The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-29
New Jersey Gives Entire Dele
CATION to the Colonel.
His Plurality Is Fully 15,OOO
Over President Taft.
WILSON HAD CLEAR FIELD
No Candidate Ran in OppOsi-
ton to the Governor
But He Lost Four Delegates
Out of the %.

Newark. N. J., May 2s.-Theodor'
Roosevelt's clean sweep or the NeV
Jersey primaries was emphaslzeu "
day when late returns gave MIN sIildi
but substantial pluralities In the IeN
districts about which last nights Ils
ures left any doubt and increased MS
lead elsewhere throughout the state
Governor woodrow Wilson carried dl
f,,1t two of the twelve congresslond
districts and gained "a of the 2S oele'
gates. including the delegates-at-larse
His opponents today abandoned nope
that they had carried the Eightn ols-
trict. where the vote was clcse-
.TJninstructed'' delegates nominated
nv the anti-WiIson wing of the party
were elected by large majorites IN me
Ninth and Tenth districts, the strong
holds of the element. opposed 10 tne
governor Incomplete returns at noon
on the vote for delegates-at-larg aLS
fhe presidential preference lndlcAIeu
that Colonel Roosevelt's popularity lot
fhe whole state would be about l5,OoO
and that Governor Wilson'S lead, based
on the vote for delegat gates-at-large was
about the same.
An the Third and Sixth districts which
include the New Jersey coast towns al
most Is far south as Atlantic City, ana
the counties lying in the north
central part of the state, most or them
outside the committing zone.
Roosevelt's indicated pluranty IN
these districts ranged from four to
six hundred.
Colonel Roosevelt scored heavily in
the agricultural communities or soutn-
ern New Jersey and in the thickly set
tied towns and cities populated largely
hv voters who work in New York His
preference vote in Essex county hext
to the largest in the state was 13,5l5,
compared with 9,16S for Taft and $50
for LaFollette.
Governor Wilson won his most strik-
ing victory in his home cOunty-Mercer
which contains Trenton, the state
capital. The total vote for the Wilson
Observation-Disclosures in Mercer, was 2,614,
compared with 81 for the aEt-Wiison
nominees.
The Republican vote in this county
was, Roosevelt 1871; Taft 2,465.
The vote in Newark, the largest city
in the state with one district missing,
gave Roosevelt 1906; Taft 5,402; La
Toilette ass. Democrats-Wilson 1878;
anti-Wilson 5,945.
Former U. S. Senator James Smith,
1r, and Former Democrat State Chair
man James r. Nugent, who led the
fight against Governor Wilson reside
in Newark, ard both were among the
Taft Strongest in Country.
The president had small pluralities
in four of the 81 counties of the state
He showed his greatest strength III
the farming districts. In one of the
factory towns where he spoke yester-
day Just before the opening of the polls
he was beaten 40 to l.
The LaFollette vote was a neglible
factor not more than 2 per cent of
the entire vote cast. The vote in near
ly all sections of the state was ex-
ceedingly light, several counties cast
ing less than half of the total registra-
ton the last general election. The
polls did not close until o'clock last
night and as a result the vote was
very late in being counted.
Early today Borden D. Whiting.
chairman of the Roosevelt executive
committee in New York city, made the
following statement:
New Jersey has come through hand
somely The men who make up the
rank and file of the Republican party
and who carried the state by $4,000
at the end of Roosevelts administra-
tion have shown that they are still
lovaI 70 their old leader. They hail
with delight his return to the com
Inand of the Republican party and will
give him $4,000 again in November.
Roosevelt has unhorsed the old ma
chine leaders and will now turn the
The New Jersey primary is the last
hut one (South Dakota) to be held be-
fore the national convention. The q
roosevelt delegates elected are as fol-
lows:
The Republican Delegates.
At large-Frank H. Jess, Camden;
Edward b. Bacon. Jersey City; John
Franklin Fort, East Orange; Everett
Colby, West Orange.
First district-Duncan W. Blake md
John B. Davis.
Second district-Joseph H. Marvel
and John w. Harris.
Third district-E. Gerry Roberts and
Adrian Lyon.
Fourth district-John E Gul and
James E. Bathgate.
Fifth district-C. w. Ennis and Ed
gar A. Knapp.
Sixth district-W. M. Taylor and
Herbert NJ Bailey.
Seventh district-James G. Blauvelt
and Harry C. Whitehead.
Eighth district-James W. Mccarthy
and Louis NJ. Brock.
Ninth district-Edward T. Ward and
William A. Lord.
Tenth district-Edmund Osborne and |
Frank L. Driver.
Eleventh district-John Garner and
Fred Vollmer. jr.
Twelfth district-John Rotherman
and George L. Record.
The Democrat Delegates.
The Democratic delegates are as fol- i
lows. all being instructed for Wilson !
except the four from the Ninth and
Tenth districts.
At Iarge-Nicholas p wedin. Jersey
James E. Martin, Plainfield: John /
Hinchliffe Paterson.
First district-John E. Nowrey and ].
Warren Davis.