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Show NEW JERSEY IS READY TO VOTE FOR PRESIDENT; Staie Will Choose 28 Delegates Dele-gates to Each National Convention Con-vention at the Primaries Called for Today. m NO INDICATION AS TO RESULT OF VOTE President Taft Is to Make Speeches Up lo Within an Hour of the Time the Polls Arc Opened. Y N-BWARK. N. -T.. May S7. The Now Jersey primary election tomorrow to-morrow will brine to an end the spectacular campaigns i'or tho presidential nomination thai, re-sulfi'd re-sulfi'd this ycr from Aho adoption by several slates of preference laws. The South Dakota primaries arc still in the future. This state will choose twenty-oight del centos to each national convention, four at largo and two each from tho t.welvo congressional districts. En-ch district; selecls its own delegates, but the delegates at largo a.re elected by the voto of the whole state. The primary law also permits voters to express a personal choice for a presidential candidate, but this preference pref-erence vote has no direct bearing upon the division of delegates. Wilson's Fight. Tlio delegates to bo voted for arc plcdeed to Taft, ftooscvclfc or La Toilette Toi-lette on the Republican ballots and on tho Democratic ballots for Governor Woodrow "Wilson or marked "ttniu-structcd." "ttniu-structcd." The Democratic fighf'hus boon only bptweea Governor "Wilson and his opponents inside tho state. Tho Republican candidates found no state issues to iiid them and have made their campaign largely on political Grounds. Governor Wilson's friends declare he will win the full state delegation with the- possible exception of the members from Newark, tbo stronghold of former United States Senator Smith, whoso re-election the governor op-posod. op-posod. Colonel Eoosevelt clospd his campaign tour tonight but the president will speak tomorrow right up to tho hour of opening tho polls, making a tour of tho farming and shore towns in tbe lower part of the slate. Many Speeches Made. In all, the president and Colonel Roosevelt have made moro than fifty spoeehes each siuco thoy ontercd the state last Thursday. Senator La Follottc has been in tho stato for the last five days and bas made nearly a dozen speeches. Governor Gover-nor Wilson has spoken three times and has issued one addroBS to tho votor6, explaining ex-plaining why he did not canvass tho stato and attacking his enemies. Although tho Democratic campaign has been mild in comparison with tho rush of the Republican workers, the result; re-sult; of the primarios is considorod of unusual importance, since- it is acknowledged acknowl-edged that Governor Wilson's chances at Baltimore will receive a severe blow if 'ho falls to got at least a good ma-n'ority ma-n'ority of the delegates from his own state. Tho polls opon at 1 p. m. tomorrow and close at 0 p. m. PRESIDENT TAFT ATA TL ANTIC CITY ATLANTIC CITT. N. J., May 1!7. With a apocch lo a crowd that filled Young's pier back to tho board walk, with an overflow on the walk Itself. President Taft tonight practically closed his campaign for Now Jersey's twenty-eight twenty-eight delegates to the Republican national na-tional convention. Kor four hours tomorrow tomor-row ho will campaign on his way from the coast to the Delaware river. He. will not make ids last speech until one hour beforo tho polls open. t When Mr. Taft reached tho stand In the center of the pier lie walked around in a- circle so that all of his audience might 'huvo a chance to hear somo or his speech. After leaving tho pier tho president spoke to a largo crowd of negroes. Atlantic City A-aa vnc last stop Mr. Taft made on a day that was crowded with Mpceoho.s ut Koat-'ido and winter resort re-sort towns. i The prcsldeni declared during the day that lie would not consider a third term, tic brought tip tho question of Canadian reciprocity and explained that Mr. Roosevelt, Roose-velt, who noxv opposes it, "for tho sake of getting votes," was onre Its sU'ong. ad vocal p. lln d-i-lsiid iuiil times also that tho 4 Continued ou Pago Three.;, J M JERSEY READY TO IKE 10 CHOICE (Continued from PageOne0 negro has much to fear If the nronorat laVTn X(UcUd deeliouH ho.ml' be'eome wood: connection lie suJd at jtke- irn& lf,lll, Principle Ik lo be ex-H ex-H no rn , tho ,f0(l0.rHl co,l,,ls- '"! 'here ro"KO why It should not he If it iS?cl -. Sl'PPOSe a legislature wore lo pas., a law Introducing peonage, a kind sonfaYrry l,,atl, continues In the south In some places wrItorc w., have to H vnCC'IlT '',cPrlvl'fT the necro of aome civil rlghU tht he la entitled to un-J.'; un-J.'; i llc Jonrteenth amendment, or de- i r"e, hit"', .of llls octoi-sil rights or political rights, and the supreme court n,?L. . n? ma.y Pr,)Pely decide and ought to decide, that law is Invalid be-eaiiso be-eaiiso It violates those conotltutlonal amondnicnts, and then trnder this ,nys-tem ,nys-tem fs voted upon as to whether that decision de-cision is right at the next national election. elec-tion. Should Go Slow. "II may be a Republican year and the amendments hc sustained; it mav be a Democratic year and tho amendmentn voted down. T ask you. my friends, whether that to the kind of security you thought you were getting when the war was fought, when hundreds of thousands thou-sands of lives wore lost and blood was spilled and treasure amounting to millions mil-lions waa lost in order to establish I hose amendments, and now are urged to make their weight and their sanetton depend de-pend on ono single popular election? T say. my friends, when you consider this problem and when you consider tho proposal pro-posal and look at It face to face, it s so fundamentally erroneous thai It presents a erisls In our history that w.j ought to rise to meet and stamp out by not electing elect-ing I ho man who proposes it." Mr. Taft tra.velod all the way from the Hudson river to Atlantic City in hla private pri-vate car except for one ton-mile automobile auto-mobile jump. On tho rldo from Lake-wood Lake-wood to I3rldgeton, hla special train made more than sixty miles an hour for twcnlv nlles. |