The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-04-02
COP. PRIMARIES
LEAVE FIELD
Open,
No Candidate to Get Nominal.
ing Strength, According to
Present Outlook.

WASHINGTON, April1.-With the
returns all in from the March prim-
aries the situation regarding the Re-
publican presidential nomination has
not been made any clearer that 1t was
Just before the first delegate to the
Chicago convention was elected.
Approximately $50 of the 9s5 COM
posing the national convention have
been chosen. Forty Of these, embrac-
ing the entire Indiana delegation Of
80 and 10 Of the 26 from Kentucky
are instructed for ex-vice President
Fairbanks. The Minnesota delega-
ton Of "a has been chosen and in
structed for Senator Cumins of Iowa.
Senator La Toilette OF Wisconsin has
bagged the North Dakota delegation
of 10.
All the other delegates SO far
elected are uninstructed. These en-
brace the 20 from Kansas, 10 from
Kentucky. about half OF the Missouri
delegation Of 3S (the remainder still
to be chosen). the major part of
North Cardinals 81, about one third
Of Oklahoma's 20, New Hampshire's
8 and Florida's 8.
Uninstructed Vote Strong.
II any factor has been emphasized
by the primary results during the first
month of the preconvention contest
1t is the important figure that the
uninstructed delegates will cut at
Chicago when the president makers
get down to business. 1t is clear that
no candidate will enter the national
convention with the positive delegate
strength sufficient to place him any
where within reach of the nomina-
ton.
The question agitatlng the national
leaders as much as anything can at
this stage is whether any great bulk
Of the uninstructed delegates will
concentrate at the outset on Hughes
or Roosevelt or whether By skilful
manoevering and reasoning q COM
bination can be effected in favor Of
enc Of the admittedly active aspir-
ants for the nomination.
Primary delegate elections will be
held in states during April at which
313 delegates will be chosen. The
lines of contest will be drawn much
more tight when these ten states
have spoken. Among them is New
York, with its eighty-seven votes,
whose ultimate disposition forms so
much OF a problem that not even
those who hope to control the delega-
ton have the key.
The big state Of Illinois, with It's
fiifty-eight delegates, ranked only by
New York and Pennsylvania in num-
at.fn akr ~ mil tfa
sentatives April IL. 1t is practically
assured that these fifty-eight, en-
bracing coalition Of the regular
Republicans and Progressives and
representatives Of the various fac
lions within the state. will be solidly
behind the presidential candidacy Of
Senator Sherman.
How Delegations Look.
So far as 1t can be figured at pres
emit the end Of April will see Sherman
with certain pledged support of
flfty-eight votes and perhaps some
scattering from other states: Cum
Minis with fifty, including the twenty
six Of Iowa, who are to be chosen
April 10; La Toilette with thirty-six,
including the twenty-six from Wiscon-
sin, who are to be elected April 4;
Burton with the forty-eight Of Ohio
and perhaps few more. and Fair
banks with a pledged strength appro-
imating fifty votes.
AS to the strength that will be
shown by other active candidates 1t
is impossible to say anything definite
at this time. The situation In Mass
achusetts, where thirty-six delegates
are to be elected on April %, is so
confused that II is impossible only
to say that 1t Will be red hot. inter
esting fight between the Roosevelt
adherents and the other side.
The other states where primary
delegate elections will be held In
April are Michigan, New jersey,
Nebraska and Montana.
The number of aviators In the
world is now estimated at $4,000
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