The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-05


ventSpn proceedings
The nomination of the Republican can
didate for the presidency hinges abso-
lutely on the decision of the members
of the national committee and the subse-
quent approval of that decision by this
credentials committee of the convention.
Half Of the contests decided in favor of
Secretary Taft would result in his win
ming on the first ballot, while failure To
capture this number unquestiOnably will
put the nomination in doubt.
Field Has Pooled Issues.
Realizing the necessity of keeping "A ma
JOrlty Of the contested delegates out OF
me TART column, the representatives of
other candidates have pooled issues IN
most Of the cases. and as allies will urge
their claims before the national commit
tee The proceedings. therefore. largely
viii be resolved into a Taft and anti
Tart controversy. So far as the south
is concerned, and most of the contests are
in states from south of the Mason and
Dixon line. the interests of the allies are
being looked after by Major r. G. Bryan
OF washington. d. q. lie arrived in Chi
cagO today and announced that he would
base his arguments chiefly on the con-
tent0n that i'm most OF the southern
states the Taft forces had disqualified
the negro voters from participating i'm
the state and district conventions and
that the allies delegates had been Sc
lected at conventions from which no class
or race had been barred.
Program of Chairman New.
If the program mapped out by Nation
al Chairman Harry S. New 20 govern the
proceedings of the committee i'm hearing
the contests is carried out little Opuor-
tunity for fine arguments or oratOrical
effort viii be presented This program
will be submitted to the committee for
action Immediately on the session being
called 10 order tomorrow. II viii pro
vide for daily meetings TO begin at lu
a. m. and continue until p. m. without
recess for luncheon. Thirty minutes for
each side viii be allowed i'm state con-
tests involving the seating of four dele
gates at large and their aiternates il
each case There are eleven such con-
tests. the states being Alabama. Florida.
Georgia, Louisiana. Mississippi. NOrti.
Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina and
Virginia.
Many District Contests.
The remaining delegates in contest are
from scattering districts in the states
named and i'm Arkansas, Kentucky. Mis-
souri,. Ohio, Alaska. Arizona and Penn
sylVania. Fifteen minutes on each side
are to be allowed I'm the argument of
each of the district contests.
Chairman New estimated today that IL
this schedule l. followed and no delays
result. il viii require III hours to dis
pose of the contests, without taking into
consideration the time required for DELHI
erations of the committee. OF course.
there are some states where the issues
in some of the districts are identical with
the contentious over the delegates at
large, and some time therefore may be
saved in dispOsing of such cases.
Alabama Comes First.
1t is not likely that the committee will
be able to dispose of more than the Ala
n
gaTded as the pivotal cases in the en-
tire controversy. and an exhibition Of Bit
terness is anticipated by the commit
tee over their settlement. All of the nine
districts in the state are contested as
well as the four delegates at large. The
disputes are complicated By all sorts Of
angles and fractional differences. and their
Importance IS further increased by the
fact that Alabama comes first in the
roll of states The issue in the state and
that Of the various districts is identical.
TWO Warning Factions.
There are two factions in Alabama Re
publican politics at present and both have
sent complete sets of delegates, invOlV-
ing twenty-five seats I'm the convention.
One of these is advocated by Julius W.
Davidson and National Committeeman
Charles H. Scott and the other by State
Chairman j. O. Thompson The claim
of the Thompson faction is based on the
argument that the organization OF which
ne Is state chairman II AlC same bl 1lll-
cation that was recognized by the ma
tiOnal convention four years ago. and that
il has since continued to be the regular
organization of Alabama
Fight Began TWO Years Ago.
Two years ago Thompson called a meet
ing of the state executive committee To
decide whether a Republican state ticket
should be put in the field against Gov
ernOr Conner and other Democratic off
Gals The question was submitted TO a
primary, and as no Republicans present
ed themselves as candidates for any Of
fees il was decided not 10 put a ticket
in the field. National Committeeman
Scott participated in the proceedings and
decided not to he a candidate for the gov
ernOrship. although many friends desired
him to make the race. He made a speech
at which ne said he concluded il would
be inadvisable to do so. Some time later
Mr. Davidson who had also participated
in the deliberations of what was then the
recognized regular organization. ISSUED
call for a meeting to select state tick
ct. There were but twenty-fOur partiCi-
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