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Show ' ink ir m n . I i ;Both Candidates Are j Said to Be Hopeful of I Winning Columbus, Ohio, May 21 Taft man- j lasers early declared that the bright sunshine with which primary day dawned was Intllcaihe of a sure vie- ' Itory for the president. Many farm- ! ,ers, they said, who were supporting J (-Col.Roosevc!t!'ftV:nr"'-behllid In their Isprlng work and would not leae the j fflolds to cast their ote The supporters sup-porters or Rooseovlt stuck to their j (Claims that a majoriu of the dele-j I gates elected would be roosevelt ' j men Almost all of the approximately ! 1 5.000 voting precincts in the state i opened at 5:30 o clock an?! in tho ell-1 ell-1 les a largo earl vote was cast ' The ; polls will close at ."..30 tonight in the I ( cities, but in some of the country dls- i itricts will remain open unlll r. o'clock i 'Two candidates for tho presidential! nomination. President Taft and Gov-1 ernor Harmon, will cast their voles In I j Cincinnati The president will leave1 'that ciu early n the day. Govern-or Govern-or Harmon will remain at his home! , to hear the returns Ideal weather : was reported, from almost eery point; j in tho suite. j I Voting Was Light j Indications al Cleveland were that ' only forty per cent of the oto would be cast. Numerous wagers have made I Roosevelt and Harmon slight favor-lites. favor-lites. It was estimated al Cincinnati j ! that 115.000 or 30.000 votes. 25 or 30 I per cent or the total in Hamilton j county would be cast. i Akron leported that 50 per cent of1 i the Republican vote and L'5 per cent 'or the Democratic vote of Summit county had been polled al 3 o clock. ! Bitter rights for congressional and 'county nominations brought oters of iS,tark couutv out carl. Out of 20 delegates to the Republican state contention. con-tention. 11 arc expected to be for Rooseelt as thev are uncontested. Heavy Vote at Toledo. Early actlvjt today following a vigorous campaign indicated an un-usua!l un-usua!l heavy vote at Toledo, where there aro nearly one hundred candidates candi-dates for local nomination, and where, j therefore, the count may be late I Farmers about Dayton were report, ed too busy planting corn to go to the polls, which fact is said by ob- i scrver3 to be to the detriment of I Colonel Roos-vell Watchers at the polls In Columbus declared that the Jtepubllcan ballots were taken at the rate cl about 4 to 1, and that the morning J)emo-cr.ilic J)emo-cr.ilic vott was unusuallv light. Supporters Sup-porters of Governor Harmon declared lie would have almost the total local 'Democratic tc. |