters we're DISTINGUISHED o -,
t long ago for vote selling Roose- -
1t mad a considerable plurality. A IT,
WIN with prophetic name, White 90
,use, in Lucas county, gave Roose its
1t twenty-one votes and Taft five. co
managers seized upon this III.
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