The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-12
IOWA DELEGATION
PLEDGED TO TAFT
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tend voting on every case called intel
ligently and according to the evidence
presented. would like though to cali
attention to the fact that there are
other things to be considered than
mere party expedlency. We have the
coming campaign before us. Now take Il
the eleventh Kentucky district where
we seated one Taft and one Roosevelt
delegate. There are two factions in
the party down there. They are all
good party men and they want to
elect congressman. Now by recog-
nizing both factions there we have
been able to reconcile the warning ele-
ments and we may get congressman
there. That Is both good business and
sound politics. And it was not treas
on either.
Of both the Roosevelt and Taft men,
for publication at least. Most Of the
Taft anger, however, was for publica /
ton purposes exclusively as they had I
conceded the eleventh district to the
Roosevelt forces and in reality gained
a delegate.
When the committee met today for
mer Senator Dick, for the Taft men,
addressed the committee as follows:
Il would like to be informed how
can appeal from the action of the
committee | considered its action In
splitting this district representation
/ entirely irregular"
And also want to protest" Chin
ed in Ormsby McHarg, for the Roose-
welt forces. Il can't see how this COM
mittee could have seated one delegate
from each side. 1t looks irregular to
me-"
You gentlmen are both out Of ord
e. declared Chairman Rosewater. ut
| Is just as we'll that you should know
right now that the action of this
committee, so far as the temporary
roll is concerned, is final"
Both lawyers subsidized for the time
being.
Only One County
4 In demanding the seating OF the
Roosevelt delegates from Arizona, Nc
Harg and his associate declared that
the contest hinged on single county,
| Maricopa.
THE county committee there" they
said, under the call of the state COM
mittee, had the option of selecting
delegates to the state convention, or
of calling primaries to elect such
\ delegates. At the meeting of the COM
|. mittee the Roosevelt men had twenty
. two men present and the Taft men
!. nineteen. The credentials committee
: threw out all proxies offered by both
. sides and held down the meeting to
. those committeeman actually present,
I who. by vote of % to 10, ordered pri-
maries In this action two Taft dele
gates Joined. Even if the. proxies had
j, been allowed, the Roosevelt forces
i iwould have still controlled. Thereup-
v Ison the 10 Taft men heldsa rur1p meet
! ling and selected delegates to the state
convention. At the primaries the
Roosevelt delegates were elected by a
Evote of $50 for Roosevelt to II for
: / Taft.
The state committee in making UP
the roll for the state convention, fs>
Z nored the Roosevelt delegates elected
at the primaries and accepted the dele
gates selected by the 10 county com
mitteemen and thus attempted to
9 throw the control of the state conven
J ton into the hands of the Taft peo
T pie. The Roosevelt people refused tc
submit to this action and the state
= convention split into two parts each
8 faction holding its own convention ant
s electing its own national delegates
t The Taft convention is therefore
clearly illegal, as the Roosevelt MaSa
copa delegates were clearly entitled
to be seated Even if it is claimed
, that the committee should have allow
y ed proxies, the only result of the ac
ton. even If technical error. wa:
y to order public primaries and there
by to give the people an opportunity t.
express their presidential preference
Nobody was injured, and nobody wa:
derived of any rights. The Roosevelt
= people fought for popular primarie:
! and the Taft people fought to proven
them"
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