The Cairo bulletin., 1908-06-06
ALABAMA CONTESTS DECIDED I'M
FAvC.. OF TAFT DELEGATES
YESTERDAY
PROTEST IN WRITING
Filed With National Committee BY
Anti-Taft Men 10 Keep His
Managers Of Committee
Held Proxies.

Nhith6pg JHtiE j. w a1lHGui Fbft
s!calls the Republican national commit
! atee today decided the contests from
Alabama and Arkansas. involving
tWfnty-four seats In tne Repub,iela
national conyentisn IN favor of t.
. delegates instructed, for Taft The
victory for the Taft. .orces was swetpg
ing, net even "a division bsing re.
iquired to determine .1e. Will OF the
eommitee The contests from Flor
ida, Georgia and kentucky vii be
heard tomorrow. the Total number.of
seats affected being "a. @g
| The proceedings today would have
been devoid Of Int est had Ii not
been for an - III To prevent Frank
II. Hitchcock. Taft's manager, Arthur
r. "'atter former assistant treasury
Isecretary aud Charles G. Phelps, of
Washington, both assistants To
Hitchcock. from sitting In judgm ut
ION certain contests. These men held
the proxies OF members OF the ma
tional committee from New Mexico,
4 Alaska aud North Dakota. respeetige
| ly Their entrance Into the exeeu-
| tive session OF tho nationai comt'es
provoked Joseph b. Healing. United
States attorney for the district OF Id
diana, manager for Fairbanks, and
vania, who acts In a simi ar capaci Y
for Senator Knox. 81 make vehement
protests from the outside
Protest in Writing.
After hurried conferences between
the representative, D. all auti.T Il
forces 1t was decided TO reauee ,tha
protests to writing and have them
presented 10 the committee before
the contests were taken up.
This was done and the debate pre-
ceded some time.
The debate was finally shut on
BY A. NJ. Stevenson, member from
Colorado. who moved 10 lay the pre-
test on the table.
The motion carried, Scott, OF A'a-
hama, an anti-Taft man. being the
only member who opposed II on the
viva voce vote which was taken The
Alabama contests affecting four dele.
gates at large and two delegates from
each congressional district twenty
two In all. We're then taken up,
Alabama important.
The Alabama cases, by agree
ment, were consolidated and two
hours given each side II was re-
garded as the most important of all
because of the fact that
twenty-five delegates were involved.
and 1t is first In the list OF states
that will be called IN the convention
when the nominations are being
made. The candidate securing the
delegation from Alabama Is sure ID
be the first placed In nominate n be
cause the state having no candidate
of its own, always Yields to that state
the candidate favored by
Alabama
After listening to the arguments OF
both sides the committee went into
executive session.
Taft Delegates Seated.
All except the members of the ma
tional committee were excluded from
The room at 4:l5 p. m, aud a few
minutes later ii was learned that the
RAFT delegates na~ been seated
There was no demand for a roll ca
ind on a yivavoce expression II is
lald that only Scott, of Alabama. the
an voted for the seating OF
he delegates chosen by his faction.
The Arkansas contests. involving
NO delegates from the Fifth con
,ressional district. was then taken up,
Only half an hour was devoted TO 1t
md the committee voted without
dissenting voice TO seat the delega-
ions instructed for TAFT
Tonight meeting was held in the
'oom of Senator Hemenway of To-
llama. at the Auditorium Annex.
ghieh was attended by representa-
fves of Knox, Fairbanks and Cannon.
A'statemeut was prepared which
avs ta.effeet: Contests between
should ae considered and
ecided by chose regularly and prop
rly chosen for that purpose and By
hem only when they can honestly
onsider the merits of each case In
judicial frame of mind
The statement -urther declares
hat If Taft has. as his friends claim.
majority on the national commit
ee. the presence of Hitchcock. Stat
or and Phelps on that committee Is
and IL ON the other haai
he vote on the committee Is close,
he presence of the three men IS I'm
roner as II le1ves the IN miaat'on
T a presidential Candidate 10 the
eeision of one campaign manager
nd two assistants.