The sun., 1908-06-07
HIGHER up FOR SQUARE DEAL.
ANTT-TAFT MEN TO TAKE CON-
TESTS TO CONVENTION.

courasing 60 the Aliies- Vigorous
Objection to Hitchcock a. Chairman.
CHICAGO, June e.--The Republican nat
ional committee adjourned abruptly this
afternoon after seating the Taft delegates
from Florida and Georgia. The lie was
passed between two of the alleged fiery
gentlemen from Florida. but not hair
turned.
The allies representing Fairbanks, Knox
and Cannon quickly went into conferences
with Senator Bradley Of Kentucky when
the success Of the Florida Taft men was
announced. Senator Bradley was TO have
argued the Kentucky contests before the
committee, but observing how things
were running and accepting the situation
as stated by jor F. @. Bryan to be that
the cards are stacked against the allies.
the Senator has declined to do so.
Major Bryan ventured to speak up in the
committee on the Georgia case, but he
quickly withdrew on the ground that he
was not accorded fair hearing.
ALLIES CALL OFF CONTEST F1oHr.
AT the Bradley conference the Senator
and others and the. representatives Of Fair
banks. Cannon and Knox decided to with
draw on Monday all contests now on file be-
fore the national committee and to submit
them to the committee on credentials when
it is appointed by the temporary organita-
ton Of the convention Neither Hitchcock.
Phelps nor Slater, the three employees Of the
Taft boom factory in Washington who have
been sitting as proxies for the committee.
men from New Mexico. North Dakota and
Alaska. can be the proxies In the commit
tee on credentials.
The Bradley conferees decided to with
draw the contests on the ground that they
could not get fair treatment at the hands
Of Hitchcock Phelps and Statter, and they
refused to go on with what they say Is q
farce. AS each contest has come before
the committee the allies have formally pro-
tested against Hitchcock, Phelps and Stat
ter sitting as proxies for a State and two
Territories in which they have no residence.
and for whose Republican constituents they
have no authority to act; furthermore, that
the national committeeman elected by those
constituents had no right to turn over their
proxies to outsiders
The Taft people when they learned of
the decision OF t he Bradley conferees.
declared that it was an evidence Of weak
ness on the part Of the allies; that the allies
had not a leg to stand upon in the Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida and Georgia contest.
4 nd that certain influential allies had per
sonally admitted as much, and finally that
Major Bryan withdrew from the Georgia
case after admitting that he had no wit
nesses ready and no case to present to
the committee.
TAFT Mem RESENT HITcHcocK's CONDUCT.
However that may be, it is known that a
number of Taft national committeeman
object to the presence Of Hitchcock. Phelps
and Statter, and insist that Hitchcock has
overp.ayed his hand and has precpitated
a situation which precludes all possibility
OF his election as chairman Of the national
committee. Indeed, so bitter has the feel
ing grown against Hitchcock phelps and
Slater are looked upon merely as his
dummies) that Taft committeeman Of mark
in the affairs of'the party said tonight that
they would refuse reelection If Hitchcock
was to be chairman Of the committee to
conduct the campaign.
we will not serve on committee of
which Hitchcock is chairman they posi-,
lively declared, ~
With the action of the Bradley committee
to-day the importance of the sessions Of
the committee on credentials has increased, Z
and the sessions OF the national committee
from Monday on will be more OF less per-
functory. 1t will have clear field and no
opposition.
Hitchcock is getting it on all sides To-
night. 1t has been pointed out to him that
there was no necessity for him to have
played this three proxy game, and that
he has kicked up a scandal which cannot
help be without important results. He
was deeply ohagrined when he learned that
even Taftites on the COMMITTEES would re-
fuse reelection to the new COMMITTEES IL
there was even an idea that he is to be
chairman.
Among those who participated in this
Bradley conference were Senator Crane,
Senator Hemenway. Joseph B. Healing
and Representative Burke. .-.,,,-
1t developed to-day that there is to be
a monstrous struggle in the Repubii-
can national convention over the platform
on which the candidate of the convention
is to go before the country.
The defeat of Gov. Hoke Smith OF Georgia
for reelection, the foiiing Of Gov, Cummins
Of Iowa In his aspiration to succeed Senator
Allison at Washington, the marked asoep-
dency Of GOV. johnson Of Minnesota and
other evidences Of disspproyal OF the Rooss-
velt-Bryan harum scarume wildcat notions
of government have indicated to many here
that the Constitution Of the. United States
and the constitutions Of the States are the
only guides to sound political conduct.
The attacks Of Roosevelt and Bryan upon
the Supreme Court, the derisiye and brutal
policy adopted toward Judges Of profound
learning whose integrity 1t would be an in
suit to defend. the subversion OF constitu-
tional liberty to fantastic populistic and so-
cialstic theories. the ayoYed advancement
of political self to the detrimsnt and well
fare Of the nation, have been gone over here
by eminent Republicans, and others who
believe that the tide has turned and that
principles fapd not political dsmagogues
are TO be the testufss sf thu approaching
struggle for pationa supremacy. .S.6
Senator Lodge aud others close to Press-
dent Roosevelt have told their friends -
tht, - -, thAxx vs.h - xhak VTcA- -De.At.