The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-06-18
DELEGATES
UPHOIDTHE
MAJORITY
CalifOrnia's Twenty Votes Pre-
vent ReappOrtiOnment in
the South
After Bitter Struggle the Pres
ent District Scheme Is
Preserved
Administration Gains Victory
Over Entire Strength of
the Allies
Southern Representatives Are
Grateful TO Men From
Golden State
By George Van Smith
SPECIAL DIsPATcH TO THE CALL


CHICAGO, June 1.-THE solid
south is indebted to California tonight
FIR the preservation of its dispropor-
e@nate representation in the national
republican conventions by exactly the
20 votes cast by California. The mi
nority report from the committee on
rules failed of the majority which
would have made the southern vote in
the next national convention an in
significant quantity.
After the bitterest battle of the long
war against the south's disproportion-
ate representation in republican con-
ventions the congressional district
scheme Of apportioning delegates was
preserved and it was California's vote
that turned the trick.
The fight for an apportionment OF
delegates on the basis Of republican
votes cast has been wAged vigorously in
i've national conventions. but never was
81 fought as it was fought this week in
Chicago. and never did its opponents
come 50 near victory The minority
report based on the resolution OF
Burke of Pennsylvania, providing for
an apportionment Of one delegate for
each 10000 republican votes or major
fraction thereof was defeated by q
vote Of 50e to AL II CALIFORNIA; vote
had been cast for instead OF against
the minority report it would have made
zs1. an exact majority Of the conven-
t5on-
FIGHT FOR PRESENT METHOD
The administration forces We're
aligned for the preservation Of the ex-
listing method of apportionment and the
entire strength Of the allies, augmented
By the always strong northern senti-
ment against the system which gives
one southern republican representative
in national conventions equal to that OF
10 northern republicans, was behind
the Burke resolution The commit
tee turned down the allies scheme by
q vote Of % to IL
When the committees report was
submitted today the committeeman
from Massachusetts. Wisconsin, New
Hampshire and Utah aligned them
selves with the minority, making the
committee vote % TO p.
SOUTHERN MEN GRATEFUL
When the roll was called California,
the first republican state, gave its &c
majority report. The announcement Of
California's vote loosed a storm of
cheers from the southern delegates.
And when at the conclusion Of She roll
call Il was discovered that the allies"
had failed Of a majority by exactly
the % votes cast by CALIFORNIA; repre-
sentation. the men Of the south were
enthusiastic in expressions of their ap-
probation Of California's vote, for the
majority report has unquestionably
siren gthened a hand which, thanks to
the Hammond obsession OF De Young,
was lamentably weak
Judge II. A Melvin, California's men,
her OF the platform committee, is the
author Of the Asiatic exclusion plank
which the Californians are assured will
be Incorporated in the platform The
plank proposed by Melvin is framed on
the California republican plank and is
as follows:
we favor the continuance OF the
policy Of the republican party with
reference to the exclusion Of Asiatic
and all other undesirable cheap labor"