The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-06-25
TAFT AND SHERMAN Will
again WIN REPUBLICAN VICTORY
Teddy Bolts and Holds Little Convention Of His Own at
Which lie Is the Bull Moose Ticket To Be Com
pIeted in August, If Party lasts

With nearly $50 of the Roosevelt
delegates declining to vote and hasten
ing away at adjournment time to ten
der to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt the
nomination of new party, the fifteen
til Republican National convention at
the end of long and tumultuous ses-
sion Saturday night nominated Will
lam Howard Taft of Ohio for president
and James Schoolcraft Sherman of
New York for vice-president.
President Taft received 561 of the
LOIS votes in the convention or TWEEN
ty-one more than majority. Sher-
mans vote was 597.
The decision of the Roosevelt people
under direction of their leader to re-
frain from voting, left no other can
didate near the president. The an
nouncement of the Taft victory was
greeted with cheering from his adj
herents aud groans and Kisses from the
opposition.
When it became absolutely certain
early in the day that Mr. Taft would
be nominated without great difficulty
the leaders in control of the conven-
tion decided to give him as run
ming mate his companion on the ticket
in 1908.
Roosevelt Delegates in Revolt.
The revolt of the many Roosevelt
delegates in the convention was open
from the moment the permanent roll
containing the names of contested
delegates was approved A 'valedic-
tory' statement was read in behalf
of Colonel Roosevelt asking that his
La +al a,a1 hot
delegates sit in mute protest against
all further proceedings.
A great majority of the Roosevelt
delegates in the Illinois and all in the
Missouri and Idaho delegations de-
clined to follow this advice, but Col
onel Roosevelt's S sway over delega-
tions from California, Kansas, Maine
Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, South Dakota and
West Virginia was all but absolute.
Most of the delegates from these
states announced their purpose of
helping give Mr.. Roosevelt an indie
pendent nomination at another hall
later in the evening.
The split in the convention oecas
ioned no surprise. 1t was but full
fllment of predictions that had been
made during the past several days.
Closing Scenes Exciting.
The closing scenes of the convention
were marked by counter-demonstra
tions for President Taft and Colonel
Roosevelt.
The first test vote after the an
nouncement of the Roosevelt valedic-
tory came on the adoption of the party
platform. The Affirmative vote was
666. Roosevelt delegates present and
not voting numbered 343. There were
ffty-three noes, thirty-six of them
from the LaFollette states of Wiscon-
sin and North Dakota. Senator Rob-
ert NJ LaFollete of Wisconsin was
placed before the convention, but Col
onel Roosevelt s wishes were carried
out by his followers and they remain
ed silent during the call of the states
for nominations.
Many of the delegates, however,
carried out their primary instruction
and voted for the Colonel.
On the voting for president the
Roosevelt delegates again as rule re-
mained silent. The detailed vote was:
Taft, sol; Roosevelt, 107; LaFol-
lette, Al; Cummins, II; Hughes, 2;
not voting, 344; absent, 6.
President Taft Makes Statement.
When President TAFT, at Washing
ton, was informed of the result of the
convention, he authorized the follow
ing statement;
!" A national convention of one of
the great parties is ordinarily import
ant only as a preliminary to a ma
tional campaign for the election OF
president. The Chicago convention
Just ended is much more than this and
is in itself the end of a pre-conven-
ton campaign presenting crisis
more threatening and issues more inn
portant, than those Of the election
campaign which is to follow between
the two great national parties, The
question here at stake was whether
the Republican party was to change
its attitude as the chief eonservator IN
the nation of constitutional represen-
tative government, and was to weaken
the constitutional guarantees OF IIe,