Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-06-19

Roosevelt men in the Third district
were seated. The Fourth, Fifth,
Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth dis
trict contests were given to Taft dele
gates.
The motion to seat the Roosevelt
men in the Third district contest was
made by Committeeman Mulvane,
Taft man. All members voted for it.
In practically every case the issue was
one as to which convention held had
been the regular one.
Washington Fight Bitter.
The trouble over the Washington
contests at the outset did not tend to
create good feeling when the cases
we're heard
Senator Miles Poindexter of Wash
ington and former Senator Dick OF
Ohio we're at the opposing counsel ia
bles, with the rival delegations from
the state, and fought every inch of the
road.
The committee seated the fourteen
Taft delegates by a single decision.
To Mr.. Mulvane's motion to seat them
Frank B. Kellogg offered a substitute
to seat the Roosevelt delegation, head
ed by Senator Poindexter. The Roose-
welt men could muster but ten votes
on their demands for roll calls and
the Kellogg motion was defeated.
Bieber Contest Brief.
The District of Columbia case oc-
cupied but little time. Committeeman
Bieber, himself a contestant, asked
that his delegation be seated on the
ground that the polling places at
which the primaries were held were
changed by the Taft men and ballot
boxes were withheld long after the
closing of the polls. Election judges,
he asserted, failed to return the re-
suits at the required time.
Aaron Bradshaw, head of the Taft
delegation, denied there had been any
irregular proceeding. The Taft dele
gates were seated after motion to
seat the Roosevelt men had been de-
feated.
The Fourth district contest in North
Carolina, which had been hanging fire
for several days, was then called as
the last contest on the docket" 1t
was a contest between two rival fac
tions, there being no Taft contestant.
The committee seated the faction rep
resented by J. G. L. Harris and j. Z.
Mathews.
Claims of Contestants.
With the ending of the national COM
mittee contest feature of the cam
paign the paper strength of the vari-
Gus candidates, apportioning all the
uninstructed delegates according to
the best obtainable information as to
their leanings, appears at this time to
be as follows:
Taft, 563; Roosevelt, 466; La Fol
lette, SO; Cummins, 10; Hughes, 1;
Lincoln, 2; total, 1913.
These figures are liable to be dis
puted by the leaders of both the Taft
and Roosevelt forces, the inside fig
ures of the former being six more than
those given above, while the inside
figures of the Roosevelt side reduce
the Taft strength close to $40 dead
line. Publicly the Roosevelt managers
declare their candidate has a clear
majority as matters now stand, but
they present no details to back it up.
Privately supporters of the former
president on the national committee
admit that the temporary roll as com
pleted by the committee shows a mar
gin over the line for Taft, but rest
their hope on the inability of the pres
ident to hold it for the next three
days.
New Workers Take Vote.
The New York delegation to the Re
publican convention adopted a resolu-
ton supporting the candidacy of Viii
liam H. Taft for president by a vote
! of So yeas and 5 nays.
Of the delegation of 80 three asked
to be excused from voting and thir-
teen were absentees.
Those who voted against the resolu-
ton and those who asked to be ex-
cused, together with many Of the alb
sentees, were credited with being
Roosevelt men. The delegation comes
to the convention uninstructed.
Rebuke for Roosevelt.
The resolution was offered by Mich
I oIas Murray Butler, who is writing
tie Taft platform, and carried with it
a rebuke to Roosevelt in the form of a
clause which reads: And we oppose
the candidacy Of Theodore Roosevelt.
who by his own utterances is commit
/ ted to the overthrow of the principles
I in which we believe"
The sessions of the delegation were
stormy and the debate lasted for an
nous and half.