Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-06-09
TAFT OPPONENTS
FOR LONG FIGHT
PRESIDENTIAL AsPlRANTs JOIN.
ED AGAINST SECRETARY DE.
TERMlNE TO CARRY CONTESTS
TO FLOOR OF CONVENTION.

SnlCdSO, June o.-l ne aft6QuUliCdu
national committee met this morning
to continue the hearing contests for
seats on the temporary roll call. All
| the contests yet to be settled are
brought by negro voters instructed for
Foraker, with the exception OF four
| districts in Kentucky, which are claim
ed for Fairbanks, and two In Mis-.
souri, claimed for Hughes.
4 The representatives of the "allies"
we're present today In full force when
4 the committee began its deliberations
| but there was no more talk heard OF
i bolting the national committee.
Hitchcock Denies Was ousted.
Frank H. Hitchcock, the Taft man.
ager did not sit today as member
of the committee, Solomon Luna OF
i New Mexico, whose proxy Hitchcock
has held during the previous session
Of the committee, having arrived and
4 Hitchcock withdrew.
4 The "allies" were highly jubilant
over the withdrawal Of Hitchcock and
i claimed that they had forced him
i from the committee. Hitchcock said,
, however. his retirement was in no
!. .}way connected with the 4: protests
against him, which have been filed
by the "allies." He declared IL the
occasion should arise of making such
( action desirable or necessary, he
|, would assume another proxy.
The committee decided the contest
: in the third Florida district in favor OF
the Taft people. The committee then
: took UP the three Georgia districts.
The committee was compelled to
adjourn because the partition in their
room was in highly dangerous condi-
tion.
Committee Routed by Unsafe Partition
The room In which the COMMITTEES
meetings were held in the Coliseum
q annex was made by the erection OF
several temporary partitions. A high
wind blowing caused terrific draft
through the building and weakened
the frame work. 1t was about to fall
q upon the heads of the committeeman
e when the impending accident was no
O ticed by Sergeant at Arms Stone.
O Chairman New quickly ordered an ad-
l. journment. Carpenters were summon.
I, ed and the partition was soon proper.
$ ly braced and supported.
g May be Five Days Convention.
K If the "allies" keep to their threat
e next weeks Republican national con
IS vention will be the longest drawn ou'
Happening of its kind ever known
n when the result was forecasted al
" thoroughly as this one is. 1t looks
le like FIVE days gathering at tn,
n least.
of "The allies" gave out formal state
le ment yesterday that they did not In
lg tend to bolt the hearing which th'
,e national committee is now giving thu
1T many contests. In fact, they wante'
70 to make their first fight there in orde
to lay the foundations for harde
fight afterwards. Expecting to b
le beaten before the national COMMITTEES
8, they intend to take their fight befor
IL the committee on credentials OF tn
convention. and If beaten there, +
OF the floor of the convention itself.
II. All OF this takes time. The cre
OF dentials committee cannot be forme
until the convention Is organized. TIL
or convention cannot do any real bus
n.ss until the committee reports.
ag it sends in minority report 1t wi
w have to be debated on the floor, an
er In a national convention there is a
ts ways plenty Of oratorY on tap and n
~ closure rules except the previous que
or tion.
" The committee on resolutions !
~. made up from one member from eac
~ ~ state, chosen by the delegates frol
~, that state seated by the national cor
~ mittee on the temporary roll call I
- the convention. Every time "the a
-, lies" see state getting away fro
w sn them on the temporary roll call the
CO. 20 lose member of the resolutions cor
CO. CO. mittee The credentials committe
ne ne might seat the other delegation afte
80 wards or the convention itself migl
4. reverse the finding of the credentia
~ committee, but 1t does not often ha
- pen.
wi Statement Of the "Ailies."
eW 1t is a forlorn hope, however, al
that "the allies took when they
up sued this statement:
Upon the authority of the represe
en- tatives of all of the presidential ca
rm didates other than Secretary of w
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