| Show decides ahe result of the pres president dl primary in maa lat care ful for political observers ers be behee t ee di cidad tile tie republican tid n nonina 0 all IN a tn tion pres free dent taft c birned the old bil and he la is certia of at least 26 of the ag delegates to the national was consid red the last stand of the Roosevelt ians if go lol Rooe eielt elt had carried the state aa his supporters hid had so confident 1 predicted backers of the former pr si dent beheld that the states still to elect delegates would hill in line and delegates would dr dp cide to note ote for Rooe elt now it is s believed the reverse ill b be true A peculiar feature of the ilasi ilas i chus situation is 19 that the eight dele delegates gateB at large are ROO roosevelt belt men but are bound ba b the greult of the preferential vote to cast their ballots for taft taft carried the state in the preferential primicy prini iry bj about 4 notes lotes the Roose roosebelt Nelt deaf gates at large were chosen chogen by about votes while the taft alter slates nates were elected by a plurality of 1300 this situation was due to tho the fact that there ia i a 11 joker on the ballot the ballot provided that only ight deleat bellg ILLS 3 should be noted for thero there were eight on etch eich ticket and in audition addition there was en cry taft candidate for delegate rhe result nas thit miny ani tatt taft adherents noted doted for nine taft leits dinst nj id of eight ind their ballots were ere thrown out some 10 WO OUO ballots verc ere in validated in this n inner contests favl blan lidd b the I 1 III candidates but irre of the result of these cont contests ets raft will enill net get the notes lotes of dali gitas at birge this his hib I lien lery d I 1 i col COI gwost velt inho vho declared that the itea elected atio e of their personal preferences must abide 13 b ohp result of tho preferential note alc according Accor dins to tion non partisan pirt isan grecs stamates sti mates of the de delegates legats elected to date to the national convention arlt i deit tuft taft has NIth within lri 51 votes note of enough V to give him the nomi nomination notion on oil tire first billot there are about 3 ii lt t to bo be chos chosen ry of these IS aro are from ohio the press d ants home state rill all of whom a ar 1 l practically certain certa injo to be for him I 1 he I 1 L is 13 ulso go sure eura ut of thu eight notes from utah 1 I he prediction tint thit the president pre aident will havo a ma m onti of nt at least ICO oer all other candidates on oil the first it the chicago convent coment on appears to be born out b bi a canvas of the votes among the states hych hae a al deci le I 1 for taft are new hampshire vermont rhode island now york indium michigan iowa Cc colorado lorado and ne adi ada in addition taft h his is secured the olid sourly of the states net t to hear from taft has a ap P much the better chance in new berc Je rc ohio south dakota idaho haho tatia ali aming I 1 utah california Calif ornu ind washington in the stites taft leaders bellave the president has at least an eien chares charce with |
