Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-06-12
TAFT GAINING
MORE DELEGATES
Arizona Contest Decided in
His Favor Early This
Morning
CALIFORNIA AND LOUISIANA
All Day and Long Night Session
in Prospect For National
Committee

! of the Arizona and California cases,
set for today, and the Louisiana cases,
next on the list of states, the Repub-
! lican national committee set it's meet.
ing for O'Clock today with the pros
pect of an all-day and long night ses-
sion.
The California case, in view of the
statements made Monday by former
Senator Dick, the Taft contest attor.
ney, promised to bring the title to
the whole state delegation into ques-
| ton, owing to an alleged conflict be-
tween the California state primary
law and the official call of the Repub-
lican national committee, issued last
Washington
The national committees call speci
| fled that the voters of each congress
sional district should have the privi-
lege of choosing two delegates to rep
resent them in the Republican nation
al convention.
Under the California primary law,
although the first returns showed that
the Taft delegates in the fourth con-
gressional district were elected over
the Roosevelt delegates, the secretary
of state acted under the state primary
law and gave all delegates to Colonel
Roosevelt because of his large majori-
ty in the state.
Later, however, the secretary OF
state determined that the boundaries
between the fourth and fifth districts
were not clearly enough defined to
make possible an accurate count of the
Taft or Roosevelt votes in the fourth
district. This change further compli-
Gated the case as it was presented to
the committee today.
The Arizona Contest.
There are two sets of delegates at
large from Arizona, one for Taft and
the other for Roosevelt, the latter
the contesting faction.
In the state convention, after the
Taft men had organized, the Roosevelt
followers held convention in the
same hall, and elected a delegation.
The contestants deny the right of the
Taft leaders to fix a temporary roll
call.
louisiana
Just before the committee met. it
was declared that the claim of the
Roosevelt delegation from Louisiana,
headed by Committeeman Pearl Wight,
would be that the subcommittee of the
Republican national committee ex-
ceeded its authority, when it went to
Louisiana and consolidated with the
former warning factions.
The Wight delegation was elected
under one of the regular committees.
Mr.. Wight was prepared to assert be-
/ fore the committee that the national
committees delegation which went to
Louisiana in February went there for
the purpose of getting early conven-
| tions and shutting out the possibility
of Roosevelt delegation
Morrison on Deck.
For the six Taft delegates at-large
from Arizona appeared Samuel J. El-
der Boston attorney, and former
class-mate of President Taft; Robert
E. Morrison, an attorney from Pres
1cott, Arizona, and Justice Williams,
Jr., of Tucson, one of the delegates at
large
At the Roosevelt table Ormsby Nc
Harg was Joined by George E. Record,
of New Jersey, and Dwight B. Heard
of Phoenix, of the Roosevelt delega-
tion.
| Chairman Rosewater said there was
some doubt as to which Arizona dele
cation should be heard first, but, as
the Roosevelt delegates had filed their
credentials first, the Taft delegates
would be considered the contestants.
Mr.. Elder said as no primary law
was in effect when the Arizona state
committee called the state convention
for June 8, doubt existed as how the
delegates should be selected The
state committee decided to leave the
selection of delegates to the county
committees.
Scenes of Disorder.
only one contest was presented
when the state committee met two
days before the convention said Mr.
Elder. 1T was well known that the
committee was ready to hear all con-
tests. At the convention at Tucson all
the contestants received tickets.
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