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Show BOTH 5IDES CLAIM NE W JERSE Y VOTES ICKWARK. X. .T., May 20. rrcsidonl Tal't. Colonel Roosovclt and Senator La i'Villet.to rested today aft or throe days of 11 io linrdosl ciuipaiuuinir they have rtXiiL'ricnecil since thoy began the fight for tho Jfepublicnn presidential nomination. nom-ination. The, president and IfooHOVoIt have mndo moro than fori)' speeches oach sinco last Thursday ami plan to wind nn ihoir speaking' toura by two lavs nioro of rigorous work. fSouator La JAilletl-rt lias made fewer speeches but lias addressed many thousands of voters. (lovcriior Wilson's supporters, drcln re his HiH'oeli at .Jersey City lust niirlit defined de-fined I he principal is.suo at stake in tin Domocratie primary campaign. Tlie fovornor assorted that tlie. real i list ructions ruc-tions rriven tho ''uniiistnieted " dele-cafes dele-cafes nn tho Democratic tiokot would bo "nuyboilv but Wilson." Tlie "Republican and Democratic campaigns cam-paigns differ widely in that the Ko-Ttiibliean Ko-Ttiibliean candidates have made their nnnoal udoji national issue.", whilo Governor Wilson ami bis supporters ami tho loenl speakers tlui(. aro plcad-itjf plcad-itjf for the defeat of tho governor have dwelt unou the partv struggle within the stale. I'Jotli I lie Taft and Kooscvelt mining-ors mining-ors claim the four dclegates-nt-largo which will bo cJoctod by tlie vto of the. whole state, and ar least sixleeu out of Ihe twenty-four district delo-Kit delo-Kit ok. If anything, the. Roosevelt claims are the more sweeping. The president will start early tomorrow, tomor-row, visiting the towns along tho -M laiitie shore, which heard Roosevelt Saturday Ur will continuo his light rii'hj. uo to tho hour of opening Van primary election, having arranged to spoak ?-l Olnssboro at noon Tuesday, an hour before the polls open there. Colonel Roosevelt ieiit the day diiietlv in 0stor Bav. Tomorrow ho will invade tho uuuiilry to tlio fioulli.- wcit of this city, going as far eouth as Princeton. Root Will Not Decline. By International News Service. WASHINGTON. May 2j. Sonator Ellhu rwoot of New York, who was recently named temporary chairman of tho Chicago Chi-cago convention by a aub-commlttee of wic Lepubllcan national committee, issued is-sued this statement tonight: "There Is no foundation whatever for the story that I contemplate declining to act as temporary chairman of the Republican Repub-lican national convention. The customary custom-ary duty of the committee on arrangements arrange-ments requires them to designate some ono to render that service. I was notified noti-fied by the committee that they had ds-Ignated ds-Ignated me and I accented the designation. designa-tion. Unless that designation Is overruled, over-ruled, as, of course, it may b by the convention, I shall serve." Dixon at Oyster Bay. By International News Service. Ol'STKR BAY. N. V., Mav 26. ColonM Roosevelt conferred over the campaign situation at Sagamore Hill tonight with ,rn&.or Dixo". his national manager, and Medlil McCormlck, one of the Illinois leaders. They discussed tlie status of tho Roosevelt delegate list but had no figures to give out for public digestion. McCormlck popped out of the door for a moment and modestly ventured the prediction pre-diction that Roosevelt would "canter In" with the nomination, lie shied when asked for figures. Roosevelt lias offered no definite calculation calcu-lation of delegates since he announced on his Ohio trip that he had 501 already en-Bnarcd. en-Bnarcd. Since then he has contented himself with the broad prediction that he will bo nominated on the first ballot. The colonel is satisfied from his observation of the New Jersey situation that his managers there aro about right In claiming claim-ing that he will capture twenty-four of the twents'-cight delegates. It would not surprise him if ho mad a clean sweep. Ho starts out tomorrow morning from ITobokcn on his la3t Jersey dash. Preliminary Work. CHICAGO. May 26. The actual work of sottlnsr the stage and seating ar-rang-omenta for the P.epublican national convention on June IS will begin this week. Toward the end of the week members of the national committee and reprcsen-tati'cs reprcsen-tati'cs of various state delegations which have been contested will be In the city to take up preliminary work. The night of May 23 Is the tlmo limit set for tho filing of credential and contests, con-tests, except from states whore the election elec-tion laws provide for conventions or primaries pri-maries after that date. William S. Stone, sergoant-at-arms, has on file more tbo.n 100,000 requests for leas than 10,000 spectators' seats. Texas