The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-05-02
TAFT CERTAIN TO
Be NOMINATED
He VIII Have Enough Delegates
Before Ohio Primary Is Held.
ROOSEVELT AND "BOSSISM"

His Ohio Managers Are Bosses Karsh-
ner and 5rown-How Will He JUS
tlfy Here What He Had Denounced
In Other States7
Columbus, O., April 3O.-(Special)
Before the Republican primaries
are held in Ohio on May q next
for the selection of district delegates
10 the Republican national convention
the denomination of President Taft
will be a foregone conclusion.
This statement is based on a care
full and conservative analysis OF the
pending presidential contest. In fact
this analysis gives to President Taft
no more additional delegates than
are practically conceded by the
Roosevelt leaders.
Briefly, the situation at the present
writing is as follows: There will be
1,076 votes in the national conven-
tion. The successful candidate must
capture 539 votes to win the nomtna-
tion. OF the delegates already chos-
en- in other states at least 43l are
either instructed or committed to
President Taft's denomination. Thus
Taft needs 109 additional votes to in
sure his nomination. There are yet
to be chosen, outside of Ohio, approx.
imately 300 additional delegates and
practically all of these will be chosen
before the date of the Ohio primaries.
On an tra-conservative basis of fig
uring at least 120 of these will be for
Taft, this insuring him 551 votes on
the first ballot, and this without
counting a single vote for him from
Ohio.
With Taft's denomination thus as
sured a peculiar situation will there
fore confront Ohio Republicans at the
May primaries. 1t will not be in
their power to decide whether Taft
or Roosevelt or some other candidate
shall be nominated The only ques-
tion and the all-important question
which they will be called upon to de-
eide is whether President Taft, an
Ohio candidate, and the choice of the
Republican party of the nation for
reelection, shall be hampered and hu-
inflated in the campaign to follow
by the Democratic charge that the
Republicans of his home state were
opposed to him.
There is abundant evidence, how
ovar chou, fbot Ohin PonnhlioanQ
are vitally alive to the real situation.
The desperate efforts of the Roose-
welt managers during the last ten
days to revive the waning strength
Of their candidate have failed COM
pletely and the Roosevelt boom in
Ohio is now in a state Of greater col
lapse than it was before the Illinois
and Pennsylvania primaries.
The Roosevelt charge that Taft's
campaign in other states has been
engineered by politicians and repre-
sentatives Of big business" is proving
a boomerang to him in Ohio, where
the people can see that his campaign
is being managed and lavishly
financed by such men as Walter F..
Brown, whose record as a corporation
lawyer and lobbyist at Columbus and
corporation political boss at Toledo,
is known to every Republican in the
state and whose opposition to Presi-
dent Taft took form when the presi-
dent refused to permit him to dictate
the federal patronage in Ohio; and
Dan R. Hanna, the multi-millionaire,
who is the head of one and director
of other big business corporations,
and who began to espOuse Roose-
velt's candidacy in his newspapers
when the department of justice un-
der President Taft began legal pro-
ceedings against him and his associ-
ates because of their violation of cer-
tain federal laws; and Malcolm
Karshner, the discredited political
boss Of Columbus; and last, but not
least, Garfield, who was loyal Taft
advocate until President Taft failed
to appoint him to cabinet position.
Such is the combination that is man.
aging and financing Roosevelt's cam
paign in Ohio
There is good deal of speculation
as to whether Roosevelt will have the
effrontery, when he comes into Ohio,
to denounce political bossism, when
the only two Republican bosses in
the state are managing his campaign
Taft District Delegates.
Roosevelt will find when he comes
into Ohio next month that the Taft
candidates for delegates in the vari,
GUS districts are neither professional
politicians nor federal officehelders
but leading citizens representative of
the best citizenship of the state. The
Taft candidates in each district are
as follows:
First District-Jullus Fleischmann
Cincinnati, and Samuel Meyer, Gin
Cinnati.
Second-George S. Schott, Cincin
natl, and r. L. Hillenbrand, Cincin
natl.
Third-D. W. Allaman, Dayton, and
]. C. Hooven, Hamilton.
Fourth-W. L. Parmenter, Lima
and W. D. Rush, Greenville.
Fifth. B. Franks, Montpelier
and w. c. Lawrence, Van Vert.
Sixth-C. c. Ellass, Lebanon, and
+. H. Slaughter, Sardinia.
Seventh. L. Bushnell, Spring
Eeld, and L. e. Evans. West Jeffer
BON.
Eighth-B. w. Waltermire, Findlay
and C. D. Price, Marysville.
NINTH. N. Wyllys, Toledo, and ]
H. Libbey, Toledo.
Tenth-A R. Johnson, Ironton, and
@. w. Davis, Portsmouth.
Eleventh-C. H. Grosvenor, Athens