The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01
Taft and Roosevelt Managers
to Chicago Next Week.
Chairman New Begins TabuIa-
ton of Contests.
ANOTHER CONTEST is LOCATED
In California Both Forces
Claim Two Seats.
Ticket Controversy Believed to
Be Settled Now.

Chicago, June Harry S. New
chairman of the subcommittee on ar
rangement and his men were busy to-
day preparing for the arrival of the
national committee and representatives
of contesting delegations who are due
next week.
Secretary Hayward returned from
his eastern trip and plunged into the
work of tabulating credentials. and
contests preparatory to the hearings
which will begin June 6 before the
national committee to determine the
temporary roll of the convention.
Congressman William B. Mckinley
and Charles s. TIilles, secretary to the
president, are expected Monday. They
will at once open the Taft national
headquarters. Senator Joseph NJ.
Dixon, campaign manager of the
Roosevelt forces, also is to arrive early
in the week and will open headquar-
ters.
LaFollette and Cummins, each o.
whom has delegates instructed for him
in the convention, have arranged for
headquarters through the convention
week. The storm over the allotment
of the tickets brought about by the
refusal of Chairman New to honor the
request of Dixon for $50 tickets was
little in evidence today.
The ticket controversy is closed
said Col. New. II have nothing more
to say about it,
New to Be Sustained.
Politicians who have watched the
ticket tempest were inclined to be-
lieve the national committee would
sustain the contention of Col. New that
the managers of the different candi-
dates would not be recognized as en-
titled to blocks of seats.
Horace StillwelI of Anderson, Ind.
one of the state Roosevelt managers
conferred with Col. New and declared
that the Roosevelt delegates from In
diana would be seated.
A contest based on the wording of
the call for the Republican conven-
tfon was received today by Senator
Hayward from the Fourth district of
California. California delegates were
selected in a state wide primary and
nee.
New Contest Located.
In the Fourth district E. r. Tryon
and Morris Meyerfeld, jr., of San
Francisco, Taft followers, certify to
the national committee that they were
district having received a majority of
the Republican votes cast. Chas. F.
Wheeler and Philip Bancroft, Roose-
welt men received the highest vote in
from the Fourth district and claim
the convention seats. The Taft men
base their contest on a paragraph of
the national convention which follows:
Provided further that in no state
shall an election be so held as to pre-
vent the delegates from any con-
gressional district and their alternates
being selected by the Republican cleo
tors of that district"
1t is their contention that the Re-
publicans of the Fourth California
district elected their delegates apart
from the state wide selection.
Cunmins' Significant Reply.
Des Moines, June 1.-THE question
of who is to place me in nomination
before the national convention at Chi
cago has not been decided. 1t may not
be necessary. We are waiting to see
how the presidential situation turns"
This was the significant statement
of Senator Albert B. Cummins to the
Press today in answer to a
question as to who is to present his
name before the Chicago convention.
Senator Cummins, who is here to ad-
dress a mass meeting tonight on be-
half of Senator w. s. Kenyon, said the
matter of presenting his name to the
Republican convention probably would
be decided within the next week