The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-19
PURGES ITSELF
Of MEN TRYING
TO RUIN PARTY
Republican National Commit
tee Accepts designations of
Three Members and Votes
to Expel Four Others.
REASON GIVEN FOR
DRASTIC ACTION
Situation in Kansas and Ne
braska Cited, as Well as the
Bolt of Roosevelt After
Being Defeated.
BY International News Service.

BY International News Service
RTEW YORK, Sept. 1s-By nm
mi precedented but unanimous ac-
tion the Republican national
committee, sitting as trial
court in the Hotel Manhattan, today
ousted seven Of it's members for
herosy and disloyalty to President
Taft. OF the forty eight members of
the committee, forty-one were present
or were represented by proxies. All
voted to expel the accused members.
The bearing WIS held behind closed
doors and Chairman Hilles announced
that the committee had accepted the
| designations of the members from
Ohio, Oklahoma and Minnesota and
had declared vacant tho seats of four
others. Those who were "fired" are:
Borden ID. Whiting of New Jersey,
who had refused to resign. He will be
succeeded by franklin Murphy former
governor.
William J. Edwards of West Vir-
ginia, who is working hard for Roosc-
welt, and who had refused to resign.
He will be succeeded by former United
States Senator Nathan Scott.
Declared Disloyal.
Richmond Pearson Of North Caro-
lima, recently declared disloyal by the
North Carolina Republican state con-
vention. His successor is to be f. c,
Duncan, former senator.
Russ Avery of California. Tie has
not resigned, but has said the Repub-
liean party in California has quit the
national Republican party. The ma
tioual committee will choose his sue.
cessor.
Those who resigned are:
Walter T. Brown, the Ohioan, whose
place is to go to Sherman Granger; C.
C. Priestly, a Bull Moose of Okla.
homa, aud j. A. Caswell Of Minnesota.
Never before has national commit
toe found it necessary to try any OF
its members for beresy and disloyalty.
The resolutions passed to insure har-
mouy, which the conmi eemeu say is
absolutely essential, are so plain that
even q voter can understand them.
Resolutions Passed.
Here they are, as given by Chair
man Hilles;
Whereas. William Howard Taft and
James schoolcraft Sherman were
nominated as the Republican candI
dates for president and vice presI-
dent at the Chicago convention of
the national Republican party;
Whereas, AT said convention Theo-
dore Roosevelt was an unsuccessful
candidate for the said office:
Whereas. Subsequent TO said Re-
publican national convention Theo-
dore Roosevelt and his followers held
convention at Chicago, at which
COW ention a new and distinct poIItl-
cal party WAS organized:
Whereas In the states OF Kansas
and Nebraska Theodore Roosevelt is
asking for the vote Of the electorate
OF said states for president as the
candidate OF the Progressive party;
Out Of the Party.
Whereas. Out of the ten RepubN
can nominees for presidential electors
In the state of Kansas six persons
haVe announced that II elected they
will not vote for the candidates of
the Republican party for president
and Vice president. but Will vote for
the candidates OF the Progressive
party for president and Vice presl-
dent;
Whereas. Out OF the eight Republl-
.i,>~
tors In tho state OF Nebraska six
persons have announced that If
elected they will not vote for the
candidates Of the Republican party
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