The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-06-18
MIR. DebOe'> Argument.

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Mr.. Deboe'> Argument.
Senator Fulton who presided. sus-
tanned the point, and Mr.. Bullitt was
compelled to take a new tack. Under
the rules adopted by the committee
on credentials, each side was TO have
eight minutes TO present its case fhe
First Kentucky district was called at
8: 80 o'clock, and Senator Deboe ap-
peared to speak in his own behalf. He
began with a clear statement of the
events leading up to the convention,
and told how, as district chairman, he
lreeognized the delegates holding ere
man until Graves county was reached.
In that county, he explained. that J..
II. Happy, the secretary, had Issued
the call for the county convention
after the chairman had refused to call
the committee upon petition of a
| third of the members. Nj. Deboe
commended that thereby the chairman
has lost his power TO act, and that he
was in reality following the rules of
the Republican party when he recog-
nized the delegates holding credent-
ials signed by Happy. Senator Deboe
said If his decision was wrong the OPP
ponents had recourse by appeal to
the credentials committee.
At this point time was called and
Senator Reed Smoot rose and asked
Unanimous consent for Senator Deboe
to speak eight minutes longer, the
other side to have the same privilege.
This was given. and Senator Deboe
continued his recital, Instead of APP
pealing to the credentials committee,
he said j. c. Speight mad asked to be
recognized, and that the chair ruled
that no one could be recognized dur
ing a rollcall, but promised to recog-
nize MI. Speight the first of all dele
gates. The senator said, in conclu
sion. that the fight was not Taft
Fairbanks struggle, but solely for the
party organization in the First dis
trict. He said attacks had been made
on him personally. but he would take
an oath that he had stated only the
facts. He said one affidavit was
signed by man he had refused TO in.
dorse for a pOstoffice, and that the
man was sore" "You know how
that is. gentlemen" he said, turning
to the senators on the committee.
Two Taft Men Talk.
|, The time of the Taft men was d.
vided between c. II. Linn and II. j.
Dehart. Mr.. Linn went over the
events leading to the convention, his
recital differing but little from Sena-
tor Deboes until the Graves county
case was reached He said the Rel
publican party's rules gave the dis
trict chairman purely a ministerial
duty to perform and in no case a ju-
dicial one. He said Senator Deboe
had no option but recognize the dele
gates with credentials signed by the
county chairman.
Mr.. Dehart here took up the argu-
ment and continued along the same
Hines He said the state central COM
mittee, after a long hearing, had de-
cided the point unanimously except
that Mr.. Deboe did not vote. He said
no bolt occurred. but that the dele
gates simply took charge, and dra-
matically turning to Senator Deboe,
shook his finger and said: ITO protect
themselves from men like you" As
soon as the gavel fell the vote was
put and declared carried In favor of
sustaining the national committees
ruling. -Four voted for the Fairbanks
delegates, among them being Senator,
lsmoot.