The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-12

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Chicago. June 1.-THE Republican ma
tionel committee today reached Texas in
the Alphabetical list of states. while de-
cidinA contests for seats on the temper
airy RI N call The work today settled
cases Involving two delegations-at-large
and twenty-One districts. a total of fifty
delegates OF these, Taft is certain to
have fOINy-nine. and may possibly have
fifty. The uncertain delegate halls from
the Eighth district of Tennessee. and it
is not POSITIVELY known how he VII vote
He belonged, however. to the oliver fac
ton in thaa state, the majority of whom
were instrtk cted for Taft.
The work. of the committee today eX-
cited much Hess interest than that of any
previous sesS sion. The visitors, who were
numerous OIQ former occasions, were for
the most pairt absent today, and a
rule. only sufh people visited the Coli
scum where Abe committee is sitting. as
had BUSINESS toy transact. The South Caro-
lima contests wdre the first called, they
being from the First and Fifth districts
Both of these were given 10 Taft after
short hearings.
fractional Fis hit in Tennessee.
The hearing of the contests from Ten
nessee occupied by far the greater part
Of the day each side being allowed two
hours for presentation of evidence and
arguments. The fight here grew out of
a fractional struggle pver local issues in
Tennessee, all of the Hale element be-
ing instructed for Taft and the major
ity of their opponents, who were dubbed
the Oliver delegates. being also for the
secretary of war. The result was that
the Taft men were seated in all but the
Eighth district, where the delegation was
divided at the earnest request OF Natlonai
Committeeman BrOwnlow who asked that
il be done in order TO give the Republic
ans of that district AT. improved chance of
defeating the present DEMOCRATIC con-
gresham. The splitting OF the delega-
ton. however is not liRely to make any
difference 10 Taft. inasmuch as none of
the Oliver delegates was instructed for
anybody else and the greater number OF
them had been directed tOhvote for him.
Hatchetmen on Both Sides.
The hearing Of these cases produced
the only picturesque scenes of the day
Jesse NJ. LittletOn. counsel for. the Oliver
DELEGATES. asserted that the 4ale men
came into the hall armed and dis
played a huge Ratchet. with which he
said the lives of the Oliver men had been
threatened.
Newell Sanders. chairman of the state
central committee, supplied a counter ir-
ritant to the Littleton Ratchet exhibition,
BY telling in his argument. of the des-
perate fight which the Hale men were
compelled TO make before they We're al
lowed in the hall, and of how big col
ored man was about TO chop him with
an Oliver Ratchet before some of 'the
Hale men put the negro suddenly pto
a state of coma. His account OF the
struggle in the convention hall was re-
ceived by the committee with much ~
Texas Cases Settled.
The hearing Of the Texas cases came
next and in these the contests over the
seats of the delegates-at-large. and from
the Third, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth,
Thirteenth. Fourteenth, Fifteenth and
Sixteenth districts were consolidated, and
after a brief hearing the delegates from
the faction headed by Cecil A. Lyon. the
present national committeeman from
that state. were seated. The Reorgan-
lied Republicans" who contested in eV-
cry one of these districts. were complete
" defeated. not receiving a single dele
gate After this decision the committee
adjourned until tomorrow.
II is understood. although no official
announcement TO that effect was made
that the contests in the Second and
Twelfth districts will be withdrawn and
/ that the arguments only VIII concern the
First Fifth Eighth, Tenth and Eleventh
districts
The delegates seated today from Texas
/ are not instructed, but Congressman
/ Lyon. who directs affairs generally, as
serted that there is no doubt that their
votes will be cast for TAFT.
/ Ii is the earnest desire of the commit
! Tee 10 finish its work by tomorrow
night. and, in order 10 facilitate this, il
/ has been decided that the remaining con-
/ tests from Texas are 10 be consolidated,
as will also be those from Virginia.
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