The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-07
SIXTEEN TAFT MEN GET SEATS Florida and Georgia
 Delegations. HOT WORDS ARE PASSED Chubb and Stripling Came Near
 Blows. Movement to Give Negroes More Recog- nftion in Republican conven- taon Is not Received With
 Much Enthusissm. 

Chicago, June 6.--Sltxeen more Taft delegates were added to the temporary roll call of the Republican National Convention today as the result of the Determination of contests from Florida and Georgia.
 The opposition to Taft failed to score and the slate was wiped clean in fa- vor of the delegates instructed for the Secretary Of War.
 One Florida District, the Third. and three Georgia districts. the First. Sec- ond and Third, were passed over until Monday because representatives of the anti-Taft delegations were not ready to proceed. Counsel for the delegations Instructed Tor Secretary Taft moved the postponement and announced that they did not desire to take "snap judg- inent.''
 man New and the interference of friends was all that prevented a per- sonal encounter between principals in the Florida State contest. The pro- ceedings were enlivened by the asser- ton that Representative Butler Ames. of Massachusetts, who is said to have engineered the anti-Taft fight in Flor ida, was responsible for the use of al- legged forged tickets of admission to the State Convention. The charge was made in the form of an admission by former United States District Attorney J. N. Stripping, one of the anti-Taft contestants who spoke in opposition to the seating of the Taft delegation. It created a distinct sensation.
 The Forged Tickets.
 The claim that forged tickets had been used for the purpose of packing the convention hall had been made by Henry S. Chubb, State chairman, and one of the delegates at large instruct ed to vote for the nomination of Sec- retary Taft. When MT. Stripling. of tbe opposing delegation, which favored fhe IaominatIon of Senator Forakers arose to reply. his attention was d. .rected to the charge oy Frank Sf efreeter. of New Hampshire.
 asrhe charge has been made that foreed tickets were used by your supp norters in gaining admission to the r6nventfonr r said Mir. Streeter, and he followed the statement with the direct question, DO you know where those tickets came from ana now they came 4o be used ?s <
 MT. stripling did not reply until he r0as reminded by Mir. Streeter that his reply was awaited.
 "a. am under the impression that they were obtained at the suggestion or Butler Ames. who was ,ss snsn III 2s nss gustine," said MT stripping TIC was not questioned further. ...
 psnraaentatiye Ames was in Florida
 uraIl as in several other Scutnern states prior to the conventions neio 10 name delegates to the Nationai con vention. .x.u .h {. forraa tickets were used in Florida there was made public today the story of the printing of those over Wnlcn fha controversy has arisen IL appears that the original tickets were printed in Jacksonville at the direction ot state chairman Chubb. After he had se- cured inc tickets, 1t Is said that a rep resentative of the people opposed to tha fsoonnhs-Chubb faction visited the same printing shop and said MT. Cnupp wanted an additional 200 tickets. Tney were struck off by the unsuspecting printer. and charged to MT ChuOo' account,
 For convenience the form used by MT. Chubb was the admit bearer" va riety, this being for the benefit Of some of the negro delegates who could not read. Therefore. the alleged spurious tickets were not different from the genuine and the doorkeepers at the convention had no recourse but to ad- init any person possessing one or the tickets, The members of the anti-Taft faction had the foresight to reach the hall first and they were in full control when the Coombs -Chubb delegates arr rived. The latter were compelled 10 70 elsewhere to hold their convention Thev said they were outwitted by "Yankee trickery;" what they meant by the term was shown by the disclosure today.
 The altercation between representa- tives of rival factions in the Florida contest threatened for a time to be the most serious incident of the day. 4' occurred while MT. Stripling was ad- aressing the Committee. He was de. nouncinE as machine politics" the methods which he declared had been employed by J. N. Coombs, the Ma tional Committeeman and Mir. Chubb tba state Chairman. He said that when he was appointed United States Dis trict Attorney in Florida few years ago he went to Chubb, who was one oi the administrations referees on Fed. sral natronage and told him that he did not want his endorsement. He said that he told chubb that he would re. pudiate such an endorsement at the Department of Justice at Washington ChIhh fin