Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1912 — TAFT AND ROOSEVELT ARE FIGHTING IT OUT. [ARTICLE]

TAFT AND ROOSEVELT ARE FIGHTING IT OUT.

Rivalry is Intense in Ohio and Beth Candidates are Claiming Ultimate Victory. President Taft and Theodore Rooseyent are going all over Ohio in special trains this weelt, setting forth their claims for" republican nomination for presidency and incidentally taking an occasional fall out of each other whenever a good opportunity seems to present itself. Both are meeting great crowds of people in all the cities in which they speak and each claims great confidence in seeing sufficient votes to nominate when the national convention is held in Chicago next month. Taft’s managers claim that be has 533 pledged or instructed delegates at this time. That is only seyen short of thu number required to nominate an*’ he expfects to get thirty in Ohio, his home state. Roosevelt claims to hive more than 500 now and a certainty of enough more to nominate him. The people throughout the nation are deploring the bitterness of the rivalry and many whfT~are extremely partisan in their preference between the two men are hoping that a compromise can be chosen.

'4 Justice Hughes, former governor of New York, is the man generally conceeded to be equal to the task of winning if nominated. The Ohio delegates will be chosen next Monday. ,That will practically determine the result as between the two candidates. Ohio is also being tramped over by the democratic candidates and their workers and there is some warm rivalry in jthe democratic ranks also, but it looks like the light from a firefly compared to the big blaze the republicans have started.