Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1912 — CANDIDATES BROKE EVEN IN BAY STATE PRIMARIES. [ARTICLE]

CANDIDATES BROKE EVEN IN BAY STATE PRIMARIES.

Taft Gets 18 District Delegates and Roosevelt 10; But Latter Gets 8 At Large. ; v The Massachusetts primaries Tuesday did one very peculiar thing, the outcome* of which can not be foreseen at’ this time. According to the Roosevelt plan a presidential preferential primary was held and the people of the state expressed preference for President Taft by the vote of 71,153 to 74,808, giving Taft a plurality of 3,655. At the same time 8 delegates at large were chosen and all were Roosevelt men. Roosevelt was compelled to make good his preferential declarations and he caused instructions to be sent to the delegated sto the effect that they should cast their votes for Taft. The delegates, however, asseVt that they are not bound by the primary and will vote for either candidate, according to their own wishes. Taft carried 9 and Roosevelt 5 of the districts, securing respectively 18 and 10 of the delegates. If the 8 at large go to Taft he will have 26 and if they go to Roosevelt each of the candidates will have 18, an even break in the state. LaFollette received a total of 1,576 votes in the preferential primary. Roosevelt men are asking a recount in the Bth district and the Taft men are asking a recount in the 9th. The contest for delegates will be waged with vigor during the next two weeks, when it will be practically settled. There are 332 delegates yet to be chosen. Taft’s managers claim that he needs but 77 of these to assure his nomination. The number necessary to choice in the convention will be 540. Ohio will be lively fighting ground now. President Taft’s managers encouraged by the success in Massachusetts and say that it was his defense of himself that saved him from defeat. They will now insist that he take the stump in his own behalf in Ohio, his home state. „