Omaha daily bee., 1916-04-29

Tho disappointing failure Of the presidential pri-
mary 10 indicate clearly any republican nominee has
led Tho Literary Digest 70 try another method ~ ac-
complaining this result Az II Ia npraotcabls to In,
totrogats NIL republican voters this question va
have taken the best course by questioning re-.
publicans and progressive members Of state legisne
tufos The conviction that they know the wishes
Of tho voters In their districts and will represent
them fairly we'll IN their replies. The legislative dis
tfiots are smaller and moro numerous than thu con
Rresglonal districts. and their members arc now At
home since most OF these assemblies have adjourned,
while the eongresgnnon remain IN Washington For
those reasons poll Of the legislatures seems likely
10 reflect the Will of the voters more truly than
poll Of congfeasmen We have received 100 replies,
or 100 fnora than the total number OF delegates IN the
republican national convention Many Of the writer's
will probably be mcnbers Of that body. Their yer-
dtt, therefore, ~ most pertinent and timely
Justice Hughes appears with 7s ballots, Colonel
Roosevelt with 26, and Mr., Root with 1885, Tayorito
still supported IN their home states and 10
degree elsewhere, ~ may be diacerned In the
vote Or "a for Mr. cumDiins Of Iowa. ~ for Mr., Bur-
ton Of Ohio N for Mr. sherman " Illinois, "a for
Mr. Weeks OF Massachusetts, and ~ for Mr. la Fol-
stte Of Wisconsin, Names mentioned less often are
those or Governor Brumbaugh OF Pennsylvania, Pen
rose and cx-seoretAry Phiander Knox OF the sani9
state IN addition. among those present" are Com
arossman james II. Mann Of Illinois, Senator VIII
liam Alden Smith Of Michigan, Ex-Governor Hadley
OF Missouri. senator Borah OF Idaho Senator War
ron ", DHFdinR or ONO, eN~AmbhHbhnUT lirFTiHk OF
Ohio Colonel Dupont General Leonard Wood sena
tor Lodge Governor Mccall Of MasaachusettH, Judge
Gary, chairman Of the United stntes Steel corpora
tlon. and Governor johnson OF California Ex-frest.
dent Taft. ayowedy not Candidate receives " votes
ana former Wee President Fairbanks receives, out
side Of Indiana votes and IN Indiana H. While the
majority Of states IN which information was sought
are here represented, a number OF replies are still
from Indiana and others and win be published In
n subsequent issue
par Ne nav seal 10
in the republican forecast Of the presidential cam.
paign. expressed by republican editors senators
and Representatives which appeared In these pages
December IL, l9lb, the leaders in the poll Of more
than 100 opinions Mr. Root with 2i9 ana Justice
Hughes with i52 votes Ex-president TAFT was cred
tied with 81. ana Colonel Roosevelt with ". Ex.sena-
tor Burton who remains ohios fayorite son. had i22
votes, and Senator sherman Of Illinois had ~ Mr.
Fairbanks had IS and senator Weeks b. That
strong desire waa felt in tho west for a candidate
from that section was also recorded, and II was
noted that In that region Senator Borah stood first
with los votes. and Senator cummins second with Y,
while Governor Johnson received 49,
In connection with The Literary Digest poll OF the
republicans progressive state legislators we pre-
sent also poll taken by the Albany Knekerbocker
Preas IN the New York legislature which shows that
"a out OF gg members favor Justice Hughes. Colonel
Roosevelt receives votes and ex-senator Root 10
votes Then III Massachusetts. the Boston Transcript
poed li0 republican members of the legislature, with
the result that u votes showed for Justice Hughes
20 for Colonel Roosevelt for Governor Mccall for
Senator Weeks for Lodge. ] for Root for Cum
mina and q undecided, republican New York state
committee poll OF the delegates 10 Chicago shows 81
for Justice Hughes, % for Senator Root and IL for
either Hughes or Roosevelt In summing up the
highly interesting and in many ways amusing race"
Tor the republican presidential nomination, the New
York Herald (lnd) observes. 1T Ia very probable
that when the whole 9S delegates elected not
Than 400 viii bear Instructions and no one now eS,
poets that any candidate for whom fayorite son in
struotona have been given stands much more chance
or being the nominee than does Buy sunday Ths
Journal then adds that the key to the great puEsle