The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-16
CECIL LYON FIGHTS
WITH DESPERATION
National Committee, How,
ever, Not Moved by Frenzy
of the Chief Political Boss
of Lone Star State.

~ of tense partisan and personal
feeling among it's members, the
Republican national committee CON
Guided tonight the hearing Of the con-
tests involving 254 seats in the ma
tlonal convention which is TO assemble
Tuesday. The sum Of its work is:
Roosevelt, 19; Taft. 235
President Taft today received sixty
two delegates; Colonel Roosevelt, six
All of Washington fourteen went
to the president against the protests
Of Senator Poindeyter that the coun-
| try would judge the case. Out Of To1as
Taft secured twenty-si1 of the CON
tested thirty, over the PROSTATE form
of Colonel Cecil A. Lyon, who declared
"you may depose ME now but / will
be back four years from now when
many Of you will not,
In Virginia, where the issue was
drawn between colored voters and the
regular state organization, the presl-
dent received the entire contested dele.
cation of twenty. In the District of
Columbia bo won two, Committeeman
Sidney Bieber going to defeat with the
Roosevelt delegation.
Feeling Intense.
The finish of the long contest hear.
ings was marked by incidents more
strongly indicative of the division be-
tween the Taft and Roosevelt forces
than any in the preceding days.
Colonel Lyon fought each of the
Texas contests cases personally, and
was defeated In all but two of them.
In the end he was called upon to
fight q resolution for an investigation
and reorganization of the whole struc-
ture of the Republican party in Texas.
Presented by Thomas L. Devine of
Colorado. il proposed subcommittee
of three from the national committee
TO attempt change in the organiza-
ton of the state that would destroy
the system of county representation
described by the Taft attorneys AS
survival Of the "rotten borough meth
ods of England, -
Threatens Commune,
Committeeman Lyon declared he
would fight such a proposal to the end.
He said many Of the members Of the
committee thus trying to depose him
had been themselves deposed and
would be missing from the committee
room four years from now when he
would again return.
81 have heard much recently of the
one hundred days and the return
from Elba, - he said. 'I give you
fair warning that if You persist in the
way YOU arc going, there will be a
repetition of another historic incident,
the commune.
The Washington cases, almost the
last to engage the committee g attcn-
tion before the conclusion Of its ten
days work, were preceded by a threat.
cned personal combat between Francis
j. fIenev and Committeeman l<cnned~
of North Dakota. which was prevented
only by the Interference of ihcir asso.
ciatcs
Delegates Arrive Early.
The committee assembled at 9:l5
a. m
Texas delegates began to appear at
the coliseum annex some time before
the committee hour Of meeting |
Many of them were made conspicuous |
by the white badges they wore:
Texas for Taft, recalling the his |
toric banner flung 10 the guzc of the |
Republican convention four years ago. |
Then a huge placard. to which pair |
of 'pants was attached. was borne |
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