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Show MASSACHUSETTS RESULTS. The result in Mnssachusotto shows a very complicated situation. Tho propositions prop-ositions as voted on were, in tho first place, direct as between Presidont Taft and Colonel TCooseve.lt. Tn this direct di-rect voting, President Taft carried the Slate triumphantly. P.ut it appears that tho popularity of certain of .Roosevelt's delegates made them, run ahead of the Roosevelt choice, so that Roosovolt delegates at large are elected in tho fnco of a positive declaration of the people against Roosevelt and for President Taft. The situatiou is further complicated compli-cated by the apparently unwarranted candidacy of an enthusiastic Taft supporter sup-porter who got a good many votes in different places, but the ballots being irregular, were thrown out. This deprives de-prives President. Taft; of many hundreds hun-dreds of votes, and proves that his popularity was oven greater among the voters than tho returns indicate. It is not surprising under the circumstances, circum-stances, that President Taft 'a supporters support-ers declare their intention to carry tho contest against tho Roosevelt delegates dele-gates at largo in Massachusetts to the Ohicago convention, for there is clearly no justico in Rooscvolt delegates at largo appearing from Massachusetts when tho popular vote was decidedly for Prosident Taft in tho State at large. With this tanglo straightened out, President Taft would have twenty-six twenty-six votes in Massachusetts and Colonel Roosevelt ton in place of the even division, di-vision, eighteen to eighteen, as first reported. re-ported. It is creditable to Colonel Roosevolt that he recognizes tho .iustico of the Taft claim to all the delegates at large from Massachusetts, and that he calls upon delegates elected for him to vote for President Taft according to tho choico of the people. This is not only creditable to Colonel Roosovelt, but it is in direct accord with his own declared purpose that hc wants the people to rule at the primaries. It is manifest, howevor, that tho people do not rulo at the primaries when, having declared in favor of President Taft, tho accident of candidacy of delegates elects Roosevelt supporters. "With Colonel Col-onel Roosovelt taking this proper altitude alti-tude concerning the delegates at large from Massachusetts, thero ought not to be any further insistence that any delegate at large from that State should vote for Colonel Roosevelt, and it is altogether likely that tho Chicago, convention con-vention would so declare if the contest has to bo carried that far. |