Evening star., 1912-03-04
POLITICS DAY BY DAY

|V POLITICS D:
The week opens with Taft having sew
enty-four instructed delegates In his col
umn. No other republican candidate has
any. Only four contests are thus far
threatened by the opposing forces. Con-
ventions will be held in many districts
during the week and the Taft forces are
busily at work everywhere.
Col. George Harvey, editor of Harper $
Weekly. in a recent editorial declared
that Roosevelt has not thrown his hat
into the ring. He has thrown his hate"
Kanxds, the next state to select dele
gates Ao the democratic national conven-
ton in Baltimore, is now claimed by the
Clark people. News from Kansas City,
Kans., received at the Clark headquar-
ters last night, gave the information that
Wyandotte county, the largest county in
| the state, with twenty-seven delegates
to the state convention, had instructed
solidly for the Speaker. Judge W. II.
/ Thompson telegraphed.
/ Mine counties in the western part OF
1.-THE state instructed for Mf: Clark today.
With the seventh and sixth congressional
districts practically solid, and the present
instructed Clark delegates in other coun-
| ties, Kansas is now safe for the Speaker.
| Mr.. Clark will have an overwhelming ma
jority in the convention to be held at
Hutchinson March a. The Clark man
ayers also say:
I word cones from Iowa that Calhoun
county the first county to act in that
state. instructed it's delegates for Speaker
Clark. Encouraging news also was re-
ceived from Wisconsin. The Clark man.
ayers in that state are confident that
Wisconsin will be added to the Clark
| Hist"
has issued a denial Of the published re-
! port that he favored the candidacy OF
| Speaker Clark:
| II am for Gov. Wilson, said Mr. Nc
Gillicuddy, land I have never wavered
| in my determination to support his can
| didacy. / am for him as strongly as l
was week ago, and have never made
\ a statement to a newspaper man or any
| one else that could be construed into an
| Endorsement Of Speaker Clark's candl-
! dacy. ,
Il have received an invitation to Speak
| er Clark's birthday dinner, to be- given
March Z, which ] took to be a purely
social invitation. 1t may be that some
one Jumped at the conclusion that was
| Clark man because / received this IN
| vitation.
Il am for Gov. Wilson and l have no
second choice"
The Roosevelt headquarters last night
gave out statement disputing the claim
of the Taft managers that Gov. Hooper
of Tennessee, Gov. Deneen of Illinois and
Gov. Oddie Of Nevada are for Taft. The
following telegram from Gov. Odd1e was
| made public:
"'Carsop City, New.
I'm reply to a telegram from Senator
iii, 20 1afr YNnC
wired him February 2s as follows:
I'm conversation with President Taft
last fall, at that time with no anticipa-
tion that Col. Roosevelt would enter the
Taft that 1 thought the republicans of
Nevada were for his denomination, and
| that 1 personally was for him. / con-
slider that the announcement of Col.
Roosevelt's candidacy has absolutely
changed the matter.
II was elected upon a progressive plat
form on state matters, and have been
waging the best fight / know how to ef-
| feet the beneficial progress and awaken
| ing. With Col. Roosevelt as the repub-
| llcan nominee / am convinced that the
| politics l am striving to attain here will
be better understood by the people Of
this state, that Nevada will again. as in
| 1904 be put nationally in the republican
| column, and legislature elected which
will support my administration.
| TASkER L. ODDIE,
Governor Of Nevada.
| Carson City, New
name added as member of committee
/ from my state, supporting Col Roose-
| welt for the presidential nomination..
'TASKER L. ODDIE,
| Governor of Nevada
| National Roosevelt Committee,
Washington, D. c.:
Gov. Hooper sent telegram saying
that he was Keeping hands off in the
presidential fight, in the interests of party
! harmony for the benefit of the state
ticket. The Roosevelt headquarters
claimed that Gov. Deneen recently an
nounced himself in favor of presiden-
tia! primary. and. therefore. they count
him for Roosevelt.
i Senator Dixon of the Roosevelt head
quarters announced last night that Okla
! homa Will be Overwhelmingly for Roose-
| vef. He said he had received telegram
saying that out Of total of 5Js delegates
| to the state convention to be held March
| II, In the country precinct primaries
Saturday in forty-seven counties. 2Ss
delegates instructed for Col Roosevelt
| were chosen. and 20 for Mr. Taft The
| seven counties will show the same ratio
| of instructed delegates, and the writer
concludes with the prediction that Col.
/ Roosevelt will carry the state in Novem-
| ber by 1O,O00 majority.
Senator Dixon said:
| The result demonstrates what the
| country well knows-that whenever the
| people have an opportunity to express
| their preference, invariably 1t is for Col.
] Roosevelt. In Oklahoma, through the
| precinct meeting. the republican voters
! have been able to register their choice.
/ The report from Mr.. Perry who is chair
man of the Roosevelt League, shows that
| the people overwhelmingly favor the
| colonel. You will note that the delegates
| elected to support President Taft are in
the ratio of one to four for Mr.. Roose-
! welt. 1t is remarkable that this should
| be the ratio in so many of the polls
| which have been taken throughout the
| country. In certain communities the
ratio between the colonel and the Presi-
dent is as high as ten to one in favor of
| the former
City Councillor Matthew Hale of Boston
| has been selected as the manager of the
| Roosevelt campaign in Massachusetts, In
| connection with this announcement last
4 night from the headquarters of the Mas
| sachusetts Roosevelt committee came d
| statement from Mr.. Hale in which he
Charged United States Senator Crane with
leading movement virtually ito disfran-
| by attempting the defeat of the presiden-
tial primary and preference bill. Mana
] ger Hale's statement says:
| Senator Crane and his republican state
| committee have issued call for the old
| caucuses and conventions. They have
done this despite the fact that Tuesday
| the presidential primary and preference
| BILL which. il passed, would do away
with the old caucuses and conventions,
comes up in the legislature.
| Senator Crane and his machine did not