The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-10
Wherein He Denounced Committee in Seating 2
 Alabama Delegates
MIR. ROOSEVELT MAY
 ARRIVE THIS WEEK
Taft Members Going to Stand on Ac- tions-Dixon Denies Reports. Cabinet Officers and Other
 Republicans Arrive

Republicans Arrlfe
 Chicago. June 9.--A majority of the. members Of the republican national com- mittee after a lengthy conference today unoffically decided to refrain from any comment upon tho statement issued last night by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. in which the former President denounced the action of the committee in seating the two Taft delegates from the Ninth Alabama district.
 Today's impromptu meeting of the na~ tional committee members was held at a
 downtown hotel and was attended ex- clusively by those committeeman general-
 ly accepted as being favorable to Presi- dent rafts candidacy for renomlnation.
 Certain of the committeeman who att
 tended the meeting expressed great in-
 dignation at the text of Colonel Roose- velt's statement. which they declared was
 deserving of an emphatic reply. Others,
 however, counseed against a reply of
 any kind and urged their fellow commit-
 tee members to ignore the statement.
 This advice finally prevailed. Going to Stand on Actions l Scarcely any of the Taft members of
 the committee would discuss today's meet-
 ing after it had been concluded. One. however said:
 "we are going to stand on our actions.
 regardless of the remarks of persons Iswho are prejudlced and unfair. The work 1 speaks for itself, and that is all there
 is to it. There Is but one way to handle l unreasonable people, and that is to ignore l them"
 Despite the fact that 1t was Sunday
 and that number of the leaders were l out of town, the campaign headquarters of both Taft and Roosevelt men were l busy most of the day and late tonight. l Francis J. Heney, who prosecuted the 1 San Francisco graft cases and former Governor George c. Pardee of California, who were among those arriving at the
 Roosevelt headquarters, conferred with l United States Senator Dixon of Montana, | Colonel Rooseyelts manager. and other | leaders.
 1 After a meeting of a group of Roose- welt managers 1t was announced unof- 1 ficially that Colonel Roosevelt would ar
 rive in Chicago. either by the middle or latter part of the week, but they de- clined to name the exact day. Thomas K. Niedringhaus of St. Louis. newly elected national committeeman l from Missouri and a prominent Roose@ | parted from Chicago for the east today. It was said that he had gone to Plttsburg but the nature of his mission was not l divulged,
 l Dixon Denies Reports l Senator Dixon tonight issued a state ment in which he denied reports that the | Roosevelt managers intended to with draw pending contests In this connec- | ton. The statement said "Of course we do not intend to do any such thing. Every contest will be pro- scented by us. If majority of the na- tonal committee is prepared to deliberate | ly unseat Roosevelt delegates as tho Taft managers insist they will do. we are going to see that the robbery is com
 mtted on the open daylight and in the | full view of ninety million of American citizens.
 Tt Is perfectly apparent that the Taft managers have under perfect control enough members of the national commit tee to do exactly as they please regard- ing the remainder of the contests. nearly all of which are from the republican states of the north and west.
 'To gain temporary control of the con- vention the inner circle of Taft managers boldly have determined to unseat Roose- welt delegates from California, Washing ton. Missouri and South Dakota In Cali fornia and South Dakota, Colonel Roose- welt received overwhelming majories in the preferential primary
 Tn Missouri and Washington, Colonel Roosevelt had majorlties of from 300 to l 400 in the state convention" | At the Taft headquarters, although Con- | gressman William B. Mckinley of Illinois,
 manager of the Taft campaign, was ab- | sent, other men of prominence dis- | cussed plans for the final week of work
 before the national convention Is called
 to order. Congressman Mckinley spent | rr.. .t-.l F11s.ffR atrrFa
 Cabinet Officers Arrive l Secretary of the Treasury Franklin. 1 Mac Veagh. Secretary of Commerce and | Labor Charles Nagel. former national committeeman from Missouri, arrived to- 1 day.
 James A. Fowler of Knoxville, Tenn. assistant to Attorney General Wickers- ham, visited the Taft headquarters, ac- | companied by Congressman Samuel R. 1 Sells of Tennessee. H. o. True of Ten nessee was another arrival. A large number of Taft delegates from
 Louisiana and Kentucky. tonight opened Individual state headquarters at hotels.
 Thomas A. Marlow, national committed man from Montana, and a Taft leader. joined the other committee today and raid he would sit in the remaining ses- slons.
 Consider Contests Today Chicago. June 9-The republican na- tional committee will resume tomorrow
 morning it's considering its large number
 of contests for places on the temporary ! roll of the republican national conven- ton. which Is to convene in the Coliseum ] at noon on Tuesday of next week. Upon the results of its deliberations depends ! to d great extent the control of the con- l vention. and before the nominations.
 which it will make for theoffices of Presi-
 dent and Vice President of the United | States. to say nothing of of the lesser | fratters Of the organization of the con- vention and the text of the platform. ! The contests in Alabama. Arkansas. i Florida and Georgia. which were decided
 add 12 delegates to the strength of Taft. Whether 1t foretold a steam roller, policy
 of giving the whole business to Taft
 as the Roosevelt adherents now claim;
 or whether the contests still to be decided | win give some to Taft and some to Roose- | welt is matter of much speculation and bitter interchange between the leaders. l It seemed likely tonight that the In- diana cases. involving l2 delegates-four
 at large and two each in the First Third.
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