New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-16


tional Committee completed its work late
tonight. To-day's session added 81 votes
10 the Taft column and to that of Colonel
Roosevelt There were no roll calls, and IN
several instances the vote WAS practically
unanimous. notably in the Virginia con-
tests where there were only one or TWO
dissenting votes.
The Taft delegates added to the tenn
porary roll to-day included the elghth AT
large from Texas and those from the ISL
ID. 9Th, 5th, 18th, Sth 9Th. 10Th ana lft'
districts: the entire twenty delegates lro'h
Virginia: the entire fourteen delegates from
Washington and the two from the Distrlc'
of Columbia.
The committee seated the Roosevelt dele
gates from the Sd aud 18th Texas districts
and two from the 4th North Carolina o'S-
triCt.
The total number of Roosevelt contest
ants thrown out by the national committee
is o. only six Roosevelt contestants hav-
ing been seated. According TO the INSIDE
Taft figures Their are now 56s lalt oeIc-
gates ON the temporary roll, twenty-e'yhl
more than majority. Even accoruine W
the very conservative table printed In lhe
Tribune President Taft now has 51S'g dele-
gates on the temporary roll.
i r. Wilson. a Roosevelt contestant irom
the 9Th District of Virginia, blames or''s-
by McHarg for the fact that ne "dS "o'
successful i'm his efforts to gain seat III
the convention.
There was not a single contest III VIZ
ginia which had the slightest merit except
that i'm the 9Th District from which my
colleague and ! should have been seated
said Wilson "Ormsby McHarg realized
that there was no merit i'm the other con-
tests and So he agreed to bunch all the
contests from the state. thinking he couio
win OH the merit of our case. vi Cou'S''
,ba committee saw that the other contests
were fakes. and just threw MS out III
bunch. as MclIarg might have known II
would
The committee found no merit In the
contests from The state of Washington Inc
Roosevelt men held a primary when was
not a primary in King County. ana theh'
because they had held such primary re-
fused to take part in the state convention
The fact that this convention was ia'I
one was shown by the seating OF scN'rd'
Roosevelt delegates from other counties Out
the King County men knew they had no
case. and so they preferred to stay away
ia submitting their claims to an eNamlna-
ton
The testimony I'm the Texas cases was
botb confusing and conflicting. but large
ma iority of the committee felt that the pre-
uonderanCe of evidence was on the SIDE OF
the Taft delegates and voted accordingly.
81 t i'm "
Roosevelt men were able TO make a good
case they were placed on the temporary
roll.
No one had ever expected that the con-
test from the District of Columbia would ne
taken seriously. 1t was merely one OF those
GOT up for psychological effect ana III
order to prevent President Taft from ap-
bearing to have a majority OF the dele
sates-in a word. what The Tribune has
aptly termed "decoy'
The contest Of the Texas delegates-at-
large was the first called Colonel Lyon
said he believed that technically there was
no contest against the Roosevelt delegates
at-large As no printed brief for the Tart
delegates had been filed within the pre-
scrjbed time. the rules Of the committee
had not been observed. and no formal con-
test existed.
Secretary Hayward said he had Two
sets of credentials from Texas
The chairman can only go on the ad-
vice of the secretary" said Chairman Rose
water HE says contest exists. and IL
must be called"
Committeeman Capers, OF South Carolina
also insisted that nc Texas contest-at-large
existed and a crisis was brought on when
Mr. Nulvane. Of Kansas, moved 10 pass
Texas and take up Virginia, because Texas
apparentIy was not ready"
Il protest against such action, said Colo
mel Lyon. 1--WE are ready"
But YOU decline to go on with the hrs'
contest" said Mr.. Mulvane.
1--WE don't recognize that contest cNls's
as 10 these delegates st-largc.' retorted
Colonel Lyon.
Against the protest of Mr.. Capers that
"you can't run over us this way the com
mittee voted to take up the Virginia con-
tests and to pass the Texas contest tenn
porariy.