The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-04-24
President Carried New Hamp-
shire Primary by Big Margin
EVEN GOV. BASS HOME TOWN
Latest Returns Give Taft 400, Roosevelt
224 and 172 Delegates Yet to Be
Reported-Roosevelt Took
Two of Eleven Cities.

Concord, n. H., April PA revision
OF figures in yesterdays Republican pri
mary election Tor delegates to the state
and district conventions on April 80 was
attempted by the Taft and Roosevelt
campaign managers to-day. In each po-
| litical camp the revision served to EN-.
phasize the victory of President Taft
Many towns are still to be heard from
Up to the middle of the forenoon, the
figures stood in the Roosevelt headauar.
ters as follows: Taft 400, Roosevelt 224
with l72 delegates to be reported.
OF the eleven cities, nine elected Taft
delegates. while in the towns the can
didates split about even. The two Roose-
welt cities are Somersworth and Frank
lin. with Berlin, Concord Dover, Keene,
Laconis. Manchester, Nashua. Ports.
mouth and Rochester electinp Taft dele
gates The Taft forces carried Peterboro,
the home town of Governor Bass, who
was one of the seven governors who peti-
TONED Col Roosevelt TO run for the pres
dential nomination. and Taft also car
ried Cornish, where Winston Churchill.
another Roosevelt supporter, resides.
There are Sll votes in the state conyen-
ton.
On the receipt of the early returns,
General II. NJ. Baker. chairman of the
Taft league, said: "The returns received
up to IL O'Clock show that President
Taft has carried the state and both con
gressional districts by substantial ma
iorites. The victory is complete"
Governor Robert P. Bass. who praeti
cally directed the fight for Roosevelt in
the state, said, after admitting probable
defeat:
"The campaign had to be different
from that of an election, and considering
that the organization in the cities was
opposed to us almost unanimously, the
result is very satisfactory. The cam
paign consolidated large number of
men of the same political faith in regard
to progressive ideas and clean politics.
They will stick together and win be
heard from again.
Manchester. n H., April 24.-The
Manchester Unions returns from 25s
towns and wards ont of the 200 give
an unrevised total of 55l delegates to
the state convention for Taft and 232
for Roosevelt. The preferential vote
for the same places gave Taft l5,7l5
and ii .692 for Roosevelt. There was
very small preference expressed for 9th
ers than these candidates.
The preferential vote win total larger
than the direct primary vote Of Septem-
Der. 1910. when there was sharp con
test. but one in which there was not so
much campaigning az In the campaign
which has Just closed As rule, the
vote in the cities was very large In
the towns the vote varied greatly, rela-
lively speaking; in some it was ridicu
lously small in Others there was evi
denee of much rallying. Nearly all of
the towns adopted the unanimous recon-
of the state committee for
caucuses, but few found
it inconvenient. A very few did nor
make use of the official ballot and con
Quoted their election in the old way. but
they were marked exception There
was a tie vote in more than one instance,
and an adjournment was taken to fixed
date to make the definite choice.
The state and district conventions will
be held next Tuesday at Concord. In
view of all that has been urged in favor
Of the preferential vote, it is to be ex-
pected the eight delegates to the Chi
cago convention vii be chosen from
those who are known to be favorable !
to the denomination of President TAFT
without contest.