Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-04-16
Pennsylvania
GAVE COLONEL
sc. AND TAFT 10
President Swamped by Re-
turns From Keystone
Primary; Penrose Ma
chine Beaten. ...

give Theodore Roosevelt 81 of the "a
district national delegates with pros
poets that the number will be- In
creased to 55, as the result Of Satur-
days primary election in Pennsyl'
vania. As his supporters expect to
control the state convention, which
will name twelve delegates-at-large,
this will give him total Of sc or pos
sibly 67 out of the states delegation
Of 76. T., ,.... -
President Taft carried only the first,
second and third congressional dis
tricts in Philadelphia and the ninth
district, comprised Of Lancaster
county. He won one delegate in the
first district of this city. The one dele
gate in doubt is in the twentieth dis
trict, comprised Of Adams and York
counties. -
Gov. Woodrow Wilson of New Jer-
sey made almost clean sweep of the
state. Returns indicate. that he had in
the neighborhood of 20 delegates, but
the exact number cannot be ascer-
tained until complete count is in. Be-
cause of the split in the democrats
party in Pennsylvania some of the
delegates may change their prefer
ence from one candidate to another.
Not only have the Roosevelt follow
ers swept the state for their delegates,
but they have elected the great ma
jority of the 372 representatives to the
state conention, which will elect the
twelve delegates at large to the national
convention. Those twelve delegates are
already counted for Roosevelt, but the
1f ha fof fn
another and more potent effect on
Pennsylvania. 1t marks the passing
of United States Senator Boise Pen
rose as member of the national COM
mittee and today many persons are pre-
dieting that 1t also marks the begin.
ming of his exit from politics.
Rule state Convention.
The Roosevelt followers will abund-
antly dominate the state convention.
They will nominate an auditor gener-
al and state treasurer and, for the
first time in years and years, will have
absolute control of the election ma
chinery of the state.
In this same connection the twenty
five men nominated as candidates for
the state senate, when elected, will
hold over until the time comes for
the selection of successor Of Senator
Penrose. From late returns, eighteen
of these men are opposed to Senator
Penrose. ,.
Story Of the Battle.
The story Of the state battle would
only be story of one landslide after
another. In Philadelphia, Roosevelt
carried seventeen out of the forty
seven wards. The Taft vote here was
63, ,sO3 and the Roosevelt vote 50040.
Outside Of that one district in Lam
caster. where the Taft delegates were
elected and in Philadelphia, the vote
of Roosevelt was so great that it SIM
ply swamped the Taft vote. The
complete vote of the state probably
will show that the Roosevelt delegates
polled 100000 votes more than the Taft
delegates.
The Roosevelt victory in Pennsyl-
yania is not looked upon here as per
sonal triumph for the former president
but is looked upon as a rebuke to Sen
ator Penrose and machine politics.
Nor is it looked upon as a direct slap
at President Taft. The president, in
this case, simply happened to be the
candidate of Penrose, or everybody
thought so at least, and he was caught
in the maelstrom which carried de.
feat in its depths.
There is but one section Of the en-
tire state where it is thought the vote
ives personal for Roosevelt. The coal
miners voted for him to man, and
with suspension Of operations at
present, they turned out heavily In
the other country districts, the farm
ers were we'll organized as against ma
chine rule. In Philadelphia, the people
simply did the same thing they did
one year ago-overthrew the machine
when they elected a reform mayor.
This time they overthrow the national
machine