The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-06-12
/ taft GIVEN
MORE VOTES
DECISIONS or NATIONAL COM.
MlTrEE GIVE Him 5o4 ON tenn
PoRARY roll CAL.
ONO CONTESTS up
Compromise Affected Giving Foraker
and TAFT Delegates Half Vote Each
III one District-committee Will
Complete Work Friday-Mueh Work
Left Tor Credentials Committee.

Complete Work Friday-Much Work
Left Tor Credentials Committee.
Chicago, June 10.-The republican
national committee b. its work today
decided contests in two states at large
SEde IA districts, the net result being
that So full and two nue-half votes
were ADDED to the number already
possessed by William II. Taft, ami
two and one-half votes were given to
Senator Joseph B. Foraker.
The committee has get to consider
contests at large in fedr states, and
a total Of SO district contests and two
from the territories, involving a total
oi 81 votes.
Previous to the meeting of the
committee the number of Taft in
structed delegates was 2S7. The work
If the committee as far Al it has
progressed has given him III addi-
t,onal Votes, or a total Of 5n4 IN the
temporary roll call.
The chief interest of the l.v center
cd il the Ohio contests, Of w.sch there
were four. in the third, s:yin, tenth
and four anti districts la.t was
given the delay ates in til. mad. tenth
ard fourt .ontn districts, ana in the
sixth district both delegations were
seated with half a vote each.
Compromise for Foraker.
The Foraker men made a strong
light in this district beause 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. i. Gilchrist
OF Lebanon, while the Taft men were
II. ". Brown of Hillsboro and Charles
~. Hildebrandt Of Wilmington. The
latter faction has been recognized for
the last four years Is regular.
The Ohio contests have been in
charge Of Arthur /. Vorys and Myron
T. Herrick, both Of whom are dele.
gates at large, Governor Herrick be.
ing in addition a member Of the ma
tional committee. All contests out.
side Of Ohio have been under the SUI.
pervision Of Frank H. Hitchcock.
When the arguments had been con.
cluded in the sixth district hearing
today several Taft men Of the national
committee applied to MIR. Hitchcock
for further information. He referred
all questions to Myron T. Herrick,
and Mr.. Herrick simply announced
that he intended to vote for the seat
ing Of the Taft delegates. The motion
to divide the delegation between Taft
and Foraker came fromaSenator Lodge
Of Massachusetts and was carried
without strenuous opposition.
Taft Delegates Sustained.
The contests in the third and tenth
districts were based upon fractional
fights, both sides 81 ~ to the dispute be.
ing instructed for Taft. IN tie thir-
teenth the action Of the Taft dele
gates ia holding a convention Of their
own was sustained and they were
seated on the temporary roll call.
The days proceedings ended with
the hearing Of contests from the elev-
enth and twelfth Missouri districts,
after these coming the North Carolina
contests, which were over the dele.
gates at large and seven districts.
These we're not complicated and were
heard separately. Ohio followed North
Carolina, where only one contest, that
Of the delegates at large, was heard
This went to Taft by default, and the
hearing Of the cases from the frs
and fifth South Carolina districts
were passed until tomorrow.
/ w Days More work. =
It is the hope Of the national com
mittee that it will be able to finish 1t,
work by Friday night. To this emf
the members will make every posi-
BILE effort to induce the warning fac
lions to consent to the consolidation
OF their cases.
Much important work is slated TO
the committee onsSunday and Monda.
and it is earnestly desired that til.
hearings may be over in ample tim
to allow SUFFICIENT attention to be pal
to these matters.
With the end Of the labor OF tn
national committee fairly well i
sight, discussion turned today to tn
possible makeup Of the credential
committee Of the convention to whic
many OF the contests will probably b
appealed. The talk centered largel
around Harry NJ. Daugherty OF Colun
bus, O., who arrived in the city t
day.
Work for Credentials Committee.
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