The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-06-12
TAFT MAJORITY
NOW APPARENT
FIGHT OVER CONTEST PRACTlC.
ALLY ENDED.
CONTEQTC Cit TO NlNETV-EOlIP
CONTESTS CUT TO NINETY-FoUR
ANTE ONVENTIoN WORK is NOW
ON IN EARNEST.
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ON DECK
Chicago Scene Of Ante Convention
Work-Hughes, Fairbanks, La Fol.
lette and Cannon Boomers Get Busy.
Vice Presidential Situation.

lette and Cannon Boomers Get Busy
Vice Presidential Situation.
Chicago. June ll.-Only nncty-four
contests remain to be settled by the
republican national committee and
interest has begun to center in the
various bcoms of candidates.
1t is apparent that Tait now has Il
clear majority and the fight over con
tests Is practically at an end
The boomers for Hughes, Fairbanks,
La Toilette and Cannon began bust.
ness today
\ numebr Of members of both
houses Of congress are now in the
city and antc-couvcntiun work is on
in earnest
Chicago, June ll.--Inc RcpD 1lican
national committee decided contests
In two states at large and fourteen dis.
triCts, the net results being that thir
ty-three full and two Onchalf votes
were added To the number already pos
sesSed by William H. TAFT and two
one-hnlf votes were given to Senator
Aoseph b. Foraker.
The committee has yet to consider
contests at large in four states and
a total of thirty-eight district con.
tests and two from the territories, in.
volving n total of 81 votes.
Previous TO the meeting of the com
mittee the number of Taft-instructed
delegates was 3S7. The work of the
committee as far as it has progressed
has given him III additional votes, or
a total of 5O4 in the temporary roll
call.
Interest in Ohio Contests.
The chief interest of the day cen.
tered in the Ohio contests, of which
there were four. in the Third. Sixth,
Tenth and Thirteenth districts. Taft
was given the delegates in the Third,
Tenth and Thirteenth districts, and in
Che Sixth district both delegations
were seated, with half u vote each.
The Foraker men made a strong
fight in this district because it was
the old home of the senator and they
were anxious to secure its votes for
him. The Foraker delegates are Mark
Shoup of Xenia and r. l. GilChrist Of
Lebanon The Taft men are II. NJ.
Brown of HillsbOrO and Charles q.
Hidebrandt OF Wilmington. The lat
ter faction has been recognized for
the last four years as regular.
The motion to divide the delegation
between the Taft and the Foraker
men came from Senator Lodge of Mas
sachusetts and was carried without
strenuous opposition.
with the end of the labor of Sle ma
tlofM committee fairly we'll in sight
discussion turned to the possible make
I'D OF the credentials committee of the
convention, to which many contests
will probably be appealed. The talk
conferred largely around Harry Nj
Daugherty of Columbus, o. Nj
Daugherty is slated for the credcn-
tiaIs committee from his state and it
was general gossip that he may be
chosen chairman of the committee
when il is made up next Tuesday.
Taft Favors Nc Candidate.
There was sudden cessation of aC-
tiVity regarding the vice presidential
situation This was largely due to
NlS announcement lunN' ny ii"Hh -
hitchcock that the Taft forces would
NOT take part in any campaign for
the second place on the ticket. The
headers of the allies" adopted the at
titude that it had not been customary
for the party to consider the vice
presidency until after the first place
on the ticket has been filled and that
there was no present reason to depart
from this precedent What discussion
Was heard conferred largely about Sen
ntor Deliver of Iowa and Secretary
CortHyou Lafayette Young, one OF
the delegates at large from Iowa, said
that the friends of Senator DOlliver
in his own state were not anxious to
see him leave the ranks of the sena'
tors for the purpose of presiding over
the senate He said further that he
had received promises from some OF
the energetic friends OF the senator
outside of Iowa to cease asitatlng his
name as a candidate. The IreDIs OF
Governor Guild seemed satisfied with
the results OF their work thus far and
there was no announcement forthcom'
ing from the headquarters established
for John Hays Hammond