Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-06-11

TAFT'S ENEMIES ARE PLEASED
Bitter Dissensi0ns in C0l0ners Camp
Over Decision of Indiana Contest
for Delegates-at-Large.

Chicago, June 1l.--With the decks
cleared for action following the
stormy sessions in connection with
the Indiana Contests where victory
went completely to the Taft forces,
the National Committee took up to-
day the contests in Kentucky, anoth-
er of the direct primary states where
Col. Roosevelt alleges he was robbed.
This fight centered directly on the re-
districting Of the state by the legis-
lature. The delegates to the state
convention were elected under dis
trict lines that had been changed by
the Legislature and the Roosevelt
forces also allege that intimidation
and fraud were rampant in several of
the Congressional districts.
The real fighting days in the COM
mittee have been reached. So far as
the southern contests were concerned,
the real Roosevelt leaders in the Ma
tional Committee-Senator Borah,
Bill Ward, Frank B. Kellogg and
Cecil Lyon-were not very much in
terested in the outcome. But now that
the direct primary states are under
consideration and the point at issue
is the allegation that the voters were
not given an opportunity to have
their wishes recorded properly, the
line Of division has become very
marked.
The Roosevelt men were we'll pleas
ed today. They believed they had
won 4 decided strategic victory when
the committee, after steam rollering
them out OF existence in the 18th Indi-
ana contest and refusing to accept
what was declared to be conclusive
evidences Of fraud, completely re-
versed itself and accepted all of the
offered evidence. They insisted that
this established precedent that
would materially aid them when the
Missouri contests are reached late
today or tomorrow.
Bitter dissensions were in evidence
in the Roosevelt camp today as the re-
suit of the decision of the Indiana
contests for the delegates-at-large.
Many of the attaches of the headquar
ters of the Oyster Bay aspirant, blam-
ed the outcome there on Senator Bor-
all, and they intimated that the rea-
son for his failure to vote. to seat the
Roosevelt contestants was because he
had Vice Presidential aspirations.
The senator bitterly resented this
criticism. He authorized the United
Press to deny emphatically that un-
der any circumstances would he take
second place on any ticket.
That the Roosevelt forces will not
be permitted to storm the convention
hall when the Republican National
Convention meets in this city one
week from. today was the emphatic
assertion Of Chairman Victor Rose
water and q dozen members Of the
committee today.
The plan of the Roosevelt leaders,
engineered by William Flynn of
Pennsylvania, and endorsed by all of
the members Of the Republican steer
ing committee, to have the conven-
ton refuse to recognize the tempor-
airy roll made up by the National
Committee, and to 60 ahead and cap
ture the convention from the start,
will not be allowed to 60 through,
according to these committeeman.
Instead, Rosewater, as chairman,
will be protected in presenting the
temporary roll of delegates as made
up by the National Committee, and
in presenting the name of Senator
Root of New York as temporary chair
man.
Unless the Roosevelt leaders re-
cede from their present position they
will demand that their contesting del
egates be permitted to vote on the
temporary chairmanship question.
This will not be permitted by the Ma
tional Committee, which will have
all of the convention machinery at
its disposal including enough husky
assistant sergeants az arms to put
over anything Colonel Bill Stone Of
Baltimore, the sergeant at arms, ma!
order.
Chicago, June 1.-THE Republican
National Committee voted 3S to l,
to seat the four Taft delegates st