Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1912 — NEW JERSEY GOES TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT. [ARTICLE]

NEW JERSEY GOES TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

Colonel Gets AH or Nearly AH of Delegates In Tuesday Primaries— Wiltd>n Was Victorious. ■ 'President Taft lost the majority and possibly all of the New Jersey 3elegated in Tuesday’s primary election and Theodore Roosevelt will get them to add to his HsL While the returns are not complete it seems that Roosevelt won by a substantial majority in practically every district and will control the state convention. Governor Wbodrow Wilson secured the big end of the democratic delegates, but may lose six from the state who will go to the national convention uninstructed. Some papers claim that Taft will have 10 of the 28 delegates. A Washington dispatch to the Indianapolis Star suggests thatsome Taft delegates in Indiana are apt to slump to Roosevelt, getting on the wagon so as to be with the winners. Roosevelt claims 429 delegates at this time. Taft claims in excess of 540, the number necessary to nominate. The national republican convention convenes in Chicago on June 18th, which is two weeks from next! Tuesday.,