Electoral Tangles Multiply For Taft.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 12, 1912:
Kentucky Adds Itself as a Troublemaker for Him in the Electoral College Vote.
ONE STRONG FOR COLONEL
Legal Fight Is Threatened in Pennsylvania, Where an Elector at Large Says He Is Against President.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, July 11.—Difficulties confronting the Taft campaign in the matter of Roosevelt Electors in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kansas, and other States have now extended to Kentucky, where there is a lone Republican Elector already chosen in the Tenth Congressional District, who is a pronounced Roosevelt man and is insisting that, if elected, he will vote for Col, Roosevelt in the Electoral College.
    The Tenth District is overwhelmingly Republican made so by a Democratic Legislature in the recent redistricting of the Blue Grass State. When the Tenth District Repuplican Convention was held in Winchester, April 9, to choose delegates to the Chicago Convention the vote split, and as a compromise, the situation was bridged by the choice of a Taft man as Chairman of the convention and a Roosevelt man as Presidential Elector.
    At that time it was not expected that the split in the Republican ranks would result in a third party movement nor was it thought that the Roosevelt man named as Elector would do other than vote for the straight Republican candidate for President in the Electoral College, if victorious in November.
    Now it has developed that this Roosevelt Elector is pronounced in his leanings toward the Colonel, and Kentucky Republicans here are much perturbed over advices received to-day indicating that this Elector will vote for Roosevelt if chosen as a member of the Electoral College. Senator Bradley has the case of this lone Elector in hand and will try to arrange some solution of a difficult problem.