Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1912-07-31

changed his mind and called meet
ing of the committee for April II.
This COMMITTEES called a congressional
convention to be held on May Is. But
there was no publication of the call,
which had to be thirty days before the
convention, until April p. The Taft
convention seems tnerefore to have
been duly and regularly convened,
while the Roosevelt convention was
not. The Taft delegates were seated.
Tenth District.
In the Tenth district the decision
turned largely upon the bad faith with
which two members of the district
committee voted in the seating of dele
gates and upon the bad faith with
which one of them used the proxy in
trusted to him. The Taft delegates in
this case bolted and left the hall and
Immediately in the same building Or
gained another convention which con-
sisted of delegates from six counties.
| Proceedings were regularly held; per-
manent organization effected, the re-
port Of the committee on resolutions
adopted and delegates pledged to Taft
were elected The undisputed evidence
indicated that a fragrant attempt had
been made to deprive Taft of this dis
trict, to which he was justly entitled.
The national committee sustained the
title Of the Taft delegates and alter
mates by practically unanimous vote.
Fourteenth District.
In the Fourteenth district there were
fifteen counties in the district. When
the executive committee met at San
Antonio to make up the temporary roll
there were ten members of the COM
mittee present whose right to act was
undisputed, of whom six were for Taft
and four for Roosevelt. There were
four other Roosevelt men present
whose right to vote was disputed and
who were clearly not entitled to repre-
. sent their county at that meeting. One
of them held the proxy Of the commit
teeman from Kendall county, who was
dead, and the proxies from three other
counties were held, two by postmas-
tiers and one by an assistant pOstmas-
ter, while under the election law Of
Texas no one who holds an Office of
profit or trust under the United States
shall act as a member Of an executive
, committee either for the state or for
any district or county. The temporary
: roll was made up by Taft members,
having clear majority without per-
hitting these men to act under their
, proxies There was a contest over the
1aIorotinn oh
contains the city of San Antonio Full
, consideration was given to this contest,
4 but the testimony was overwhelming
+ that Taft carried the county by a vote
Of four or five to one. On the proper
basis the total vote in the district con-
. vention was sixty-seven, of which the
number instructed or voting for Taft
was thirty-seven and One-half, the
number voting or instructed for Roose-
Welt twenty eight and one-half, not vot-
ing one. The Taft delegation was
therefore seated at Chicago.
. CONCLUSION.
q The purpose of this resume of the
r contests in which there was any shad
, OW of substance has been to inform
:. those who have not time or inclination
:, to read the longer and more detailed
account of them contained in the large
pamphlet. 1t is not essential to make
Mr.. Taft's title indisputable that al
men agree on every one of the ISSUES
: raised. They were decided by the tri
. bunals which uniform party usage hal
made the proper tribunals to decid
such contests. If those tribunals actet
y in good faith mistaken judgment wOul
} not invalidate their decisions. AS
matter of fact, an examination of tn
Il facts show that the tribunals wer
right in every instance. There is no
y the slightest evidence that they wer
= moved by other than a mere desire t
IL reach a right conclusion. On the othe
'e hand, the action Of the Roosevelt me
u in bringing $50 contests that the
promptly abandoned strongly tende
q. to show the lack of good faith in tn
to prosecution Of all of them. Those VIII
,e support President Taft can we'll affor
lie to stand on the record in this case an
lie to asseverate without fear of success:
n full contradiction that the delegate
d whose seats were contested were a
E. fairly seated in this convention as i
Is any in the history of the party.