The sun., 1908-06-06
TAFT ON The FIRST BALLOT.
so AS TO AVERT THE PER2E
OF A ROOSEVELT STAMPEDE. y
That Is Now the Plan OF the RepdbiieAa
Leaders Assembled Mt Chicago--AAi
the Contested Taft\ Delegates TO No
seated--IIis Alabama Friends Wln-

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the Contested Taft\ Delegates TO no
seated--Bis Alabama Friends Wln-
CHICAGO, June 5.-The national COM
mittee was the whole show to-day.
One should be very careful in calling this
committee Roosevelt committee or Tsst
committee IL close scrutiny is Of value it
should be classed as q Republican commit
tee wholly desirous Of carrying out the
Presidents apparent wishes that Score
tary Taft should be the Presidential oau-
didate Of this convention and especially
desirous Of leaving no stone unturned 70
prevent the hue and cry Of the Federal
oficeholders for stampede for Roosevelt
There are some very enga ging and astuts
politicians on the committee. and they
believe, taking the President at his word,
that Taft should be the man. and while
number of the committee are entirely
friendly to Fairbanks, Knox and Cannon
they do not believe in preciptating sitai-
alton which might give even the SOM
blanoe Of an opportunity for a Roosevelt
stampede.
Indeed so we'll is the situation In hand
that several OF the king pins Of the oonn-
mittee believe that the assurance should
go out to all the world that Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge will not be called upon to at
tempt to thwart Roosevelt stampede,
TAFT ON FIRST BALLOT.
While several Of the allies are beating
tom-toms and proclaiming in voices OF
stage thunder that Taft must and shall
be defeated on the first b ailot and that tho
nomination shall then 60 to Knox, Fair
banks or Cannon, the real simon pure allies.
those with heads upon their shoulders
waking and sleeping, tell you that Taft
will be nomina ted on the first ballot. for tho
reason that the President must and shall
be taken at his word Notwithstanding
the yelpings and yawpings Of the Federal
be weak candidate, this alleged weakness
necessarily jeopardizng their jobs. while
Roosevelt perhaps could possibly keep
them four years more at the pie counter.
Senator Crane of Massa achusetts, Charles
F. Brooker, national committeeman for
Connecticut and many others familiar
with the situation told their friends to-day
that Taft would be nominated on the hrst
ballot, and 1t was the opinion OF severN
that perhaps no other candidates name
would go before the convention. All this
is in Difference to the Presidents decision
that Taft is the man for the nomination,
and while the allies have not in reoent
months been 80 amenable to the Presidents
mandates there is time for all things,
especially time to forestall any secret
Vaccinations to bring in Roosevelt on o
stampede
In other words, several Of the allies SEEM
to be quite serene II not actually happy
over the Taft situation as in their judgment
it eliminates all dark and hidden efforts to
precipitate Roosevelt stampede
CONTESTS TAKEN Up
This was the situation when the national
committee met in the Coliseum at noon
to take up the Alabama contest involving
the seats Of twenty-five delegates to the
convention. including two from the Third
district instructed for Senator Foraker.
Chairman Harry s. New Of Indiana presided
and Secretary Elmer Dover of Ohio was at
his side. Some of the more notable COM
mitteemen present were Powell Clayton OF
Arkansas Charles F. Brooker OF Connect-
cut, j. Edward Addicks Of Delaware, Sena-
tor w. Murray Crane OF Massachusetts,.
Franklin Murphy of New Jersey. William
l.. Ward of Sew York, Myron L. Herrick
of Ohio Senator Boies Penrose of Penn
sylvauia. Charles r. Brayton OF Rhode
Island, John G. Capers Of South Carolina,
Walter p. Brownlow Of Tennessee nd !
Senator Nathan Bay Scott Of West Vir-
ginia.
There were thirteen proxies. as follows:
Charles w. Fulton for George A. Knight OF
California, Henry s. Chubb for j. H. Coonbs
of Florida, John w. McCullooh for John w.
Yerkes Of Kentucky, Dallas Boudeman for
John W. Blodgett of Michigan. Victor
Rosewater for Charles H. Morrill, Of Me-
braska Charles @. Phelp, for Alexander
Mckenzie Of North Dakota. Elmer Dover
for j. NJ Green OF South Dakota. Joseph
T. Howell for c. E. Lose Of Utah, e. L.
Phillips for j. w. Babcock Of Wisconsin.
Arthur F. Statter for John G. Reid OF Alaska,
George b. Mcclellan for A, c. NJ Robertson
of Hawaii. Frank H. Hitchcock for Solomon
Luna of New Mexico and Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge for Henry B. Mccoy OF the
Philippine Islands.
PROTEST AGAINST TAFT MEN
Strenuous objections were made to Hitoh-
cock. Phelps and Slater not only by Ala
bamans but by Congressman James Francis
Burke. representing Senator Knex; Joseph
b. Kealing representing vioespresident
Fairbanks, and A. E. Humphrey, secretary
of the Hughes National League. All three
protested against the seating OF Hitchcock.
Phelps and Statter as proxies on the ground
that they were employees OF the Taft boom
factory in Washington and therefore biased
and prejudced persons
BY a vote Of 3s to 10 Burke, Healing aud
Humphrey were defeated, and Hitchcock.
Phelps and Slater grinned- The Alabamans
were represented by j. o. Thompson.
national committeeman; Charles II. Sohott
and Julius W. Davidson. the Thompsonites
being opposed to the Scott Davidson fac
ton Both sides are for Roosevelt and
Taft. The turmoil and complication and
Herceness represent only the efforts OF each
side to be recognized as the upright and
judicious dispensers Of Federal offices in the
State. Thompson claimed that he and his