he be thus estopped to claim tint pell
The resolution all
at largiv The fourth Taft delegate*« : yon,I his power.
of the law was Inoperative because In
seat was uucouteeted The three con- tliorUIng him lo fill vaeauclee, of conflict with til# call of the conventlont
tcwtnnts admitted they were not elect­ - course, applied only to those places
INDIANA.
ed by the convention which sent the wtdcli became vacant after they had
Thirteenth District.
Taft delegates or by auy oilier. They been tilled and elearly did not apply to
In the Thirteenth Indiana there was
; only contended that If the Roosevelt 131 new products It could not lu the uo question about the victory of the
forces had had a majority they would nature of things apply to a change Tuft iuoii . because the temporary chair
have been elected. There were 2.3.VI from the old syalem to a complete new man representing the Taft side wns
delegates summoued to tbe couventlou system of precincts created by the city conceded to have been elected by one
I by Its call. There were 4 Pi of these | council, because If they were to be half « vote more than the Roosevelt
whose scats were contested. If all ef filled the entire number of 331 new candidate This one half vote oxtetided
these had been conceded to Roosevelt products dlffereul limn the old mud through the riotous proceedings, and
it would have made the Roosevelt vote be filled. One s.vsle. i could not lie although It was not as wide as a barn
297 votes less than a majority. The | made Into (he other by a mere addl door It was enough The chairman put
appeal to the committee on credentials tlonat appointment of 131 committee the question as to electing the Taft
from the decision of tho national com­ men. No lawyer will any that inch delegates, nnd after <x>nlliiu<Hix ol.Jec
mittee was abandoned, as it ought to action by the committee tints const I lieu teeilug three hour» declared the
tuted was legal. Therefore the action
have been.
which the law fill committee of J50 took vote carried. Tho Roosevelt men ttlua
Michigan.
An Examination of tho Facta Shows
In
electing Taft delegates who made a prevented a roll cell and then tioltcd.
In Michigan the state convention
T h a t tha Tribunals Which Dacidad
i
majority
In the state convention was
KENTUCKY.
had In It about 1.200 delegates There
Thaaa Contasta In Favor of Mr. Taft were only two couuties In dispute or the only one which could lie recognized
Seventh District.
as valid
In the Seventh Kentucky district the
W a r s Right In Evsry Instance— Tha i contest.
One was Wayne county, lu
D ISTR IC T
D E L E ­ total vote of the convention was 113
R e m a in in g 164 Contasta Were Frivol­
which Petrolt is situated, and the other C O N T E S T E D
There were contests from four conn-
GATES.
was Calhoun county. The evidence
ous, and Their Prompt Abandonment
.les, Involving ninety five votes
Ac­
ALABAMA.
left no doubt that the Taft men car
R eflects Upon tha Genuineness and
cording to tlie rules of the party In
Ninth
District.
riod
by
a
very
largo
majority
Wayne
V a lid it y of the Remainder.
Tlte Ninth Alabama contest turned Kentucky, where two eenla of creden
county, but It was Immaterial whether
sn
tho question whether the chairman Hals are presented those delegatee
this was true or not, because, leaving
(Paid Advertisement I
out both Wayne county and Calhoun of a district committee had power to whose credentials lire approved by the
ewiinty chairman are entitled to |wir
Wn.x- initoB, July 29.—Her® are the county, the only counties In contest, fill vacancies, whether a committee
tlclpnte In (lie temporary organisation.
mnn
who
had
seat
Ills
resignation
to
the
T
aft
delegates
outnumbered
by
f'icts ia relation to tha contested seats
On the temporary roll the Tuft chair­
take
effect
only
In
ease
he
was
not
I:. the Republican national convention. several hundred the Roosevelt dele­
man was elected by ninety eight voles
It Is a summary of a detailed atate- gates, and they had a clear majority present, being present, should be pre
eml forty-seven role« were cent for the
1
vented
from
acting
as
committeeman
out
of
tho
total
number
of
votes
that
t ent going carefully into all of the
Roosevelt candidate
The committee
cits *. n statement no thorough that It should have been tu tlte convention. and, third, on the Identity of another on credentials was then appointed, con­
The written resolu
takes up 150 pages of printed matter. The contest was so weak us to hardly committeeman
tlon under which the right of the sisting of one iiiemlior named hy each
This statement ts signed by Mr. Victor merit recital.
j chairman to apimlnt to vacancies was county delegation. The majority re
Texas.
