Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1912 — LOOKS LIKE ROOSEVELT HAD WON IN OHIO. [ARTICLE]

LOOKS LIKE ROOSEVELT HAD WON IN OHIO.

Early Returns Show Him In the Lead And ißdleatiens Point to His Havlag All Bat Six Delegates. Early morning papers showed Roosevelt well in the lead in the presidential preference primaries held Tuesday and the Chicago American noon edition, which reaches Rensselaer at 2 o’clock claims that it was a Roosevelt landslide and that he will have 42 and possibly 44 of the delegates from that state, leaving-Taft only 4 or possibly 6. The farmers of Ohio voted against Taft because he .had supported Canadian reciprocity. Cincinnati and Toledo voted for Taft, while Cleveland and Columbus gave Roosevelt a big majority. Lafollette received a large vote in the state but in no district did he secure a delegate. The democrats had a lively contest between Gov. Judson Harmon and Governor Woodrow Wilson. Harmon seems t have received the better of it. The American prints a . telegram from Washington which reads: “Politicians here regard the result in Ohio as the elimination of Taft as a presidential candidate. In view of his own statement that his fate depended on Mi own state, his withdrawal from Yhi race would not be surprising.”