PAGE SIX THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1912. THE TRUTH ABOUT THOSEDELEGATES Roosevelt Contests Instigated k. to Deceive the Puailc ALL BUT 74 WERE ABANDONED An Examination That the Trib of the Facts Shows unals Which Decided Those Contests Woro Right In In Favor of Mr. Taft Every Instance The Contests Were Frivol Prompt Abandonment the Genuineness and Remainder. Remaining 164 ous, and Their Reflects Upon Validity of th Washington. July 20. Hero nro the facts In relation to the contested scuta In the Iteptibllcnu national convention. It Is n summary of n detailed state ment ,-oliig carefully Into all of the cases, a statement bo thorough that It tabes up 150 pages of printed matter. This statement Is signed by Mr. Victor Itosownttv, chairman of the former Re publican national committee; by Mr. J. n. Devlno of Colorado, chairman of tlx) committee on credentials of the Rcpub. Ilcan national convention, and by Mr. Charles D. llUles, chairman of the present Republican naUonal committee. The total number of delegates sum moned to the convention under Its cnll was 1.07S, with 040 necessary to a choice. Mr. Taft bad 001 votes on the first and only ballot and was declared the nominee. There were Instituted against 233 of the delegates regularly elected for Taft contosts on behalf of Roosevelt. These contests were avow edly lnstigted not for the purpose of really securing seats tn the convention, not for the purpose of udduclug evi dence which would lead any respect able court to entertain tbo contests, but for the purposo of deceiving the public Into the belief that Mr. Roosevelt had more votos than ho really hod, as the conventions and primaries were In progress for tho selection of delegates. This Is not only n nocessary Inference from the character of the contests, but It was boldly avowed by tbo chief edi tor of the newspapers owned by Mr. Munsoy, who has been Mr. Roosevelt1 s chief financial and nowspaper sup porter. The 23S contests were reduced by abandonment to seventy-four. The very fact of these 104 frivolous contests Itself reflects upon the genu ineness and validity of th romnlnder The seventy-four delegates Include six at large from Arizona, four nt large from Kentucky, four nt largo from In diana, six at large from Michigan, eight at large from Texas and eight at large from Washington, nnd also two district delegates each from tbo Ninth Alabama, the Fifth Arkansas, the Thirteenth Indiana, the Sovcnth, Eighth and Eleventh Kentucky, tho Third Oklahoma, the Second Tennes see nnd from each of nine districts, the First, Second. Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and Fourteenth of Texas. CONTESTED DELEGATES AT LARGE. Arizona. In tbo Arizona convention there wero ninety-three votes. All the delegates six In number were to be selected at large. The counties wero entitled to se lect their delegates through their coun ty committee or by primary. In one county, Maricopa, a majority of the committee decided to select Its dele gates and a minority to have a pri mary. In other counties there wero some contests, and the sttae commit tee, following tho visas of tho national committee, gave a hearing to all con testants in order to make up the tem porary rolL There was a clear major ity of the Taft delegates among the uncontested delegates. The committee made up the temporary roll and then thore was a bolt, sixty-four remaining In the hall and twenty-flve withdraw ing therefrom. Tho case of the Taft majority was so clear that It is difficult to understand why a contest was made. Indiana. In Indiana tho four Taft delegates at largo were elected In n state conven tion to which Marlon county, In which Indianapolis is situate, was entitled to 123 votes. A primary was hold In in dlanapolis. at which Taft polled 0.000 nnd Roosevelt 1.400 votes. This gavo Taft 100 delegates In tho 6tato conven. tion from Marlon county, nnd if they wero properly seated tho control of tho convention by n largo majority wns conceded to Taft Attempt was mado to Impeach tho returns from Marion county by charges of fraud and repeat ing. These charges were of a connm! character, without specification except as to one ward out of fifteen wards, and then tho impeaching witness ad mltted ho could not claim fraud enough to chango tho result In that ward. The national committee, upon which there wero fifteen nntl-Taft men, rejected the Roosevelt contestants and gave tho Taft delegates their scats by a unanl wou8 vote. Senator Dorah and Mr. Frank B. Kollogg, both Roosovclt men, mado upeofcbes In explaining tho votes In which they sold that tho enso turned Wholly on tho Marlon county primary, and na there was no evidence to Im peach the result certified, tho tltlo of tho Taft delegates was clear. This Is tho convention whoso proceedings callod forth such loud charges of theft and fraud from Mr. Roosevelt Kentucky, In Kentucky a contest was filed syjalnst only three of tho four delesates t large. The fourth Taft