Rosewater, chairman of the former Rs-
port of the committee was adopted
pul'l• an national committee; by Mr. J
In Texas there were 219 counties, of claimed showed on Its face (hat the unanimously hy tbe convention, no del
11 I'd ine of Colorado, chairman of the which four have no county govern­ specific authority was written In tn egutlon whose seels were contested
committee on credentials of the Repub- ment. The 245 counties under the call different writing and different colored being jieruiltted to vote on Its owu
I an national convention, and by Mr. of the convention were allowed to have pencil tietween the lines. A number of case As soon as the majority report
Charles D. IlUlea, chairman of the something over 1,000 delegates, repre­ ntlhtnvita were filed by committeemen of the credentials committee had been
present Republican national committee. senting them, who were given author­ who wen* present when the resolution adopted, the Hoosevelt adherents loll-
The total number of delegatee sum­ ity to cast 248 votes. Of the 243 ooun , was passed to show that the rosolu
ed. There was not the sllgleest reason
moned to tbe convention under Its cal! ties there were ninety-nine counties In tlon contained no such authority. This for sustaining the contest for ltooecvelt
v as 1.07b. with 540 necessary to a which the totnl Republican vote was fnvo rise to a question of fact upon delegates.
choice Mr. Taft bad M l votes on the but 2.000, in fourteen of which there which a very large majority of both
Eighth District.
f.rst and only ballot and was declared were no Republican voters, in twenty
the national committee and the com
The Eighth Kentucky district wns
the nominee. There were Instituted seven of which there were less than mlttee ou credentials held that tho composed of ten comities having 1U3
«»••si: 'I —lb of the delegates regularly teu each and in uoue of which was > lead pencil Insertion was a forgery, Votes, of which etghiy-two were neces­
elected for Taft contests on behalf of there any Republican organization and that the chairman did not have the nu
sary to s choice. There was uo con
I ■ -e\elt. These contests were avow- In none of which had a primary or con tbortty therefore to appoint to the test In five of the counties, nnd al­
» > instigated not for the purpose j f vention beeu held. It was shown thal vacancies, and therefore the notion of though the Roosevelt men claimed that
This there was oue In Spencer county no
r>-.i!.y s.vurtng seats In tile convention, Colonel Cecil Lyon, to whom had beeu his committee was not valid
l t for thq purpose of adducing evl- assigned as referee the disposition of made It necessary to reject the contest
contest was presented against the
t a e which would lead any respect- the patronage of the natloual Repub ants. The committee decided the two seating of tho regularly elected Taft
i o . ourt to entertaiu tile contests, but lican administration for ten years In other Issues of fact tiefore them In lelegates from that county. Tills gave
for t o purpose of deceiving tbe public the state, had been In the habit of con favor of the Taft contention, although tho Taft delegate* eighty four votes, o."
the first decision was conclusive.
two more than were necessary for a
into the belief that Mr. Roosevelt had trolling the Republican state conven
choice. In other words, assuming that
more vote? than he really had, as the tion by securing from two federal of
AR K AN SAS .
the Roosevelt men were entitled to ell
conventions and primaries were in ficeholders In each of these niuety-nlne
Fifth District.
l ¡ogle's for the selection of delegates counties a certificate granting a proxy
In the Fifth Arkansas the question tho delegates from the counties In
i hi.- is not only a necessary inference to Colonel Lyon or n friend of Ills to was one of the Identity of one faction which they filed contests In the dis­
f. 'in the character of the contests, but represent the county as If regularly or the other ns the Republican party. trict convention there remained a clear
it was boldly avowed by the chief edi­ conferred by a Republican county or­ Tills convention followed the example majority of uuconlested delegates who
tor of the newspapers owned by Mr. ganization. The natloual committee of the convention of 1908 In holding voted for the Taft delegates to Chi
J . usey. w ho has been Mr. Roosevelt's and tbe committee on credentials and that what was known ns the Redding ; cago.
