The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-06-12
KENTUCKY VOTE
ADDED To LIST
OF PRES. TAFT
NATIONAL COMMITTEE DECIDES
ALL CONTESTS AGAINST
TEDDY AFTER HEARING
Former Presidnet Stoutly Contested
for Eighteen Delegates, But Com
mIttee Refused to Seat His Men,
Night Sessions Likely.

Chicago, June 11.-Ten more votes
for President Taft on the temporary
roll call Of the national republican
convention were added today by set
tlement of contests by the national
committee. These consisted of the
four Kentucky delegates at large.two
from the First and Second districts
and the contests from the Fourth dis
trict were Withdrawn, the Taft men
being seated.
Francis J. Heney of San Francisco,
leapad into the fray and strenuously
endeaYored to inject pepper MO the
Roosevelt fight. He characterized con-
ditions in Kentucky as similar to
the former chaotic political situa-
ton in California, and referred to
some of the Kentucky political acts
as comparable to acts of Abe Ruff
OF San Francisco. Mr.. Heney drew
a sharp protest from Seiator Pen
rose
Judge Ed ORear, who haG cnarge
OF The arguments for the Roosevelt
forces, frequently admitted that some
OF the points advanced were not very
strong, and Senator Borah If the
Roosevelt wing declared he thought
the contestants were not entitled to
their seats.
Though some of the members or
the committee asked for more time
TO consider the evidence, rol! call
demanded by the Taft leaders result
ed in seating the regular delegates
at large by a vote of 38 to II. Decis-
ions in the First and Second dis
tricts, however, were unanimous.
Time consumed in the presentation
of !ndiana's contests before the ma
tiOnal committee made it a question
this morning whether more than than
the Kentucky contests could pc nh-
ished today.
The sixteen contested delegates
from Kentucky held the right Of way
when the committee began work.
Four delegates at large and two each
from the First, Second, Fourth, Sew.
enth, Eighth Tenth and Eleventh dis
tricts were concerned in the contests,
which were to be heard during the
days sessions. The Taft delegation
at large was headed by Senator w.
@. Bradley.
To present the cases to the nation
al committee, the Taft forces had
drawn into the arguments w. D.
Cochran, E. P. Morrow and R. C.
faction was represented by E. G.
O'Rear, former chief justice OF the
state supreme court; Leslie Coombs
and Henry F. Duncan.
Two Roosevelt Contests.
The Kentucky Roosevelt contest
ants for the places of delegates at
large were only two in number, al
though the state is entitled to four
seats at large in the national con-
ven.ion. The Taft faction had named
a complete set of delegates, but the
names of E. G. O'Rear and Leslie
Coombs were all that appeared on the
roll as Roosevelt contestants.
The Kentucky contests were quick
ly IN place In telegram Senator
w. D. Bradley, at Washington, one
of The contested Taft delegates, de-
clared the Roosevelt contest should
not be considered by the national
committee, because the notice of the
contest and the Roosevelt creden-
tials had not been filed within the al |
lotted time.
No Credentials Filed.
THE contest notice of protest was
flied within the specified time" said
Secretary Hayward, "but no creden-
tials we're filed to show that any con-
testing delegates had been elected
Ormsby McHarg, speaking for the |
Roosevelt forces, said one argument
would cover the case of the delegates |
at large and the district delegates |
from the first, second and fourth dis
tricts.
Judge E. c. O'Rear, heading the
contesting Roosevelt delegation, be-
gan the Roosevelt arguments.
The charge we have made in Ken
tucky," he said, 'is that the machine
methods have gotetn so far into the
republican party that the Independent |
voter has little choice between the
republican and democratic parties"
Judge O'Rear declared he would try
to show there was a deliberate plan
to carry Kentucky for the president
AGAINST the wishes Of the people, and |