The daily sentinel., 1906-09-20
SENATOR TAYLOR EXPLAINS.
Communication
Cant 10 rQnH


Editor Sentinel,
Grand junction, Colo
Dear Sir:
My attention has just been called
to an article signed IS. B. L." in
your issue of the 18th inst, concern
ing the fight for Supreme judgeship|
nomination in the recent Democratic
state convention, in which article it
is said: when it became evident
that Mr.. Bunting's claim for recog-
milton could no longer be overlooked
or set aside, Senator Taylor. the pre-
siding officer. condescended to rec
ognize the gentleman from Mesa
county"
If this reflection only applied to me
personally. / would not notice IT,
but inasmuch as the tenor of the ar
ticle might, if unnoticed. create some
little feeling between the Democrats
of Garfield and Mesa counties. feel
that should say what am confident
that you and all of the Garfield dele
cation know, that the statement quot
ed is wholly uncalled for As you
are well aware. it is customary in all
large and turbulent conventions to
arrange in advance with the presiding
officer the order in which the nomin-
ating speeches shall be made and
who shall be recognized as the rep
resentative of each prominent candi-
date.
Long before we reached the nom.
nation of judges in the order of
business, Senator Teller and Ralph
Talbot came and asked me to recog-
nize Mr.. Talbot first and Senator Tel
Ter second. / said all right, II they
were on their feet, I would recognize
them in that order. Soon after that
Mr.. Tully Scott came to me and want
ed to be recognized first to nominate
Judge Seeds. He was quite insis-
tent and seemed rather disappoint-
ed when told him could not recog-
nize him sooner than following Sena-
tor Teller. But | promised him that
would recognize him third. There
were so many requests made that l
will not be absolutely positive, but l
am quite confident that neither you
nor Judge Mullins said anything to
did not know you was going to pre-
sent Judge Wheeler's name. 1t is
true that you were on your feet ask
ing for recognition and so were Judge
Mullins, and the other three. but
there was no particular reason why |
should recognize any one of you first.
even If there had been no previous
understanding Your delegation
was in the rear, and you came down
the aisle as | remember, at the close
of Mr.. Talbot's speech. and when
recognized Senator Teller | sent a
messenger to you telling you that |
could not recognize you until after
Tully Scott. / did that merely as an
act of courtesy and out of a kindly
feeling towards Mesa county and you
and Mr.. Wheeler personally. There
is no other reason why l should have
recognized you prior to Judge Mul-
! Inns, which did.
Had you spoken to me about the
matter first, as the other three gen
/ tlemen did. should have been very
glad to have extended this courtesy
to Mr.. Wheeler. I think you will al
so recall that. as soon as possible,
recognized Judge Gray among fully
% who were on the floor clamoring
for recognition. to make a very fore
ible seconding speech for Mr.. Wheel
er.
The Mesa county Democracy has no
right to complain of Garfield county
or of me personally. Our delegation
loyalty supported both Mr.. Sampliner
md Mr.. Wheeler and were glad to dc
so.
l don't think the order of nomina
tions had anything to do whatever
with the vote. There were three
things that combined to defeat Mr.
Wheeler. viz:
(a) The feeling in the seated Den
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