Milford chronicle., 1912-06-14
TAFT WINS II,
ROOSEVELT |
National Committee Decides
Kentucky Contests,
COLONEL'S FIRST VICTORY
One cntest Was withdrawn and Votes
In Most Other District Cases Were
Unanimously For President.

In Most Other District Cases Were
Unanimously For President.
The first Roosevelt contest before
the Republican national committee in
Chicago TO be won by the friends oi
the colonel was in the Eleventh Ken
lucky district.
Only one vote was secured, how
ever, for OF the two seats in contest
only one was awarded to Roosevelt.
A motion to seat the two Roosevelt
delegates was defeated by a vote oi
IS to SO. Then it was decided to seat
one Taft delegate, o. H. Waddle, and
one Roosevelt delegate, D. c. Edwards
As a result of the action of the ma
tional committee, 1O1 delegates whose
seats were contested have been award
ed to President Taft and one to Colo
mel Roosevelt.
The national committee so far has
listened to arguments in these con
tests for four days and disposed OF
forty-four contests. There remain
ffty-nine contests to be argued before
the committee, and the committee has
five days remaining to pass upon
them.
The entire day was spent in hear
ing the Kentucky cases, eighteen vOtes
being in dispute.
On the four delegates-at-large after
lengthy argument the committee voted
3S to II for Taft.
There were contests in seven dis
tricts. In the First the contest was
won by the president 46 to 0. 1t was
unanimous Tor Taft in the Second dis
trict. The Fourth was withdrawn, al
lowing the Taft men to be seated,
while in the Seventh, Eighth and
Tenth districts Taft also won, the vote
being 80 to II in the Eighth for TAFT
The Eleventh district was divided, one
for Taft and one for Roosevelt.
Francis j. Heney, OF San Francisco,
leaped into the heat of the political
fray and strenuOusly endeavOred to in
iect pepper into the Roosevelt fight.
He characterized the conditions in
Kentucky as similar to the former
chaotic political situation in Califor
MIA and referred to some of the Ken
lucky political acts as comparable tc
acts of Abe Ruef, of San Francisco
Mr.. Heney drew sharp protest from
Senator PenrUse.
Judge Ed c. O'Rear, of Frankfort
who had charge of the arguments fOI
the Roosevelt forces, admitted thar
some of the pOin.s advanced were not
very strong, and Senator Borah, o.
the Roosevelt wing, declared that he
thought the contestants were not eni
tied to their seats.
Judge Ed c ORear, heading the
Roosevelt delegation, be
gan the Roosevelt arguments. The |
charge we have made in Kentucky,
he said, lis that the machine methods |
have gotten so far into the Republi |
can party that the independent voter
has little chance between the Repub-
lican and Democratic parties
Judge ORear declared he would try |
10 show there was a deliberate plan
TO carry Kentucky for the president
against the wishes of the people, and
that tu4S H4d4 WdS pdi tANl lpdNSA III ~
the party leaders and the Republican
state committee.
Federal oHceholders, said Judge
O'Rear, were a the bottom OF the
trouble" in Kentucky. They sat in
he said, as county chair
men. upon the credentials and rights
)f all the delegates.
Judge O'Rear declared conditions
throughout Kentucky were such that
ew districts selected their delegates
n accordance with popular opinion. In
he state convention, presided over by
senator w. O. Bradley, he declared
he control by the Taft forces had
,een procured by seating contested {
W. d. -hran, one of the contested
'aft delegates-at-large, declares that
f every Roosevelt contesting delega-
ion had been seated in the state con-
ention the TAFT forces would still
ave had a majority.
"They admit that the convention /
-as properly organized" said Coch-
an. "A credentials committee, chosen
rom the various districts, sat for I
ighteen or twenty hours and heard