The Washington times., 1912-06-08
FLYNN GIVES LIE TO-
TAFT CHARGES OF
PLANNED MOB RAID
No Strong-Arm Methods,
Declares Roosevelt's Lieu
tenant From Pittsburgh.
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publican national committee of It's
Former CONGRESSMAN Jim" Tawney
OF Minneapolis, made his first appear
ance In the committee, while the Fourth
district of Arkansas contest was being
heard. He held the proxy Of Commit
:. Roosevelt Claims.
The contest in the Fifth Arkansas
district was a duplication of the others
that thst had preceded It. II being admitted
extenuation, w. 8. Holt, heading the
contestants, said the he and his col
leagues had been prevented from en-
tering the convention by armed deputy
sheriffs who denied them admittancc.
To this the Taft men replied by say
ing that the trump convention was
called by Sid B. Reddinn, clerk of the
Federal court at Little Rock. Redding,
they said, was a contestant before the
natlonal convention four years ago and
appeared in person before the national
committee. They further said that the
old not appeal to the committee ON
Mckinley said that Roosevelt had been
invited to attend the meetings of the
national committee and hear all of the
arguments offered before the COMMITTEES
on the contests, and that the colonel
had refused.
The logic of the situation,' said Nc
kinney, points to Roosevelt's boiling.
When he does he will find himself de-
feated by large majority"
Senator Dixon said today that former
State Senator william Flynn would be
Pennsylvania. Flynn had a majority
of 140, 000," he said, but in spite of that
fact Senator Penrose, who has been dis
credited, IL sitting in the committee ses-
sions as the representative of the Key
stone state"
Talk of Running Mate.
TAFT chieftains were getting ready 70
give the President a progressive running
mate as well as to promulgate a pro-
gressive platform that they think will
be a winner before the voters. While
there has not been suggestion of a
boom for any candidate for the vice
Presidency up to the present time, the
Taft leaders say that the man selected
will be a progressive.
Today their favorite was Senator AL
bert B. Cummins Of Iowa. If he can
be drafted the Taft men smilingly ad-
mitted that he would bring to their COL
umn. the Iowa delegates who were in
structed for his nomination for the
Presidency and they also said that he
Western section of the country where
the progressivism of Colonel Roosevelt
has been called into question.
None OF the delegates on hand would
discuss the Cummins boom. It is pri-
vately circulated on gum shoes that
Senator Borah, most ardent of the pro-
gressive workers. declared that, while
clever, the plan could hardly work"
tor DIXON, leader of the Roosevelt
forces, today insisted that his follow
ers would control the convention when
the delegates began voting: He depre:.
had the votes to nominate himself, but
he also admitted by implication, at
least, that II the Taft steam roller
wiped Oft the temporary roll call the
Roosevelt delegates from Indiana, Ken
tucly. Mississippi Texas. and Wash
ington. there would be little left to de-
pend m. but an appeal direct to the
people"
Claim Majority.
The Roosevelt men continued to in
sist today that If the national COM
mittee seated every single delegate
from the contested districts Taft
would only have a majority of fifteen
delegates. and that this would be OFF,
set by the La Toilette delegates from
Wisconsin and North Dakota. The La
Toilette managers also believed this
and were asserting that they would
hold the balance Of power in the con
| both the platform and the nominee
Some Of the Roosevelt leaders were
| suggesting that they could get the
La Toilette strength If they would
abandon Governor Hadley of Mis-
souri, as their candidate for tempor-
airy chairman against Senator Root
| of New York, and declare for Gov
ernor Francis e. McGovern, of Wis
| consin.