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Show I e e Politics and Things H oitf They Stand M State Roosevelt Taft Alabama 2 H Alaska 2 H Colorado 10 H Connecticut 12 H District of Columbia ... H Delaware H Florida B Georgia B Hawaii 6 j Illinois 56 2 H Indiana 10 8 B Iowa . 16 H Kansas 2 i Kentucky 3 7 fl Louisiana H Maine 12 H "Massachusetts 18 18 j Michigan 8 12 j Mississippi 20 H Missouri 24 2 H Nebraska 16 H New Hampshire 8 H New Mexico G 2 11 New York 2 I North Carolina 2 H North Dakota ' M Oklahoma 1G 2 B Oregon 10 H' Pennsylvania 70 G H Philippine Islands 2 Hi Porto Rico ". 2 U Rhode Island 10 Hi South Carolina 14 i Tennessee 2 Vermont 2 i Virginia (" Wisconsin Totals 291 131 H! 'Massachusetts has 8 delegates-at- Hp large whom Roosevelt released, but H who refuse to accept release. H Contested, 154. j' Uninstructed, 112; including 88 in H, New York. Hr Cummins, 10. j La Follette, 3G. Hf Of the contested delegates Taft j porbably will get a big majority. H May will be the deciding month in H, the presidential primaries and in the H conventions that elegt delegates to H Chicago. Twenty-five states are yet H to elect delegates, although of this H number, most of the delegates have H been named and various districts Hj within the states not yet reporting Hi are to name their delegates. The full delegations to be elected by presl- idential primary or by convention, are: Arizona, 6; Arkansas, 18; Call fornia, 26; Idaho, 8; Kansas, 18; j Maryland, 1G; Minnesota, 24; Mon- H. tana, 8; Nevada, G; New Jersey, 28; H' North Carolina, 24; Ohio, 48; South D Dakota, 10; Tennessee, 8; Te.xas, 40; H: Utah, 8; Washington, 14; West Vir- H j ginia, 16; Wyoming, G. H Of the 154 contested delegates most H are contested by Roosevolt and it is B conceded that Taft will got a major- IHI; ity. Taft probably will get a major- li ity of the 112 uninst' cted delegates, Hh and with the gains tne President will H make this monjh it is believed that H ; he will have a majority in the con- H vention. However, should the May Bt primaries and conventions return a H majority in the remaining states for H It Roosevelt, this will affect the unin- H structed vote and 'vill give the Colo- H , nel more of an advantage than he H has at present. Hj ; By the way, this is the first actual ? summary of the situation that has .v been printed in Salt Lake. There is going to be speed in the Third district court. This district, the largest in the state, is pledged by the Republican party to Bet the pace for the other six: and all that now remains for the program to be carried out is the election of the five judges who were nominated at Tuesday's convention. conven-tion. Of codrse, the judges will fulfill ful-fill the party promises. At least, they didn't object to being committed to the speed pledge. H. A. Smith, a prominent attorney, put through a resolution at the convention con-vention which pledges all the candidates candi-dates to render decisions in all pending cases as quickly as possible. This Bhot at the law's delay reaches the mark. A. L. Hoppaugh, also a leading attorney, at-torney, adroitly suggested that the resolution res-olution include attorneys, pledging them also to get busy In court and eliminate the procrastinating practices that are as much of an annoyance to clients and the public generally as the leisure with which the court has regarded all questions pending before it. In California there is a law which prevents payment of salary to judges who have cases pending before them that could be decided expeditiously. The stipend that comes from the state is an important little detail in the judiciary game and this legal whip goads the courts into action, naturally, natural-ly, so that the public Is regaled with hurry-up opinions and rulings that under un-der other conditions might be held up indefinitely. If this speed program should be carried up to the Supreme court it wouldn't be a bad idea, either. A great hullabaloo has been raised over the resignation from the Republican Repub-lican county committee by J. U. El-dredge, El-dredge, Jr., who has been its chairman chair-man for so many years that he certainly cer-tainly earned the peaceful retirement he did not get. Mr. Eldredge, for reasons best known to himself, resigned re-signed from the committee shortly after the campaign of 1910, finishing a career at the head of that body in which he did not lose a single candidate candi-date upon any ticket he engineered toward success at the polls. The committee com-mittee had no need or meeting until about a month ago, when arrangements arrange-ments for the primaries had to be made. At that time the resignation was not acted upon, although "Jody" insisted that he wanted to retire. Last week the whole personnel of the cpmmlttee was changed by proxies and it was discovered, all of a sudden, sud-den, that there was an immediate and prying need for the election of a now ohalrman, although the county campaign is still many months away. Mr. T. A. Calllstor, who was elected in the place of Mr, Eldredge, has a whole lot of political detail crammed into his head, and if there is anything around headquarters he doesn't understand un-derstand ho is always willing to learn. Out o the committee's action naturally nat-urally arises a question as to why all this hub-bub when the closed season is on. In looking over the newspaper reports of alleged intrigue one might well think himself in the middle of October with all parties shattering the atmosphere with their varied and various bally-hooing. Mr. Taft: "It gives me great pain to disclb&e the fact that Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt Is a political neurotic." Mr. Roosevelt: "It grieves me beyond be-yond measure to confess that Mr. Taft is a political lemon." Mr. Taft: "It wrings my heartstrings heart-strings to denounce