The Washington times., 1912-05-31
Committee Will
: Attack Contest
... Tangle on June 6

CHICAGO. May 31.-Confronted with
the problem. of settling aJ4 contests, the
Republican national committee will meet
here June 6 and for almost two weeks
thereafter the chief activities OF the
Roosevelt and Taft campaign managers
Will center i'll the committee ROOM
OF the s0i contests filed, III have been
presented by the Roosevelt faction. and
the majority are from States where the
qrong-&rn1 methods of Federal office
huiders are alleged to have throttled the
hqll Of the conventions.
Nhero are contests from eighteen
States. the District of Columbia, and
tHe Territory Of Alaska.
Have Charge Of Contests.
prmsby .McHarg and cambridge Col
by now have active charge of the
Roosevelt contests at Chicago. The
latter is devoting himself to the le-
GIL phases involved, while Mr.. McHarg,
who is entirely confident of the nomin-
ation Of Colonel Roosevelt, is pressing
the general merits of every Roosevelt
contest upon the national committee.
The principal contests filed by the
Taft managers are from Missouri and
Texas. Three sets Of delegates at large
will come from Louisiana, and in the
First Second, Fourth, and Fifth dis
tricts, two sets were named by Taft
supporters and, one by Roosevelt sup
porters H."
An excess number of delegates at
souri,, and in the, Thirteenth Missouri
district. Other districts which have
selected more delegates than called for
by the convention are as follows:
/ At large in Alabama, Fifth Kentucky
district, Fourth Minnesota district, Sew
enth district Of Texas, and the First,
Tenth and Eleventh districts in Georgia.
| Secretary Hayward has therefore
I classed these as additional contests and
the national committee will be re-
| quired to make a decision regarding
/ this mix-up.
The contests which must be decided
by the committee are as follows:
| Number of
Il Delegates
! State AMI district. Contested.
Alabama at large and 2, 8. 8, and g.. IA
Arkansas at large and l, 2, 3, 4, 8,
! District of Columbia at large.......... 2
1 Florida at large and /. 2, 3............ IL
Georgia at larg' and !. O.. 3, 4, 8, 6. 7, -.
/ Indiana at large and 1, 3, and b.. 10
kentucky, j ard H.. .................. 4
louisiana at largo and l, 2. 8. 4. ). s, T. 20
Michigan at e.......-...,............
Mississipppi at large and l, 2, 4. 5. 6.
q and S:'.:..-. ........................ Is
Misso2ri at large ana /. ). S. 7. 13. H.. 1e
North Carolina, Observation-Disclosures.
Z ,
South Carolina, ! an1 2................
| Tennessee. 0 ard Observation-Disclosures, 4
Texas at large and /, '2.-3, 4. 8. z, 8,
| II. Il and b.. .%....:..:...'.:.:...:.. 2!
/ Virginia at large AMI 2. 3, s, 6. s, 10. is
/ Washington al large and !, .. and g.. il
Alaska Territory at large.
! Total delegate contests.
Taft Contest.
Joseph B. Healing. erstwhile United
States District Attorney at Indianap-
oils, arrived in Chicago today from
Texas, where he looked after President
Tafts interests in the recent primaries
and conventions. He reported to Col
onel New that Mr.. Taft and Mr.. Roose-
yslt each have six instructed delegates
from that State, while the remaining
( twenty-eight are contested.
Mr.. Rcnse seYclt's Chicago managers in q
statement assert their candidate will
have 5S1 votes on the first ballot, or
more than enough to nominate. They
giye Mr.. Taft 1871, Mr.. La Toilette 36,
Mr.. Cummins 10 and class the other
delegates as uninstructed.
| Kew York's 80 delegates are divided
| as follows In the statement: Mr.. Roose-
welt 80, Mr.. Taft 2, uninstructed 56.