| Show CLAIM VICTORY FOR TAFT leaders declare president has 6 68 delegates upon which he ca can 1 depend f chicago after after fter snaking making love every li a alance 1 for possible weakness in various varis au s state delegations tho the taft readers decla declared red that they have delegates upon whom choin they can depend to vote for taft on the first and every succeeding ballot and whom neither money nor influence nor the roose viti in pre presence senco could stampede to follow the colonel from oyster bay in a addition to this their figures contained twenty six delegates upon whom they have been counting hut but whose defection has been threat threatened enk by teh tali Roosevelt lans ians this accounted for the total given out at the tatt taft headquarters taft roosevelt cummins 10 la follette Ful lotte 36 here are the conn dental figures 0 of the roosevelt camp taft roosevelt cummins Cumm lna 10 la follette 30 36 little doubt Is expressed here that the cummins delegates will land in the roosevelt camp camly with little delay and that they will bo be followed by the tha ton ten lia la follette delegates from north dakota making Roosevel ts total with these additions the twenty six la ia follette delegates from wisconsin it Is declared will stick to their candidate against either taft or roosevelt to the bitter end tafts apparent majority of seventeen on oil the total of did not worry Roosevelt ians greatly because they I 1 feel confident that with such a nn narrow r margin between victory and disaster they will have little di in stampeding enough taft men of the taft it to nil fill the Hoos evolt band wagon |
