The Coconino sun., 1912-08-09


 testants admitted they were not elect. ed by the convention which sent the Taft delegates orsby any other Th.y only coutended that If the Roosevelt fsrres had had a majority they would have been elected, There were 2.358 delegates summoned to the convention by its call There were 449 of these whose seats were contested. If all of these had been conceded to Roosevelt It would have made the Roosevelt vote 297 votes less than majority. The appeal to the committee on credentials from the decision of the national com mittee was abandoned. as it ought to have been.
 Michigan.
 In Michigan the state convention had in 1t about 1,200 delegates. There were only two counties in dispute or contest. One was Wayne county. in which Detroit is situated, and the other was Calhoun county. The evidence left no doubt that the Taft men car ried by very large majority Wayne county. but 1t was immaterial whether this was true or not, because, leaving out both Wayne county and Calhoun county. the only counties in contest, the Taft delegates outnumbered by several hundred the Roosevelt dele gates, and they had a clear majority out of the total number of votes that should have been in the convention. The contest was so weak as to hardly merit recital.
 Texas.
 In Texas there were 249 counties. of which four have no county govern ment The 245 counties under the call of the convention were allowed to have something over 1000 delegates. repre-. senting them. who were given author. lty to cast PAS votes Of the 245 coun. ties there were ninety-nine counties in which the total Republican vote was but 1000, in fourteen of which there were no Republican voters. in twenty seven of which there were less than ten each and in none of which was there any Republican organization and In none of which had primary or con. yention been held. It was shown that Colonel Cecil Lyon. to whom had been assigned as referee the disposition of the patronage of the national Repub- lican administration for ten years in the state, had been In the habit of con. trolling the Republican state conyen- ton by securing from two federal of ! iceholders in each of these ninety nine counties certificate granting a proxy | to Colonel Lyon or a friend of his to represent the county as if regularly conferred by Republican county or ganization. The national committee and the committee on credentials and | the convention after the fullest investi gatiou decided that these ninety-nine counties in which the Republican vote was so small and in which there was no Republican party. no convention. no | primary. no organization. was not the | proper source for proxy 10 give vote equal to that to be cast by the other l46 counties in which there was a Republican organization and in which primaries or conventions were i held The two committees therefore held such ninety proxies to be illegal and not the basis of proper rep resentation The two tribunals who heard the case decided that they should | deduct the nInety-nine votes from the total,of 245 and give the representation Co those who controlled the majority of the remainder The remainder was l52 votes. and out of that the Taft men had carried eighty-nlne counties, having ninety votes This gave to the Taft men clear majority in the state cunvrntion and with it eight delegates at large
 WASHINGTON.
 The contest in Washington turned on the question whether the Taft dele gates appointed by the county com mittee in King county. in which Seattle is situate. were duly elected to the convention or whether primary, which was subsequently held and at which Roosevelt delegates were elect. ed, was properly called, so that Its re suit was legal Under the law the county committee had the power to de eide whether 1t would select the dele gates directly or should call primary In some counties of the state one course was pursued and in other coun- ties the other. In King county the committee consisted of 250 men. the majority of whom were for Taft. and that majority, acting through its exec utive committee, selected the Taft dele. gates to the state convention. Mean. time the city council of Seattle had re. districted the city It before had 2JO precincts. Now substantially the same territory was divided up into 3Sl pre- cincts. The chairman of the county committee was a Roosevelt man. He had been given authority by general resolution to all vacancies occurring in the committee. general meeting oi the committee had been held after the city council had directed the redistrict ing of the city, in which 1t was re solved. the chairman not dissenting that representatives could not be SC