delegate's sent va3 uncontested. Tho thveo con testants admitted they wero not elect ed by the convention which sent the Taft delegates or by any other. They only contended that If the Roosevelt forces had had n majority they would have boon elected Thcro wero 2,.ir0 delegates summoned to tho convention by its colL There were -110 of these whoso seats were contested. If nil of tlieso had been conceded to Roosevelt it would have made the Roosevelt vote 207 votos less than a majority. Tho appeal to the committee on credentials from tho decision of the national com mittee was abandoned, as It ought to havo been. Michigan. In Michigan tho state convention had in it about 1,200 delegates. There wore only two counties in dispute or contest One was Wayne county. In which Detroit Is situated, and the other was Calhoun county. The evidence left no doubt that the Taft men enr ried by a very largo majority Wayne county, but it wns immaterial whether this wog true or not, because, leaving out both "Wayne county and Calhoun county, tho only counties In contest tho Taft delegates outnumbered by several hundred tho Roosevelt dele gates, nnd they had a clear majority out of tho total number of votes that should have been In tho convention. Tho contest was so weak as to hardly merit recital Texas. In Texas there wore 2-10 counties, of which four have no county govern ment The 245 counties under the cnll of tho convention were allowed to have something over 1,000 delegates, repre senting them, who wore given author ity to cast 243 votos. Of the 2-15 coun ties there were ninety-nine counties in which tho total Republican vote was but 2,000, In fourtoon of which there were no Republican voters, in twenty seven of which there were less than ten each and in nono of which was there any Republican organization and In none of which had a primary or con vention been hold. It was shown that Colonel Cecil Lyon, to whom hod been assigned as referee tho disposition of tho patronage of the national Repub lican administration for ton years In tho state, had been in tho hnblt of cob trolling the Republican state conven tion by securing from two federal of ficeholders in each of theso ninety-nine counties a certificate granting a proxy to Colonel Lyon or a friend of his to represent the county as if regularly conferred by a Republican county or ganization. The national committee and the committee on credentials and the convention after the fullest investi gation decided that those ninety-nine counties in which the Republican vote was so small and In which there wns no Republican party, no convention, no primary, no organization, was not the proper source for a proxy to give a vote equal to that to be cast by the other 140 counties In which there -was a Republican organization and In which primaries or conventions were held. The two committees therefore held such ninety-nine proxies to be Illegal and not the basis of proper rep resentation. The two tribunals who heard the case decided that they should deduct the ninety-nine votes from the total of 245 and give the representation to those who controlled the majority of the remainder. The remainder was 152 votes, nnd out of thnt tho Taft men had carried eighty-nine counties, having ninety votes. This gave to the Taft men a clear majority in tho state convention and with it eight delegate at largo WASHINGTON. The contest In Washington turned on the question whether tho Taft dele gates appointed by the county com mittee in King county, in which Seattle Is situate, were duly elected to tho convention or whether a primary, which was subsequently held and at which Roo8erelt delegates wero oloct ed, was properly called, so that Its re sult was legaL Under the law the county committee bad the power to de cide whether it would select tho dele gates directly or should coll a primary In some counties of tbo state one course was pursued and in other coun ties the other. In Kins county the committee consisted of 250 men, the majority of whom wero for Taft nnd that majority, acting through Its exec uUto committer, selected tho Taft dele gates to the state convention. Mean tlmo tho city council of Seattle bad ro dlstrlcted the city It before had 250 precincts. Now substantially the same territory wus divided up Into 381 pre cincts. The chairman of tho county committee was a Roosovclt man. lie had been giTen authority by general resolution to fill vacancies occurring In tho commltteo. A general meeting of the commltteo had been held after the city council had directed the redisrict ing of tho city, In which It wns re solved, tho chairman not dissenting, that representatives could not bo se lected to fill tho 331 new precincts un til nn election was held in September, 1012. Thereafter and In spite of this conclusion the chairman assumed the right by his appointment to add to the oxlstlng commltteo 131 precinct com mitteemen, and with theso voting in tho commltteo It Is claimed that a pri mary was