New-York tribune., 1908-06-08
ALLIES" YIELD TO
STRENGTH OF TAFT
GIVE Up PLAN TO WITH.
HOLD EVIDENCE.
Their OUertures for Compromise
InefectuaLDiscussion of
Second Place.
FBy telegraph to The Tribune. ]

OF the opposition 10 secretary ldIt
The "alIies." under the guidance of Senator
Crane, of Massachusetts. decided to-day To
abandon their scheme of Withholding their evil
dence in further contests to be adjudicated by
the national committee. and will proceed from
now on in the regular order Senator Bradley,
of Kentucky, has been seen by Senator Crane
and has consented TO refrain from the ex-
trene speech which it was announced yester-
day he would make to the committee The
allies declare further. that they will not ac-
cept the decision Of the committee as final. but
that their course IS dictated by desire to COM
ply with the requirements of the national COM
mittee before appearing before the credentials
committee of the convention. Those in posi-
ton to judge. however. regard the action de-
cided upon to-day as constituting the end of the
organized opposition which has been. by the
way. largely disorganized from the beginning
The fact is that there is ground whatever
TO support the claims of the contestants The
| allies risked their all on being able to con-
troll the national committee. and they now ind
they have sadly misjudged the situation One
of their leaders admitted this evening that they
could rot control more than six votes in the
committee any proposition There has been
diversity of opinion in the committee regard
ing the merits of the contests thus far heard
This rent is made on the authority of
large majority of the national committee.
Senator Lodge who holds the Philippines
proxy, said to-day TO a correspondent of The
Tribune: There has not been a single case
presented in which the national committee could
possibly have seated the anti-Taft delegates.
regardless of their political affiliations IL is in
conceivable that any national committeeman. ir-
respective OF his political affiliations. could have
voted to seat the Alabama Florida or Ar
kansas or Georgia contestants in the face of the
/
supported by overwhelming evidence of their
regularity and the cases of the contestants were
perfectly silly
II can heartily indorse every word that SEN
ator Lodge has said'' declared Frank B. Kellogg.
national committeeman from Minnesota. who
was standing close by 1T is extraordinary that
sober men should have had the effrontery TO ask
the national committee to seat delegates on the
evidence presented by the contestants: in fact
they could not have done had they believed
/ that the committee would act from judicial
point of view. But the allies were doubtless
msIed into the belief that the committee would
their delegates regardless of the equities or
the law in the cases
CLAIMS OF CONTESTANTS "FLI1ISY"
Senator Fulton of Oregon. expressed the sans
view Il came here he said fearing that we
would have some knotty problems to solve but
twice. The regularity of the Taft delegates has
been perfectly obvious from the start There
has not been contest where a committeeman
could have had the face to vote for the con-
testants OF could have stood for his vote on the
evidence, if he had Why, the claims of tns
contestants have been of such himsy character
that even the representatives of the allies on
the committee have not had the courage to de-
mand a roilcan OF course, they could havs
had at any time Had there once been a
demand for rollcall there would have been
plenty of members of the committee to help
them set it, In fact there are good many
members of the committee who would like 20
see lineup of the forces but they have re-
Trained from demanding rocall because of the
earnest pleas Of the minority. Senator Crane
has begged members not to demand d rolIcau
ard 1 have refrained from asking for one only
out of respect to his wishes and because had
no disposition 10 rub il in TO them"
There is a strong suspicion that good deal
Of the talk of refusing 10 appear further before
the national committee has been bluff the
part of the allies designed to get a compro-
mise from the Taft people the Kentucky dele
CATION. Be that it may. soon il
definitely known that the Taft people would
make no compromise the widely advertised
scheme Of the allies" promptly collapsed
Yesterday
that he might save a remnant of t, Kentucky
delegation for Fairbanks by some form of COM
promise To that end he irst over his
colleague Senator Lodge; Committeeman Hart.
of Iowa and Committeeman Mulvane of Kan
sas all loyal Taft men Nessrs. Hart and Null
vane then went TO Manager Hitchcock and sub
mitted the proposition, urging him to accept IT,
ATr Hitchcock positively and UnequivoCGlIy re-
fused tie said that he asking for
favcrs but was merely demanding that the men
entitled seats in the convention be seated
The man who had made the fight for NJ. Taft
and who had been regularly elected to the con-
vcntion. he said. We're clearly entitled to their
seats and he. as manager for Mr.. Taft. had
right whatever To barter away their rights. even
III the interest of party harmony and in order
to let United States Senator Mr. Bradley. of
Kentucky down easy" The proposition sub
nitted was To seat the Taft delegation from one
district and the Fairbanks delegations
from the three others
When it was found that nothing would shake
Mr. Hitchcock in his decision. visit was made
To Charles p Taft. and he besought in the
interest of his brothers success in November to
overrule Mr.. Hitchcock and order the compro-
mise Mr. Taft while giving no encoura cement
10 the would be compromsers reserved mis- de-
rision Whether or not he communicated with
Washington before finally rendering it cannot be
said definitely but IL may be affirmed that the
attitude of Secretary Taft is that no man en-
titled to a seat in the convention shall be de-
prIveJ o: it-eertainly without his consent-in
order that Mr. Taft's general political welfare
may be promoted. This morning Charles p
Tat rendered his decision. and il was in NJ, un-
certain terms. There would he absolutely no
Mr.. Hitchcock would be sustained
at every point The Taft people asked only FOR