The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1908-06-24
STEAM ROLLER"
JUMPS BRADLEY
And FIattens Him Out
Several Times.
THE SENATOR TALKS IN VAIN
Tells Credentials Committee
of the ROttenneSS in
His Party.

Chicago, June 1S.-Before the Gre
dentials Committee of the Republican
National Convention a battle royal
took place between the warning fac
tional leaders in Kentucky. Senator
elect w. o. Bradley and William Mar
shall Bullitt were pitted against each
other, and the dirty linen of the Ken
lucky Republicans was washed out be-
forS the national leaders of the party
Senator Bradley accused "a member
of the Louisville BOARD Of Public
Safety" with having employed men
to repeat" in the now notorious pri-
mary of April %. Bullitt's face
flushed with anger, and when his
time came to reply, started to make
the charge that Bradley had said that
Taft, If nominated, could not carry
Kentucky.
Bradley asked IL there was any
such matter in the record, and when
informed that there was not, Senator
Fulton, of Oregon, told the young
Louisville politician that the COM
mittee did not care to hear any such
details of the Kentucky controversy.
Senator Bradley sat with his back
to Bullitt during his argument. SEN
atU Bradley said:
81 am here to inform the members
of this committee of my party that
there never was primary so corrupt
and so foul as the one held in Louis
willie on April 20. 1 am here to say
that there never could be one equal to
it iE this respect"
When the first district was called
William j.. Deboe spoke for himself
and Adolph Well, the contesting Fair
banks delegate from the Fifth dis
trict. Dr.CH. Linn and J. H. McHart
spoke for the Taft delegates, Linn and
DI. Frank Boyd. Pointing his fin
yer at Deboe, McHart said:
THE rules of the Republican par
ty of Kentucky were framed to pre-
vent the violence Of such men as your
self. and you know It,"
Senator Reed Smoot, OF Utah, rush.
ed to Deboe's defense. the members
of the committee pacing the floor and
showing considerable nervousness, but
Deboe remained calm and simply de-
nounced the allegations of the Taft
men as false and malicious. In exc
cutlve session Linn and Boyd, the
Taft delegates, were seated
In the Fifth district case Bradley
charged the Taft men with ballot
box stufflng, repeating and the en-
ployment of dive-keepers and crap
shooters at the polls. Bullitt simply
said that Col. NJ. B. Belknap and Col.
Andrew NJ. Cowan held the regular
credentials, and that the Republican
State convention of Kentucky and the
Republican National Committee had
sustained their contention. The vote
was taken and Belknap and Cowan
were seated.
In the Fifth district case, Bradley
peared for the contestng Fairbanks
delegates and Bullitt for r. P. Ernst
and j. L. Mcpherson, the Taft men.
Again the big steam roller got into
operation and Ernst and Mcpherson
were seated.
When the Eleventh district was
called, +. S. Helburn, of Middlesboro,
one of he Taft delegates, went after
Bradley, and some members of the
committee applaudcd him. Again the
roller came along and Helburn and T.
). Combest, the two Taft delegates,
were given CHER seats. This made
the victory of the Taft men in Ken
lucky final and complete. Late last
night Senator Bradley said:
THE steam roller went over ME
smoothly tonight. | have had sew
eral experiences with that steam roller
of IIitchcock's since the National Com
mittee went into session and am now
crushed so flat tina, it passes over
me without any discomfort"