New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-29
II Out of IL Put Him
Far in Lead for
Nomination.
HUGHES SECOND
IN MOST COUNTS
Leads Colonel in Six -
Favorite Sons Are
Swamped.

OF seventeen newspapers In widely
separated parts Of the United States
conducting Presidential primaries SINH
lar 70 the one recently held by The
Tribune. eleven have reported results
showing an overwhelming sentiment
for Theodore Roosevelt as the Repub-
lean nominee. In most instances,
though not all, il wss Charles Evans
Hughes who ran second TO the Colonel,
while in the pools OF four upstate
New York papers, and Of one in Kansas
and one in Missouri, he led Roosevelt.
OF the total number Of votes cast in
these seventeen newspaper primaries,
Colonel Roosevelt got 1881 and JUS
tice Hughes 1898. No other candi-
date showed any considerable strength.
the polls seeming TO establish it as the
sentiment Of the country East and
West that the fight at Chicago must lie
between these two leaders. Nowhere
did Roosevelt 60 down before & fav-
orite son, while Hughes did in three
instances.
Elhu Root usually ran third in the
counts. though in few instances some
favorite son forced him down to fourth
place, but nowhere did he receive
enough ballots to make him an impor-
;ant factor in the popular choice.
Late Voters in Tribune's Poll.
in The Tribune's own Presidential
primary, the results Of which have
been announced, Roosevelt got $500
votes. Hughes 1864 These figures do
not include 2s6 votes sent in for
Roosevelt not strictly in accord with
the rules Of the contest. nor 33
Of the same sort for Hughes. Since
that count was closed 294 more regular
and slightly irregular ballots have
come in, 204 of these naming Roose-
welt as first choice and 35 naming
Hughes.
Among the papers reporting TO The
Tribune. the one whose primary showed
the greatest Roosevelt landslide was
the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph
which included in its grand total the
returns from a number of small papers
throughout Pennsylvania working in
conjunction with it. This total gave
Roosevelt 10.7s3, Governor Martin G.
Brumbaugh only 1893, while Hughes
came third with 3,279. In the Phila-
delphia city count Roosevelt got 5,641,
Brumbaugh, 2,179, Knox 1,460 and
Hughes l,420.
An even greater ratio Of votes for
4. ,rtn r1I
I'm New Jersey in the poll of The Al
lantic City Daily Press" in which the
Colonel got 500 votes and Hughes 800.
Root was third with 40. Roosevelt and
Hughes each got 240 as second choice,
and Root 100
Hughes's Victories Unimpressive.
The SIX polls in which Hughes led the
Colonel show no such impressive re-
suits as these, both for the reason that
the totals of the votes were % small as
hardly 70 be typical of any community
sentiment, and also because, except in
the Missouri count, Hughes's lead over
Roosevelt was not nearly so great. The
six polls we're:
Auburn. \. Y. Y.-"Advertiser-Journal":
Hughes First choice. 81; second choice,
35. Roosevelt-First choice, 81; second,
IS. Root-First, 10; second, 1S.
Emirs. y. Advertiser: Hug hes
First, 3O4; second, 1872. Roosevelt
First, 252; second, 12S. Root-Flrst,
1874; second, 1873.
Niagara Falls, y. Y.-"Gszette":
Hughes First, 81; second, II. Roose-
yelt-First. 25; second, 13. Root-First'
8; second, 30.
Buffalo Morning Express: Hughes,
f-Qs pccea.ralt QSO. ROot Ar
Kansas Manhattan Daily Mercury:
Hughes-First, 81; second, 2l. Roose-
velt- First, SO; second. IS. Henry Ford
and a number Of others each received
one vote both for first and second
choices.
Missouri - jefferson City Daily
POST: Hughes, 259; Roosevelt, 5Z;
Hadley. 46.
Roosevelt the Great Favorite.
All the other papers that have so far
communicated their results 10 The Trib-
une report Roosevelt the leader, usually
So far ahead almost as 10 be practi-
cally out Of sight of the field. In Con-
nccticut. in the poll OF "The New Haven
Register" Hughes ran third. The re-
suits there we're: Roosevelt, 5000;
President Wilson, 2,052; Hughes, l,4O4;
Root, 366, while John W. Weeks got
only Il.
Hughes ran a worse third in the pri-
mary Of "The Moline (IllO Dispatch"
The count there was: Roosevelt-For
first choice. l07; second choice, 10.
Sherman First, "a; second, 26. Hughes
First, 6; second, AZ.
The same fate came TO him in Xenis,
Ohio, where the count Of The Morning
Daily Republican" was: Roosevelt
First choice, 1876; second, 49, Burton
First, II; second, 20. Hughes-First,
2s; second, 81.
A poll from Michigan, Henry Ford's
state, shows that either Hughes or
Roosevelt are preferred TO the auto
News" got these figures: Roosevelt
First choice. 1862; second, Is. Hughes
First, 81; second, 81. Ford-First s;