ordered. There was so much confusion In tho meeting that this is doubtful. However, the fact Is that thOz-Taft men protested against any action by a committee so constituted on tho ground that tho chairman had no authority to appoint the 181 new committeemen. They refused to tako part in the primary, and so did the La Folletto men. Tho nowspapers report ed tho number of votos In tho primary to bo something over 8,000. Tho Rooso vclt commltteo showod by affidavit tho number to bo 0,000 out of a usual total Republican voto of 75,000. Tho action of tho chairman of the commltteo In attempting to add 131 precinct men to tho old commltteo was, of course, be yond his power. The resolution ou thorizlng him to fill vacancies, of course, applied only to thoso places which became vacant after they had been filled and clearly did not apply to 131 new precincts. It could not in the nature of things opply to a change from tho old system to a complete new system of precincts created by the city council, because If they were to bo filled tho entire number of 331 new precincts different from the old must bo flllod. Ono system could not be made Into tho other by a mere addl tional appointment of 131 committee men. No lawyer will say that such action by the committee thus consti tutcd was legal. Therefore the action which the lawful committee of 250 took In electing Taft delegates who made n majority In the state convention was the only one which could bo recognized as valid CONTESTED DISTRICT DELE GATES. ALABAMA. Ninth District The Ninth Alabama contest turned on the question whether the chairman of a district committee had power to fill vacancies, whether a committee man who had sent his resignation to tako effect only In caso ho was not present being present should be pre vented from acting as committeeman, and, third, on the Identity of another committeeman. Tho written resolu tion under which tho right of the chairmnn to appoint to vacancies was claimed showed on its face that the specific authority was written In In different writing and dlfTorenticolored pencil between tho lines. A number of affidavits were filed by committeemen who were present when tho resolution was passed to show that the resolu tion contained no such authority. This gave rise to a question of fact upon which a very largo majority of both the national committee nnd tho com mittee on credentials held that the lead pencil insertion was a forgery, that the chairman did not havo the au thority therefore to appoint to tho vacancies, and therefore the action of his committee was not valid. This made It necessary to reject tho contest ants. Tho commltteo decided tho two othor Issues of fact before them In favor of the Taft contention, although tho first decision was conclusive. ARKANSAS. Fifth District In the Fifth Arkansas tho question was one of the Identity of ono faction or tho other as the Republican party. This convention followed tho example of the convention of 1003 in holding that what wns known as the Redding faction was not tho Republican party, that It was a defunct organization and had only acquired life at the end of each four years for the purpose of using it in tho national convention. The contestants wero therefore reject ed. It was shown that the other or Taft bad been In nctivo existence as the Republican party, had 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 of twenty-six. Each delegate might cither express his presidential prefer ence or agree to vote for the preslden tial candidate receiving the highest number In the state. In the Fourth district the two candidates from that district on the Taft ticket expressed a preference for Taft but did not agree to vote for tho candidates hav ing tho highest etato vote. Theso Taft delegates in tho Fourth district re ceived a majority of 200 more than the Roosevelt delegates In that dis trict The national call forbado any ,law or tho acceptance of any law which prevented tho election of dele gates by districts. In other words, the call of the national convention was at variance with tho state law. The stato law sought to enforce the state unit rule and required the wholo twenty six delegates to bo voted for all over the state, assigning two to each dls trict on the ticket to abide tho state wido election, while the Republican national convention has Insisted upon tho unit of the district since 1880. That has been tbo party law. This conven tion recognized the party lnw and held it to bo more binding than that of the state law and allowed tho two dele gates who had received In tho Fourth district a vote larger than their two opponents assigned to that district, to becomo delegates in tho convention. This was clearly lawful, for a state has ho power to limit or control the basis of representation of n voluntary nn tional party In a national convention. Tho fact that President Taft by telo gram approved all tho twenty-six dele gates as representing him Is said to tit an estoppel against bis