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ALLIE" PROTEST;
Taft wins BALLOTS
FAIRBANKS, HUGHES, CANNON
AND KNOX MEN REFUSE
TO BE IGNORED.
ADD MORE DELEGATES
TO SECRETARY'S LIST
Republican National Committee De.
cides- Seat Contests for Leading
Candidate-Georsia and Florida
Men Given Certified Credentials.

cides- Seat Contests for Leading
Candldate-Georgia and Florida
Men Given Certified Credentials.
Chicago, June 8.-Representatives
Of FIVE states other than Ohio, which
have candidates for the Republican
presidential nomination, will make
formal protest to the Republican ma
tional convention on the manner in
which they are at present, according
to their opinion, being ignored by the
dominating elements In the Republi-
can party. They claim that they have
126 electoral votes, which number
lacks only 70 of being able to name
| president of the United States, and
that they ARE being ridden down in
the interests of states which can not
furnish single electoral vote to the
Republican party" At the meeting,
4 at which action was taken Saturday
were Messrs. Healing. manager for
1 Vice President Fairbanks, Humphrey,
for Gov. Hughes, Mckinley of Illinois,
manager for the Cannon candidacy,
Senator Penrose and Representative
Burke of Pennsylvania, and Senator
Hemenway of Indiana.
Shot at G. o. P. Machine.
They declared after the adjourn
ment of their conference that they
consider the states which they repre-
sent as the backbone Of the Republi-
can party, and, therefore entitled to
| a respectful hearing" They charge
, that the "Roosevelt-Taft machine" Is
Ignoring them entirely in the interests
, of the southern states, and declare
that they will make formal protest
to the Republican national conven-
ton in the interests of the party.
They will continue their fight before
the national committee, and before the
: committee on credentials, and ire
: spective of the results before those
two bodies they will carry the matter
l upon the floor of the convention.
: G. o. P. Committee Meets.
The Republican national committee
renewed its deliberations Saturday
with much smaller attendance Of
outsiders and far less apparent in
terest in the proceedings. The first
e contest was that of the delegates-at
: large from Florida, and this was fol
v lowed by the hearing of the evidence
c in the contests in the Second and
;, Third Florida districts. National Com
mitteeman Coombs of Florida headed
the Taft faction, and was assisted by
Judge Joseph e. Lee, colored man OF
q Jacksonville, the opening argument
%1aa HNof AIT, ~
). M. B. Macfarlane of Tampa. The
r. speakers for the anti-Taft element
r were j, N. Stripping and j. H. Dicker
son. Next on the program after the
Florida contest were the five districts
from Georgia. 1t was originally
thought that contests would be filed
: in six districts from this state, bu
e one of them failed to qualify and was
d dropped.
d Wins Florida Contest.
ell The national committee decided the
W contests over the seats Of delegates
at-large, and in the. second district Of
Florida, In favor of the Taft faction
= headed by National Committeeman
Combs. Much bitterness was shown
in the arguments before the commit
Il tee, Mr.. Stripping, who headed thu
o fight for the anti-Taft people, charging
g that Butler Ames of Massachusetts
e was responsible for the issuance O
a tickets to the Florida convention
!, which Mr.. STRIPPING declared had beel
forged. When the motion to decide IL
favor of the Taft delegates was mad
at the conclusion of the hearing, Com
mitteeman Scott of Alabama move,
as an amendment that the anti-Taf
y delegation be seated This motion wa
= seconded by Committeeman Crane o
n Massachusetts, but on viva voc
d vote the amendment was lost, the orig
q inal motion prevailed, and the Tai
# delegates were seated.
More Delegates for Taft.
On the call for the hearing in tn,
: contest for delegates-at-large in Geor
> gia, the anti-Taft claimants failed tt
II appear and the Taft delegates wer,
seated by default. The Second dis
le trict was then taken UP. The commit
lie tee decided after hearing the evidenc
it in the Fifth district of Georgia t
, seat the Taft delegates. The vote wa
- uudulHlOuS. Il U6 contests IN the FITS
= and Second Georgia districts wer
le passed until Monday and the first ev
L dence taken in the contest in Thu
state WAS in the Third district. Whel
'e the hearing was called in the Thir,
!, Georgia district the anti-Taft factor
e announced that 1t was not ready tt
Al proceed, and this district was ais
l. passed until Monday, the Fifth distric
:, being called.
- The Taft delegates in the Eight
9 and Eleventh Georgia districts wer
% seated, the decision in the former be
Ing on a vote by the committee an
the antiTaft people from the Eleyent
district failing to appear
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