New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-14
Carries q Of the 80 Congress
Districts and Will Gain IL
DeIegates-at-l Large
as Well.
HIS STRENGTH UNEXPECTED
Taft Carries the Organization
Strongholds in Philadelphia,
but the Colonel Sweeps
Pittsburgh and Min.
ing Region.
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elected six Taft delegates to-day. two
each in the 1st. Cd and Sd Congress
| districts The President has also car
ried the 7th District Chester and Del
aware), and the 18th (Dauphin, Cumber-
land and Lebanon district, and the Dist
CMcKean and Centre) district and the
2Oth adams York; district. making Is
delegates favorable 10 the denomination
OF the President.
Theodore Roosevelt. on the other hand.
has carried the state by storm. II is
veritable landslide. Up to midnight
Roosevelt carried twenty-five Congress
districts, assuring him OF at least 4t
| out Of the 81 delegates chosen to-day.
Controls State Convention.
His forces are now in control OF the
state convention that win name the
! twelve delegates-at-large. This gives
him 80 delegates, and when the farming
districts are all in. it is not unlikely
that the majority will be even greater.
In this city the Taft delegates were
elected by reduced majorties. In the
lst, I'd and Sd districts, where the or
ganization is in control of the river
wards, there was a bare scattering OF
the Roosevelt vote. In the heavily pop
ulated residence sections Roosevelt dele
gates carried the day by majorities
ranging from 1900 to 5000.
In Pittsburgh at least seven Roose-
welt delegates were elected and probs-
| bly, the eighth. but this will not be
known until the Official vote. as the con-
test was so close in the one district
In the Chester Delaware. Adams
York and Dauphin- -Cumberland-Leba-
non districts the Taft vote was not
heavy, but the section is in the south
west portion of the state and they were
the only districts that stood by- the
President, aside from the organization
districts Of Philadelphia.
Where Roosevelt Won.
The districts which have been captured
by the Roosevelt forces are the +th. 5thy
and 9Th of Philadelphia. Bucks Mont
gomery Lancaster, Lackawanns. Lu-
zerne, Schuylkill. Rerks- -Lehigh Brad
! ford -Susquehanna Wayne. Potter Tioga-
Lycoming, Northumberland Columbia,
| Huntingdon- -Juniats Mifflin, Cambria
Blair. Greene Somerset, Erie Crawford.
Indiana Armstrong, Warren Nenanso
and the four Pittsburgh districts.
There has been no small vote in this
election throughout the state. The rural
counties polled a heavy vote and IN
some instances new Representatives IN
Congress have been nominated. In al
most every instance the party machinery
has been wrecked, and new faces will
be in control when the convention meets
! in Harrisburg next month.
One of the surprises OF the election
was the defeat of II. O. Moon, Repub1-
can. for denomination 10 Congress IN
the 4th District OF this city by George
W. Edmonds. Republican Keystone cam
didate
The Republican organization leaders
are stunned by the Overwhelming defeat
o. the Taft candidates and have nothing
10 say regarding the result. United
States Senator Penrose. the recognized
leader Of the Republican organization
and the leading Taft boomer in this
state, left the city early in the after
noon and boarded his yacht at Atlant'c
CITY. where he is safe from interyiewers.
Roosevelt Men Celebrating.
Tonight the Roosevelt campaign man
ayers are celebrating their victory to
the fullest extent. They are claiming
more than the sixty-two delegates the
returns so far give them.
With the exception of one or two dis
tricts in the state, Woodrow Wilson will
have a solid delegation from Pehnsylva-
MIA to the Democratic National Conyen-
tion.
Representative Michael Donohoe, DEM
ocrat. accomplished the remarkable feat
of winning the Republican as we'll as
the Democratic and Keystone nomina-
tions in the 5th Philadelphia district.
This district is largely peopled by work
ingmen.
Returns received up to , o'clock indi-
cate that the Roosevelt delegates I'm AL
legheny County, including Pittsburgh.
to the Chicago convention had been
elected. with the possible exception of
one, State Highway Commissioner Bigs-
low leading his opponent.
John Dalzell appears TO have been
renominated for Congress in the Both
district by a small margin. but the re-
nomination of Dr. A. ]. Barchfeld In the
32d district is in doubt