Convention. DATjLAS, Tex., May 2fi. Two state political po-litical conventions will be held in Tcxa Tuesday. The Democrats will moot at Houston lo choose thirty-two district delegatos and eight dologatcs-at-largo to the national convention. The Republicans will meet at Fort Worth to name eight delcgatcs-at-largo to tho national convention. .Olapp a Candidate. ST. PAIJI. May 20. Following a conference con-ference Inst night by Onnsby McKarg of New York, one of Colonel Roosevelt's managers and contest eicpert, Clifford Plnchot, former chler forester, and leaders lead-ers of the Roosevelt movement in Minnesota, Min-nesota, Hugh T. Halbort. of SL Paul, today announced that United State Senator Sen-ator .Moses E. Clapp, of Mlnnosota. probably prob-ably will be a candidate for temporary chairman of the convention at Chicago next month In place of Senator Blihu Root. Clark Gets Kentucky. By International News Service. FRANKFORT. Ky May 26. Speaker Champ Clark has carrlod Kentucky In the mass conventions held yesterday by a practically unanimous vote. Of tlie 120 counties in the state the reports show-that show-that he had carried 100 of them, and lie will be given tho twenty-six votes from this slate in the "Baltimore convention. The principal fight In this content was for the slate organization. Tho expected happened and Ollie M. James, senator-elect, senator-elect, was given a torrlble drubbing, as Governor McCreery. who was tho candidate candi-date for temporary chairman of the state convention, beat him almost two to one I In the state and Governor McCrecry'E supporters will orjranhte the party machinery ma-chinery and have charge of the party In this state for tho nest four years. Wilson, in. Lead. GRIDENSBORO, Js'. J., Muy 26. With returns recelvod tonight from seventy-three seventy-three of the 100 counties In North Carolina, Caro-lina, which held conventions Saturday, it Is evident, that control of the state convention con-vention will rest with the unlnstructed delegates. The counties reporting have a total voting strength of 790 out of 976 votes. Of the 79D votes, 44B are unlnstructed. unln-structed. Wllhou has 1S1.S1 instructed convention votes in thirty counties; the Underwood strength in twenty-nine counties is 121.85 votes and the Harmon und Clark strength combined in fourteen counties totals if. 12 votes. Will Vote for Root. NEW YORK. May 26. Now York's ninety delegates to the Republican national na-tional convention arc expected by William Wil-liam Barnes. Jr., chairman of the Republican Re-publican state committee to support Senator Sen-ator Kllliu Root for tomporarv chairman in event' of a contest. Mr. Barnes expressed ex-pressed this belief in a statement Issued today. Georgia Boomers. ATLANTA. Go., May 26. Georgia's delegation to the Domocratie national convention, which "will be chosen at a state convention here Wednesday, will be accompanied to Baltimore by 1000 Underwood Under-wood supporters traveling in two special trains. Plans have been completed for the trip. Plans of Foss. BOSTON, May 26. Governor ICugctie M. Foss. who has been mentioned as a possibility for the Democratic nomination for president and for whom Massachusetts Massachus-etts elected eight delcgntes-at-lnrgc to the Baltimore convention. wJII enter actively act-ively In the campaign of national politics in Vermont as a "native son" of that stale, according to a statement which he issued tonight. Hot Time for Princeton. PRINCETON. N. J., May 2G. Colonol Theodore Roosevelt and Governor Wilson are both polled tiled to make political speeches here tomorrow. President Jllbben of Princeton university univer-sity consented to permit the use of Alexander Alex-ander holt for the colonel's speech on condition con-dition that no rcfercure be made to President Presi-dent Taft. who was recently a guest of the university. Colonel Roosevelt wired he would speak out of doors. The student stu-dent members of the Roosevelt club havo arranged to havo the colonel speak from the balcony of Nassau Inn that Governor Wilson would bo In Princeton Prince-ton tomorrow, arranged for a counter attraction. at-traction. They will hold a parade and go to Governor Wilson's residence on Cleveland lane, where the governor has consented to speak. More Claims Made. NEW YORK. May 26.-That twenty-four twenty-four of the ninety delegates from New lork state to the Republican national convention have pledged their support to Colonel Roosevelt was the statement to-ilny to-ilny by senator Dixon, chairman of the Roosevelt national committer. Medlil McCormlck of Chicago, who conferred con-ferred with Senator Dixon at the Waldorf-Astoria, said 6-il delegates arc now pledged to Colonel Roosevelt |