The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-07

Coliseum. Chicago June I.@Ine Taft forces scored sweeping v1c- tory on tho first contest heard by the national committee. today. when the latter body ruled that the Taft dele s satsgeat-large from Alabama should be placed on the temporary roll of .fhe Republican national convention. iThe delegates- -at-larse seated were: Q. lD Street, !. T. Curtis, s. T. Wright, i9helby s. Pleaoants, Alex c. Birch and ID. c. Mason.
 A demand vEes made for . record vote on the question and 1t was .promptlv Rranted- Then came the ,eurprise = the R0ouevelt commfttee- men voted to throw out the contest .brouxht by their own followers and the vote was s3 ayes asd no noes.
 fhe Taft men eeemet dumbfbund- "a ever the outcome. 11ey had been is1ed ID Tor u YYght 114Ehen 4ey .fo1nd that 1t did not come tlzsg did not Seezn 10 realize just what # alr1 pnsant. Uven "9ilent" N6ffay Crans was moved to speech s..-
 -Tor oncs the steamrvlier proved .unanlmous." he ejaculatsd.
 Senator Borah said when asked for = 5tafernenr that so far n he and his arnociates were concerned they had voted a they did because the con- itestAnts had failed to make out . case.
 The committee then proceeded with sthe Alabama district contests, taking up the nrst district. Mcf4arg waived arguments. saying that there were no rs6ulafiy elected delegates from that ;d10tr1ot-. He wanted the district left yDcant on the temporary roll and the xxwa k& he Rx. committee on credentials but the Taft men protested and argued for tho seating of their delegates.
 The committee seated the Taft dele. gates from the first Alabama district, they being F. D. Barker and Clarence w. Allen of Mobile. There was am other roll call on this question at the reOueot of Senator Borah and the vote Was unanimous.
 The Taft delegates were seated in the second Alabama district by a viva voce vote and without discussion. They were Wiley w. Prigdorn and Senator George Newstell. There were no contests in the third and fourth 6fistricts, and on formal motions the Taft delegates from these districts were placed on the temporary roll. The committee then took up the fifth district
 It was . bloodless victory, the action of the committee being unanimous. the Roosevelt members voting to throw out their own delegates because they were unable to make out legal case showing that they were entitled to seate in the national convention.
 Regarding the action of the Roose- welt men in voting to seat the Taft ns,,iff B. Kellogg said privately:
 ''The dozen or more Roosevelt men on the national committee intend to nvoid all charges of attempting to Ueat illegaly chosen southern dele xafes The facts in the Alabama con- .fssts were that the Taft delegates had been properly chosen by the Alabama vtate convention and in all fairness it was incumbent on the Roosevelt na- tional committeeman to admit tho fact.
 Some of the Roosevelt leaders frank ly admitted that there was very little merit in the majority of the Roose- selt contests in the southern states and that they would not interfere any where unless they were certain that Justice was on their side.
 Senator Dixon, today, said that Btate Senator William Flynn, of Pitts burgh. who was sent to Chicago by Roosevelt and is, today, enroute, would work among the delegates to the con- Eention and keep them impressed with Roosevelt ideas. Similar work would be entrusted to Walter Brown, of Toledo. O., who was here, today.
 Msdill Mccormick. who has been with Colonel Roosevelt at Oyster Bay For several days, returned to Chicago, today.
 convention Hall, Chicago, June 7.- In a bitter speech, teeming with in- vective, Senator William E. Borah, of Idaho, threw the Republican national committee into a turmoil at the out ct of its meeting, today, when ne demanded that the members go on record on every contest. While he wae still speaking, motion was made to table the amendment to the rule that he had offered and Chairman Rosewater put the motion over his protest and declared it carried
 Fourteen times Borah shouted s1Gr. Chairman!' in loud. ringing
 Ice. Rosewater paid no attention him and put the motion. .Buf Borah would not be choked of. - h414 tno floor and continued to