Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-08-09

NONfht hllhlllth Wv NHhNl A'hlinlAN''Hi
which retired and made their reports,
which were accepted, and elected two
Taft delegates 10 the national conyon
ion and certified their election IN due
form 10 the national committee which
without division asked for held them
properly elected.
Fourth District.
The Fourth Texas district consists
of i've counties, each having one vote
I'm the district convention under the
,all. one county, Rains chose mn uncon.
tested delegation, aud that one was for
Taft The other four counties sent
coutesung delegations. The contest
lng delegations appeared before the
congressional executive committee 10
present their claims, but the commit
tee arbitrarily refused 20 hear any
body Having exhausted every enot
N secure hearing, the four contest
ing delegations, together with the only
uncontestcd delegation of tho conven-
ton. Withdrew TO another place aud
held convention and elected TAFT
delegates 20 the Chicago convention.
The congressional convention which
elected the TAFT delegates was com.
posed OF more than majority, and,
indeed, Of practically all the regularly
elected delegates The national com
mttee held the title of the TAFT dele
gates TO their seats valid by viva voce
vote without calling for a division.
Fifth District.
The I'ifth district ot Texas II com
posed Of Dallas, Ellis, HIill, Bosque
and Rockwall counties. Dallas county
cast more Republican votes than all
the other counties OF the district put
together. The call for the congres
sIonal convention allowed each county
| to send not 10 exceed four delegates,
but made no reference 10 the basis of
| representation Of the respective coun
ties composing the district There
was contest from Dallns county, but
! the TAFT delegates were seated. Taft
! delegates were seated on the temp0rar!
roll from two counties and Roosevelt
| delegates from the three counties, and
the representation In the convention
without regard TO the number OF dele
gates in the convention or the mum
Der Of Republican votes cast in such
county. minority report OF the dis
trict committee was presented, protest
ing against the ratio OF representa-
ton adopted. The chairman Of the
convention objected to the presentn
tion Of this minority report Failing
in thls he abandoned the platform and
eft the hall
The convention thcreupon elected a
new chairman and n new secretary ap
pointed committee on credentials
which recommended the seating Of the
Taft delegates from Hin county and
the adoption of the minority report O'
the district committee as TO the basi.
n the representation in the convention
Both these recommendation wer,
ldopted. and Taft delegates toNthe ma
tional convention were thereupon elect
ed by vote OF eight 10 three The
Roosevelt men thereafter retired to the
south end OF the hall, where they or
gnnized n meeting at which 1t was
claimed the Roosevelt delegates TO the
national convention were elected The
Republican vote for the district for
1908 was as follows: Dallas county
20GS; Ellis 594; Hill, Ala; Bosque 2GG;
Rockwall 3S. Both the national com
mittee and the committee on Creden
tials sustained the Taft delegates.
Seventh District.
The Seventh congressional district Of
Texas is composed Of the following
counties: Anderson. Chambers, Gal.
weston. Houston. Liberty, Polk, San ia.
cinto ana Trinity. Polk, San Jaclnto
and Trinity were without proper party
organization. In Texas county chair
men must be elected by the voters I'm
each party No such election was held
In any OF these three counties. In two
of them Colonel Lyon assumed to ap-
point chairmen. which he had no right
TO do Lyon himself had classed these
three counties as unorgani2ed and with.
out party organization.
The convention met In Galveston
The executive committee met prior IL
the meeting OF the convention to make
up the temporary roll OF delegates. The
executive committee had before 1t the
question Of having the three unorgan
lied counties represented In the con
vention. The executive committee re.
fused TO recognize them. When this
action was taken by the executive com
mittee a delegate from Houston county
and the alleged representatives from
the three unorga nized counties with
drew from the meeting and proceeded
to organize another convention, and
upon this is based the contest, which
was rejected by both committees, the
national committee and the credentials
| committee.
Eighth District.
In the Eighth congressional conven
| finn q qnlit occurrod ovpr tho ma iorit y