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Show Hi I i J OLD BAY STATE DIVIDES ITS VOTE EIGHTEEN EACH FOR PRESIDENT AND i If COLONEI-CKANGES THE PHASE If. AT CHICAGO I ROOSEVELT BETS PELEBATES-A T-lJtR BE j Ik' Clark Runs Away From Wilson Speaker Has j IK Highest Vote, Loses Delegates-at-Large Hi La Follette Almost Forgotten Foss a j; Massachusetts Candidadte M; Wv - SI y ROOSEVELT DECLINES VOTES. m f - It Oyster Bay, N. Y., IEny 1. Col Roosevelt renounced ij his claim today to the eight dclegates-at-large to the "Rcpub- $ lienn national convention elected for him in Massachusetts yesterday. He wired that he would expect them to vote for - President Taft, taking this action, ho said, because of the f fact that President Taft carried the state on the preferential vote. - - I 4. B j Preference for Taft. g Boston, May 3. Massachusetts emerged today from her first 3 f presidential preferential primary election to find "that the Rcpub- I" 1 Heart voters had expressed a preference for the rcnomination of : President Taft, but notwithstanding had given Col. Roosevelt. IS of the 36 delegates to the national convention Roosevelt leaders I said the Taft preference would have no effect on the IS delegates chosen "for Roosevelt," and that the expression of the voter.1, for Taft would be disregarded. a I, The Democratic voters of the .slate expressed a preference for rf Speaker Champ Clark, although, the -majority t the delegates -tfr- Baltimore will go pledged to Governor Foss. Just how Massachusetts could send an evenly divided delcga- ii tion to Chicago while on the preference vote Taft lias a plurality of ; i 8,G00 over Roosevelt is partly explained by the wording of the state presidential preferential primary law, enacted two months ago. L 7 Errors in Voting-. 1 1 By that law cveiy voter, to have liis vote recorded, was com- II pelled to mark each delegate-at-largc of his party, there being no 1 1 circle for voting by groups The law enabled hundreds of voters I to mark the eight names in the delegation headed by C S Baxter L and slled "for Theodore Roosevelt," and then express a prcfer- M I ence for Taft on another part of the ballot. ml On the Democratic ticket, although ten or the fifteen candi- sTgl dates for delegates-at-large to Baltimore cither were pledged or ml indicated to be "for" Governor Foss, there was no Foss names in imi' the presidential preference column. Speaker Clark, whose name did not appear m the preference and who defeated Governor "Wilson by B ; a vote of two to one. did not have a single pledged delegate on the lug! list. Many o'f the Democratic district delegates were elected to -pa Foss. f-gl Some Electors Invalidated Their Vos. J; An incident which some observers say ma have had a bearing gl on the selection o a Roosevelt delegation-at-large with a Taft fojj preferential was the sandwiching in of the name of Former State JB Senator Frank Seibertich, "pledged to Taft" between the Roose-- gll velt and Taft groups. Mr. Seibertich says he was ill-treated by the Saj Taft managers and therefore ran independently. Reports from many precincts show that hundreds of ballots were thrown out because j I voters had invalidated their ballot by voting for nine instead of b eight names, beginning with Seibertich' and going through the entire ( i! regular Taft column of eight names. The spaca between the name ' I i of Seibertich and the Taft group was slight." ,1 j Every one of the 18 Taft delegates is "pledged for Taft," while jjl f all of the 18 Roosevelt delegates are "for Roosevelt " ' 2 Boston. May Additional and S? t practically complete returns from gj! veaterday's presidential primaries, Jo giving the vote from 1,070 out of i.OSQ ffilS precincts In the stato, show: fit La Follotte (prefeienco), 1.656; jjjfi Roosevelt (preference), 71,203; Taft fff k (preference), 74,808. ! I For delegnto-at-largo: iaM Baxter (heading Hooaovelt croup), Vm L 74,121. IjSf ;Crano (heading Taft group), 65,- U,5 1 Practically completo returns from W I 'ourlecn congressional districts show lDt tho compleie Massachusetts dolcga- at'jjS Uon to Chicago will stand 18 for gjUft f Roosevelt and 18 for Taft. 39H" Clark Losec DelogateB-at-Large. 0jL In both tho Republican and tho llJlW Democratic campaigns the candidate yip, uho tvon the presidential preference o3i failed to gain the delegatc-at-largo, ejit; i owing to an unforeseen turn in the B primary law. gfjSI With the returns from all but fortf h of the voting precincts at hand, Mi. Mn Taft had a margin of nearly 5.4Q3 ;ejfi? -otes, hut the eight delegates-at- io large supporting the Roosevelt candl- ,fT0r I dacy were victorious by a plurality of iftt i 7,852. S5 , Tho Democratic preference favor- MS He, Speaker Champ Clark of Missouri, -2 f failed to get a single delegatw-at- Tbg aicc, this most important deportment idM rt of the primary being captured by tho en 91 i friends of Gocrnor Foss, a "favor- ShJB! ite son, whose name did riot