The sun., 1908-06-13
TAFTGETS 29O TO FORAKER'S 5
THAT'S HOW THE COMMITTEE
DECIDED TIE 223 CONTESTS.
One Of Taft's Men Tries 70 Get Harry New
Into Scrap In the Presence OF Short
hand san-Rooscvcitp secret service
People Arc Reporting on Everybody.


People Are Rcporting ON Everybody.
CHICAGO. June 12.-rhe national oom-
mittee finished its ten days labor late this
evening.
or the 22s seats contested Taft got 22o
| and Foraker three. The Ohio Senator got
two half votes In his home Congress dis
trct, the Sixth and the two delegates from
the Fifth district OF Virginia.
The latter was the only absolute victory
for Senator Foraker, but the committee
couldn't very well decide otherwise, for II
was demonstrated that the call for the
| Fifth district convention in the old Do
ninion State which elected Taft delegates
was addressed to all @White' Republicans.
| This was held to be contrary to the prin-
ciples Of Republcanism, and the convention
| was repudisted by the national COMMITTEES.
When the decision was announced Frank
| H. Hitchcock for Secretary Taft expressed
his approval. saying he was glad the oom-
mittee had so decided Yet the vote OF the
national committee was close in deciding
| to do even righteous act 1t was 10 to le.
The Taft employees Phelps and Statter
sat as proxies Ia every session OF the ma
| tional committee To certain extent this
was not with the approval Of Chairman
| New OF the national committee. Mr.. New
| and others, it will be recalled. objected so
| strenuously to Hitchcock as a proxy that
Hitchcock was forced to step aside. This
led TO had feeling between New and Hitch
cock, and Phelps and Statter have sided
! with Hitchcock.
This morning there was n scene in the
| Auditorium between New and Statter
| Slater accosted New In the hotel shortly
before the meeting OF the national COM
| mittee and charged him with impugning
his motives and attacking his veracity.
1t was evident that his desire was to
draw the national chairman into a brawl
and thus weaken his position as head Of the
Republican organization.
He was accompanied by shorthand
| reporter and every word that was said by
either man was taken down. Chairman
New evidently believed that he was to be
made the victim of a plot engineered by
Hitchcock and he declined to be drawn
into even to a wordy alteration.
Il am not attacking your motives and
l am not questioning your veracity. l
know that you have acted contrary to the
rules of the national committee and I said
that it has to stop. l am running things
in there
Noticing that everything that he said
was being transcribed by shorthand
reporter, he said suddenly
THAT will do. I don't propose TO be
drawn into any fight here. Some one is
, taking down every word we say Good
morning. With that Chairman New turned
and walked away.
The town is full Of these shorthand re-
porters. They are either in the Govern
| ment departmental! service or they have
| jobs In the Secret Service. There are
| scores of Secret Service agents here, all
turning in daily reports TO Washington.
Friends and foes are under, espiona ge.
Hitchcock has two direct telephone wires
| one to the President in the White House
and the other to Taft in the War Department.
With the work OF the national committee
| at an end and the arrival OF the delegations
tomorrow the interest will be in the work
Of the convention itself. The Taft people
are nervous. As the day for nominations
| approaches their nervousness increases.
There is really no cause for 1t IL the opin-
| ions OF the best Taft and anti-Taft men
| here are of value. Taft by to-day's de-
cisions OF the national COMMITTEES. which
| gave all Of Texas, Oklahoma and the Terri
| tories Of Alaska and Arizona to the War
Secretary, will have more than enough
to nominate him on the first ballot. He
now has, according to the very best esti-
mates, 600 votes. 1t will require 4Sl to
nominate
| In addition there are ls0 uninstructed
delegates. Uninstructed delegates usually
| have keen eyes for the winner. They hop
| aboard his band wagon so quickly that
you can scarcely see their coat tails fly.
! Hughes has AZ delegates from New York
| State ready to quit him in an instant; Fair
I banks has the 20 from Indiana, Knox the
sS from Pennsylvania, Cannon the 81 from
| Illinois, Foraker e. and there you are. OF
| the $50 delegates in the convention the
| Foraker, Cannon, Fairbanks and Hughes
| folks have a total OF 1877.
But friends of Senator Dick Of Ohio quote
| him as believing that 200 delegates want
TO vote for Roosevelt on the first roll call;
| that the Senator. moreover, believes that
| the situation here for the last week and
more has not reflected the real sentiments
OF the delegates. and that this alleged real
! sentiment can only be known after the
arrival Of the delegates.
| Then, too, Senator jonathan Bourne,
| Jr., OF Oregon. Is to arrive to-morrow with
| his second elective term boom for Roose-
welt, Bourne is not delegate to the con,
vention. The Oregon Republicans would
| not have him and his second elective term
| theory. Yet Bourne has kept his second
| elective term shop in Washington running
| full blast without open chDing from the
Great White Chief in the White House
| The political theory advanced for this.
| though. is as follows:
Had President Roosevelt reiterated pub
| licly within the last few months his election
| night utterance Of 1904 and had he yanked
| Bourne by the ear and commanded him to
shut up his second elective term shop Taft
wouldn't have had one chance in a million
Of waddling off with the nomination here
His strength, II is added, is Roosevelt's
strength, and had Roosevelt adopted any
other policy either as to his own attitude or
that Of Bourne it would have been all
up with Taft, and either Knox, Cannon or
Fairbanks would have strutted of with
tho prize. However that may be- the Taft
! people are nervous.
! viii there be stampedef' asked Mrs
! Charles P. Taft this afternoon. You know
l am a cattle raiser in TexaA and have
seen many a stampede The biggest
stampede ever saw was caused by kitten
| running out Of kitchen"
| The Taft family has vast cattle raising
| possessions in the Lone Star State. Mrs.
Taft was assured by her friends that there
was now little danger Of Roosevelt stam-
onsartin."
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