The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-09
Committee Meets June 6

New York, May s.-The republican national committee will meet in Chi cago Thursday afternoon, June 6, to de- eide contests among" delegates to the national republican convention. The call for the meeting was Issued today by William Hayward, secretary of the com miitee. Indications that there will be an unusual number of contests this year, Mir Hayward said had been con- sidered by Victor Rosewater. the com mlttees' acting chairman. and himself in sending out the call for the early meet ing A few contests already have been
 brought officially before the commit tees officers. The time for limiting 1 filing contests is May 2o
 | MT. Hayward also announced that ha would place before the committee a plen that will affect the representa- ton of the south In republican national lconyentions The principal objection 10 plans previously suggested, he said was 1 the elimination of the congressional district as the unit of representation.
 The plan would change the basis of
 representation. he said, and still re-
 tain the congressional district as the
 unit
 1 What we want to do. if possible 1 Mir Hayward said, Ifs to get the com
 mittee together early enough to have
 sufficient time to consider these con l I
 ably will be executive as heretofore.
 Number of Contests Exaggerated 1 we have received some notices of contests but nowhere as many as re- ported by the newspapers. Also we have not received anywhere near all | the credentials.'
 Mir Hayward left New York this aft
 ernoon for Chicago, where he expects l to remain until after the convention.
 The national committee, he said, proh- ably would be in session every day
 after June 6 until the convention. | The question of southern represeA- tation that has been agitated in every convention that I can remember" Mr. Hayward said. probably will be acted upon by the committee in the nature of I q recommendation to the convention. While in my opinion a ajority of the delegates to the convention has been heartily in favor of making a change | in that regard, the difficulty has been | that they did not desire to abandon the congressional district as unit of rep
 resentation. The southern districts have representation in Congress, ac-
 cording to population. including the
 negroes. Then the negroes are dis franchised. The natural result Is that | in many of the southern districts are very few republican votes and yet. of
 course, they have thes delegates" 1 MT. Hayward added that he preferred
 not to make public the plan until it
 was submitted to the committed. | Taft Plans Trip
 l Columbus, O.. May s.-Plans for Presi-
 dent Taft's swing through Ohio next
 week, made public here tonight. indicate ] that Mir Taft intends to make a spectacu- | lar and strenuous fight to control the states 4S delegates to the republican na-
 tiona, convention. The primaries will
 be held May 21.
 ! Entering Ohio next Monday morning, I the President will speak in practically
 every city and town of over. 5000 inhabi- tants that he has not visited on the tour ended here tonight. Mir. Taft will be in | the state nine days, and on seven of these he will be in full action. Estimates to- night were that he would speak at least l 75 times.
 | Although details of the trip were not i icompleted tonight, the President Is ex- pected to find some new subjects on which l to continue his attacks on Colonel Roose- welt
 1 MT. Taft will vote in Cincinnati Tues. (CONTlNUED ON PAGE 1Ol