Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-06-12
MORE IAFT
Republican National Commit.
tee Adds so Votes to
SeCfelafy's List
Delegations Are Beginning to
Arrive Cannon and Knox
in Race Yet

Chicago, June 1.-THE Republican
national committee today reached
Texas in the alphabetical list of
states while deciding contests for
seats on the temporary roll call Of
the convention. The work today set
tied cases involving two delegations
at large and twenty-one districts,
total of fifty delegates. OF these
Taft is certain to have forty-nine, and
may possibly have the fifty. The un-
certain delegate halls from the Eighth
district of Tennessee and it is not
positively known how he will vote.
He belongs, however. to the Oliver
faction in that state, the majority Of
which were instructed for Taft.
When the committee adjourned for
the day, counting the number secured
| by Taft today as fifty, his managers
claimed the total number Of delegates
ON temporary roll call actually in
structed, and not including delegates
for Taft either by Endorsement or
declaration, to be 554. According to
the estimates made by the allies the
number is 539, this estimate being
| based on the latest figures issued by
the allies. H "a
Pho South Carolina contests were
first called, they being from the First
and Fifth districts, and both Of these
were given to Taft after short hear
ings. The hearing of the contest
from Tennessee occupied by far the
greater part of the day, each side be
ing allowed two hours for presenta-
tion of evidence and arguments. The
Fight here grew out of fractional
4 struggle over local issues in Ten
nessee, all Of the Hale element being
instructed for Taft, and a majority of
their opponents, WHO were dubbed
the OLIVER bunch" being also for
Taft. The result was that the Hale
men were seated in all but the Eighth
1 district, where the delegation was di.
1 vided. The splitting of the delega-
/ tons, however, is not likely. to make
any difference to Taft. S 81 Il
The hearing Of these cases pro
duced the only picture scenes Of the
day. Jesse M. Littleton, counsel for
i the Oliver delegates, asserted that the
i Hale men came into the hall armed
4 and displayed huge Ratchet, with
which he said the lives of the Oliver
men had been threatened. Newell
Sanders, chairman of the state com
mittee, supplied the counter irritant
4 to Littleton, Hale's counsel, by tell.
| ing in his argument OF desperate
fight which the Hale men were com
PEELED to make before they we're al
lowed in the hall, and of how big
colored man was about to chop him
with an Oliver Ratchet before some
of the Hale men put the negro sud
) denly into state of coma.
!, The hearing of the Texas cases
4! came next, and in these the contest
Eof delegates at large and from ths
II Third, the Fourth, the Sixth, the Sew
i enth, the Ninth the Thirteenth, ths
. Fourteenth, the Fifteenth and Six
teenth districts were consolidated
and after a brief hearing the dele
gates from the faction headed b!
. Cecil A. Lyon present national com
! mitteeMan from that state were sc
|lected. After this decision the com
: mittee adjourned until tomorrow.
q 1t is understood although no officia
announcement to that effect wa
!. made, that the contests in the Secon,
J. and Twelfth districts will be with
! drawn and that the arguments onl
will concern the First, the Fifth. tn
Eighth, the Tenth and the Eleventh
districts. The delegates seated toda
s. from Texas are not instructed, bu
! Committeeman Lyon asserted tina
I there was no doubt that the vote
will be cast for Taft.
III It is the earnest desire Of the con
mittee to finish Its work by tomorro'
Z night and in order to facilitate bus
{ ness it has been decided that the n
naming contests from Texas are |