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Show NEW PHASE IN OREGON Different Construction Put on' the Recent Primary Pri-mary "VJote. . Salem, Ore., April 23j An informal pinion on the Republican primary last Friday expressed by Attorney General A. M. Crawford,' ihDlds Theodore Roosevelt is not entitled to tho vote of the full Oregon delegation to the national convention. i Mr. Crawford is quoted as saying that under the Oregon law, as he construes it, it is not Incumbent upon all delegates to support a certain candidate unless that candidate received a majority of his party's primary ote Where It Is a question of a plurality only, as was the case last Friday, the opinion holds that the delegates are bound to voto for the candidate they represented upon the primary ballots. Calling attention to tho fact that in this state each voter Is permitted to vote for but one delegate, Attorney Goneral Crawford said: "ThiB Is apparently a pure and simple sim-ple effort to secure proportional representation rep-resentation " In light of this fact, he said, it was his opinion that "those who received from the party a sufficient number of votes to elect them as delegates and who were representatives on the ticket tick-et of cither Taft or La Follette, aro. In tho proportional representation theory, the-ory, In duty bound to vote for those candidates whom they declared to the people on the ballot they would represent rep-resent in the national convention. nn |