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Show WEST VIRGINIA IS FOB GOLRTJOSEVELT Thus Far Votes Show laft Carried One County and Part of Another. B;- tnternatlonnl News Service PORTLAND. Ur April 20. Under the presidential preference primaries Theodore Koosevelt is the choice of the Republican voters of Oregon. The colonel has carried two-thirds of the counties of the state. Senator La Pollette earned Multnomah county, where one fourth of the votes and population arc located President Taft earned about r?n of the thirty four counties, cunning a bad third in M ultnoms h T'u.ier the Urcon stem the ten delegates on1 to the Republican na-tional na-tional convention, are instructed to vole for Roosevell Por the Democratic indorsemenl Woodrow Wilson has the lead, and will beat Speaker Clark by a safe mir-qjn. mir-qjn. En t'ic Republican congressional raoe II. W, rTawley, now representing the I'irst. district, h.i- been renominated, as ha had do opposition. The result i,i the Third district h i eontest lie-twern lie-twern a W Lafforty incumbent, and C. D Gantenbeiu, with Laffertj lead- ficn Sellinj; has established a firm lead over Jonathan Bourne for the Republican nomination for United States Senator, and the race among Harry ME. bane, o. p. Coshow and Walter M. Pierce tor the Democratic nomination i- anybody's fight, with Pierce apparently in advance. Result in Nebraska. By Enter national Sews Service, OMAHA, Xeb., April 2(1. Official returns of yesterday's primaries soming in slowly today, simply bear out the forecasts made within half an hour of the closing ot the polls last night, and show that ('larlc has carried the state by tremendous majorities. In fact, may have as many votes as both Harmon and Wilson, who are nip and tuck in s race for tai lender. Although according to returns received. re-ceived. Wilson i leading Harmon, and tl" Ohio man will probably be Inst in Ccnitnued Trom Page Elovon. WEST VIRGINIA IS FPU COL. ROOSEVELT (Continued from Page One.) the race, Wilf-on will secure none of the Nebraska delegation, while Harmon Har-mon will have two votes from this state, due to the fact that Harmon carried Omaha ;iml 1 li i sv congressional district So far Wilson has carried but one county, Platte, over Clark, Clark will have fourteen votes out of the sixteen, and William J: Bryan is now pledged to work for (.'lark ' nomination. Jt is believed Roosevelt has carried every district, .ind that sixteen progressive delegate- have been selected. West Virginia for T. R. By International News Service. WHEELING, W Va.. April 20 With but a few Of the counties in the interior of the Btate vet to hear from, Roosevelt carried West Virginia today to-day by a vote of 7 to 1. In today's voting Taft won the entire en-tire delegation of fifteen from Wetzel count and five of the sixtee?) from Randolph. Roosevelt won eleven ''run' Randolph, thirteen from Tucker, fourteen four-teen from Tyler, four from llea.int sixteen from Wayne and seven from Wirt. Publicity Bill Passes. WASHINGTON, April 20. The house tbday passed the Henry bill requiring publication before conventions or primary elections of ihe sums contributed to the campaigns of presidential and vice presidential presi-dential candidates and the sums expended. ex-pended. The measure received no opposition on its final vole, it carries .1 penalt of $rooo or three years' Imprisonment, Statements credited to Director Mc-' Klnlev of the Taft national bureau that much money bus been spent In the cam- nnin for Colonel Roosevelt.s nomination were read to the house today by Representative Repre-sentative Henry f Texas duriuR consideration consid-eration Of the 1)111. "Are Mr. MeKlrilev's ohaflffSJ tTUa? demanded Representative Henry "'if they are. the American people ought to know' It, and If the charges ol Mr Roosevelt's Roose-velt's managers are true that large sums have been used In Mr. Taft's campaign, then the American people might to know that." |