The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-10

and after some hesitation said:
 "The chair is very pleased to have his remarks characterized as school
 masterly.''
 After Stillwell got through, the case
 of the Taft delegates was presented by
 Morrill, Moores, of Indianapolis.
 Chicago, June 1O.-The Republican national committee came out of the solid south, where even the Roosevelt leaders admitted the contests were filed chiefly for record, and tackled the real problem of the convention, today. There was an air of expect ancy about the committeeman as they assembled for the meeting and 1t was very plain that both sides. were ex- pecting real fight and were ready for it.
 The bone of contention was Indi- ana. There the delegates. s.at-large and the first, thifd, fourth and thir- teenth had been contested and the committee was compelled to take up for the first time the direct charges that primary strong arm methods, fraud and corruption had been prac- ticed. Bales of affidavits had been filed and the briefs in every instance were voluminous. And after Indiana, the Arizona and Kentucky contests were on the program and it was eer- tain they would produce an argu- ment.
 The announced intention :. of the committee to pass the California con test, which involves the delegates from. the fourth congressional dis trict, to the bottom Of tue list, had aroused Senator Borah, district lead err of the Roosevelt forces, to anger. Francis J. Heney. California lawyery who fought the San Francisco graft cases to a standstill, was. on hand to argue the case for the Roosevelt mon and Borah insisted that placing it at the bottom of. the list was for trad ing purposes, pure and simple"
 They want to have it on hand should they find that they needed some extra votes" angrily declared Borah, "but before get through we will find out what the reason is for such action"
 The outcome of the Indiana con- test. it was stated. would be regard ed as significant of the co4nmittee,s actions. Should they seat any of the Roosevelt contestants then flnere was a hope that they would also seat Roosevelt claimants in other of the contested districts from the northern states. But the general belief was that the committee would throw out all of the contests. Even Borah ex-. pecte0 this action. -ss--.,i
 They have the voves and they will step at nothing. he said, while the decks were being cleared for presen- EatiOn, of the epntests, land if they have decidad tS, steamroller us out of all shape they. can be- depended on to do, so.s What they will probably do will be to give us a few sxixH votes 10 indicate that there is a disposition Eo@be fair but it will be simply done .o delu4e the ye1ers and fo nerrnit lpme Taft men t6 save fn1fr.facea.'
 The entire Indiana ssituRtiofi, S0 far IS the delegates-at-laree are con ;erned. mingled on the Rooseveit dele gates alterations of fraud and cor 'uption. Indianapolis was selected as he crux Of the case. Its repreSenta- ion in the state convention that sIected Harry H. New, : Charles w. s,airbanks, James E. Watson and Jo- 'eph D. Oliver delegates at-larse, numbered 134. Of these, the major ty were Taft men. The Roosevelt ,ontestants' insisted that repeating vas rife. They claimed that they were denied representation at the yard primaries, that ballots were not counted at all in many instances but hat false figures were arrived at by he. election boards, that bands, of legro repeaters were hurried from ,oiling place to polling place to vote or the Taft delegation while strong .rm" methods were in force in many instances. Because of this the con- Albert J. Beveridge, Edwin 4. Lee, Fred Landis and Charles H. demanded that they be eated.
 In the brief filed on behalf of the aft delegates-at.large the following ontentions were made: The contestantS csaim is based al- l nost wholly upon the fact that the primaries were fraudu- snt. Indianapolis is in Marion Coun- y, which constitutes the Eth con- ressionai district The delegates | rom Marion County, elected at the | rimaries to the state convention, | onsisteG of 12S who were for Taft | nd 6 who were for Roosevelt. Origi- l ally 100 of these were contested. The | elegates were elected by. Is wards | rom Indianapolis and from town ! hips outside. 1.-The largest ward had 4 delegates and the average was | ) a ward. Under. the call of the tate committee the delegates to. the | tate convention met by districts the fight before the convention and each istrict was required to elect one man committee on credentials which ommittee was to sit as its members ere elected. Ten men of this com littee of 13 were: elected without ontest and immediately organized-by ecting a. chairman and secretary, rom each of the 3rd. 9th and 11th lstrfcts two delegates appeared, aiming to have been elected mein- CTS of the committee on credentials. he committee on credentials, as or anized, heard the evidence and in 5, le cases of the 3rd and 9th districts, .ated the Taft delegates and from le 11th seated the Roosevelt dele. ate. It
 ''The committee then proceeded to ear evidence ..on the various con- sts. It reported to the convention , lat the 106 delegates from Mar I'] n County who had proper credent- Is but whose seats were contested ere entitled to sit in the convention. 3 to the other contests, some were ecided for the Taft and some for the [ oosevelt delegates. These other )nteStS, however, were SD few apd ],