Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-11
STOCKHOLDERS
 IN CONVENTION
New York World


 IL Is claimed in Q Washington de spatch to the Globe that of the 9S0 delegates to the Chicago convention only 125 are federal officebolders and of these not more than ninety-seven are for Taft. This is in answer to the charge that the republican na tional convention will be an office holders convention.
 The work of the federal brigade is best illustrated in the southern states, where the republican organization is kept alive by patronage. Accepting the Globes figures, Alabama's twen- ty-delegates are instructed for Taft and sixteen are federal officeholders; sixteen of Arkansas eighteen dele gates are instructed for Taft and eight are federal oficeholders; FlOTi- da's ten delegates are instructed for Taft and seven are federal office holders; twenty-four of Kentucky's twenty-six delegates are instructed for Taft and seven are federal officehold- CTS: louisiana's eighteen delegates are instructed for Taft and six are federal officeholders; North Carolina's twenty-four delegates are instructed for Taft and eight are federal office holders; Teunessee's tWenty-four del~ egates are instructed for Taft and six are federal officeholders; the thir- ty-six delegates from Texas are in structed for Taft and seven are fed eral ofiiceholders; Virginia's twenty four delegates are instructed for Taft and seven are federal officeholders. Here are nine southern states with POP delegates practically unanimous for Taft, of whom seventy-two, or ov- er one-third, are federal oficeholdeTs.
 Georgia's twenty-six delegates, of whom fifteen are federal oficehoid- CTS and sixteen of South Carolina's s eighteen delegates, of whom five are federal oficeholdeTs, are uninstructed, but the Taft people count confident ly on getting them
 It has never been said that every Taft delegate Is a federal officehoid- CT, but southern states of which the delegations are over one-third federal ofFiceholders make up nearly two fifths of the tota! strength claimed for Taft in the convention.
 The activity of the federal machine is reflected only in part by the fig ures of the Chicago convention. There are many notorious cases where gov ernment employees have run state and district conventions in the interest of Mir. Roosevelt's personal candidate. Collector of Internal Revenue John G. Capers, according to the Tribune's de spatches, after a free fight took abso- Iute control of the South Carolina state convention at Columbia on April 2S, which elected legates-amOng them Capers-uninstTuct but favor able to the administration At the Florida state convention February 6 the administration faction, after talk ing possession of the hall by force, elected three federal Officeholders and National Committeeman Coombs as Taft delegatcs-at-large In the repub' Iican state convention of Alabama there were fifty-four pOstmasters, one superintendent of mails, one letter carrier, one distributing clerk, one watchman, six United States mar sl1als and deputy marshals one cierk of court, three internal revenue agents. three United States district attorneys, one receiver of public mon eys and three referees in bankruptcy Similar conditions ruled in Missouri Iowa. Arkansas and in New York city where the Parsons support of Cover nor Hughes candidacy is a sham.
 In spite of Taft's great public ser vices and eminent ability, does any body believe he could ever be nomi hated without the intervention o Theodore Roosevelt and the work O the great army of federal Oficehold CTS under MT. ROOseyelt's persona commando