appear JMWr on the preference ballot, efgf Neck and Neck Race. ygjfrlj From the reports of the very first fJM; town, shortly after noon jesterday; '3M until an early hour today, the prefcr- 4 c-ntlal raco between Taft and Roose- UtVr Mt was a neck .and nock affair trtS Roosevelt had the better of the con- rjSp test during Uie caily evening, but to- a'.Mt word midnight the president forged ilHtf ahead and gradually Increased his iJJJ lead until he had a comfortable ma- gjIBj jority at daylight. fSyJB, n -e other hand, tho contest be- rM tween Baxter and Ciane, the resoect- ive leaders of the Roosevelt and Taft delegatea-at-large, was close onh for a few hours. The Baxter ciowd drew rfway until S a. m today, when with forty pieclnct8 missing, he had a lead of moro than 7,800 votes. Baxter Led Crane Right ATong. A tabulation oi the lctunib from 23 out or 33 cities for all the Republican candidates for delegates-at-large shows very little vailatlon from the Baxter and Crano votes. The political writers paid considerable consid-erable attention today to tho candidacy candi-dacy of Frank SclbeiHch of Boston, a former stuto benator, who was pledged to Taft, and who appeared between the Roosevelt and Taft delegates-at large. Reports from many votlnc places were that many ballots were Invalidated Invali-dated because nine names were marked mark-ed Instead of eight, aud the Taft manngers claimed today that hundreds hun-dreds of their supporters wee disfranchised dis-franchised by Aoting for Sellberlich and eight Taft dclegates-at-laigo, names appeared beneath. In Doubt Today. While the contest for the delcgates-at-largo was settled comparatively early last night, tho strugle for tho twenty-eighth district delegates con- tlnuod for moro than twelve hours ( and at 8 a. in. todaj the eighth dls- ' trlct was still In doubt, with a ward In Somorvjllo unreported. Thu small ote for Senator La Follette Fol-lette was one of the features of tho primary. Town after town rhportcd j without a single vote being rccoided In his favor To poll less than 2,000 in a Republican piliuary where over! 160,000 votes Wore cast, caused surprise sur-prise to his supporters. i I Clark Runs Away "From Wilson. "With nearly tho entire stato record- ' ed, the Clark majoiity over .Wilson was well over l2,000ln a total vote of a trifle moie than 30,000 Owing to the varied marking of the fifteen candidates for delegatc3-at- large on the Democratic ticket, tho Identity of the Massachusetts delega- tlon to th.q Baltimore convention may not be known for several days. It Is practically certain, however, that a majority of them will be pledged to Governor Fobs That the presence on tho Republican Republi-can ballot of nainos for delegales-at-large favoring President Taft con-fubed con-fubed the oters so much that fully live per cent of. tho vote was nullified, nulli-fied, Is the statement made by General Champlln, head of the Taft force In Ihii state. Only eight delegates-at-large can he selected ' Speaker Clark Complimented. Congressman Curley, who directed Speaker Champ Clark's cainpan In Massachusetts, said: "The plendld reception which the candidacy of Speaker Claik has received re-ceived at the hands of Massachusetts voters when conditions surrounding his candidacy are considered, is tho strongest indication that as the nominee nomi-nee of tho Democratic party in November No-vember he will be triumphantly elected." elect-ed." Fobs a Candidate. ' Speaking for the supporters of Governor Gov-ernor Wilson, former Congressman "V illlam S. McMary said that the candidacy can-didacy of Governor Wilson fqr tho Democratic nomination, "is greatly stiengthened" by the apparent fact "that the result of tho Republican vote In Massachusetts certainly increases in-creases the chances that Col, Roose-volt Roose-volt will wrest the Republican nomination nomi-nation from President TafL The smalj ote which Wilson and Clark received between them and the absence ab-sence of Interest in tho presidential reference vote Is clearly due to the met that uveiyoun understands that Governor Foss h the candidate of Massachusetts Democracy." ' (Continued oh Page Eight,) uu TAFT AND TEDDY ARE .NIPAND TUCK T (Continued from Page One.) Roosovolt delegates inrludc tho eight at' large and two each from tho irourth; Fifth, Seventh, Ninth nnd Fourteenth districts, The Taft delegates dele-gates are. thouo from the First, Second, Sec-ond, Third, SiMh, Eighth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth and Thhtcenth districts. dis-tricts. Roluras from 1,077 out of 1.0S0 flection oioolncta give Republican presidential proforence; Ii Follatte. J,45C, Roocevolt, 71,203, Tafl 74.803. Dologatefl-at-Iarse. Baxter, boadlng. Roosovolt gioii, 74,121, Crane, heading head-ing Taft group, G5,S7fi. Democratic presidential preference: Olarlr, 19.903; Wllcnn, 3.20S. Delogatos-at-largc- Coughlln, pledged pledg-ed to Fosk, 17,050. WIlliHnis, for preference primarv. 3,256. |