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Puzzle as to Where Electoral
Votes of Several States
Will Go
sY c. S. ALBERT.
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iSpecial star BulIetln NoFItspoilutieFJ
WASHINGTON, June IL What
should or can be done - hose States
that designated Roosevelt fresiden
tia! electors IL their primaries? VIII
the tangle be UNFINISHED?
These problems are Worrying VI.
Tiff and all Of lis advisors Several
consultations have already been held
and many moe will be necessary 10
GeYise a method of evadins me diff
Guilty Nine members of tis Rcpabli-
cen National Committee arc indus
tiicIsly working on the p9E y. Re
preventative NJ -Kinley. who managed
the Presidents campaign for Te-nom.
iaaTlon, Senator Root, who engineered
the steam roller, and Others are SIT,
ting up nights seeking a solution. 1t
is the most necye-racking proposition
those responsible for the i,ftlire or
the Republican party have yet en-
countered.
TIE Problem. H
In Pennsylvania, West Virginia,
MARYLAND and several otheT states
electors were chosen and instructed
TO vote for Theodore Roosevelt. They
we're chosen ON regular Republican
tickets Threats have been made that
il elected in November they will re-
fuse to cast their votes for Mr.. Taft.
Such a course would undoubtedly
prove fatal TO Republican success and
throw the Presidency TO the Demo
Gratis Unless other tickets are placed
in the field those selected in the pri-
maries will receive the votes cast in
the National election.
Ii is believed that some course of
adjustment will be reached. All eff
forts in this direction will be mater
tally aided by the fact that in some
States, notably Pennsylvania, those
chosen as electors do not care to be
placed in the attitude of boiling che
regular Republican organization. This
they must do by adhering to Col
Roosevelt and casting their votes in
the Electoral College for him, when
he is not the regular nominee of his
party.
The committee that called on the
President Monday, July /, and noti-
| fed him of his nomination at Chi
cago, discussed this question at
I length. A conclusion was reached
that the tickets selected in the pri-
maries must be withdrawn and elect
ors pledged to Taft named in their
places. 1t was admitted that this
undertaking would prove serious in
some of the Progressive States,
where the Roosevelt sentiment is
strongest. H
Mckinley Woudn't Serve.
The matter of naming a campaign
| manager has been engrossing the at
tentiop, Of President Taft = HE great
! ly desired that Representative Will
! liam B.. Mckinley, of Illinois, who
pulled through his nomination, should
take up the work, but Mr. Mckinley
kicked over the traces. Charles ID.
Hilles, private secretary to the Pres
ident, seemed the next most available
man, but the President baked at the
/ idea of losing good secretary And
so the question was permitted to
hang fire for a few days in order that
| the best material might be sifted out
and a choice made
: Representative Mckinley and the
other Taft managers have all arisen
| enmasse and denied the statement
made by Col. Roosevelt that he could
easily have obtained the nomination
l at Chicago through the detection OF
Southern delegates, but did not de,
sire to have any faint on it, They
declare this is untrue and there was
no time at any stage of the proceed.
ings when the Colonel could have
seized the nomination, either with OF
without faint.
Baltimore Scrap Pleases Taft.