OKLAHOMA.
chief financial and newspaper sup­ the convention after the fullest Invest!
faction was not the Republican parry,
Third District.
porter The 238 contests were reduced gntlon decided that these ninety-nine that It was a defunct organization and
counties in which the Republican vote
In tho Third Oklahoma district the
by abandonment to seventy-four.
had only acquired life nt the end of
was so small and In which there was
each four years for the purpose of question of the validity of the seats of
The very fact of these lt>4 frivolous
no Republican party, uo convention, no
the delegates turned on the const It ti
using It In the national convention
contests itself reflects upon the genu-
primary, no organization, was not the
The contestants were therefore reject­ tlon of the congressional conimlltee,
1> ■ ne-s and validity of the remainder.
proper source for a proxy to give a
ed. It was shown that the other or which wns niHde up of twelve Taft
The -e\ enty-four delegates include els
vote equal to that to be cast by the
at large from Arizona, four nt large other 14*1 counties In which there was Tnft had been In active existence ns men nud seven Roosevelt men. The
from Kentucky, four at large from In­ a Republican organization and In the Republican party, had nomlnnted chairman, Cochran, was a Roosevelt
man and attempted to prevent the mil
diana. six at large from Michigan, which primaries or conventions were .1 local ticket and had run a congress
Jorlty of the committee from taking
e cat at large from Texas and eight at held. The two committees therefore man.
action. Tt-e chairman was removed
C A LIF O R N IA .
i rge from Washington, and also two held such ninety-nine proxies to hi
and another substituted, and thereupon
tj.-trict delegates each from the Nin'b Illegal nnd nut the basis of projier rep
Fourth District.
The Fonrth California presented this the convention was duly called to order
Alabama, the Fifth A'rkansas, the resenratlon. The two tribunals who
on the temporary roll pre pa red by the
Thirteenth
Indiana. the Seventh. heard the case decided that they should question: Under the state law the dele
congressional
committee, which was
I -iith and Eleventh Kentucky, the deduct the ninety-nine votes from the gatton. two from each district, wns
made tho permanent roll, nnd the two
Third Oklahoma, the Second Tennes­ total of 245 and give the representation elected on a general ticket. In a group
Tuft delegates to Chicago were duly
see and from each of nine districts, the to those who controlled the majority of twenty-six. Each delegate might
«.-lected. Every county In the district
First. Se< i nd. Fourth. Fifth, Seventh. of the remainder. The remainder was either express his presidential prefer­
had Its representation nnd vote In the
Eighth, Ninth. Tenth and Fourteenth 152 votes, and out of that the Tuft ence or agree tn vote for the preslden
regular convention, and no person
of Texas
tin
I
candidate
receiving
the
highest
men had carried eighty nine counties,
properly accredited ns n delegate wns
having ninety votes. This gave lo tbe number In the sfnte. In the Fourth excluded or debarred from partlclpat-
C O N TES TED
D ELEG A TES
AT
Tuft men a clear majority In the state district the two candidates from that Ing In Its proceedings Cochran nnd
LAR GE.
convention and with It eight delegates district on the Taft ticket expressed his followers bolted after his deponl
A r iz o n a .
a preference for Tnft. but did not tlon. Assuming that nil the committee
In the Arizona convention there wen» at large
spree to vote for the candidates hnv
WASHINGTON.
