Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1912 — STANDING OF CANDIDATES. [ARTICLE]

STANDING OF CANDIDATES.

Both the Roosevelt and Taft campaign • managers have issued statements showing ••their man" is a sure winner, but it is likely the result in Ohio, which held its primaries yesterday, will play some part in future statements of the standing of each. According to the generally accepted figures Taft had at the beginning of the present week 414 delegates: Roosevelt 375; Cummins 10; LaFollette 36: uninstructed 113. Some ot the delegates accredited to Tait, powever. are con- ' tested.. ’ . I The Taft vs. Roosevelt fight iff I Ohio has been very bitter and the i breach between the two candidates has been matertally widened. It would not be very surprising if. tn the interest of harmony, both v ere turned do wn and a dark horse carried off the prize- This would i.o doubt please Roosevelt almost as mucfli as to win the nomination himself—anything to beat Taft. On the democratic side. Clark leads with 302 delegates; Wilson has 191; Underwood 83; Marshall ,30: Harmon 9; uninstructed 159. At this., time it would seem that ■C hainp' Clark is by far the favorite In the democratic ' race. Wilson stock has. been on, the decline for some time, and it is. not believed he stands any more show than Governor Marshall, and nobody takes seriously the possibility of his nomination., :

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