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Show TAFT DEFEATED BY OVER 3,000 Baltimore, May S. The attitude of the Taft leaders in Maryland toward tho peculiar situntion that might de-elop de-elop through the working of the new slate primary law was still undecided today. Whfle the delegates elected to sit In the state convention appeared appear-ed on tho primary ballots with no designation to indicate their affilla- I tions, complete unofficial leturns in-I dlcate that, feavng tho matter of in- Btructions asldo, a majority of thom will bo personally friendly to tho president. Some of tho Taft leaders say thoro will be sixty-eight such Taft dologates to slxty-ono known to favor fa-vor Roosovoit. Although the unofficial unoffi-cial returns show that the counties and Baltimore city by their preference voto hnve instructed those delegates to' oboos a delegation to the national convention bound to voto for Roosevelt Roose-velt The Taft leaders, according to thoir claims, could control the organization organi-zation of the state convention and the personnel of tho national dologatos. The Roosevelt leaders aBsert that they have no fear such a complication would rob them of the fruits of the victory they claim on the preference vote. The figures, complete for tho Republican Re-publican vote and practically com-ploto com-ploto for the Democrats show that tho preference vote of tho state as a whole was as follows: Republicans: Roosevelt, 29,124; Taft, 20,009; Roosevelt's majority, 3,115. Democrats: Clark, 34,283; Wilson, 22,436; Harmon, 7,168; Clark's plurality plu-rality over "Wilson, 11,847. |