New-York tribune., 1912-02-26
|ALL CLAIMING VICTORY
Political Headquarters in Capital
Active in Talk.
TAFT MEN ONLY GIVE FACTS
Forty.four Delegates Already
Pledged to President and
Support Is Growing.
rr-.o,,, TIE Tribune Bureau.

| rTrnul The Tribune buttau'i
Washington. Feb. 25-With the campaign
machinery az the headquarters OF seven
Presidential aspirants well oiled ana run
ming suootblv at the Capital, there Is no
reason why the perpexed voter, whatever
his political views, need go without inc
! s,nnort of one or another kind of state
r,ent chewing that his candidate has swept
IS sweeplng or will sweep the country
Tho statements issued at headquarters
do not always agree. The harmon heau-
quarters. for example, quote HoVethor
! PIaisted OF Maine tonight as DECLARING
| that Harmon IS the most available candl-
date" AZ the same time the Wilson head-
quarters ouote Senator obadiah Gardner
who was Governor OF the same state as de-
cIoring that Wilson is the only Democrat
,,.ho Aar carry his state. The Clark head
quarters are sure Of carrying Kansas for
the Speaker. The Wilson headquarters III
tarnrer the signs in that state rs pointing
| 10 a Wilson victory.
! The voter may be certain, II ne mas III
rections to the proper headquarters OF get
| ting n roseate vision for the future Win
any candidate he may be inclined to sup
mort looming heroIcally in the amber gio"
| 0t the spotlight.
Taft Statements OF Facts Only.
The one exception 10 the general rule OF
enthusiastic prophesyng Is the report
| ,,.o,,ress from the Taft headquarters. This
boeins with the simple statement oil tact
! that twelve additional delegates SIN cach
from, Georgia and Virginia, were elected
| last week. making a total OF forty-four'
with no delegates but Taft delegates yet
| in the field.
! II is followed by many other reports OF
progress from all parts of the country IN
Texas the executive committee OF the Pro-
gressive Republican League, declaring that
! senator La Toilette seems to be out Of
! the race" resolved unanimously in faTor
Of President Tafts denomination.
In West Virginia the situation was
cleared by the announced support OF Presi-
dent Taft's cause by ex-Goyernors Dawson
and White and ex-United states Senator
Davis ElltIns
! The Rhode Island leaders arc out in the
open for the President, and 70 per cent Of
tho Republican legislators of the state have
declared President Taft TO be their choice.
the other 80 per cent remaining non-com-
initial for the time.
Wisconsin haa put a full set Of Taft dele
gates in the field. ready to contest for the
support OF that state.
| In Iowa, Calhoun County instructed its
delegates TO state and district conventions
! for President Taft and the City OF Creston
| did likewise, assuring President Taft OF the
support Of the Union County delegation.
Oskaloosa and Newton. IN the 6eh District.
have instructed for tho President. and in
Madison County eighty OF the countys
delegation OF ninety-seven TO the state con-
vention are similarly bound.
| Ottawa, Adair Craig and Wapelo coun-
tlGs, In Oklahoma, have instructed dele
! gates 10 state and district conventions FOR
tho President.
More New Workers. in Line.
| New York made further strides toward a
solid Taft delegation by Endorsements from
the district committee OF the 10Th Assem-
| bly, District. tho Republican committees of
| Clinton and Franklin counties and the
Bronx Republican club organization OF the
22d Assembly District.
In neighboring New Jersey, tho Repub-
lican committee OF Union County indorsed
President Taft.
counties, in Virginia. chose TAFT delegates
TO state and district conventions.
| In Minnesota, according TO Representa-
tive Mccall. just returned from that state.
the situation is improving daily, and little
| opposition 10 tho Presidents denomination
| is I'm evidence.
| in Louisiana tho contepding factions OF
the party have been harmonIzed through
| tho efforts OF a subcommittee Of the Re
publican National Committee. and the
states delegation of twenty. TO consist OF
! thlrteel whites and seven negroes. will cast
a solid vote for President Taft at the Chi
caGo National Conventions
/ There are signs that tho efforts OF eN-
! Senator Dubois, who Is managing the Clark
| headquarters, TO mako the pre-conyention
| campaign n polite and well hammered affair
will go for nothing. Senator Gardner Is
quoted in a statement issued by the Wilson
| headquarters as saying Of Roosevelt:
"The colonel is the most successful falSer
LI have ever seen, and now has his currcu-
lum full OF progressive policies which no
has borrowed from William Jennings
| Bryan"
Instead OF being a pink tea campaign, 1t
| is much more likely that the pre-conven-
ton struggle will be governed on the part
Of some OF the contestants by prize ring
rules.
The din OF the clash OF political arms
| grows constantly, but n : yet there has been
no lighting and no victories. except for the
| Taft forces.