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Show opv r ij n i -R- jp n 'ill I i An 1 -n BLr E la O t VB fill ILm J W n DATE Situation in Illinois, Connecticut and Florida I Chicago, April 17. Republicans held each of the 25 districts in Illinois and elected delegates to tho national con- vention. Providing all the districts carried by Roosovolt at the preference primary "Instruct their delegates for Roosevelt, the colonel will have 5G of the 5S delegates from Illinois In tho national convention. Tho only district dis-trict carried by Taft was the Fifth, In Chicago, which is controlled bj friends of Sonator Lorlmcr. Eight dclegates-at-large, to be chosen cho-sen Friday at tho state convention at Springfield, jt Is expected, will be Instructed In-structed for Roosevelt, The following follow-ing are the delegates chosen: Seventh district. Abel Davis and D. 'A. Campbell, Instructed for Roosevelt; Roose-velt; Eighth district. Isidore H Hlncs and John F. Devlne, instructed for Roosevelt: Third, Charles W. Vail and William II Weber, instructed for Roosovolt. Fifteenth. H. ID Bion and C E. Snlvely, instructed for Roosevelt; Roose-velt; Twelfth. F. E. Sterling and H. N. Johnson, Instructed for Roosevelt. Connecticut for Taft. New Haven, Conn., April 17 Twelve of the fourteon Connecticut delegates to the Republican national convention eloctcd today were instructed in-structed for Taft. The other two, from the First district!- wero unin-structed. unin-structed. The four delegatcs-at-largo choEen by the state convention and i by resolution instructed to vote for President Taft are Charles F. Brook-or Brook-or of Ansonla, J. If. Rorabak of Canaan; Ca-naan; J. "W. Hopkins of Hartford and Frank B. Weeks of Mlddletown. The district delegates were chosen by separate conventions, the selection later being ratified by the stato convention. con-vention. They are: First District E. J. Lake and II. M Alcorn. Second District C. E. Gates and Francis J. Regan. Third District Col. I. M. Ullman and Frank C. Woodruff., Fourth District John T. King and James F. Walsh. Fifth district E. J. Mons and H. I. Chase. |