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THE TRUTH ABOUT:
THOSE DELEGATES
Roosevelt Contests Instigated
to Deceive thè Public.
A ll BUT 74 WERE ABANDONED
An Examination of tho Faeta Show.
That tho Tribunal. Whieh Docidad
Thoao Conto.t. In Favor of Mr. Taft
Wara Right In Every In.tanoo—Tho
Remaining 164 Cantaata Wara Frivol-
oua, and Thair Prompt Abandonmont
Reflect. Upon tho Qenuineneea and
Validity af tha Remamdar.
. Washington. July 20.—Here are tba
facta in relation to the contented aeata
In the Republican national convention.
It Is a summary o f a detailed state­
ment going carefully Into all o f the
cases, a statement so thorough that It
takes ap 160 pagan o f printed matter.
This statement la sighed by Mr. Victor
Rooewnter, chairman o f tho formar Re­
publican national committee; by Mr. J.
H. Devine o f Colorado, chairman o f the
committee on credentials o f tho Repub­
lican national convention, sad by Mr.
Charles D. HIIlea. chairman o f the
present Republican national committee
Tha total number o f delegates sum­
moned to the convention under Its call
was 1,078. with 840 nscsssary to s
choice. Mr. Taft had M l votes on the
first end only ballot and was declared
the nominee. There were Instituted
against 238 o f the delegatee regularly
elected for £ a ft contests on behalf of
Roosevelt These contests were avow­
edly Instigated not for the purpose of
really securing aeate In the convention,
not for the purpose o f adducing evi­
dence which would lead any respect
able court to entertain tba contests, but
for the purpose o f deceiving the public
into the belief that Mr. Roosevelt bad
more votes than he really had. as the
conventions and primaries ware In
progress for the selection o f delegates
This Is not only a necessary Inference
from the character o f tha contests, but
h was boldly avowed by tba chief adl
tor o f tho newspapers owned by Mr.
Munsey, who has boon Mr. Roosevelt’s
chief financial and newspaper sup­
porter. Thus 238 contests wars reduced
by abandonment to seventy-four
The very fact o f thane 104 frivolous
contests Itself reflects upon the genu­
ineness and validity of the remainder
The seventy-four delegates Include all
at large from Arisons, four at large
from Kentucky, four at large from In
dlSAS/ six at large from Michigan.
sight at large from Texas and night at
large from Washington, and also two
district delegates each from the Ninth
Alabama, the Fifth Arkansas, tbs
Thirteenth
Indiana,
the Seventh.
Eighth and Eleventh Kentucky, the
Third Oklahoma, the Second Tennee-
see and from aaah o f nine districts, tbs
First, Second. Fourth, Fifth, Seventh.
Eighth, Ninth. Tenth and Fourteenth
o f Texas
CONTESTED DELEGATES AT
LARGE.
Ariaona.
In the Arizona convention there were
ninety-three votea. All the delegates—
I alx In number—were to be selected at
large. The counties were entitled to se­
lect their delegates through their coun­
ty committee or by primary. In one
ceunty, Maricopa, a majority o f tha
commutes decided to select Its dele­
gates and a minority to hav# a pri­
mary. In other counties there were
soma contests, and tbs sttae commit­
tee. following tho usage o f tho national
committee, gave a bearing to all con­
testants la ardor to make np the tem­
porary roiL Thorn was a dear major­
ity o f tho Taft delegates among the
nacootostod delegatee. The committee
made ap tho temporary roll and then
there waa a bolt. alxty-fOnr remaining
la the hall and twenty-five withdraw­
ing therefrom. Tho case o f the Taft
aujortty waa so dear that It la difficult
to understand why a contest was made
Indiana.
In Indiana tho four Taft delegates at
largo wore elected in a state eonven
Boo to which Marion county, la which
Indianapolis is situate, was entitled to
128 votes. A primary was bsld In In
dlanapolis. at which Taft polled 6,000
and Roosevelt 1,400 votes. This gave
Taft 106 delegates In the state eonven
Bon from Marion county, and If they
wars properly seated the control o f the
convention by a large majority was
conceded to Taft. 'Attempt was made
to Impeach the returns from Marion
county by charges of fraud and repeat-
tng. These chargee were of a general
character, without specification except
aa to one ward out of fifteen wards,
and then the Impeaching witness ad
mlttsd he could not claim fraud enough
to change the result In that ward The
national committee, upon which there
were fifteen anti-Taft men, rejected
the Rooeeveit contestants and gave the
Taft dalegataa their aeata by a nnan!
mous vote. Senator Borah and Mr
Frank B. Kellogg, both Roosevelt men
made speeches In axplainlng the votes
In which they said that the case turned
wholly on the Marion county primary,
and aa tbera waa no evidence to Im
peach the result certified, the title of
the Taft delegatee was clear This Is
the convention whose proceeding1
called forth such loud charges o f theft
and fraud from Mr Roosevelt
! at large. Tha fourth Taft delegate’s
| aeat was anconteoted. Tba three con-
> testanta admitted they were not elect-
i ed by the convention which seat the
I Taft delegatee or by any other. They
■ only contended that If the Roosevelt
forces had had a majority they would
have beou elected There were 2.350
l delegates summoned to the convention
by Ita call. There were 440 o f these
whose aeata wore contested. If all of
these had been conceded to Roosevelt
It would bave made tbe Roosevelt vote
297 votes less than a majority. The
appeal to the committee on credentials
from tbe decision of tbe national com
mlttee waa abandoned, aa it ought to
have been .
