The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-06-05
ANTI-TAFT MEN
FORM ALLIANCE
WILL URGE CLAIMS BEFORE MA
TtOhAL COMMITTEE AT HEAR
ING OF CONTESTS.
POLITICAL ACTIVITIES
Started in Earnest in Chicago Yester
day--Contests For Seating Dele
gates Most important Pre-
Convention Preceding.

Chicago June 4.--Poltical activity
commenced in earnest today. Cannon
headquarters We're permanently open
ied in the auditorium and announce
1 ment was made by number of poll,
! tcians friendly to candidates other
than Taft that Foraker headquarters
| viii be opened tonight or tomorrow in
the Great Northern Hotel
Chas. Taft Confident.
Chrales p. Taft. of Cincinnati, broth.
er of the secretary Of war came to
inounced that he expected theshrdluun
Chicago today and promptly an
nounced that he expected the secre-
tary to be nominated without diff
Guilty, on the first ballot He assert
ed there is no doubt in his mind that
jonly one ballot will be cast.
Vice presidential gossip was prom
inent today and for the first time the
Inames of Senator Dolliyer of Iowa,
and James s. Sherman, Of New York,
We're mentioned.
Estimates Overdrawn.
At Cannon headquarters II was de
clared that the estimates of strength
made by the Taft people were largely
Ioyerdrawn, and John Eversman, con
lldehtial man OF Congressman McKin.
ley, of Champaign, who Is in charge
of the headquarters at the present
tbaf tho illipnfc nunI |.
date would not only have more
strength than generally has been
credited to him, but that the TAFT peo
lple would not be able TO ahow more
than $50 votes on the first ballot.
The Republican national committee
will meet tomorrow at noon for the
purpose of hearing evidence in the
contests for seating delegates on the
Temporary roll,
/ Contests Most important.
| The number OF contests filed Is SO
large that their settlement easily has
become the most important of pre-
convention proceedings. The nomina
tion of Republican candidate for the
presidency hinges absolutely upon the
decision of the members OF the nation
al committee and the subsequent APP
Jroval of that decision by the creden
tals committee of the convention
Half the contests decided in favor
of Taft would result in his winning
o nthe first ballot, while a failure to
icapture this number unquestionably
would put the nomination in doubt.
Ant-Taft Controversy.
Realizing the necessity of keeping
a majority OF the contested delegates
out of the Taft column, the representa-
tives of other candidates have pooled
issues in most cases, and as allies,
will urge their claims before the ma
tlonal committee. The proceedings,
therefore, largely will be resolved into
a Taft and antlTaft controversy. As
far as the south is concerned and
lmost of the contests are in states
south OF the Mason and DIXON line
the interests of the allies are being
looked after by Major f. c. Bryan of
Washington, y. c.
He arrived In Chicago today, and
announced that he would base his ar
lgumeuts chiefly on the contention that
lin most southern states, the Taft
forces had disqualified negro voters
from participation In the state and
district conventions. and that the al
lies delegates had been selected al
conventions from which no class OF
race had been barred
Chairman News Plan.
II the program mapped out by Ma
tional Chairman New to govern the
proceedings of the committee In hear
ing the contC SITS is carried out, liz
tie opportunity for fine arguments OF
oratorical effect will be presented
This program will be submitted to the
committee for action Immediately up
o nthe session being called to order
tomorrow. II will provide for daily
meetings from 10 a. m. until 6 y. m
without recess for luncheon. Thirty
minutes for each side will be allowed
in state contests. including the seat.
ing Of delegates at large and their
alternates in each case. There are
eleven such contests. Fifteen minutes
on each side will be allowed in the
argument of each of the district con
tests This plan will undoubtedly
save mucr time for both the commit
tee and the convention.
Alabama First.
It is not likely that the committee
will be able TO dispose Of more than
| the Alabama contests tomorrow.
| These are regarded as the pivotal
: leases in the entire controversy.
While the question has not been
; fully determined it is expected that all
: contests will be heard In their alpha
betical order. although the state con
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