The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-02-18
D|CKERs0N IS
IN NEW YORK
Talks of the Office Holders
and Other Reps In
Sunny Florida.
Special to The Journal.


| New York, Feb 1.-two negro
delegates from Florida to the republi-
can convention, Rev. John H. DECKER
son OF Jacksonville, and the Rev. S.
| timothy T3ce, of Tampa, are staying
at the Hotel Maceo here The first
Is delegate at large to the Chicago
convention and heads the anti-admin-
iStrataon delegation. The other is an
| alternate of the same delegation.
rev Dlckerson was chairman of the
| state convention at St Augustine on
| FeD. o, which instructed delegates for
FoTaker, but from which the admins
trat1on delegates "bolted," he said,
and held a little convention" of their
own IN a corner of the hall and named
Iour onlce-ho1ders as delegates at
large, 1nstructing them for Secretary
Taft
The federal officeholders in Flor
Ida, said DickeTson, Showed PERM
clous activity in the matter of arrang-
ing Or rather trying to fix the conven-
tlon. THEY did not pretend to choose
deiegaCes TO the state convention in
the manner provided for by law, but
simply selected few names OF per-
Sous who were favorable to their
UAcket, and pushed them through dunn.
my county conventions, and in some
instances did not so through the for
nrallty OF holding conventions at all.
When the day after the state con-
Ventlon came the officeholders Who
mad engaged the hall in which the
convention was to be held, instructed
tnelf docrkeeper to allow only those
delegates whom they knew as favor
able to themselves TO enter the hall.
L Went to the door, being regularly
CHOSEN delegate. and demanded admit
lance Tor myself and the other dele
gates. There We're a dozen policemen
ON hand and l was not only denied
admlttance, but was arrested. In the
excitement following my arrest about
seFenfy-fiVe of our delegates got past
the docrkeeper into the hall. | WIS
released and got into the hall. Then
somebody unfurled a Foraker flag in
the hall and the excitement this pro-
duced attracted the attention of the
policeman, and the rest of the dele
gates OverTan the doorkeeper and got
in.
Seeing that We were in the major
1ty, the Taft people got together In
a corner of the hall, while our con-
Ventlon was in progress, and named
four oFtceholders as delegates to Chi
eago- They Were H. 8. Chubb, of the
land department; Joseph E. Lee, col
lector OF the internal revenue; VI. B.
11Nc 1h1ldA1s NOh6C1pE Od the OOft OF
Tampa, and J. NJ Coombs, who is ma |
tionad committeeman for the state. |
We named as delegates at large John |
n Dickerson, j., \ J, STRIPPING, J. D. Wi
Hazard and E. II. Robinson, and our
delegatiOn is distinctly Foraker. Theirs |
s for Taft. 1t was evidently the in |
tention Of the offioehofders to hurry |
The convention through without allow
ng US to come into the hall and then |
gention of the party, but we and other |
delegates were watchful, so that their /
tactics availed them moth |
ng.''
Asked if he thought the Taft people |
would contest the delegation which /
Re leads. Dickerscn replied that he
bought they would, but that he relied |
IN the sense of justice of the Chi
ago convention and believed the For
Lker delegation would be seated with
'ut trouble when the truth was made
lnown.