The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-06-10
LOUISIANA IS
SPLIT IN TWO
BUT THE BLACK AND TAM
voTEr5 MAY NOT VOTE FOR
TAFT.
ONLY FIVE MORE DAYS
Sixty Contests--At Yesterdays
fearing Taft Got ~
More Votes.

Chicago, June 9.-After working for
tour days. aud with Eve additional
ldass yet to come before the meeting
Iof the convention. the Republican com
mittee adjourned late today With two
lfifths of its contests decided This
lis based on the actual number Of eou-
TESTS fled sixty having yet to be
lheard, while foTty-one have been set
tied.
The committee today decided, six
lteen contests affecting thirty-six dele
gates. OF these twentyseven are
Taft men, and the remaining nine al
lof whom are black and tans" from
Louisiana, have tentatively agreed
that they VIII east their votes for
Taft
There is, however. no binding agree
ment to that effect.
Louisiana Split.
The contests decided today com
lprlsed the delegates at large IN Louis
lama and Mississippi, seven districts
nm IADhlHluHd tVittFh WHINE !" NS NAfN1
imost important'of the day, resulted In
la split delegation, the committee de
lciding on division OF twenty to thir
lty 10 seat both the lilly white or the
lTaft delegation. and the black and
Itans" with half vote for each. THIS
agreement was not reached until aftes
4 lrepsated conferences and mnoh apx-
lious telegraphing and teicphoning be
tween Chicago and Washington
1 To Reoroanize Party.
4 The decision finally reached by the
committee was carried out with thp
lful consent and approval OF both SEQ
rotary raft aud President Roosevelt.
II psosided that the Republican marty
I'm Lo.tlsiana shall be reorganized IN
der the direction or rorauTfttee NJ
three composed Of the chairman ser
IrotaFy and one member Of the incom
ling national committee, The commit
tee today passed a resolution Instruct,
iug the next national COMMITTEES 70
lnahe as this member, Pearl Wight
present national committeeman from
Louisiana,
VIII Vote for Taft.
An agreement was reached between
: the Taft and AntiTsft elements on
1.-THE committee and as later carried IN
nr effect by that body. was highly dis
pleasing both sides. II was original
!, ly supposed that the black and tan
! votes, II they had been seated as dele
gates, would be cast for Foraker. but
! after the committee had settled the
contest they announced that they
= were uninstructed and entered into
tentative arrangement BY virtue OF
= (which their votes will be cast Tor Tar.
Want Recognition.
They claimed that they were fight
ing for recognition Of their organiza'
ton aud that with them. all other
questions we're comparatively dwarfed.
During the latter part Of the after
noon when Chairman New was com.
= PEELED by business affairs to leave the
. committee. he called upon Judson W..
Lyons of Georgia. the only colored
Imam on the committee to preside.
Lyons presided during the hearing OF
the greater number of the Mississippi
contests and acquitted himself most
creiitsbly.
Vice Presidential Talk.
The opening Of headquarters for
John HAYS Hammond. of Massachu
setts. during the day. brought the vice
/
Coincident with Hammond's activity
+ came the movement in behalf Of Gov
ernor Guild of Massachusetts,.
The New York candidates, tentative
| and otherwise. are George y. Cortel-
Won secretary of the treasury Rep
D rcsentatives James s Sherman and !.
Sloat Fassett. Another possibility IS
? Franklin Murphy former governor of
:. New Jersey aud national committee
man from that state
From the west Senator Doliver. OF
Iowa. was most prominently mention
ed
Senator Burrows Of Michigan. who
lis to ne temporary chairman OF the
convention and Lieutenant Governor
sherman. of Illinois. also found sup
= porters among the politicians
Eastern Man Wanted.
There was strong general feeling
THAT an eastern man should be given
1.-The second place on the ticket This
sentiment was used by friends Of east
Iern candidates as the reason for. W
= their opinion. the elimination OF Illi-
a nojs Iowa aud Michigan possibilities
r IN addition II was pointed out that the
I political situation in Iowa is unsettled
r. because Of the recent struggle be
=, tween the Allison and Cummias fss
ltIons. and It would be unwise for ths
national party 20 take any step which
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