Michigan.
In Michigan the state convention
had in It almut 1,200 delegates. There
were only two couuties In dispute or
contest. One was Wayne county, iu
which Detroit la situated, and the other
wua Calhoun county. The evidence
left no doubt that tbe Taft men car
ried by a very large majority Wayne
county, but It waa Immaterial whether
this was true or not because, leaving
out both Wayne county and Oalhoun
county, the only counties In contest,
the Taft delegatee outnumbered by
several hundred the Roosevelt del»
gates, and they had a clear majority
set o f the total number o f votes that
■benld have been In the convention.
The contest waa ee weak aa to hardly
merit recital.
Texas.
In Texas there were 249 conn dee, of
which four have oo county govern
m eat Tbe 246 counties under the cell
e f the convention were allowed to bave
something over 1,000 delegatee, repre
sentlng them, who were given author
Ity to cast 248 votes. Of the 245 coun
Bee there were nlnety-ulne counties In
which tbe total Republican vote wax
but 2,000. In fourteen o f which there
were no Republican voter*. In twenty
seven o f which there were less than
ten each and In uone of which wax
there any Republican organisation and
In non* of which had a primary or con
ventlon beeu held. It was shown tha1
Colonel Cecil Lyon, to whom had been
assigned as referee the disposition oi
the patronage o f tbe national Repub
Ucan administration for ten years In
the state, had been In the. habit of con
trolling the Republican state eonven
tlou by securing from two federal of
flceholders In each o f the«* ninety-nine
counties a certificate granting a proxy
to Colonel Lyon or a friend o f his to
represent the county aa If regularly
conferred by a Republican county or
ganlmatlon
The national commltte*
and the commltte* on credentials an«
the convention after the fullest lovesti
gatlon decided that these ninety-nine
counties In which tbe Republican volt
waa so small and In which there wn>
no Republican party, no convention, le
Ke n tu cky .
primary, no organisation, was not th<
In Kentucky a contest was lied proper source for a proxy to _g1ve| j f
against only than# of tho four dslagates vote eaual to that to be cast by th<
other 146 counties In which there Was attempting to add 131 precinct men to
a Repub lie aa organisation and in
tha old commltte* waa, of coon s, b »
which primaries or conventions were
yond hie power. Tb* resolution au­
bold. The two committees therefore
thorising him t* fill vacancies, of
bold each ninety-nine proxies to -be
course, applied only to those places
Illegal and not the basis o f proper rep
which became vacant after they had
reseatstlon. Tbe two tribunals who
been filled and clearly did not apply to
beard the case decided that they should
131 new preclncta It could not In tbe
deduct the ninety-nine votes from the
nature o f things apply to a change
total o f 246 and give the representation
from the old system to aromplete new
to those who controlled the majority
system o f precincts created by the city
of the remainder. The remainder waa
council, because If they were to be
152 votes, and oat of that the Taft
filled tbe entire number of 331 Dew
men bad carried eighty-nine counties,
precincts different from tbe old must
having ninety votes. This gave to tbe
be filled. One system could not be
Taft men a clear majority In tbe state
made Into the other by s mere addl
convention and with it eight delegates
tional appointment o f 131 committee­
at large
men. No lawyer will aay that «neb
WASHINGTON.
action by the committee thus const!
The contest lu Washington turned on tuted was legaL Therefore the action
tbe question whether the Taft dele which the lawful committee of 260 took
gates appointed by the county com In electiug Taft delegates who mnde a
mlttee In King county. In which Beattie majority in tbe state convention wns
la situate, were duly elected to tbe the only one which could be recognized
convention or whether a primary, as valid.
which was subsequently held and at
CONTESTED
DISTRICT
DELE­
which Rooeeveit delegatee were elect­
GATES.