ninety-three rotes. All the delegates—
who went out with him hnd the right
six in number—were to be selected at
The contest in Washington turned on Ing the highest state vote. These Taft to act on the committee, It left the
delegates
In
the
Fourth
district
re
large The counties were entitled to st*- tbe question whether the Tuft dele
committee standing twelve for Taft
reived a majority of 290 more than and seven for Roosevelt, so It was slot
lect their delegates through their coun­ gates appointed by the county com
ty committee or by primary. I d one mlttee In King county, in which Seattle the Roosevelt delegates In thnt d!s
ply o question whether h majority of
county. Maricopa, a majority of the Is situate, were duly elected to the trlct The national call forbade any the committee hnd the right to control
Inw or the acceptance of any law Its action or a minority. The bolting
committee decided to select its deie- convention or whether a primary
convention which Cochran held wns
g: re- and a minority to have a pri­ which was subsequently held and ul which prevented the election of dele
gates by districts. In other words, the not attended by a majority of the duly
mary. In other counties there were which Roosevelt delegates were elect
cnll
of
the
national
convention
was
at
elected delegates to the convention. It
some contests, and the sttae commit­ ed, was properly called, so that Its re
tee. following the nsnge of the national suit was legal. Under the law the variance with tho state law The state lid** it have the credentials from the
law sought to enforce the state unit various counties, and Its membership
committee, gave a hearing to all con­ county committee had the power to de
rule and required ttie whole twenty
dde whether It would select the dele
was largely made up Of bystanders
testants in order to make up the tem
six delegates to be voted for all over who had not been duly accredited by
porary roll There was a clear major­ gates directly or should call a primary
any county in the district Ita action
ity of the Taft delegares aiming the In some counties of the state one the state, assigning two to each dls
trlct on the ticket to abide tbe state was entirely without authority.
un ontested delegates The committee course was pursued and In other conn
wide
election,
while
the
Republican
made up the temporary roll and then ties the. other. In King county the
TENNESSEE. '
national convention has Insisted upon
there was a bolt, sixty-four remaining committee consisted of 230 men, the
Sscond District.
the
unit
of
the
district
since
18*0
That
in the hall and twenty-five withdraw­ majority of whom were for Tuft, and
In the Second Tennessee district
has been the party law. This conven­
ing tliprefrom. The case of the Taft that majority, acting through its exec­
there were fifty-nine delegates nncon
tion recognized the party law and held
ma
tj waa so clear that It is difficult utive committee, selected the Taft dele
tested out of a possible totnl of b'8 In
It to lie more binding than that of the
gates to the state convention Mean
to understand why a contest was made
the convention. There were forty nine
state
law
nnd
allowed
the
two
dele
time the city council of Seattle had re
contested. 'The Roosevelt contestants
Indiana.
pates who had received In the Fonrth
In Indiana the four T aft delegatee at districted the city. It before had 250 district a vote larger than their two In the forty-nine refused to abide the
precincts. Now substantially the sa.ne
decision of the committee on ert-den
large were elected In a state conven­
opponents assigned to thnt district, to
territory was divided tip Into 381 pre
tin Is nnd withdrew, leuving fifty nine
ts m lo which Marion county. In which
become
delegates
In
the
convention
clncls. The chairman of the county
uncontented delegates. These fifty
!i.-'i uipolis Is situate, was entitled to
committee wsa a Roosevelt man Me This was clearly lawful, fora state has nine delegates, part of whom were
l i - votes. A primary was held In In
bad been given authority by general no power to limit or control the basis
Roosevelt men, remained lu the con
diniini olis. at which Taft polled fl.CKX) resolution to fill vacancies occurring lu of representation of n voluntary nn
and Roosevelt 1,400 votes. This gave the committee. A general meet'ng of tlonal party In a nntlonal convention. vention, appointed the proper commit
tees, settled contests and proceeded to
Taft 100 delegates in the state conven­ the committee had been held after the The fact that President Taft by tele
select Taft delegates. There can lie
tion from Marion county, and If they cRy council had directed the redlstrld
gram approved nil the twenty six dele
were properly seated the control of the Ing of the city. In zhlc-h It was re­ gates ns representing film Is said to be no question about the validity there
convention by a largo majority was solved. the chairman not dissenting
an estoppel against his claiming the fore of their title.
conceded to TafL Attempt was made that representatives could not be se­ election of two of those delegates In
TEXA8.
