The Washington herald., 1908-06-07
PEACE NOT WANTED
Taft Men Refuse to Split
Southern Delegates.
COMMITTEEMAN TURNED DOWN
Proposition Submitted by Harry
New, II. w. MuIvane, and Ernest Il.
Hart Fails TO Find Favor with
Hitchcock and LOdge-Latter Pre-
tend to See Trick in Plan.

Chicago. Ill. June S-Three national
committeemen-Ernest f. Hart, Of Iowa;
Harry s. New, Of Indiana. and David w.
Mulvane, Of Kansas had a conference
with Frank II. Hitchcock. John G. Ca
pers. and Senator Lodge, the three domi-
nant Roosevelt-Taf. chieftalns
Messrs. Hart, New. and Mulvane urged
upon Messrs. Hitchcock, Capers. and
Lodge the unwisdom Of unseating entire
delegations from the Southern States.
Furthermore. they advised that the dele
cations be seated by the national COM
mittee on the half-and-half basis
The delegates from the Southern States
are Roosevelt-Taft men. although quite a
number were instructed for Senator Fora
ker. Yet these Foraker delegates, notably
from Mississippi from the moment Of
their arrival here, have besought Hitch
cock and Capers to seat them, and in re-
turn they would vote for Taft.
Then. too. Bishop Walters, the negro
Methodist Bishop of New Jersey. strong
ly anti-Taft and friendly to Senator For
aker, had telegraphed here for twelve
rooms. announcing that re and his negro
friends were to use honorable means to
bring about ex-Gov. Franklin Murphy's
nomination as Vice President
Taft on First, Says Murphy.
Coincidently Murphy handed out
statement to-day, wherein he declared
Taft would be nominated on the nrst bal
lot
This afternoon Walters interest is In
terpreted to mean only a back-stair eff
fort 20 climb aboard the Taft band-
wagon. The argument advanced by
Messrs. Hart, New, and Mulvane was
not only is there to be an election after
this convention adjourns. that harmony
is TO be desired. that every vote will be
needed. and that the moral effect OF
throwing out entire delegations Will be
disastrous in Republican electoral vote
giving States.
The protests Of New York, Indiana. and
Pennsylvania against the seating as
proxies In the national committee OF
Hitchcock. Phelps. and Slater was also
gone over but the principle feature
advanced was that the Southern dis
putants should be given equal honors in
the convention; that is. that each faction
should be recognized on a half-and-half
basis.
Proposition Turned Down.
The proposition Of Messrs. Hart. New.
and Mulvane was rejected, by Messrs.
Hitchcock. Capers. and Lodge claiming
that IL was not made in good faith; that
it represented only an insidiOus effort OF
the allies to seize control of the commit
tee on resolutions and to wreck the pur-
pose Of the Roosevelt people in framing
the platform for the convention.
Hitchcock and Capers also claimed.
after the conference. that the proposition
OF Messrs. Hart, New, and Mulvane rep
resented an effort to destroy the Southern
Republican machine, which the Roose-
welt administration has built, and which
has been used with such abundant results
in the preliminaries of this convention.
Furthermore, Hitchcock and Capers in
sisted that the Southern colored dele
gates. Notwithstanding anything that has
been said 20 the contrary, has been
equally divided between the lily whites
and the blacks