The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-08-01

10 SECURE a ucAIAuEs Nnc Aoui NoHtC0N-
ing delegations. together with the OILY
uncOntested delegation OF the cOnven-
ton, withdrew to another place and
held a convention and elected Taft
delegates to the Chicago convention
The congressional convention which
elected the Taft delegates was COM
posed CT more than a majority. and.
indeed, OF practically all the regularly
elected delegates. The national com.
mittee held the title of the Taft dele
gates to their seats valid by viva vOce
vote without calling for a division
Fifth District.
The Fifth district of Texas is co-n-
posed Of Dallas. Ellis. Hill. BOSguc
and ROckwalI counties. Dallas county
cast more Republican votes than AL
the other counties OF the district put
together. The call for the congress
sionaI convention allowed each county
to send not to exceed four delegates.
but made no reference to the basis of
representation of the respective conn
ties composing the district There
was a contest from Dallas county. hut
the Taft delegates were seated. Taft
delegates were seated on the temporary
roll from two counties. and Roosevelt
delegates from the three counties. and
the representation in the cOnveut.nn
was fixed at one vote for each county
without regard to the number of dele
gates in the convention or the nCuI-
Der Of Republican votes cast in such
county. minority report of the dis
trict committee was presented, protest
ing against the ratio of representa-
convention objected to the presenta
ton OF this minority report. Failing
in this he abandoned the platform ana
left the hall.
The convention thereupOn elected 2
new chairman and a new secretary. ap
pointed a committee on credentials,
| which recommended the seating of the
Taft delegates from Hill county and
the adoption of the minority report Gf
the district committee as to the basis
of the representation in the convention.
Both these recommendations were
adopted, and Taft delegates to the ma
tional convention were thereupon elect
ed by a vote of eight to three. The
Roosevelt men thereafter retired to the
south end of the hall. where they or
ganized a meeting at which it was
claimed the Roosevelt delegates to the
national convention were elected. The
Republican vote for the district for
1908 was as follows: Dallas county.
2,O6S; Ellis. 594: Hill. 414: BOsque 2G6:
Rockwall, 80. Both the national com.
mittee and the committee on creden-
tials sustained the Taft delegates.
Seventh District.
The Seventh congressional district of
Texas is composed of the following
counties: Anderson. Chambers. Gal.
weston, Houston. Liberty, Polk. San ia.
cinto and Trinity. Polk, San JacintC
and Trinity were without proper party
organization. In Texas county chair.
men must be elected by the voters in
each party. No such election was held
in any of these three counties. In two
of them Colonel Lyon assumed to ap,
point chairmen, which he had no right
to do. Lyon himself had classed these
three counties as unOrganiZed and with,
out party organization.
The convention met in Galveston
The executive committee met prior to
the meeting of the convention to make
up the temporary roll Of delegates. The
executive committee had before it the
question of having the three unOrgan
ized counties represented in the con
vention. The executive committee re-
fused to recognize them. When this
action was taken by the executive com
mittee a delegate from Houston county
and the alleged representatives from
the three unorganized counties with
drew from the meeting and proceeded
to organize another convention, anC
upon this is based the contest, which
was rejected by both committees, th'
national committee and the credential:
committee.
Eighth District.
In the Eighth congressional conven
ton a split occurred over the majorit!
and minority reports Of the executive
committee as to the temporary roll
The Roosevelt followers controlled tn,
executive committee, but did not have
majority in the convention, which
adopted the minority report and gave
Taft FIVE and one-half votes and ROOse
Welt two and One-half votes. This re
suited in the election of the Taft dele
gates, who were seated by both tn,
national committee and the credential!
committee.
Ninth District.
In the Ninth district the distric
committee was called by Mr. Speaker
member of the committee, and not b,
the chairman. The chairman refused
to convene the committee because HI
claimed that all the delegates from
Texas to the national convention mus
be elected in the state convention. tha
Colonel Lyon, his superior, had thus
directed him. The district committee
was called. Seven members attended
the meeting. The district convention
was called on May 10. Eleven countie,
out of the fifteen responded to She cal
and took part In the convention. Three
counties were not represented, and il
one of these there was no election
After this convention had been called
the chairman of the district cOmmitte,
changed his mind and called a meet
ing Of the committee for April II
This committee called a cOngressiona
convention to be held on May 1S. Blu
there was no publication of the call
| which had tn he thirty DAYS hafnra tn,