The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-09
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 such claims, and that he had person. l ally received one of the letters. MT. Bradley was defeated in his case.
 and declined to continue with the two remaining Kentucky contests. He said 1 that he would carry that to the Cre- | dentials Committee of the convention.
 The committee promptly seated the Taft l delegation.
 l The effort to secure division of the | committee occurred in the hearing of | the contest from the Fifth Kentucky l District. John W. McCulloch, who | holds the proxy of John W. Yerkes | the committeeman from Kentucky, de- | manded division on the question of whether the Taft or the Fairbanks dele | gation should be seated. Charles H. | Scott of Alabama responded by rising, and the two appealed in vain for twen- | ty members to rise and be counted. They both stood for 6 moment and | the sat down.
 @rired Of Brace Game.v | When MT. Bradley came out of the
 committee room he accosted MT. Htch-
 cock with the following: 'rm tired of this brace game you are running.
 won't bolt the ticket myself. but I
 can't speak for Kentucky" He expressed himself with great bit- | terness. Mir. Hitchcock smiled as he
 replied, I'm sorry. Governor, but
 don't see how we could both be pleas | ed."
 | Representative William B. Mckinley,
 manager of the Presidential boom of i Joseph c. Cannon, arrived today to
 take charge of the Cannon forces Late
 today he issued brief statement in
 which he said:
 The action of the Taft people on
 the National Committee simply demon
 strates the weakness of their state- ments that they had enough votes to nominate MT. Taft without the South
 ern delegates or those involved in the
 contests. Our figures given out the | other day are correct, and as the sit-
 uation now stands we have every req
 son to believe that no candidate will
 have enough to nominate him on the | first ballot"
 A. E. Fisher of Ohio has been ap- pointed Assistant Secretary of the Re- I publican National Committee. He succeeds Frank H. Hitchcock, whose retirement from the position gave rise to a rumor that he had been
 deposed by Chairman New. This re- port was denied, the announcement be-
 ing made that the new arrangements are the result of MT. Hitchcock's ina- biIity to attend to. the work of the secretaryship in addition to his other
 duties.
 hitchcock Did Not Sit. | Frank H. Hitchcock, the Taft man ager. did not sit today as member of the committee. Solomon Luna. Of
 New Mexico, whose proxy Mir. Hitch
 cock has held during the previous ses-
 sions of the committee. having ar- rived.
 After a conference with number or his friends. Hitchcock decided to with
 draw despite the fact that he had re- ceived a telegram from Alex Mckenzie, the National committeeman from
 North Dakota asking that Hitchcock represent htm. MT. Hitchcock also received teie-
 gram from Chas A Carey. of oregon,
 sending his proxy to the Taft man. ager. Mir. Hitchcock made 1t over to Representative James McLachlan of
 California.
 The "allies' were jubilant over the
 withdrawal of Hitchcock and claimed that they had forced him from the committed Hitchcock said. however,
 that his retirement was in no way connected with the protests against
 him which have been filed by the allies.
 He further declared that if an occasion should arise making such action de- sirable and necessary he would as-
 sume another proxy.
 When asked what occasion could
 arise to make 1t imperative for him to act again as a member of the com | absence of Taft men from the meetings of the committee and their inability to obtain representatives who would continue to look after the interests of
 Secretary Taft
 The question of a compromise. par ticuIarly in relation to the contests
 in Kentucky and Tennessee. was re-
 vived today but the Taft managers were not apparently In a melting mood. and declared that they would continue to seek their instructed delegation.
 Charles c. Phelps. and Arthur F.
 Statter. against whom protests were
 made similar to those against Hitch cock contiued to sit today as members of the committee
 The hearing in the third Florida dis-
 trict lasted but a short time when the committee decided it in favor of
 the Taft people.
 The committee then took up the
 three Georgia districts according to
 program.
 Avoided nm Accident. At 11:I5 o'clock the committee was | forced to take a sudden adjournment | in order to avoid an accident which
 might have seriously injured a>number | of it's members.
 The room in which the committee meetings have so far been held is In | the Coliseum Annex, and was made by the erection of several temporary partitions. A high wind. blowing | from the southwest, caused a terrific drauRht through the buildings and
 weakened one of these pieces of frame
 work. It was tottering and just about
 to fall upon the heads of the commit teemen when the impending accident was noticed by Sergeant-at-Arms Will
 liam F. Stone. He at once asked
 Chairman New to order an adjournment | of the meeting and the members hast | fly left the room. Carpenters were I quickly summoned and the partition l was in a short time properly braced Land supported. The committee took a
 recess until the work was finished. 4 proposition to compromise the