'o in peach the returns from Marlon lected to fill tbe 331 new precincts un
their Fonrth district. What Is there
First District.
ecu nt;. by charges of fraud and repeat­ di an election was held In Heptember
Inconalstent In Ills approving the can
The only remaining districts sre the
ing These charges were of a general 1912. Tbeieafter and In spite of tin
dldacy of all his delegates and the nine district* from Texas. Of tliuse the
character, without specification eicept conclusion the chslrrnsn assumed the eh-tlon of two of them? Why should First district wns cumisixed of eleven
as tc_one ward out of fifteen wards, right by bis appointment to add to thi
counties, each county having one vole,
nnd then tho Impeaching witness nd
except Foss county, which had two
existing committee 131 precinct coni
ruitt. fi he could not claim fraud enough mltteetnen, mid wl-h these voting In
The executive committee, composed of
OVER 65 YEARS'
to cl nge the result In that ward The tbe committee It is claimed that a prl
>ne representative from each county,
PERICNGE
national committee, upon which there msry was ordered There was so much
made up the temporary r ill. nud In (lie
wert fifteen nntl-Tnft men, rejected confusion In the meeting that tills Is
contests filed from two counties sent
the Roosevelt contestants and gate the doubtful. However, the fact Is that
ed both delegates with oue half vote
Taft delegates their scats by a unani­ the Taft men protested against any
each. The convention elected the two
mous vote. Senator Iiorah nnd Mr. action by a commlttei- so constituted
Tnft delegates, giving them ten and
Frank B Kellogg, both Roosevelt men. on the ground that the chairman had
one-quarter votes. Each county was
made speeches In explaining the rotes ho authority to appoint the 131 new
represented In this vote. A minority
Tnsoe Msnns
D esigns
in which they said that the ease turned committeemen. They refused to tnk<
representing one and three quarters
M CosvmoHTs Ac.
who
in the Marlon county primary, part In the primary, and so did the Lu
voles bolted the regular convention
An ro il« ’ f*ntlit. a ultolrh nnd dn*crlr*tlnr m n j
nr'' Uly »utf-nriinn F>'tr opinion free whctnor nn
and field a rump meeting. The na­
and ns tuere was no evidence to Im­ Follette men The newspaper» re|s>rt
■.«•uti<»n I» p ro 'm b .'f
< om niu m ..
• •;* -t r if f ly f- 'tiifitie iiffill. HANDBOOK oi« I ’tifru iH
tional committee by uiuinlmotu tnit
peach the result certified, the title of ed the number of votes In the prl mar
• fro e . Ol lent nunu< y fo r Mertirlntf p a te n t*.
I\. ; id taken tn ro iitfh M unti A «,'o. r e c e l r e
decided the contest In favor of the
the Taft delegates was clear Tills Is to be something over 3,000 The Rooo-
up, cuti not l u , wit h o 'it c h/iFtfe , In th o
T aft delegate.
flic convention whose proceedings velt committee showed by affidavit U
number
to
be
<*.000
out
of
a
usual
tot
a
rail«-1 forth such loud charges of theft
Sscond District.
Republican vote of 75,000 The actin'
A )<r»ndsorm*ff illnptMf ori wor-klf. J .firmi r»r-
and fraud from Mr Roosevelt
In the Recond Texas district there
i’
tfioti
o
f
nnjr
fM-tenuHc
jo
iirrm
l.
Te
rr.i'».
f
î
n
of the cbulruian of the committee it
<-1 r : four mont h*, $4. Hotyl by all ntwruic u
Kentucky.
were fourteen counties. Two counties
in Kentucky a contest was filed attempting to add 131 precinct men to
»gainst ouly three of the four delegai*« j th* old committee was, of court*», be-
ilrsucb culle«. >36 IT 8U WuhlBstuti. Ü. L
(Continued on next ptigej
THE TRUTH ABOUT
THOSEDELEGATES
Roosevelt Contests Instigated
to Deceive the Publia
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