Evening journal., 1912-05-01
SPLIT EVEN
ON BAY STATE
DELEGATES
Taft Gets Preferential Ma
jOrity; Roosevelt Dele
gates at Large
CHAMP CLARK WINS
DEMOCRATIC DELEGATION
BY The United Press.

BY The United Press.
BOSTON. Mass, May --latest
figures OF the primaries throughout
Massachusetts Indicate that Presi-
dent Taft has eighteen and Colonel
Roosevelt eighteen of the National
delegates. President Taft, however,
has majority Of the preferential
vote in the entire State, although the
eight delegates-at-iarge for Roose-
welt. are elected on the face of the
returns. The Taft men claim that a
majority expressed by the prefer
entia vote ought to give Taft the
delegates-at-large.
Complete returns from l.030 Of the
1.OSo election districts in the state
give:
Taft. S4.94s
! Roosevelt, 1864.
LaFollette, 1860.
Preferential lead for President
Taft. 1884
Democratic results, same pre-
/ cincts:
! Clark. 32972.
! Wilson. 1853.
Clark's lead in preferential ballot
! ing. 1918.
The Roosevelt delegatcs-at-large
headed by Baxter in the same pre-
cincts received S26S7 as compared
with 1885 for the Taft delegatcs-at-
/ large headed by Senator Crane.
TAFT Men 10 Contest.
General Champlin head of the Taft
! Bureau. announced that the Taft dele
gate5 az large would demand that thcy
( be seated al Chicago as the regular
delegates at large from the Bay State
He based this statement on the fact
that the President won at the H-efer-
ential primaries and on the conten-
ton that the Taft delegates at large
received a majority of the votes cast
as more than the Roosevelt indicated
majority Of Taft votes We're thrown
out because the voters voted FOR nine
instead Of eight candidates
From President Tafts victory M
the preference vote" said General
Champiin today Il am satisfied and
believe every fair minded man be-
lieves that Massachusetts wants
President Taft renominated. We lose
the eight delegates al large through a
grievous blunder in the makeup Of
the ballot. The fact that former State
an independent delegate at large cam
didate. was placed at the top Of the
names of the eight organization candi-
dates. confused hundreds of voters
who marked Seiberlichs name and
then marked the other eight names
This. according 10 our new primary
law throws out these ballots, except-
ing i'm reference 10 the preferential
vote. will carry this fight TO the
floor of the convention and il will be
fight 10 the last ditch.
How Districts Went
/, Roosevelt carried the fourth, NTH
seventh. ninth and fourteenth CON
> gressional districts Taft is known u
have carried the first, second. third
sixth. eleventh. twelfth and thirteenti
, and there seemed TO be little doub
! but that he viii get the eighth dis
! trict. The votes cast for the two
+ delegates of each candidate in tho re
I spective districts were.
e Firsf-Taft 11,S26; Roosevelt 246
= Second-Taft 13,0O3 Roosevelt
: 1872.
j. Third-Taft, S,7s6. Roosevelt, 2,54S
Z tone city and town missing)
2 Fourth-Taft, 10.715: Roosevelt H.
I 100. Zone city and town missingJ
3 Fifth-Taft. 2,776; Roosevelt, 1891
2 1.-TWO cities and one town missing
Sixth-Taft. 1895; Roosevelt. 70,
= 453, Zone city missing)
: Seventh-Taft, 6.694; Roosevelt
= 1904, 1.-TWO cities missing)
4 Eighth Taft. 6.6s4; Roosevelt, $40
= 1.-TWO cities missing.)
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