•
ed. waa properly called, so that Its re
ALABAMA.
suit was legal. Under the law the
Ninth District.
county committee had tbe power to de
Tbe Ninth Alabama contest turned
cide whether It would select tbe dele
gates directly or should cell a primary i sn tbe question whether the chairman
In some counties of the state our ! of a district committee had power to
fill vacancies, whether a committee
course was pursued and In other conn
dee the other, la King county tbe man wbo bad seat bis resignation to
committee consisted of 260 men. the take efTect only In case be wae not
majority o f whom were for Taft, and present, being present, should be pre-
that majority, acting through Ita exec i vented from acting as committeeman,
stive committee, selected tbe Taft del» and. third, on the Identity of another
gates to the state convention. Mean committeeman. The written reeolu
time the city council o f Beattie had re tk>o under which the right of the
districted the city. It before bad 260 chairman to appoint to vacancies was
precincts Now substantially the same , claimed showed on Ita face that the
territory was divided up Into 381 pre ■pacific authority* was written In in
cl nets. The chairman of the county different writing and different colored
committee wee a Rooeeveit man. He pencil between tbe lines. A number of
had been given anthority by ganaral affidavits were filed by committeemen
resolution to fill vacancies occurring In who were present when the resolution
the committee. A general meeting of waa passed to show that the re so I u
the committee had been held after the tlou contained no each authority. This
city council bad directed the redlatricl gave rise to a question of fact upon
lng of the city. In which It was re which a very large majority of both
solved, the chairman not dissenting the national compilttee and the com
that representatives could not be ae mlttee on credentials held that the
lead pencil insertion was a forgery
looted to fill tbe 331 new preclncta on
til an election waa held In Septembei
that the chairman did not have the an
1912. Therev.fier and In spite of thU tborlty therefore to appoint to the
conclusion tbe chairman assumed tbi vacancies, and therefore the action ot
right by his appointment to add to tb* bis committee was not valid
Thl>
existing committee 181 precinct com
made It necessary to reject the contest
mltteemen. and with these voting h ante. The committee decided the tw.
the committee It le claimed that ■ pri other Issues of fact before them In
mary waa ordered There was to much favor of tbe Taft contention, although
confualoD In the meeting that this k the first decision was conclusive.
doubtful. However, the fact la that
ARKANSAS.
tbe Taft men protested against ant
Fifth District.
action by a committee so constitute«
In the I'Tftb Arkansas the queatiot
oa the ground that the chairman bai
wae one of the Identity o f one facttoi
■o authority to appoint the 131 nev or the other as the Republican party
committeemen. They refused to t*k> This convention followed the example
part In the primary, and so did tha L< of the convention of 11X18 In ttoldini.-
Follette men Tbe newspapers report
that what waa known aa tbe Reddlin
ed the number of votes In the primer
faction waa not the Republican parti
to be something over 8,900 The Boo«,
that It waa a defunct organization 1111 «
velt committee showed by affidavit r>
had only aeqnlred life at tbe end of
number to he H.600 oet o f a usual tot.
each four year* for the purpose r>*
Republican vote o f 75,000 The actl<.
using It In the national convention
ef tb* chairman of the coiuiuIUee I
The contestants were therefore reject
, ed. It was shown that the other or
Taft bad been In active existence as
tbe Republican party, bad nominated
| a local ticket and had run a congress­
man.
CALIFORNIA.
Fourth District.
The Fourth California presented this
question: Under the state law the dele­
gation. two from each district, was
elected on a general ticket. In a group
* o f twenty-six. Each delegate might
either express his presidential prefer­
ence or agree to vote for the presiden­
tial candidate receiving the highest
number in the state. In tbe Fourth
, district the two candidates from that
district on the Taft ticket expressed
a preference for Taft, but did not
agree to vote for tbe candidates hav­
ing the highest state vote These Taft
delegates In the Fourth district re­
ceived a majority of 200 more than
the Roosevelt delegatee In that dis­
trict Tbe national call forbad* any
: law or the acceptance of any law
j which prevented tbe election of d el»
gates by districts. In other words, the
call o f the national convention waa at
1 variance with the state law The state
| law sought to enforce the state nnlt
rule and required the whole twenty-
six delegatee to be voted for ell over
tb* state, assigning two to each dis­
trict on the ticket to abide tbe stats
wide election, while tbe Republican
national convention has Insisted upon
the unit o f tbe district since 1880. That
has been tb* party law This conven­
tion recognized the party law end held
It to be more binding than that o f tb*
state law and allowed the two d el»
gates wbo had received In the Fourth
district a vote larger than tbelr two
opponent* assigned to that district, to
become delegatee In the convention.
Thla was clearly lawful, for a state has
no power to limit or control the basis
of representation of a voluntary na­
tional party In a national convention.
The fact that President Taft by te l»
gram approved all the twenty six dele­
gates as representing him Is sntd to t***
an estoppel against his claiming the
election of two of those delegntex tn
their Fourth district What Is there
Inconsistent In his approving the’can­
didacy of all his delegates and the
election of two of them? Why should
he be thus estopped to claim that part
of the law was lno|ierat1ve because In
conflict with the call o f tbe convention?
INDIANA
Thirteenth District
In the Thirteenth ludlana there was
no question about the victory of the
Taft men. because tb* temporary chair
man representing the Taft side wax
conceded to have been elected by one
half a vote more than the Rooeeveit
candidate. This o n »h a lf vote extended
through the riotous proceedings, and
although It was not aa wide ax a barn
door it was enough. The chairman put
the question as to electlnc I he Taft
delegates, and after continuous objec
tlon lasting three hours declared the
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