The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1912-06-13
PRESIDENT WINS
FIRST CONTESTS
ALABAMA AND ARKANSAS voTes
NUMBERING "a, ADDED
TO TAFT COLUMN.
ACTION IS UNANIMOUS
Decided caces Include DeIegates.at
Large and Those Of Several
Districts-New Contest From
California.


Chicago, June 10-Twenty-four del
eyates from Alabama and Arkansas
were added to the Taft column by the
action of the Republican national com.
mittee. All of the contests presented
before the committee were decided in
Taft's favor and in all but two the de.
cision of the committee was unani.
cous, although one roll call test appar-
emily had shown Is anti-Taft votes.
The cases decided were those of the
six delegates at large and the two
each in the First, Second, Fifth, Sixth,
and Ninth congressional districts in
Alabama, and the four delegates at
large and the two each in the First
and Second districts of Arkansas.
There remain to be heard of the Ar.
kansas contests those in the Third,
Fourth Fifth and Seventh districts.
The contest over the six delegates
at large from Arizona was postponed
until later day, on motion of Com.
mltteerlan Rose of Pennsylvania.
The only contest of the day arose
over renewal by Senator Borah of
Idaho of his motion of Thursday,
which would permit only eight mem.
bers of the committee to demand a
roll call instead of 20, as provided by
the existing rules.
1t was made plain soon after this
that even though Mr.. Borah's molten
had been tabled the majority intended
to give the minority a roll call on any
question. Penrose, Crane and others
of the Taft faction, repeatedly Joined
Borah and his colleague in the minor.
ity in asking for a roll call, and they
always got it.
The test vote came in the case of
the Ninth Alabama district in which
the Taft delegates were seated by
vote of 80 to Is.
These Is were Knight of California,
Dupont of Delaware. Borah of Idaho.
Lowden of Illinois, Burnham of Ken.
tucky, Wight of Louisiana (whose
vote was cast by E. w. Thilberger),
Kellogg of Minnesota, Rosewater of
Nebraska, Flanagan of Nevada (whose
proxy was held at that time by Lucius
J, n,
ers of South Carolina, Thorson of
South Dakota, Monday of Tennessee,
Loose of Utah and Bieber of District
Of Columbia.
Insulting BriH,f Rejected.
An incident of the day was the re.
lection by unanimous vote of the brief
of j. A. Conner of Little Rock, in the
Arkansas delegates-atlarge case, on
the ground that it contained Indecent
and insulting language"
Three States Involved.
A contest filed in the fourth Cali.
fornia district, is intended to affect
~entire. delegations from California,
Oregon and North Dakota involving
46 delegates. Among the delegates in.
volved are the two "suffragettes" from
California, pledged to Roosevelt.
The contest, which assails the legal.
ity of the states primary law on the
ground that it's provisions are not in
harmony with the rules laid down for
the election of delegates in the of.
fetal call of the national committee di.
rectly affects Roosevelt who carried
California and Oregon, and La Fol.
, lette, who was victorious in North
Dakota.
The question at issue is the right
of a state to enact law making the
state rather than the district the unit
in the election of the delegates to a
national convention.
S. Fred Hogue of San Francisco who
arrived here as the representative of
the Taft executive committee of Cali.
fornia to look after the contest in the
Fourth district of that state intimated
that the national committees ruling in
the case of every state where the
delegates were chosen at large by
direct vote.
Roosevelt leaders declare that the
contention is purely technical.
Opposed Platforms.
It is said that platforms diametrical.
ly opposed will be presented to the
committee on resolutions of the Re.
publican convention by the Taft and
Roosevelt forces. The Taft resolu.
tions intended for insertion in the
party platform will be conservative in
tone and make feature of consti.
tutional government plank in addition
to urging supplemental legislation tc
+ the Sherman antitrust authorizing ma.
tional control of corporations.
The Roosevelt platform will give.
consideration to the trust problem and
be prepared in large part by the
colonel himself.
Arkansas Awarded To Taft.
Chicago, June 10.-Eight more dele
gates from Arkansas have been added
to the Taft column by the republican
committee. Two delegates, those
from the sixth district, were uncon.
tested and classed as "uninstructed.,
The only serious fight eliminating il
q test vote of AZ to TO-, was over the
contest in the fifth district. The ma
jority stood solid and decided it fol
Taft. Lyon of Texas and Biber of the
District Of Columbia were listed as
mot voting" Senator Borah, who
thus far has led the Roosevelt con