THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11656, 11 June 1912, Page 4

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

MR ROOSEVELT CHAGRINED. [Br Electric Telegraph—Copyrioht.] (Per Press Association.) Received June 10, at 9-15 p.m. New York, June K.'r." Tlie Chicago National Committee has nlreadv added 72 delegates to \\v Tak's list, and none to Mr Ro',t.xevelt\s, ] but so far only the clay,\is <,f the southern delegates iiavp Veil dealt with. Mr Ro/O'ievelt is annoyed at the committee unseating two Alabama delegates and substituting others Whom he declares had no right to vote at .he convention. He adds that before now election officials had been gaoled ior deeds not a. whit worse than the committee is perpetrating. Received June 11, at 11.35 a.m. New York, June 10. Unofficial figures from Chicago- give Mr Taffc 355 delegates and Air Roosevelt 419. There are still 182 contests awaiting the decision of the National Committee. They strongly favor Mr Taft. .