New-York tribune., 1908-06-07
MORE GAINS FOR
TAFT AT CHICAGO
FLORIDA And GEORGIA
CONTESTS DECIDED.
Managers of the "Allies" admit De.
feat = Platform and National
Chairmanship Discussed. -
rBy Telegraph TO The Tribune. ]

Chicago. June 6-Sixteen more Taft delegate1
were confirmed In their titles which had beencon-
tested. to-day The four Taft delegates-at-Iarxe
from Florida and the two from the ID District
as well as the four delegates-at-largs from
Georgia and the six from the 5th sth and 11rh
districts Of that state, composed the additions to
Secretary Taft's strength The Tribune. IN It's
carefully prepared table. had already given all
the Florida delegates TO Taft, but had listed the
Georgia delegates as uncomnftted- Those seat
ed to-day uninstructed. but are committed
to Taft.
The 1ction of the committee to-day etfectuaIly
disposed of the claim made by the "allies" that
the Taft supporters lilly whites" In every
case heard by the COMMITTEES the attorney for the
| Taft delegates negro, and half Of the dele
gates from Georgia seated we're negroes II may
also be added as evidence OF the utter baseless-
! ness of that report that in the South Carolina
| delegation twelve out Of the eighteen delegates
are negroes and of that number ten are for TAFT
while the remaining six are white men and only
| one of them is opposed to Taft The Tribune
| listed the South Carolina delegation as two for
Foraker and the remainder uncomm1tted, but
the assertion made here is the authority OF
| John G.. Capers national committeeman for the
! state.
When the Florida State Convention was held
1t was asserted in The Trihune's Washington
| dispatches that Representative Butler Ames- OF
| Massachusetts, had been in Florida and had su-
perfntended the contest, and this was afterWard
vehemently denied In connection with this 1t is
of interest to note that when the Florida cass
| was heard to-day 1t was asserted in the test1-
mony that the an1-Taft faction obtained ad-
| mission to the convention hall by the use OF
| forged tickets When j. ". STRIPPING, who rep
resented the anti-Taft faction. was asked where
] the forged tickets came from he replied: They
were handed to me by Butler AHaes. Of Massa-
/ chusetts."
! At the close of the Florida hearing COMMITTEES
| man Scott. of Alabama, moved that the anti
| Taft delegates-at-large be seated Senator
Crane of Massachusetts. promptly seconded the
| motion. 1t was defeated by a viva vocs vote.
| and division was asked
ALLIES DISCOURAGED.
| The allies have sent kilograms to number
| of assist 1nts whom they expected to help sway
the national committee. telling them it is use
| less to come to Chicago and that they might as
| we'll remain at home and save the expense. Prf-
vately, the managers of the allies say that the
| national committee is dealing with the contests
| on their merits and that further opposition is
| almost useless. The Taft forces under the
| leadership of Mr.. Hitchcock and with the
sistance of Ormsby McHarg. have prepared
| careful legal arguments. supported by ampls
| evidence The opposition came utterly unpre-
/ pared to meet these methods They had counted
I on great show of enthusiasm to carry the COM
n1ttee. Some members Of the opposition con-
| denim those who, they say. had led them to be-
| lieve that the national committee was so strong
| Iy anti-Taft that mere noise would prove efrec-
4 tive vhj1 hers hO jnSf ted
and engineered the Southern contests for what
| they term their raw methods
| When speaking for publication the allies
| talk of what they purpose to do and their press
| bureaus working overtime. But among
themselves and TO their close friends they admit
| defeat all the way along the line They all
] seem to think, however, that there will be no
withdrawal of candidates until after the first
vote has been cast, but several say that before
| the result is announced there will be a rush TO
change votes and make the nomination unani-
nous
| FULTON SEES NOTHING BUT TAFT.
Senator Fulton. deIegate-at-Iarss from Orc
zon and none too friendly to the admfnistra-
ton. arrived to-day, and after carefully sur
veytng the field and consulting with representa-
tfves OF the allies" declared that 10 was all
over but the shouting
every direction and that is all there is to its
declared Mr. Fulton. "The bottom has dropped
out Of The opposition. That is perfectly clear
to every man. From now on it will Be
merely a perfunctory performance. Some Of
those fellows talk about fighting in the con-
vention and all that. but the fact is they are
licked out Of their boots and they might as
we'll admit IT sooner later.
The number OF contests which the national
committee is being asked 10 consider is simply
disgusting snd particularly so because it is
perfectly obvious that many OF them. great
many of them in fact, not legitimate con-
tests. not made IN good faith. were not
sctuated by any loyalty to the Republican
party, but were merely got up for the pur-
pose of beclouding the facts and forming a
groundwork on which the allies might erect
a cbimericaI scheme for preventing Taft's NOM
nation" This statement made to The
Tribune correspondent by Thomas J. Akins.
national committeeman from Missouri.
Then you expect. Mr. Atkins. that in the large
ma iority of instances the Taft delegates viii be
seated?"
"Of course do. because the Taft delegates
are the regular delegates. The situation has
been simply this: Taft has been and is the
choice of very large majority of the Republi-
can party. That has been obvious for some
time one state after another has instructed
for Taft. and the opposition candidates have
been afforded ample proof that they. severaIly.
were not the party's choice. But instead of
showing their loyalty to the party and abiding
by the will of the majority they have encour-
aged these contests IN order that they might
saw Why. Taft has not enough votes to nonl-
mate him. Look at the number of his dele
gates who are contested II has been puerjIe
childish, but what you do?'