Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-11
WAR SECRETARY
IS TH|RTY-FOUR
BALLOTS AHEAD
SIXTEEN CONTESTS ARE NOW
DECIDED
FORAKER GAINS TWO oNE-HALF
VOTES
Forty-four Contests, Involving Ninety
four Votes, Yet to Be Heard.
Taft Will Have 5o4 on
Temporary Roll Call
BY Associated Press.

| BY Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 10.-The Republican
national committee, by it's work today,
decided contests in two states at large
and fourteen districts, the net result
being that thirty-three full and two
one-half votes were added to the num-
ber already possessed by William H.
Taft, and two one-half votes were
given to Senator ]. B. Foraker.
| The committee has yet to consider
contests at large in four states and
total of thirty-eight district contests.
and two from the territories, involving
a total Of ninety-four votes.
| Previous to the meeting of the COM
mittee the number of Taft instructed
delegates was 387. The work of the
| committee as far as it has progressed
| has given him III additional votes, or
a total of 504 on the temporary roll
| call.
The chief interest of the day centered
in the Ohio contests, of which there
were four in the Third, Sixth, Tenth
and Fourteenth districts. Taft was
| given the delegates in the Third, Tenth
and Fourteenth districts, and in the
Sixth both delegations were seated with
| half a vote each.
The Foraker men made strong fight
In this district, because 1t was the old
home of the senator, and they were
anxious to secure its vote for him.
The Foraker delegates are Mark
Shoup of Xenia and R. l.. Gilchrist of
Lebanon, while the Taft men are l.. H.
| Brown of Hillsboro and Charles E.
Hildebrand Of Wilmington. The latter
faction has been recognized for the
| last four years as regular.
| hn 10 dtxyi1 fho 6n1a ton
between Taft and Foraker came from
| Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, and
| was carried without strenuous opposi-
| ton.
Both Sides Instructed
The contests in the Third and Tenth
| districts were based on factional
rights, both sides to the dispute being
| instructed for Taft. In the Thirteenth
the action of the Taft delegates in
holding convention of their own was
sustained, and they were seated on the
temporary roll call.
The days proceedings opened with
the hearing of the contests from the
Eleventh and Twelfth Missouri dis
trictS, after these coming the North
Carolina contests, which were over the
| delegates at-large and seven districts.
! These were not complicated and were
heard separately. Ohio followed North
Carolir and then came South Carolina.
| where only one CONTEST over the ~
| large delegation was heard. This went
to Taft by default and the hearing OF
the cases from the First and Fifth
South Carolina districts were passed
until tomorrow.
| 1t is the hope of the national COM
mittee that it will be able to finish its
work by Friday night To this end the
members are making every possible eff
| fort to induce the warning factions to
| consent to the consolidation of their
cases. Much important work is slated
| for the committee on Saturday and
Monday, and 1t is earnestly desired
that the hearings may be over in ample
| time to allow sufficient attention to be
| paid to these matters.
| With the end of the labor of the ma
tional committee in fairly good shape,
discussion turned today to the makeup
| of the credentials committee of the
convention, to which many Of the con-
tests will probably be appealed. The
talk centered largely around Henry M.
| Daugherty of Columbus, o., who ar
rived in the city today. Mr.. Daugherty
is slated for the credentials committee
| from his state, and 1t was general
gossip today that he may be chosen
chairman Of the committee when it
| is made up next Tuesday.
May Be Chairman
| Mr.. Daugherty. did not deny that
such sequence of events was possible
| and freely discussed the probable work
| of the committee.
ST don't believe the credentials will
be ready to report to the convention
before Thursday, June 49," said Mr..
Daugherty. ''If 1 am chosen as
member of the body I shall oppose
any proposition for an all-night session
of the committee on Tuesday. as from
present indications it would be i'm
possible to dispose of all the cases that
will be brought before the committee
even If this expedient were to be
adopted. I cannot see how the commit
tee will be able to prepare it's report
for presentation to the Wednesday ses-
sion of the convention, and it probably
will have to work all OF that day and
part of that night in order to be ready
for Thursday.
"It is quite certain that the report
will be handed to the convention
Thursday morning. In that case the
delegates will be able to proceed with
the nominations, and should be able to
complete the work before adjournment
on that day, thus carrying out the
original program for the convention"
The Ohio delegation, it was stated,
will reach the city on Sunday and will
be called into caucus Monday after
HOOIi AC tHdt tliIe MT. DduSQerIy VIII
be proposed as a member of the
credentials committee, and it is also
on the slate that Wade Ellis, attor-
ney general of the state will be
named as member of the resolutions
committee 1t had been expected that
Mr.. Ellis would reach Chicago today,
bringing with him rough draft of the
tentative platform. He left Washing
ton last night, but stopped at Column
bus, where, according to reports cir
culated here, he met Senator Hopkins
of Illinois, who yesterday discussed
the platform question with Speaker
Cannon. 1t was said here today that
Mr.. Ellis and Senator Hopkins have
been In communication regarding the
platform for several days.
Vice President Situation
There was a sudden cessation OF ac-
tivity today regarding the vice presi-
dental situation. This was largely
due to the announcement made by
Frank H. Hitchcock that the Taft
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