my predecessor as a blatant demagogue." Mr. Roosevelt: "I am desolated by the necessity of unmasking my successor suc-cessor as the world's greatest glass crash." Mr. Taft: "However painful it may he, the time has come to say that Mr. Roosevelt ought not to be elected keeper of a dog pound." Mr. Roosevelt: 'Though it break my heart, I can no longer withhold the plain truth that as a president Mr. Taft is a great golf player." Our favorite Washington corre-i spondent assures us that "these negotiations, nego-tiations, conducted under the constant con-stant direction of Mr. Roosevelt, to whom Mr. Taft reported every development, devel-opment, confirmed the Colonel's belief be-lief in Mr. Taft's tact and diplomacy." From which one skilled in wheezery could almost filch a fillip. After this cruel war is over, though, let us remember only the kind things that Theodore and Will used to say of each other. Nothing appears to afford Col. Bryan greater pleasure than to rise at frequent intervals and proclaim in loud voice that he is not a candidate. No, the Colonel did not "use Invective" Invec-tive" in his reply to President Taft, but he employed what might be guardedly called strong language. Resenting the action of William B. McKinley, director of President Taffs campaign for renomlnation, In making public International Harvester company com-pany correspondence in what ho claims was an effort to show Col. Roosevelt took nn active interest in its affairs, George W. Perkins, formerly for-merly of J. P. Morgan & Co., has sent a stinging reply to the Illinois congressman in the form of a letter. Mr. Perkins says while a partner of J. P. Morgan & Co. he loaned $15,000 to President Taft's campaign com-mlttet, com-mlttet, and never has been repaid. George R. Sheldon, treasurer of the commi ee, expressed his inability to raise the amount to pay certain bills, says Mr. Perkins, and asked for the loan. "AH of the above activities on my part," says Mr. Perkins, "covered a period when I was not only connected connect-ed with the Steel corporation and the International Harvester company, as I am now, but when I also was a member of the Arm of J. P. Morgan & Co., a director in the National City bank and other prominent Wall street financial institutions, from which I have since retired, and if it is a heinous hein-ous crime for a great political cause to accept support from me now, it must have been far more heinous to accept It in this instance." Regarding President Taft's policy in dealing with corporations, Mr. Perkins Per-kins says that "because of the farcical farci-cal results of the 'trust busting' program pro-gram of the Taft administration Wall street knows that it has nothing to fear from Washington." Mr. Perkins defends his course in supporting Col. Roosevelt for the presidential nomination and denies that J. P. Morgan is secretly behind him in the fight in behalf of Col. Roosevelt. Nix on the secret ballot. Suppose, for instance, that feature of judicial conventions be tabooed hereafter. It didn't look well in the recent judicial convention held by the Republicans in Salt Lake and it is to be hoped that it will not become be-come a feature in the state or county conventions to be held during dur-ing the year. There was nothing secret se-cret about anything at the primaries, no secrecy in the other proceedings of the convention. Suppose it was found that one of the five candidates for renominatlon fo the bench was very weak, and that the chance for his defeating the sixth man was very slim. Before the balloting bal-loting he and his friends may have discovered that there were not votes enough to put him on the ticket. It would bo a very natural thing then, if he were a man given to such things, for him to trade his votes for an associate as-sociate on the bench for the sixth man who was trying to pry his way into the combination If the ballot was open and above board he would have to carry out that trade; if It was secret he could conceal his perfidy per-fidy by throwing the party of the second sec-ond part, Receiving all the votes to be delivered and delivering none he had agreed to turn over. The secret ballot system was adopted adopt-ed at the convention without a dissenting dis-senting vote. It seemed to have a certain cer-tain amount of popularity In that convention con-vention and its efficiency for the occasion oc-casion at least was not doubted when the ballots were counted. Cut it out. We have seen so many partisans turned down by their own paity because be-cause of the third-term idea that the appeal of lawyers to retain the present pres-ent membership of the Third district bench because of the danger of shifting shift-ing its personnel every four years came as a slight shock to some discriminating dis-criminating gentlemen who keep their sense of proportion in politics as well as in other things. It is likely that the Smith resolution resolu-tion throwing the judicial gear into the high would not have boon presented pre-sented had all rulings and qplnlons been made as expeditiously as ppssl- ble. Yet, right afterward the convention conven-tion indorsed the present quintet without with-out a break. Maybe the delegates, regarded re-garded the pledge they had pinned upon the judges as one that will be rigorously kept. The Summit and, Tooele delegates voted solidly for the present judges, and Judge J. J. Whltaker polled ninety votes, chiefly form the city districts. He would have received more upon an open ballot, no doubt, and fifteen more would have changed the lineup, although al-though Judge Morse, who ran fifth, would have been higher up the list. E. O. Leatherwood's amusing i;ace for mayor on the "Good Government," ticket last fall didn't interfere with his popualrtiy in the convention and his record as a prosecutor was unanimously unani-mously indorsed. |