The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-08-01
R0OS VEL rs CHAR ES

fifteen wards. and then the impeach-
ing witness admitted he could not
claim fraud enough to change the
result in the ward. The national
committee, upon which there were
fifteen anti-'raft men. rejected the
Roosevelt contestants and gave tSe
Taft delegates their seats by a
unanimous vote. Senator Borah and
Frank b. Kellogg, both Roosevelt
men, made speeches in explaining
the votes In which they said that the
case turned wholly on the Marion
county primary and as there was no
evidence to impeach the result GER
titled. The title of the Taft delegates
was clear. This is the convention
whose proceedings called forth such
loud charges of theft and fraud from
Mr.. Roosevelt.
Kentucky.
In Kentucky, contest was filed
against only three OF the four dele
gates at large. The fourth Taft
delegates seat was uncontested.
The three contestants admitted they
were not elected by the convention
which sent the Taft delegates or by
any other. They only contended
that If the Roosevelt forces had had
a majority, theyS would have been
elected. There were Q 1856 delegates
summoned to the convention by It's
call. There were 449 OF these
who seats we're contested. If all OF
those had been conceded to ,Roose.
welt, it would have made the Roose,
welt vote 297 votes less than ma
jority. The appeal to the commit
tee on credentials from the decision
OF the national committee was
abandoned, as it ought to have been
Michigan.
In Michigan the state convention
had in 1t about 1900 delegates
There were only two counties in dig.
pute or contest. One was Wayne
county, in which Detroit is situated
and the other was Calhoun county
The evidence left no doubt that the
Taft men carried by very large ma
jority Wayne county. but it was
immaterial whether this was true oil
not, because leaving out both Wayne
county and Calhoun county, the only
counties in contest, the Taft dele,
gates outnumbered by several hun
dred the Roosevelt delegates, and
they had clear majority out of The
total number of votes that shonlt
have been in the convention. The
contest was SO weak as to hardl!
merit recital.
Texas.
/ In Texas there were 249 counties
of which four have no county gov
eminent. The 245 counties under
the call OF the convention were al
lowed to have something over 1000
/ delegates representing them. who
were given authority to cast GAS
votes. or the 245 counties. there
were ninety-nine counties in which
the total Republican vote was bu1
1000, in fourteen Of which there
were no Republican voters. in TWEEN
ity-seven of which there were less thar
ten each, and in none of which was
there any Republican organization
and in none of which had primary
or convention been held. 1t is
shown that Colonel Cecil Lyon, tc
whom had been assigned as referee
the disposition of the patronage OF
the national Republican administers
tlon for ten years in the state. had
been in the habit of controlling the
Republican state convention by Sc
curing from two federal office hold
ers in each of these ninety-nine
counties a certificate granting a
proxy to Colonel Lyon; or friend OF
his, to represent the county, as II
regularly conferred by a Republican
county organization. The national
committee and the committee on
credentials and the convention, after
the fullest investigations decided that
these ninety-nine counties in which
the Republican vote was SO small.
and in which there was no Republic
can \party, no convention, no pri-
mary, no organization, was not the
proper source for a proxy to, give a
vote equal to that to be cast by me
other 146 counties in which there
was Republican organization, and
in which primaries or conventions
were held. The tw committees
therefore held such nlnety-nine
proxies to be Illegal and not the ba-
sis of proper representation The