The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1908-06-12
H['AR|NGO o. CONTESTS
GOES h[RR|LY ON
COMMITTEE REACHED TEXAS IN
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF
CONTESTED STATES
Forty Nine More Votes Given to Taft
Making a Total Of 554 Contests
From Tennessee Occupied Most Of
the Time Yesterday The Commit
tee Is Anxious to Finish It's Work
Today Draft Of Platform Has Ar
rived.

Chicago, ILL.,, June 12.-The re-
publican national committee yester-
day reached Texas in the alphabeti-
cal list of states while deciding the
contests for seats on the temporary
roll call of the convention. The
work yesterday settled cases involy-
ing two delegations at large and
twenty-one districts, a total of fifty
delegations. OF these, Taft is GER
tain to have forty-nine and may pos
sibly have fifty. The uncertain dele
gate halls from the eighth district
Of Tennessee and 1t Is not positively
known how he will vote. He be
longed, however, to the Oliver fac
tion in that state, a majority OF
whom were instructed for Taft.
When the committee adjourned
fyr the day the counting OF the nuns
Der secured for Taft yesterday as
fifty, his managers claimed a total
number of delegates on temporary
roll call actually instructed and not
including delegates for Taft either
by endorsement or declaration to be
554, according to the estimates made
by the allies, the number is $50, this
estimate being based on the latest
figures issued by the allies.
The South Carolina contests were
first called, they being from the first
and fifth districts. Both of these
were given to Taft after short hear
ings.
The hearing of contests from Ten
nessee occupied by far the greater
part of the day, each side being al
lowed two hours for presentation OF
evidence and arguments. The fight
here grew out of a fractional struggle
over local issues in Tennessee, all OF
the Hale element being instructed
for Taft and a majority of their OPP
ponents who were dubbed Oliver
delegates, being also for the secre-
tary Of war. The result was that
the Hale men were seated in all but
the eighth district, where the dele
cation was divided. Splitting Of the
delegation, however, is not likely to
make any difference to Taft.
The hearing Of these cases produc-
ed the only picturesque scenes of the
day. Jesse NJ. Littleton, counsel FOR
the Oliver delegates asserted that
the Hale men came into the hall
armed and displayed huge hatchet
with which he said the lives Of the
Oliver men had been threatened.
Newell Sanders, chairman OF the
state committee supplied counter-ir-
ritant to the Littleton hatchet, ex-
hfbition by telling in his argument
of a desperate fight which the Hale
men were compelled to make before
they were allowed in the ball, and Of
how big colored man was about tc
shop him with an Oliver hatchet be
fore some OF the Hale men put the
negro suddenly into a state OF coma
The hearing of the Texas cases came
next and In these contests over seats
of delegates at large, and from thu
third, fourth, sixth, seventh, ninth
thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth and
sixteenth districts were consolidated
and after a brief hearing the dele
gates from the faction headed by Ce
eli A. Lyon, present national com
|mitteeman from that state were seat
led. After this decision the com
mittee adjourned until today. It !,
understood although no official an
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