Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-06-12

UNITED PRESS LhAsnD WIRE.
Chicago, June 12.--Grinding It's way
steadily along over the flattened forms
of Roosevelt contestants, the Taft
steam roller here today smashed flat
the two Roosevelt delegates elected
from the fourth district OF California,
who were elected by a majority Of
more than $4,000 in the statewide pri-
mary and seated in their stead two
Taft delegates from the district, who
had local majority Of about 150
votes.
The vote by the national committee
followed almost exactly the lines Of
usual division between the Taft and
Roosevelt adherents on the commit
tee, 1t being 81 to 49, The decision was
reached in the face of furious
denunnciation by Francis j. Heney, Of
San Francisco, who shouted that he
was there to warn President Taft that
in accepting these delegates, he was
a receiver Of stolen goods.
Taft Gets Two.
E. II. Tryon and Morris Meyerfleld,
Jr, the two San Francisco delegates
seated by the national committee
claimed they had carried their dis
trict at the primaries, and asserted
that President Taft had carried the
district on the preferential vote. G.
c. Bryan, law partner Of General ,Chas.
Dick, President Taft's contest manag-
er, argued for Taft. Heney spoke for
the Roosevelt delegates, who we're
Charles s. Wheeler and Philip BAN
croft.
At the outset Heney denounced the
claim of the Taft people as ridiculous
and designed to rob the people of rep
resentation. In order that he might
be eligible to argue the case, Heney
surrendered his committeeman proxy
to Thorson, Of South Dakota.
In advancing the claim of the Taft
delegates Bryan said:
Joker In the Call.
"The call for the Republican national
convention contains the following
clause IT Is provided that delegates
and alternates, both from the state at
large and each congressional district.
may be elected in conformity with the
law Of the state in which the election
Is held, II the state committee or any
such congressional committee 80 d.
rects.' The section closes with the
following provision But II is provld-
ed further that In no state shall an
election be held so as to prevent del
egates from any congressional dis
trict and their alternates from being
selected by the Republican electors
In that district.
Taft Wins In Technically
despite the fact that the Taft ticket
received more votes In the fourth dis
trict than the Roosevelt ticket he sec
retary OF state, OF California, ignored |
the rule of the rational committee,
which recognized the right OF congress /
Bional districts TO be represented by |
their own delegates, and issued cer-
ilflcates to the 20 Roosevelt delegates
who received the majority OF the votes
from the state at large.
"The Republican electors from the
fourth California district having cast
A majority Of their votes in favor OF
The Taft delegates arae entitled to |
seats In the national convention"
The committeeman who voted to seat
he Roosevelt delegates were; Knight
Calf; Borah Idaho; Lawrence (proxy) |
KY; Wight, Louisiana; lockson. Mary.
and; Kellog, MINI; Llttauer proxy, !
Nevada; Duell, South Carolina; Capers
South Carolina; Thorson, South Da-
tota; Monday, Tenn; Lyon, Texas;
Loose Utah; Mulvane, (proxO, wy
)ming; Governor Hadley, (proxy,
anad Rogers, Wisconsin.
Starts q Nasty Row
When Bryan had finished. Senator
Penrose OF Pennsylvania asked II he
Knew that the California legislature
iad "flagrantly and deliberately ylol-