claiming the election of two of thoso delegates In their Fourth district What is there Inconsistent tn his approving the can dldacy of all his delegates and the election of two of them? Why should he bo thus estopped to claim that part of tho law was lnopcrntlvo becauso In conflict with tho call of tho convention? INDIANA. Thirteenth District In the Thirteenth Indiana tbero was no qnestlon about the victory of the Tnft men, because tho temporary chair man representing tho Taft sldo was conceded to havo been clocted by one half a vote more than tho Roosovclt candidate. This ono-half voto extended through the riotous proceedings, and although It was not as wide as a barn door it was enough. Tho chairman put tho question as to electing tho Taft delegates, and after continuous objec tion lasting three hours declared the ,io carried., The RoosiG?elt men thus prevented n roll call nnd then bolted. KENTUCKY. Seventh District. 1 In the Seventh Kentucky district tho total voto of the convention was 1 13. There wero contests from four conn ties, Involving ninety-five votes. Ac cording to the rules of tho party In Kentucky, where two seats of creden tials are presented those delegates whose credentials nro approved by the county chairman are entitled to par ticipate In the temporary organization. On tho temporary roll the Tnft chair man was elected by nlnety-clght votes nnd forty-seven votes were cast for the Roosevelt candidate. Tho committee on credentials was then appointed, con sisting of one member named by each county delegation. Tho majority re port of tho committee was adopted unanimously by tho convention, no del egation whoso seats were contested being permitted to voto on Its own case. As soon ns the majority report of the credentials committee had been adopted, the Roosevelt adherents bolt ed. There was not the slightest reason for sustaining tho contest for Roosevelt delegates. Eighth District Tho Eighth Kentucky district was composed of ten counties having 1C3 votes, of which eighty-two were neces sary to a choice. There was no con test in five of tho counties, and al though tho Roosevelt men claimed that thero was one in Spencer county no contest wns presented ogainst the seating of the regularly elected Taft delegates from that county. This gave the Taft delegates eighty-four votes, or two more than were necessnry for a choice. In other words, assuming that the Roosevelt men wero entitled to all tho delegates from tho counties in which they filed contests in the dis trict convention there remained a clear majority of uncontested delegates who voted for the Taft delegates to Chi cago. OKLAHOMA. Third District In tho Third Oklahoma district tho question of the validity of the seats of tho delegates turned on the constitu tion of the congressional committee, which was made up of twelve Tnft men and seven Roosovclt men. The chairman, Cochran, was a Roosevelt man and attempted to prevent the ma jority of the committee from taking action. The chairman was removed and another substituted, and thereupon the convention was duly called to order on tho temporary roll prepared by the congressional committee, which was mado tho permanent roll, nnd the two Taft delegates to Chicago were duly selected. Every county in the district had its representation and vote in the regular convention, nnd no person properly accredited as a delegate was Bxclndod or debarred from participat ing in Its proceedings. Cochran and his followers bolted after his deposi tion. Assuming that all the committee who went out with him had the right to act on the committee, it loft the committee standing twelve for Taft and seven for Roosevelt so It was sun ply a question whether a majority of the committee had the right to control Its action or a minority. The bolting convention which Cochran held was not attended by a majority of the duly elected delegates to the convention. It did not have tho credentials from the various counties, and its membership was largely mado up of bystanders who had not been duly accredited by any county In tho district Its action was entirely without authority. TENNESSEE. 8tcond District In tho Second Tennessee district thero wero fifty-nine delegates uncon tested out of a possible total of 108 In the convention. Thero wero forty-nino contested. Tho Roosovclt contestants In the forty-nine refused to abide the decision of tho committee on creden tials and withdrew, leaving fifty-nine uncontested delegates. Theso fifty nine delegates, part of whom wero Roosevelt men, remained in the con vention, appointed tho proper commit tees, settled contests and proceeded to Belcct Taft delegates. There can be do question about the validity there fore of then- title. TEXAS. First District Tho only remaining districts are the nine districts from Texas. Of theso the First district wns composed of eleven counties, each county having one voto, except Cass county, which had two. 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