Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-05-29
Rough Rider Carries Every
Congressional District and
State at Large Giving Him
Twenty-Eight Delegates.
WILSON WINS ALL
BUT FOUR VOTES
Taft Loses by More Than Ten
Thousand Plurality LaFol-
|ette Makes Small Showing in
Returns.

\ IBy Morning Journal Special Leascd Wiro.l
Newark, N. j., May 2S.--One OF the
most sweeping victories Theodore
Roosevelt has won in the primaries
since he began his campaign for the
republican presidential nomination
was recorded yesterday by the repub-
/ lican voters of New Jersey.
! Indications based on incomplete
returns are that he carried every con-
gressional district in the state as well
as the state at large, and that all the
twenty eight delegates New Jersey will
send to Chicago will be Roosevelt men.
! Governor Wilson won his own state
| against q strong opposition headed by
his political enemies within the state,
and appears to have twenty-four of
the twenty-eight delegates including
the delegates at large.
Colonel Roosovelt's indicated plural
| ity on the preferential vote is $1,000.
! Senator La Toilette made a showing
in every county but his vote as far
| as counted indicates that he will not
get more than 2 per cent of the total.
| First returns from the southern part
of the state gave the Wilson delegates
a vote of nearly zen to one over the
uninstructed delegates running against
them. In Essex county, the strong
hold of the Wilson opposition, the first
thirty districts TO report save the an
instructed delegates 1,144 to 726 for
the Wilson men. Largely for the bene-
fit of the army of commuters which
probably number more in New Jersey
than in any other state of the union,
the polls remained open until 8 o'clock
| ,f.rl.. hA nd
ingly late. Although the polls We're
open at l o'clock p. m. in the COM
muting district the greater part of the
voting was done in the evening and
four-fifths of the ballots poured in
between 6 and Q o'clock p. m.
Under the New Jersey law twenty
eight delegates to the republican and
democratic national conventions were
chosen; two delegates i'm each OF the
| twelve congressional districts and four
delegates at large. The voters also had
the privilege of expressing their per-
sona preference for presidential can
dldates although this result had no ef-
feet upon division of delegates.
The ballots were easy to mark, the
delegates appearing coupled With the
name of the candidate they are
pledged to support. The possible
source of confusion was the fact that
five names were on the democratic
ballot as candidates for delegates at
large in the "uninstructed' column
whereas voters were told to mark only
four names.
The New Jersey election was the
last to be preceded by sweeping cam
paigns by all the republican presi-
dental candidates. Its importance
was emphasized also because only one
more state-South Dakota-remains
to hold primaries before the national
convention.
Interest in the returns was widely |
distributed. The democratic interest |
centering upon this city where the |
antiWilson fight was sharpest. Some |
Of the Wilson leaders admitted that \
this stronghold in the opposition 4
might go against them and early re- 4
turns seemed to uphold their fears
Under the rules of the republican \
national committee the time limit
for the election of national delegates.
expired thirty-eight days before the
convention and therefore the result of /
the republican primaries In New Jer-
sey cannot be ratified the rule must
be suspended. Thus far there has been
no sign that any of the candidates
would take ADVANTAGE Of this situation
to contest the results of today's elec-
tion.