Arizona republican., 1912-05-22
Indications Are That Taft and Roosevelt Will Divide State
 Delegation
JUDGE HARMON
 LEADS WILSON
Result Will Give Winners in Both Parties Only a Slight Ad
 vantage
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 COLUMBUS. May 21-Witn little more than one-third of the total vote of the state counted at one o'clock this morning Roosevelt republican, and Harmon. democrat. led Ohios first political preference primary The fight on both tickets is so close com Tiete returns may change the final result
 Returns complete from slightly less than 2p00 precincts out of 5192 in the state showed the Roosevelt delegates had a lead of more than 150o0 liar mons lead over Wilson is much less.
 The closeness of the democratic race is shown in returns from Gin cinnati Harmon's home city giving him. in I2U precincts out of 36l. q total Of 1859 and Wilson 1g04
 Roosevelt has apparently won the delegates in the Fourth, Sixth, Ninth. Tenth. Eleventh. Twelfth Fourteenth. Fifteenth Seventeenth Eighteenth. Nineteenth. Twentieth and Twenty first. Taft is practically conceded the First. second Third and probably the Fifth seventh. Eighth and Thirteenth congressional districts
 4 peculiar situation developed in the compilation of the results. indi- eating that while Roosevelt leads in the popular majority he probably will not have more than twenty uf the forty-two district delegates to the national convention
 Indications are that Harmon will have at least tWenty-tWo or twenty five delegates at the Baltimore con Vention. The privilege of naming six delegates large of the state is how ever, contested bitterly
 COLUMBUS. May 2l-Eally re- turns from Ohio's first primary show Roosevelt leading Taft and Wilson leading Harmon. President Taft ap- pears to have carried Cincinnati by large margin Toledo and Dayton. Roosevelt leads in the northern cities. HarmcnS strength is in Columbus and Cincinnati and Wilson's biggesc showing is in Cleveland where Mayor Newton D Baker waged q strong fight against Harmon The LaFol- lette vote is larger than the state politicians expected.
 Harmons manager confidently pre- dicted a victory from the country dis tricts On the republican, ticket the outcome between the rival candidates is reached by computing the vote for delegates pledged for Taft or Roose- welt. there being no direct preferen- tial vote IL is impossible from the early returns to gather an indication of the number of delegates Roosevelt or Taft has gained.
 COLUMBUS. May 21 - Thirteen hundred and twenty five precincts complete give the Roosevelt delegates 59,054 Taft. 41,435
 COLUMBUS May Complete returns from 537 precincts give Roose- welt 1S.1HG. Taft 16117 Returns iron i8l precincts in the democratic re turns give Harmon I774, Wilson l 6.875.
 Complete returns from i9S scatter ing precincts give Roosevelt 7.616 1 Taft 4.945.
 : COLUMBUS. May 2l-Complet, returns from 76 out of 5192 precinc5. give Wilson @.O24 Harmon S77 Fiv, precincts complete give Taft 2o4 ana 1 Roosevelt l63.
 COLUMBUS. May 2I-Presidrn 1 Taft's manager in Cleveland an, ! CuNahoga county, two districts, con ceded that Roosevelt will win by to 1 in those districts
 CINCINNATI. May 2I-Precinc G, of the Sixth ward the first U report gives Taft 50, Roosevelt o- WASHINGTON. May 2I.--At mid night senator Dixon issued thi statement at national headquarters There is no further room for argu ment on last Thursday at Colum 1 bus. President Taft n his speecl ! said. The vote in Ohio, my hom' state. will be q decisive one. and vii settle the question of the nomination ohio has spoken. By majority O probably 50,000 she has declared he preference for Roosevelt, the repub Iican nominee for president Roose welt will have II of the IS delegate: i in Mr. Taft's own state. ] "TleodOre Roosevelt Will be nom 1 mated on the first ballot at Chicag, md be elected in November by th' | biggest majority ever given presi- dent" No statement was issued b! ! the Taft managers tonight. 1 PITTSBURG. May 21-Presiden 1 Taft got the first news at Dennison l Ohio the last stop his train made